| Year: | 2016 |
| Conference: | Western Athletic Conference |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Men's |
| Teams: | 7 |
| Arena: | Orleans Arena |
| City: | Paradise, Nevada |
| Champions: | Cal State Bakersfield |
| Titlecount: | 1st |
| Coach: | Rod Barnes |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mvp: | Dedrick Basile |
| Mvpteam: | Cal State Bakersfield |
| Television: | ESPNU |
| Different Previous: | 2015 |
| Different Next: | 2017 |
The 2016 WAC men's basketball tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference, held from March 10–12, 2016[1] at Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. The winner of the tournament received the conference's automatic bid into the 2016 NCAA tournament.
Grand Canyon was ineligible to participate in the conference tournament during its transition to Division I. The remaining seven teams participated in the tournament. The top seed received a bye to the semifinals.
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
| Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Mexico State | 13–1 | |
| 2 | Cal State Bakersfield | 11–3 | |
| 3 | Seattle | 7–7 | |
| 4 | Utah Valley | 6–8 | |
| 5 | UMKC | 4–10 | Higher RPI than UT Rio Grande Valley |
| 6 | UT Rio Grande Valley | 4–10 | Lower RPI than UMKC |
| 7 | Chicago State | 0–14 | |
| Session | Game | Time* | Matchup# | |
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| Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 2:00 pm |
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| 2 | 4:30 pm |
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| 3 | 7:00 pm |
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| Semifinals – Friday, March 11 | ||||
| 2 | 4 | 6:00 pm |
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| 5 | 8:30 pm |
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| Championship – Saturday, March 12 | ||||
| 3 | 6 | 8:30 pm |
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