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2012 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament

2012 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2011–12
Teams 8
Site Orleans Arena
Paradise, Nevada, USA
Champions New Mexico State (3rd title)
Winning coach Marvin Menzies (2nd title)
MVP Wendell McKines (New Mexico State)
Television ESPN2/WSN
← 2011
2013 →
2011–12 WAC men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Nevada 13 1   .929     28 7   .800
New Mexico State 10 4   .714     26 10   .722
Idaho 9 5   .643     19 14   .576
Utah State 8 6   .571     21 16   .568
Louisiana Tech 6 8   .429     18 16   .529
Hawaii 6 8   .429     16 16   .500
Fresno State 3 11   .214     13 20   .394
San Jose State 1 13   .071     9 22   .290
2012 WAC Tournament winner
As of March 28, 2012/FINAL 2011–12 STANDINGS; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2012 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament, was held March 7–10, 2012 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States to crown a champion of the Western Athletic Conference. The winner of the tournament received an automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Tournament. The 2012 Championship game was televised on ESPN2 at 9:00 pm Pacific Time.

With the departure of Boise State to the Mountain West Conference, WAC Commissioner Karl Benson announced during the basketball preseason teleconferences that the league would change its postseason basketball tournament to a regular quarterfinal format, getting rid of the double-bye format used in 2011. This format was to be used for 2012 only; the format was to be re-evaluated for 2013 after new five new teams came in and three schools departed for a total of 10 participating institutions in 2012–13.

. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.


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