The 2018 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament ended the 2017–18 season of the American Athletic Conference.

It was held March 8–11, 2018, at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida.

[1] Regular-season champion Cincinnati won the tournament and with it the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

The top four teams received a bye into the quarterfinals.

Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.