IRVING, Texas – Houston has been selected as the preseason favorite to win the 2020-21 American Athletic Conference men’s basketball title in voting by the league’s head coaches, the conference announced Wednesday (Oct. 28).
Houston garnered nine first-place votes and earned a total of 99 points to become conference favorites for the second year in a row. Memphis, which tallied two first-place votes, is picked to finish second with 90 points. SMU was third with 80 points, followed by Cincinnati (77), USF (61), Tulsa (50), Wichita State (44), UCF (37), East Carolina (34), Temple (18) and Tulane (15).