The 2018–19 Western Athletic Conference men's basketball season began with practices in September 2018 and ended with the 2019 WAC men's basketball tournament March 2019 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, NV. The season marks 56th season of Western Athletic Conference.

Pre-season The WAC conducted a media teleconference on October 10, 2018 and released the media and coaches poll, as well as the preseason All-WAC teams and player of the year.

WAC Media Poll RankTeamVotes1 New Mexico State (22) 2142 Grand Canyon (2) 1803 Utah Valley 1624 Seattle 1505 Cal State Bakersfield 1176 Texas Rio Grande Valley 897 Missouri-Kansas City 738 California Baptist 639 Chicago State 66

Media All-WAC Team First Team Damiyne Durham, CSU Bakersfield AJ Harris, NM State Matej Kavas, Seattle U Alessandro Lever, Grand Canyon Conner Toolson, Utah Valley

Second Team Xavier Bishop, Kansas City Eli Chuha, NM State Oscar Frayer, Grand Canyon Jake Toolson, Utah Valley Terry Winn III, UT Rio Grande Valley

Player of the Year Alessandro Lever, Grand Canyon

WAC coaches poll RankTeamVotes1 New Mexico State (7) 632 Grand Canyon (2) 583 Seattle 454 Utah Valley 435 Cal State Bakersfield 356 Texas Rio Grande Valley 287 Missouri-Kansas City 248 California Baptist 209 Chicago State 8

Coaches All-WAC Team First Team Oscar Frayer, Grand Canyon AJ Harris, NM State Matej Kavas, Seattle U Alessandro Lever, Grand Canyon Conner Toolson, Utah Valley

Second Team Xavier Bishop, Kansas City Eli Chuha, NM State Damiyne Durham, CSU Bakersfield Jake Toolson, Utah Valley Terry Winn III, UT Rio Grande Valley

Player of the Year Alessandro Lever, Grand Canyon

Rankings

Regular season

Conference games

Conference matrix This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play. (x) indicates games remaining this season.

  California BaptistCS BakersfieldChicago St.Grand Canyon NM St.SeattleUTRGVUMKCUtah Valleyvs. California Baptist – 1–1 0–2 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 2–0vs. Cal State Bakersfield 1–1 - 0–2 2–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–1vs. Chicago State 2–0 2–0 – 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–0vs. Grand Canyon 0–2 0–2 0–2 - 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–1vs. New Mexico State 1–1 0–2 0–2 0–2 - 0–2 0–2 0–2 0–2vs. Seattle 1–1 1–1 0–2 1–1 2–0 - 2–0 1–1 2–0vs. Texas - Rio Grande Valley 1–1 1–1 0–2 1–1 2–0 0–2 - 0–2 2–0vs. UMKC 1–1 1–1 0–2 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–0 - 2–0vs. Utah Valley 0–2 1–1 0–2 1–1 2–0 0–2 0–2 0–2 -Total 7–9 7–9 0–16 10–6 15–1 6–10 9–7 6–10 12–4

Point scored

Head coaches

Postseason

Conference tournament

NCAA tournament

NIT

2019 NBA draft

Pre-draft trades

Draft-day trades

Highlights and notes

Awards and honors

Players of the Week

All-Americans

All WAC teams

All-Academic

USBWA All-District team

References