2016 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2016 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place March 9–12, 2016 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The winner of the tournament received the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Tournament.

Seeds

All 11 conference teams participated in the tournament. The top five seeds received first round byes.
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker
1San Diego State16–2
2Fresno State13–5
3Boise State11–7
4New Mexico10–82–0 vs. Nevada
5Nevada10–80–2 vs. New Mexico
6Colorado State8–100–1 vs. Fresno State
7UNLV8–100–2 vs. Fresno State
8Wyoming7–111–0 vs. Utah State
9Utah State7–110–1 vs. Wyoming
10Air Force5–13
11San Jose State4–14

Schedule

Bracket

* denotes overtime period