The top five seeds in next month's 11-team American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament will receive a first-round bye.
If the tournament started Wednesday (it starts March 10), the University of Cincinnati would be outside of the top five spots in the seventh hole.
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The team one spot ahead of UC (17-10, 7-7) in the AAC standings with four games left is Central Florida. The Knights (16-9, 8-7), featuring reigning AAC Freshman of the Week Darius Johnson (11.