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2020 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament

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The 2020 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, held March 5–10 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada.[1]

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Second-ranked Gonzaga won the tournament and received the conference's automatic bid to the 68-team NCAA tournament,[2] which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the second consecutive year, the Los Angeles-based University Credit Union was the title sponsor of the tournament.[3]

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Venue

For the twelfth consecutive year, the WCC tournament was held in the Orleans Arena, with a seating capacity of 7,471 for basketball.[4] The tournament is scheduled to be held at the Orleans Arena at least until 2022.[5] The venue is located at the 1,886-room Orleans Hotel and Casino, about a mile (1.6 km) west of the Las Vegas Strip.[6]

Tickets sold out for the 2020 WCC Tournament less than an hour after being made available to the public,[7] marking the eleventh consecutive year that tickets sold out for the tournament.[7]

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Seeds

All ten WCC teams participated in the tournament, seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system for identical conference records.[8] The tournament returned to a format similar to that used from 2003 to 2011, with slight changes to the terminology used for the rounds prior to the semifinals. The 7 through 10 seeds played in the "first round", the 5 and 6 seeds started play in the "second round", and the 3 and 4 seeds started in the "third round". The top two seeds received byes into the semifinals.[9]

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Orleans Arena, location of 2020 WCC tournament
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Schedule

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Bracket

First round
Thursday, March 5
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Second round
Friday, March 6
BYUtv
Third round
Saturday, March 7
ESPN2
Semifinals
Monday, March 9
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Championship
Tuesday, March 10
ESPN
8 Loyola Marymount  75
9 San Diego 61 8 Loyola Marymount 53
5 San Francisco 82
5 San Francisco 72
4 Pacific 54
5 San Francisco 77
1 Gonzaga 81
1 Gonzaga 84
3 Saint Mary's 66
2 BYU 50
3 Saint Mary's 51
3 Saint Mary's 89**
6 Pepperdine 82
6 Pepperdine 84
7 Santa Clara  76 7 Santa Clara 73
10 Portland 62
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