2020 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2020 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament was held from March 5 through March 10, 2020 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. Gonzaga, the winner of the tournament, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Tournament. For the second consecutive year, the Los Angeles-based University Credit Union is the title sponsor of the tournament.

Venue

For the twelfth consecutive year, the 2020 WCC Tournament was held in the Orleans Arena. When the Orleans Arena is setup for basketball games, the seating capacity is 7,471. The tournament is scheduled to be held at the Orleans Arena at least until 2022. The Orleans Arena is located at the 1,886 room Orleans Hotel and Casino about 1 mile west of the Las Vegas Strip. Tickets sold out for the 2020 WCC Tournament within one hour of the time they were made available to the public. Tickets have sold out for the WCC Tournament for 11 years in a row.

Seeds

All 10 WCC schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The tournament returned to a format similar to that used from 2003 to 2011, with slight changes to the terminology used for the rounds prior to the semifinals. The 7 through 10 seeds played in the "first round", the 5 and 6 seeds started play in the "second round", and the 3 and 4 seeds started in the "third round". The top two seeds received byes into the semifinals.

SeedSchoolRecordTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 2
1Gonzaga15–1
2BYU13–3
3Saint Mary's11–51–1 vs. Pacific2–0 vs. USF
4Pacific11–51–1 vs. Saint Mary's1–1 vs. USF
5San Francisco9–7
6Pepperdine8–8
7Santa Clara6–10
8Loyola Marymount4–12
9San Diego2–14
10Portland1–15

Schedule

Bracket