the 2014 american athletic conference men's basketball tournament was the first conference tournament of the american athletic conference (the american). it was the first conference tournament held since the split of the original big east conference. while the american is the legal successor to the old big east, the rights to conference tournament in madison square garden were retained by the new big east, so the 2014 tournament was numbered as the new conference's first edition. the tournament was held march 12–15 in the fedexforum in memphis, tennessee and decided a champion of the 2013–14 american athletic conference men's basketball season (like most ncaa conferences, the american recognizes both regular-season and tournament champions; cincinnati and louisville shared the regular-season title). the teams in the conference competed in a ten-team single-elimination tournament for an automatic bid to the 2014 ncaa tournament.