The 2016 WAC men's basketball tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference, held from March 10–12, 2016 at Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. The winner of the tournament received the conference's automatic bid into the 2016 NCAA tournament.
Seeds Grand Canyon was 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. SeedSchoolConference Tiebreaker 1New Mexico State13–12Cal State Bakersfield11–33Seattle7–7 4Utah Valley6–85UMKC4–10 Higher RPI than UT Rio Grande Valley6UT Rio Grande Valley4–10 Lower RPI than UMKC7Chicago State 0–14
Schedule SessionGameTime*Matchup# Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10112:00 pm#4 Utah Valley 78 vs. #5 UMKC 8024:30 pm#2 Cal State Bakersfield 79 vs. #7 Chicago State 5737:00 pm#3 Seattle 75 vs. #6 UT Rio Grande Valley 52 Semifinals – Friday, March 11246:00 pm#1 New Mexico State 78 vs. #5 UMKC 6458:30 pm#2 Cal State Bakersfield 72 vs. #3 Seattle 47 Championship – Saturday, March 12368:30 pm#1 New Mexico State 54 vs. #2 Cal State Bakersfield 57 *Game times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
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