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2017 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament

2017 Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2016–17
Teams 7
Site Orleans Arena
Paradise, Nevada
Champions New Mexico State Aggies (7th title)
Winning coach Paul Weir (1st title)
MVP Ian Baker (New Mexico State)
Television ESPNU
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2016–17 WAC men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Cal State Bakersfield 12 2   .857     25 10   .714
New Mexico State 11 3   .786     28 5   .848
Grand Canyon* 11 3   .786     22 9   .710
UMKC 8 6   .571     18 17   .514
Utah Valley 6 8   .429     17 17   .500
Seattle 5 9   .357     13 17   .433
UT Rio Grande Valley 2 12   .143     10 22   .313
Chicago State 1 13   .071     6 26   .188
* Ineligible for postseason during transition to Division I.
2017 WAC Tournament winner

The 2017 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament is a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference. It will be held from March 9–11, 2017 at Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. The winner of the tournament, New Mexico State, will receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with a 70 to 60 win over California State-Bakersfield.

Grand Canyon was ineligible to participate in the conference tournament during its transition to Division I. The remaining seven teams will participate in the tournament. The top seed will receive a bye to the semifinals. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


* denotes overtime period


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