Year: | 2024 |
Conference: | West Coast Conference |
Division: | I |
Gender: | Men's |
Teams: | 9 |
Arena: | Orleans Arena |
City: | Paradise, Nevada |
Champions: | Saint Mary’s |
Titlecount: | 5th |
Coach: | Randy Bennett |
Coachcount: | 4th |
Television: | ESPN+, ESPN, ESPN2 |
The 2024 West Coast Conference men's basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference for the 2023–24 season. All tournament games were played at Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas-area community of Paradise, Nevada, from March 7–12, 2024.[1] [2] TritonPoint Wealth and Sterling Global were the presenting sponsors of the 2024 tournament.
All 9 conference teams are scheduled to participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The tiebreakers are to operate in the following order:
Seed | School | Conf. record | Tiebreaker(s) | |
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1 | Saint Mary's | 15–1 | ||
2 | Gonzaga | 14–2 | ||
3 | San Francisco | 11–5 | ||
4 | Santa Clara | 10–6 | ||
5 | San Diego | 7–9 | ||
6 | Portland | 5–11 | 1–1 vs. Santa Clara | |
7 | Loyola Marymount | 5–11 | NET: 187 | |
8 | Pepperdine | 5–11 | NET: 245 | |
9 | Pacific | 0–16 |
Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | ||
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First Round - Thursday, March 7 | ||||||
1 | 2:30 pm | No. 8 Pepperdine vs. No. 9 Pacific | 102–43 | ESPN+ | ||
Second Round - Friday, March 8 | ||||||
2 | 6:00 pm | No. 5 San Diego vs. No. 8 Pepperdine | 57–52 | ESPN+ | ||
3 | 8:30 pm | No. 6 Portland vs. No. 7 Loyola Marymount | 78–70 | |||
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 9 | ||||||
4 | 7:00 pm | No. 4 Santa Clara vs. No. 5 San Diego | 104–79 | ESPN2 | ||
5 | 9:30 pm | No. 3 San Francisco vs. No. 6 Portland | 72–51 | |||
Semifinals - Monday, March 11 | ||||||
6 | 6:00 pm | No. 1 Saint Mary’s vs. No. 4 Santa Clara | 79–65 | ESPN | ||
7 | 8:30 pm | No. 2 Gonzaga vs. No. 3 San Francisco | 89–77 | ESPN2 | ||
Final – Tuesday, March 12 | ||||||
8 | 6:00 pm | No. 1 Saint Mary’s vs. No. 2 Gonzaga | 69–60 | ESPN | ||
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