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. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker Tiebreaker 21New Mexico State12–22Utah Valley10–43Grand Canyon9–54Seattle8–65UT Rio Grande Valley6–86UMKC5–91–1 vs. CSUB1–1 vs. UVU7Cal State Bakersfield5–91–1 vs. UMKC0–2 vs. UVU8Chicago State1–13
Schedule and results GameTimeMatchup ScoreTelevision Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 8112:00 pmNo. 3 Grand Canyon vs No. 6 UMKC77–74ESPN3 22:30 pmNo. 2 Utah Valley vs No. 7 Cal State Bakersfield81–7436:00 pmNo. 1 New Mexico State vs No. 8 Chicago State 97–7048:30 pmNo. 4 Seattle vs No. 5 UT Rio Grande Valley 77–60 Semifinals – Friday, March 956:00 pmNo. 3 Grand Canyon vs No. 2 Utah Valley 75–60ESPN368:30 pmNo. 1 New Mexico State vs No. 4 Seattle 84–79 Final – Saturday, March 1077:00 pmNo. 3 Grand Canyon vs No. 1 New Mexico State 58–72ESPNU Game times in PST. Rankings denote tournament seed.
Bracket
Source
References
External links 2018 Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Championship Bracket 2018 Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Championship