2024 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament

The 2024 West Coast Conference men's basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference for the 2023–24 season. All tournament games were played at Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas-area community of Paradise, Nevada, from March 7–12, 2024.^[1][2] TritonPoint Wealth and Sterling Global were the presenting sponsors of the 2024 tournament.

2024 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2023–24
Teams	9
Site	Orleans Arena Paradise, Nevada
Champions	Saint Mary’s (5th title)
Winning coach	Randy Bennett (4th title)
Television	ESPN+, ESPN, ESPN2
West Coast Conference men's basketball tournaments ← 2023 2025 →

2023–24 West Coast Conference men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 21 Saint Mary's †	15	–	1		.938			26	–	8		.765
No. 15 Gonzaga	14	–	2		.875			27	–	8		.771
San Francisco	11	–	5		.688			23	–	11		.676
Santa Clara	10	–	6		.625			20	–	13		.606
San Diego	7	–	9		.438			18	–	15		.545
Portland	5	–	11		.313			12	–	21		.364
Loyola Marymount	5	–	11		.313			12	–	19		.387
Pepperdine	5	–	11		.313			13	–	20		.394
Pacific	0	–	16		.000			6	–	26		.188
† 2024 WCC tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll

Seeds

All 9 conference teams are scheduled to participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The tiebreakers are to operate in the following order:

1. Head-to-head record
2. Record against the top-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the standings until the tie is broken
3. NET rating after the final regular-season conference games on March 2

Seed	School	Conf. record	Tiebreaker(s)
1	Saint Mary's	15–1
2	Gonzaga	14–2
3	San Francisco	11–5
4	Santa Clara	10–6
5	San Diego	7–9
6	Portland	5–11	1–1 vs. Santa Clara
7	Loyola Marymount	5–11	NET: 187
8	Pepperdine	5–11	NET: 245
9	Pacific	0–16

Schedule and results

Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television
First Round - Thursday, March 7
1	2:30 pm	No. 8 Pepperdine vs. No. 9 Pacific	102–43	ESPN+
Second Round - Friday, March 8
2	6:00 pm	No. 5 San Diego vs. No. 8 Pepperdine	57–52	ESPN+
3	8:30 pm	No. 6 Portland vs. No. 7 Loyola Marymount	78–70
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 9
4	7:00 pm	No. 4 Santa Clara vs. No. 5 San Diego	104–79	ESPN2
5	9:30 pm	No. 3 San Francisco vs. No. 6 Portland	72–51
Semifinals - Monday, March 11
6	6:00 pm	No. 1 Saint Mary’s vs. No. 4 Santa Clara	79–65	ESPN
7	8:30 pm	No. 2 Gonzaga vs. No. 3 San Francisco	89–77	ESPN2
Final – Tuesday, March 12
8	6:00 pm	No. 1 Saint Mary’s vs. No. 2 Gonzaga	69–60	ESPN
Game times in Pacific Time Rankings denote tournament seed Reference:

Bracket

	First round Thursday, March 7					Second round Friday, March 8					Third round Saturday, March 9					Semifinals Monday, March 11					Championship Tuesday, March 12
																2	Gonzaga	89
											3	San Francisco	72			3	San Francisco	77
						6	Portland	78			6	Portland	51								2	Gonzaga	60
						7	Loyola Marymount	70													1	Saint Mary's	69
																1	Saint Mary’s	79
											4	Santa Clara	104			4	Santa Clara	65
						5	San Diego	57			5	San Diego	79
	8	Pepperdine	102			8	Pepperdine	52
	9	Pacific	43

See also

• 2024 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament

References

1. "2024 Credit Union 1 WCC Basketball Championship - West Coast Conference". wccsports.com. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
2. "Credit Union 1 WCC Basketball Championship". orleans.boydgaming.com. Retrieved January 12, 2024.