The 2017 WAC men's basketball tournament is a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference. It was held from March 9–11, 2017 at Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. The winner of the tournament, New Mexico State, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament with a 70-60 win over California State-Bakersfield.
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 1Cal State Bakersfield12–22New Mexico State11–33UMKC8–64Utah Valley6–85Seattle5–96UT Rio Grande Valley2–127Chicago State1–13
Schedule GameTime*MatchupScoreTelevision Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 912:00 pmNo. 5 Seattle vs. No. 4 Utah Valley53–65WAC Digital Network24:30 pmNo. 7 Chicago State vs. No. 2 New Mexico State53–6737:00 pmNo. 6 UT Rio Grande Valley vs. No. 3 UMKC78–82OT Semifinals – Friday, March 1046:00 pmNo. 4 Utah Valley vs. No. 1 Cal State Bakersfield80–814OTESPN358:30 pmNo. 3 UMKC vs. No. 2 New Mexico State60–78 Championship – Saturday, March 1168:00 pmNo.1 Cal State Bakersfield vs. No. 2 New Mexico State60–70ESPNU *Game times in PT. Rankings denote tournament seeding.
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