2016 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament explained

The 2016 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference and was held March 3–8, 2016 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada.^[2] The winner of the tournament, Gonzaga, received the conference's automatic bid into the 2016 NCAA tournament.

Seeds

Only 9 of the 10 WCC teams participated in the Tournament due to Pacific's self-imposed postseason ban.^{[3] [4]} As a result, the top 7 teams received a bye into the Quarterfinals. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams that had identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker
1	Saint Mary's	15–3	2–0 vs. Gonzaga
2	Gonzaga	15–3	0–2 vs. Saint Mary's
3	BYU	13–5
4	Pepperdine	10–8
5	San Francisco	8–10
6	Santa Clara	7–11
7	Portland	6–12	2–0 vs. Loyola Marymount
8	Loyola Marymount	6–12	0–2 vs. Portland
9	San Diego	4–14

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Final score	Television
First round – Friday, March 4
1	1	6 p.m.	8 Loyola Marymount vs. #9 San Diego	64–61	BYUtv
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 5
2	2	1 p.m.	3 BYU vs. #6 Santa Clara	72–60	BYUtv and WCC TV
	3	3 p.m.	4 Pepperdine vs. #5 San Francisco	90–86	BYUtv and WCC TV
3	4	7 p.m.	1 Saint Mary's vs. #8 Loyola Marymount	60–48	ESPN2
	5	9 p.m.	2 Gonzaga vs. #7 Portland	92–67	ESPN2
Semifinals – Monday, March 7
4	6	6 p.m.	1 Saint Mary's vs. #4 Pepperdine	81–66	ESPN
	7	8:30 p.m.	2 Gonzaga vs. #3 BYU	88–84	ESPN2
Championship – Tuesday, March 8
5	8	6 p.m.	1 Saint Mary's vs. #2 Gonzaga	75–85	ESPN
Game times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Game summaries

First round

1. 8 Loyola Marymount vs. #9 San Diego

Broadcasters: Dave McCann and Blaine Fowler
Series history: Series even 46–46

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Quarterfinals

1. 3 BYU vs. #6 Santa Clara

Broadcasters: Dave McCann and Blaine Fowler (BYUtv)
Steve Quis, Casey Jacobsen, and Kelli Tennant (WCC TV)
Series history: BYU leads series 26–5

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1. 4 Pepperdine vs. #5 San Francisco

Broadcasters: Dave McCann and Blaine Fowler (BYUtv)
Steve Quis, Casey Jacobsen, and Kelli Tennant (WCC TV)
Series history: San Francisco leads series 76–51

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1. 1 Saint Mary's vs. #8 Loyola Marymount

Broadcasters: Roxy Bernstein and Brad Daugherty
Series history: Saint Mary's leads series 85–54

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1. 2 Gonzaga vs. #7 Portland

Broadcasters: Roxy Bernstein and Brad Daugherty
Series history: Gonzaga leads series 97–66

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Semifinals

1. 1 Saint Mary's vs. #4 Pepperdine

Broadcasters: Brent Musburger and Dick Vitale
Series history: Pepperdine leads series 71–64

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1. 2 Gonzaga vs. #3 BYU

Broadcasters: Brent Musburger and Fran Fraschilla
Series history: Gonzaga leads series 9–6

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Championship: #1 Saint Mary's vs. #2 Gonzaga

Broadcasters: Brent Musburger, Dick Vitale and Fran Fraschilla (ESPN)
Kevin Calabro and P. J. Carlesimo (Westwood One)
Series history:

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See also

• West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament
• 2016 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament

Notes and References

1. Web site: Crumpacker #WCChoops 2016 Men's Championship Recap. March 8, 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160309150957/http://wccsports.com/news/crumpacker-wcchoops-2016-men-s-championship-recap-03-08-2016. March 9, 2016.
2. Web site: West Coast Conference Basketball Championships to remain at Orleans Arena through 2016. March 11, 2013. April 8, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150412222913/http://www.wccsports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/031113aaa.html. April 12, 2015. dead.
3. Athletics Administers Self-Imposed Penalties On Men's Basketball. Pacific Tigers. December 17, 2015. December 22, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151223041318/http://www.pacifictigers.com/sports/m-baskbl/2015-16/releases/20151217qp129x. December 23, 2015. dead.
4. Web site: Pacific's Ron Verlin, assistant suspended amid NCAA investigation. CBS Sports . December 12, 2015.