[2] The event determined the champion for the American Athletic Conference for the 2017 NCAA Division I softball season.
Top-seeded Tulsa won the Tournament for the second year in a row and earned the American Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I softball tournament.
[3][4] Entering the Tournament, Tulsa was defending champion, while UCF had won in 2015.
The American's seven teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage from the round-robin regular season.
They then played a single-elimination tournament with the top seed receiving a single bye.