Year: | 2020 |
Conference: | West Coast Conference |
Division: | I |
Gender: | Men's |
Teams: | 10 |
Arena: | Orleans Arena |
City: | Paradise, Nevada |
Champions: | Gonzaga |
Titlecount: | 18th |
Coach: | Mark Few |
Coachcount: | 16th |
Mvp: | Joël Ayayi |
Mvpteam: | Gonzaga |
Television: | ESPN, ESPN2, BYUtv |
The 2020 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, held March 5–10 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada.[1]
Second-ranked Gonzaga won the tournament and received the conference's automatic bid to the 68-team NCAA tournament,[2] which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the second consecutive year, the Los Angeles-based University Credit Union was the title sponsor of the tournament.[3]
For the twelfth consecutive year, the WCC tournament was held in the Orleans Arena, with a seating capacity of 7,471 for basketball.[4] The tournament is scheduled to be held at the Orleans Arena at least until 2022.[5] The venue is located at the 1,886-room Orleans Hotel and Casino, about a mile (1.6 km) west of the Las Vegas Strip.[6]
Tickets sold out for the 2020 WCC Tournament less than an hour after being made available to the public,[7] marking the eleventh consecutive year that tickets sold out for the tournament.
All ten WCC teams participated in the tournament, seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system for identical conference records.[8] The tournament returned to a format similar to that used from 2003 to 2011, with slight changes to the terminology used for the rounds prior to the semifinals. The 7 through 10 seeds played in the "first round", the 5 and 6 seeds started play in the "second round", and the 3 and 4 seeds started in the "third round". The top two seeds received byes into the semifinals.[9]
Seed | School | Record | Tiebreaker 1 | Tiebreaker 2 | |
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1 | Gonzaga | 15–1 | |||
2 | BYU | 13–3 | |||
3 | 11–5 | 1–1 vs. Pacific | 2–0 vs. USF[10] | ||
4 | Pacific | 11–5 | 1–1 vs. St. Mary's | 1–1 vs. USF | |
5 | 9–7 | ||||
6 | Pepperdine | 8–8 | |||
7 | 6–10 | ||||
8 | Loyola Marymount | 4–12 | |||
9 | San Diego | 2–14 | |||
10 | Portland | 1–15 |
Session | Game | Time* | Matchup# | Score | Television | Attendance | |
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First round – Thursday March 5, 2020 | |||||||
1 | 1 | 6:00 pm | No. 8 Loyola Marymount vs. No. 9 San Diego | 75–61 | BYUtv Spectrum SportsNet AT&T Sportsnet Rocky Mountain Root Sports | 1,983 | |
2 | 8:00 pm | No. 7 Santa Clara vs. No. 10 Portland | 76–62 | ||||
Second round – Friday March 6, 2020 | |||||||
2 | 3 | 6:00 pm | No. 5 San Francisco vs. No. 8 Loyola Marymount | 82–53 | BYUtv AT&T Sportsnet Rocky Mountain Root Sports | 3,850 | |
4 | 8:00 pm | No. 6 Pepperdine vs. No. 7 Santa Clara | 84–73 | ||||
Third round – Saturday, March 7, 2020 | |||||||
3 | 5 | 7:00 pm | No. 4 Pacific vs. No. 5 San Francisco | 54–72 | ESPN2 | 4,350 | |
6 | 9:00 pm | No. 3 Saint Mary's vs. No. 6 Pepperdine | 89–82 | ||||
Semifinals – Monday, March 9, 2020 | |||||||
4 | 7 | 6:00 pm | No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 5 San Francisco | 81–77 | ESPN | 7,471 | |
8 | 8:30 pm | No. 2 BYU vs. No. 3 Saint Mary's | 50–51 | ESPN2 | |||
Championship – Tuesday, March 10, 2020 | |||||||
5 | 9 | 6:00 pm | No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 3 Saint Mary's | 84–66 | ESPN | 7,210 | |
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