Soon-To-Open Dickies Arena In Ft. Worth Selected To Host AAC Hoops Tourney In '20-22

Dickies Arena in Ft. Worth has "landed" the AAC men's basketball tournament for '20-22, according to Kelly Hines of the TULSA WORLD. The 14,000-seat venue is "scheduled to open" in November '19 and has "been selected as a first- and second-round host" for the '22 NCAA Tournament. The '20 AAC tournament will mark the "first time the event will be in a venue" west of the Mississippi River. Previous tournaments have gone to in Memphis ('14, '19); Hartford ('15, '17) and Orlando ('16, '18). This year’s "addition of powerhouse Wichita State all but ensured the American would start scheduling conference tournaments farther west." Oklahoma City also was "under consideration as a host site" (TULSA WORLD, 8/17).