2016 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament explained

The 2016 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 9–12, 2016 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[1] The winner of the tournament received the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA tournament.

Seeds

All 11 conference teams participated in the tournament. The top five seeds received first round byes.

Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker
1	San Diego State	16–2
2		13–5
3	Boise State	11–7
4	New Mexico	10–8	2–0 vs. Nevada
5	Nevada	10–8	0–2 vs. New Mexico
6	Colorado State	8–10	0–1 vs. Fresno State
7	UNLV	8–10	0–2 vs. Fresno State
8	Wyoming	7–11	1–0 vs. Utah State
9	Utah State	7–11	0–1 vs. Wyoming
10	Air Force	5–13
11	San Jose State	4–14

Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television
First round – Wednesday, March 9
1	11:00 am	8 Wyoming 70 vs. #9 Utah State 88	MW Net
2	1:30 pm	7 UNLV 108 vs. #10 Air Force 102 ^3OT	MW Net
3	4:00 pm	6 Colorado State 80 vs. #11 San Jose State 61	MW Net
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10
4	12:00 pm	1 San Diego State 71 vs. #9 Utah State 65	CBSSN
5	2:30 pm	4 New Mexico 62 vs. #5 Nevada 64	CBSSN
6	6:00 pm	2 Fresno State 95 vs. #7 UNLV 82	CBSSN
7	8:30 pm	3 Boise State 81 vs. #6 Colorado State 88	CBSSN
Semifinals – Friday, March 11
8	6:00 pm	1 San Diego State 67 vs. #5 Nevada 55	CBSSN
9	8:30 pm	2 Fresno State 64 vs. #6 Colorado State 56	CBSSN
Championship – Saturday, March 12
10	3:00 pm	1 San Diego State 63 vs. #2 Fresno State 68	CBS
Game times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

* denotes overtime period

Web site: Mountain West Announces Format for 2016 Basketball Championships Schedule . July 6, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150707032841/http://www.themwc.com/news/16-mwmadness-format . July 7, 2015 . dead . mdy-all .