2019 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2019
Conference:	West Coast Conference
Division:	I
Gender:	Women's
Teams:	10
Finalarena:	Orleans Arena
Finalcity:	Paradise, Nevada
Champions:	BYU
Titlecount:	3rd
Coach:	Jeff Judkins
Coachcount:	3rd
Mvp:	Paisley Johnson
Mvpteam:	BYU
Attendance:	27,213
Television:	ESPNU/BYUtv
Different Previous:	2018
Different Next:	2020

The 2019 University Credit Union West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament held for the West Coast Conference for the 2018–19 season. All tournament games were played at the Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas area community of Paradise, Nevada from March 7–12, 2019. BYU won the championship game over Gonzaga.^[1] Paisley Johnson was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.^[2]

Seeds

All 10 WCC schools will participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with the following tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records:

Head-to-head record.
Record against the top team in the conference not involved in the tie, going down through the standings as necessary to break the tie. Should more than one team be tied for a position in the standings, collective records against all teams involved in that tie are considered.
RPI at the end of the conference season.

The tournament will return 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 will play in what is now called the "opening round", the 5 and 6 seeds will start play in the "second round", and the 3 and 4 seeds will start in the "third round". The top two seeds will receive byes into the semifinals.

Seed	School	Conference	Overall*	Tiebreaker
1	Gonzaga	16–2	27–3
2	BYU	15–3	23–6
3	Pepperdine	12–6	19–10	1–1 vs SMC, 0–2 vs GU, 1–1 vs BYU, 2–0 vs LMU
4	Saint Mary's	12–6	19–10	1–1 vs Pep, 0–2 vs GU, 1–1 vs BYU, 1–1 vs LMU
5	Loyola Marymount	10–8	17–13	1–1 vs. UOP, 1–1 vs. BYU
6	Pacific	10–8	17–11	1–1 vs. LMU, 0–2 vs. BYU
7	Santa Clara	6–12	13–16
8	Portland	5–13	13–16
9	San Francisco	2–16	6–23	1–1 vs. San Diego & Santa Clara, Higher RPI (239)
10	San Diego	2–16	9–20	1–1 vs. San Francisco & Santa Clara, Lower RPI (266)

Overall record at end of regular season.

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television	Attendance
First round – Thursday March 7, 2019
1	1	12:00 PM	8 Portland vs. #9 San Francisco	BYUtv	5,234
1	2	2:00 PM	7 Santa Clara vs. #10 San Diego		5,234
Second round – Friday March 8, 2019
2	3	12:00 PM	5 Loyola Marymount vs. #9 San Francisco	BYUtv	5,237
2	4	2:00 PM	6 Pacific vs. #7 Santa Clara		5,237
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 9, 2018
3	5	1:00 PM	4 Saint Mary's vs #5 Loyola Marymount	BYUtv	5,339
3	6	3:00 PM	3 Pepperdine vs #6 Pacific
Semifinals – Monday, March 11, 2018
4	7	12:00 PM	1 Gonzaga vs #4 Saint Mary's	BYUtv	5,511
4	8	2:00 PM	2 BYU vs #3 Pepperdine
Championship – Tuesday, March 12, 2019
5	9	1:00 PM	1 Gonzaga vs. #2 BYU	ESPNU	5,892
Game times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket and scores

All games except the championship will air on BYUtv games and be simulcast on TheW.tv. The championship will air on ESPNU.

References

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Notes and References

Web site: BYU knocks off No. 12 Gonzaga 82-68 in WCC title game. Marshall. John. 2019-03-12. SFGate. 2019-03-13.
Web site: BYU women rout No. 12 Gonzaga in WCC championship game, punch ticket to NCAA Tournament. The Salt Lake Tribune. en-US. 2019-03-13.
Web site: West Coast Conference Official Athletic Site. wccsports.com.