2017 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament

2017 Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 201617
Teams 7
Site Orleans Arena
Paradise, Nevada
Television ESPNU
Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
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2016–17 WAC men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
New Mexico State 0 0       7 2   .778
Utah Valley 0 0       5 2   .714
UMKC 0 0       6 3   .667
Cal State Bakersfield 0 0       5 4   .556
Chicago State 0 0       3 4   .429
Grand Canyon* 0 0       3 4   .429
Seattle 0 0       3 4   .429
UT Rio Grande Valley 0 0       2 7   .222
* Ineligible for postseason during transition to Division I.
2017 WAC Tournament winner
As of December 5, 2016; 

The 2017 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament is an upcoming postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference, will be held from March 9–11, 2016[1] at Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. The winner of the tournament received the conference's automatic bid into the 2017 NCAA Tournament.

Seeds

Grand Canyon is ineligible to participate in the conference tournament during its transition to Division I. The remaining seven teams participated in the tournament. The top seed received a bye to the semifinals.

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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Schedule

Session Game Time* Matchup#
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9
1 1 2:00 pm #4 vs. #5
2 4:30 pm #2 vs. #7
3 7:00 pm #3 vs. #6
Semifinals – Friday, March 10
2 4 6:00 pm #1 vs. Winner of game 1
5 8:30 pm Winner of game 2 vs. Winner of game 3
Championship – Saturday, March 11
3 6 8:30 pm Winner of game 4 vs. Winner of game 5
*Game times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

  Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 9
Semifinals
Friday, March 10
Championship
Saturday, March 11
ESPNU
                           
        
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4     
  5       
        
      
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7       
    
          
3     
  6       

References

  1. "2015-16 WAC Men's Basketball Media Guide" (PDF). WAC. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
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