It is a round-robin tournament, with seeding based on regular season records.

The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship each season.

The conference championship is determined solely by regular season record.

The American is one of two successors to the original Big East Conference, which split after the 2013 season.

[1] In 2015, the event reverted to the traditional two-bracket, double-elimination tournament leading to a single championship game.