Year: | 2017 |
Conference: | Mountain West Conference |
Division: | I |
Gender: | Men's |
Teams: | 11 |
Arena: | Thomas & Mack Center |
City: | Paradise, Nevada |
Champions: | Nevada Wolf Pack |
Titlecount: | 1st |
Coach: | Eric Musselman |
Coachcount: | 1st |
Mvp: | Jordan Caroline |
Mvpteam: | Nevada |
Television: | MW Net, CBSSN, CBS |
The 2017 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament took place from March 8–11, 2017 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1] The winner, Nevada, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA tournament with a 79-71 win over Colorado State.
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 |
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1 | Nevada | 14–4 | |
2 | Colorado State | 13–5 | |
3 | Boise State | 12–6 | |
4 | Fresno State | 11–7 | |
5 | New Mexico | 10–8 | |
6 | San Diego State | 9–9 | |
7 | Wyoming | 8–10 | |
8 | Utah State | 7–11 | 1–0 vs. San Jose State |
9 | San Jose State | 7–11 | 0–1 vs. Utah State |
10 | Air Force | 4–14 | 1–1 vs. UNLV, 0–2 vs. NEV, 0–1 vs. CSU |
11 | UNLV | 4–14 | 1–1 vs. AF, 0–2 vs. NEV, 0–2 vs. CSU |
Game | Time* | Matchup# | Television | TV announcers | MW radio announcers | ||
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First round – Wednesday, March 8 | |||||||
1 | 11:00 am |
| MW Net | Rich Cellini & Marty Fletcher | Nate Kreckman & Ray Giacoletti | ||
2 | 1:30 pm |
| Chad Andrus & Ray Giacoletti | ||||
3 | 4:00 pm |
| Chad Andrus & Ray Giacoletti | ||||
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9 | |||||||
4 | 12:00 pm |
| CBSSN | Brent Stover, Bob Wenzel & Evan Washburn | Nate Kreckman & Robert Smith | ||
5 | 2:30 pm |
| Chad Andrus & Robert Smith | ||||
6 | 6:00 pm |
| Andrew Catalon, Steve Lappas & Evan Washburn | Nate Kreckman & Marty Fletcher | |||
7 | 8:30 pm |
| Mitch Moss & Marty Fletcher | ||||
Semifinals – Friday, March 10 | |||||||
8 | 7:00 pm |
| CBSSN | Andrew Catalon, Steve Lappas, & Evan Washburn | |||
9 | 9:30 pm |
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Championship – Saturday, March 11 | |||||||
10 | 3:00 pm |
| CBS | Kevin Harlan, Reggie Miller, Dan Bonner, & Evan Washburn | |||
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* denotes overtime period