2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference held March 3–7, 2017 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. Regular-season champion Gonzaga also won the WCC tournament, and with it the conference's automatic bid into the 2017 NCAA Tournament with a 74-56 win over Saint Mary's in the finals.
The WCC's eight-year tournament contract with Orleans Arena expired after the 2016 WCC Tournament, with the WCC looking to potentially moving the tournament to a different Las Vegas-area venue, keep it at the Orleans Arena, or move it elsewhere. In May 2016, the WCC announced that it reached an agreement on a new three-year contract with the Orleans Arena, which will run through the 2019 WCC year-end tournament.
Seeds
All 10 WCC teams were eligible for the tournament. The top six teams received a first round bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker |
1 | Gonzaga | 17–1 | |
2 | Saint Mary's | 16–2 | |
3 | BYU | 12–6 | |
4 | Santa Clara | 10–8 | 1–1 vs SF, 0–2 vs Gonzaga, 0–2 vs SMC, 1–1 vs BYU |
5 | San Francisco | 10–8 | 1–1 vs SCU, 0–2 vs Gonzaga, 0–2 vs SMC, 0–2 vs BYU |
6 | Loyola Marymount | 8–10 | |
7 | San Diego | 6–12 | |
8 | Pepperdine | 5–13 | |
9 | Pacific | 4–14 | |
10 | Portland | 2–16 |
Schedule
Bracket
Game summaries
First round
No. 8 Pepperdine vs. No. 9 Pacific
Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Blaine FowlerSeries History: Pacific leads 31–27
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No. 7 San Diego vs. No. 10 Portland
Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Blaine FowlerSeries History: San Diego leads 52–29
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Quarterfinals
No. 3 BYU vs. No. 6 Loyola Marymount
Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Blaine FowlerSeries History: BYU leads 13–3
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No. 4 Santa Clara vs. No. 5 San Francisco
Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Blaine FowlerSeries History: Santa Clara leads 79–76
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No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 9 Pacific
Broadcasters: Roxy Bernstein, Jon BarrySeries History: Gonzaga leads 12–1
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No. 2 Saint Mary's vs. No. 10 Portland
Broadcasters: Roxy Bernstein, Jon BarrySeries History: Saint Mary's leads 65–29
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Semifinals
No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 4 Santa Clara
Broadcasters: Dave O'Brien, Dick Vitale, Jeff GoodmanSeries History: Gonzaga leads 59–30
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No. 2 Saint Mary's vs. No. 3 BYU
Broadcasters: Dave O'Brien, Jon Barry, Jeff GoodmanSeries History: BYU leads 12–11
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Championship
No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 2 Saint Mary's
Broadcasters: Dave O'Brien, Dick Vitale, Jeff GoodmanSeries History: Gonzaga leads 67–29
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