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2014 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament

2014 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
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2014 WCC Women's Tournament from Las Vegas
Classification Division I
Season 2013–14
Teams 10
Finals site Orleans Arena
Paradise, Nevada
Champions Gonzaga (6th title)
Winning coach Kelly Graves (6th title)
MVP Sunny Greinacher (Gonzaga)
Television ESPNU/BYUtv
West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournaments
«2013 2015»
2013–14 West Coast Conference women's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#18 Gonzaga 16 2   .889     29 5   .853
BYU 14 4   .778     28 7   .800
Pacific 12 6   .667     18 13   .581
Saint Mary's 11 7   .611     23 10   .697
San Diego 11 7   .611     24 9   .727
Portland 7 11   .389     14 16   .467
Santa Clara 6 12   .333     10 20   .333
San Francisco 6 12   .333     12 19   .387
Loyola Marymount 6 12   .333     9 21   .300
Pepperdine 1 17   .056     6 25   .194
2014 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament winner
As of March 29, 2014; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2014 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was held March 6–11, 2014 at Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas Valley community of Paradise, Nevada. This was the sixth consecutive year the WCC Tournament took place in Vegas after the WCC and the Orleans Hotel and Casino, which operates the arena, reached a 3-year extension to keep the tournament in Vegas through 2016.

With the addition of the University of the Pacific, bringing the WCC to 10 members, the conference adopted a more traditional tournament format. Under the new format, the top 6 seeds receive a bye out of the first round while the 7 seed plays the 10 seed and the 8 seed plays the 9 seed. The first round begins on a Thursday. BYUtv airs all games, except for the championship, and simulcasts them on the WCC's streaming video outlet, TheW.tv. The tournament championship airs on ESPNU.

The former second round is now the quarterfinal round. It takes place on Friday and has the 1 seed playing the winner of the 8/9 game and the 2 seed playing the winner of the 7/10 game. The quarterfinals also feature the 3 seed playing the 6 seed, and the 4 seed playing the 5 seed.

After two off-days, the semifinals take place on Monday with the winner of 1/8/9 playing the winner of 4/5 and the winner of 2/7/10 playing the winner of 3/6.

The championship takes place on Tuesday and features the semifinal winners. As in the recent past, the championship game continues to be broadcast on ESPNU.

Series History: Pepperdine leads 34-33
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton & Kristen Kozlowski

Series History: Series even 33-33
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton & Kristen Kozlowski

Series History: Portland leads 7-3
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton & Kristen Kozlowski
This game would become the final game for Portland coach Jim Sollars, who would retire after 28 seasons. During his post-game press conference, Sollars would thank his wife for all the hardships he put her through. His exact words, "Before I go I have to say one thing… I always forget the most important person in this whole thing. My wife has been through approximately 40 years of weekends with 13 beautiful women and all the complaining that I bring home. And I cannot thank her enough."


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