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2018 WAC men's basketball tournament
2018 WAC men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2017–18
Teams	8
Site	Orleans Arena; Paradise, Nevada
Champions	New Mexico State (8th title)
Winning coach	Chris Jans (1st title)
MVP	Jemerrio Jones (New Mexico State)
Television	ESPN3, ESPNU
	WAC men's basketball tournaments ← 2017 2019 →

2017–18 WAC men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
New Mexico State †	12	–	2	.857	28	–	6	.824
Utah Valley	10	–	4	.714	23	–	11	.676
Grand Canyon	9	–	5	.643	22	–	12	.647
Seattle	8	–	6	.571	20	–	14	.588
Texas–Rio Grande Valley	6	–	8	.429	15	–	18	.455
Cal State Bakersfield	5	–	9	.357	12	–	18	.400
UMKC	5	–	9	.357	10	–	22	.313
Chicago State	1	–	13	.071	3	–	29	.094


† 2018 WAC tournament winner

The 2018 WAC men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference for the 2017–18 season. All tournament games will be played at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, from March 8–10, 2018. The winner of the tournament will receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Regular-season champion New Mexico State also won the WAC Tournament championship and received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Seeds

All eight teams in the WAC were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker	Tiebreaker 2
1	New Mexico State	12–2
2	Utah Valley	10–4
3	Grand Canyon	9–5
4	Seattle	8–6
5	UT Rio Grande Valley	6–8
6	UMKC	5–9	1–1 vs. CSUB	1–1 vs. UVU
7	Cal State Bakersfield	5–9	1–1 vs. UMKC	0–2 vs. UVU
8	Chicago State	1–13

Schedule and results

Game	Time^[1]	Matchup	Score	Television
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 8
1	12:00 pm	No. 3 Grand Canyon vs No. 6 UMKC	77–74	ESPN3
2	2:30 pm	No. 2 Utah Valley vs No. 7 Cal State Bakersfield	81–74
3	6:00 pm	No. 1 New Mexico State vs No. 8 Chicago State	97–70
4	8:30 pm	No. 4 Seattle vs No. 5 UT Rio Grande Valley	77–60
Semifinals – Friday, March 9
5	6:00 pm	No. 3 Grand Canyon vs No. 2 Utah Valley	75–60	ESPN3
6	8:30 pm	No. 1 New Mexico State vs No. 4 Seattle	84–79	ESPN3
Final – Saturday, March 10
7	7:00 pm	No. 3 Grand Canyon vs No. 1 New Mexico State	58–72	ESPNU
Game times in PST. Rankings denote tournament seed.

Bracket

Quarterfinals March 8 ESPN3			Semifinals March 9 ESPN3			Championship March 10 ESPNU

1	New Mexico State	97

8	Chicago State	70
			1	New Mexico State	84

			4	Seattle	79
4	Seattle	77

5	UT Rio Grande Valley	60
						1	New Mexico State	72

						3	Grand Canyon	58
2	Utah Valley	81

7	Cal State Bakersfield	74
			2	Utah Valley	60

			3	Grand Canyon	75
3	Grand Canyon	77

6	UMKC	74

Source^[2]

References

^ "2018 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament" (PDF). Western Athletic Conference. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 21, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
^ Mitchell, Greg (March 4, 2018). "WAC Tournament Bracket: Will Grand Canyon's dream come true?". Mid-Major Madness. Archived from the original on June 20, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2018.

External links

[1] "2018 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament" (PDF). Western Athletic Conference. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 21, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2022.

[2] Mitchell, Greg (March 4, 2018). "WAC Tournament Bracket: Will Grand Canyon's dream come true?". Mid-Major Madness. Archived from the original on June 20, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2018.

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