2024-2025 AAC Basketball Conference Winner Odds & Betting Futures

Jay Sanin on February 6th, 2025

One of the most intriguing conferences from a college basketball betting perspective is the American Athletic Conference. This league has been impacted by conference realignment in a major way, and the landscape of the conference in basketball is set to change dramatically this year. Here, we look at the futures betting odds for the AAC and break down which contenders are worth backing in the futures markets to win this conference tournament.

AAC Conference Betting Odds

Memphis -1200
UAB +1200
North Texas +1800
Temple +8000

American Athletic Conference Futures Betting Outlook

The heavy favorites to win the American Athletic Conference regular season championship are the Memphis Tigers. Memphis has had an excellent season so far, earning a top-25 ranking nationwide and looking like they could be a dangerous team both in the AAC tournament and during March Madness. They have benefited greatly from the departures of teams like Cincinnati and Houston from this conference, as they appear to be the top dogs in this league.

There are a couple of other teams in contention to win this conference both in terms of the regular season title and the conference tournament later in the year. UAB won the AAC tournament a season ago and are still in contention both for the regular season crown and for a conference tournament repeat. And you can’t count out North Texas either, whose defense has been one of the toughest to crack in all of college basketball year after year.

Late in the season, the question for this conference will also be how many teams make it to the NCAA Tournament out of the American. Projections from bracketologists suggest that the AAC could be a one or two-bid league depending on how things play out late in the year. That means the margin for error for everyone in this league is slim heading into the final weeks of the year.

AAC Conference History

The American Athletic Conference, also known simply as the AAC, consists of 13 teams in basketball and was created in 2013 after the splitting of the original Big East Conference. Every year, the conference’s men’s basketball teams play out their regular-season schedule before competing in the AAC Men’s Basketball tournament. Seedings for this single-elimination tournament are determined by the regular season standings in conference play. The winner of the AAC tournament earns an automatic berth in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball tournament.

Being a relatively new conference, the AAC isn’t exactly steeped in history, especially after conference realignment. Schools like UConn, Houston, and Cincinnati have all been a part of this conference in the past, but have since moved onto other leagues. But the schools that are currently in the league will look to write plenty of history of their own.