2020 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2020
Conference:West Coast Conference
Division:I
Gender:Women's
Teams:10
Finalarena:Orleans Arena
Finalcity:Paradise, Nevada
Champions:Portland
Titlecount:2nd
Coach:Michael Meek
Coachcount:1st
Mvp:Alex Fowler
Mvpteam:Portland
Television:ESPNU/BYUtv

The 2020 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament was played between March 5–10, 2020, at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Portland was the winner of the WCC Women's Tournament and would have automatically advanced to the 2020 NCAA Tournament, but that tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

Seeds

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

SeedSchoolConferenceOverall*Tiebreaker
1Gonzaga17-128-2
2San Diego13-519-10
3BYU13-518–10
4Portland11-718-11
5Pacific9-916-13
6Pepperdine8-1014-14
7Saint Mary's6-1211-18
8Santa Clara5–1311-18
9San Francisco5-1312-18
10Loyola Marymount3-157-24

Schedule

SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance
First round – Thursday March 5, 2020
1112:00 PM
  1. 8 Santa Clara 72** vs. #9 San Francisco 65
BYUtv
22:00 PM
  1. 7 Saint Mary's 72 vs. #10 LMU 63
Second round – Friday March 6, 2020
2312:00 PM
  1. 5 Pacific 67 vs. #8 Santa Clara 49
BYUtv
42:00 PM
  1. 6 Pepperdine 87 vs. #7 Saint Mary's 72
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 7, 2020
351:00 PM
  1. 4 Portland 76 vs. #5 Pacific 69
BYUtv
63:00 PM
  1. 3 BYU 51 vs. #6 Pepperdine 62
Semifinals – Monday, March 9, 2020
4712:00 PM
  1. 1 Gonzaga 69 vs. #4 Portland 70
BYUtv
82:00 PM
  1. 2 San Diego 59 vs. #6 Pepperdine 44
Championship – Tuesday, March 10, 2020
591:00 PM
  1. 4 Portland 64** vs. #2 San Diego 63
ESPNU
  • Game times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding. **denotes overtime game

Bracket and scores

* denotes overtime game

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: West Coast Conference Official Athletic Site. wccsports.com.