Year: | 2020 |
Conference: | WAC |
Division: | I |
Gender: | Men's |
Teams: | 8 |
Arena: | Orleans Arena |
City: | Paradise, Nevada |
Television: | ESPN+, ESPNU |
The 2020 WAC men's basketball tournament was to be the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference during the 2019–20 season. All tournament games were to be played at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, from March 12–14, 2020. The tournament champion would have received the WAC's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA tournament.
On March 12, both the WAC Tournament and the NCAA Tournaments were cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
8 of the 9 teams in the WAC are eligible to compete in the conference tournament. California Baptist is ineligible due to their transition from Division II to Division I. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker | Tiebreaker 2 | |
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1 | New Mexico State | 16–0 | |||
2 | UTRGV | 9–7 | |||
3 | Seattle | 7–7 | |||
4 | Grand Canyon | 8–8 | |||
5 | Kansas City | 8–7 | |||
6 | Utah Valley | 5–10 | |||
7 | Cal State Bakersfield | 6–10 | |||
8 | Chicago State | 0–14 |
Game | Time[1] | Matchup | Score | Television | |
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Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 12 | |||||
1 | cancelled | No. 1 New Mexico State vs No. 8 Chicago State | N/A | ESPN+ | |
2 | No. 4 Grand Canyon vs. No. 5 Kansas City | ||||
3 | No. 2 UTRGV vs. No. 7 Cal State Bakersfield | ||||
4 | No. 3 Seattle vs. No. 6 Utah Valley | ||||
Semifinals – Friday, March 13 | |||||
5 | cancelled | Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner | N/A | ESPN+ | |
6 | Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner | ||||
Final – Saturday, March 14 | |||||
7 | cancelled | Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner | N/A | ESPNU | |
Game times in PDT. Rankings denote tournament seed. |