The tournament has been held every year since the split from the Big East Conference in 2013.

It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.

The teams are seeded based on the order of finish in the conference's round robin regular season.

Opening round games are held at campus sites with the higher seed hosting, while the semifinals and final are held at a predetermined campus location, specifically the home field of The American's regular-season champion.

For the 2016 and 2017 seasons the tournament was reduced to just the top 4 teams in the conference.