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
Television	ESPNU
Western Athletic Conference men's basketball tournaments

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	–	6		.824
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
Texas–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 an upcoming postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference, will be held from March 9–11, 2016 at Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. The winner of the tournament received the conference's automatic bid into the 2017 NCAA Tournament.

Seeds

Grand Canyon is ineligible to participate in the conference tournament during its transition to Division I. The remaining seven teams participated in the tournament. The top seed received a bye to the semifinals.

Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9
1	1	2:00 pm	#4 vs. #5
	2	4:30 pm	#2 vs. #7
	3	7:00 pm	#3 vs. #6
Semifinals – Friday, March 10
2	4	6:00 pm	#1 vs. Winner of game 1
	5	8:30 pm	Winner of game 2 vs. Winner of game 3
Championship – Saturday, March 11
3	6	8:30 pm	Winner of game 4 vs. Winner of game 5
*Game times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

	Quarterfinals Thursday, March 9					Semifinals Friday, March 10					Championship Saturday, March 11 ESPNU
						1
	4
	5
	2
	7
	3
	6