2019 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament

The 2019 University Credit Union West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament held for the West Coast Conference for the 2018–19 season. All tournament games were played at the Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas area community of Paradise, Nevada from March 7–12, 2019. BYU won the championship game over Gonzaga. Paisley Johnson was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Seeds All 10 WCC schools will participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with the following tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records: Head-to-head record. Record against the top team in the conference not involved in the tie, going down through the standings as necessary to break the tie. Should more than one team be tied for a position in the standings, collective records against all teams involved in that tie are considered. RPI at the end of the conference season. The tournament will return 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 will play in what is now called the "opening round", the 5 and 6 seeds will start play in the "second round", and the 3 and 4 seeds will start in the "third round". The top two seeds will receive byes into the semifinals.

SeedSchoolConferenceOverall*Tiebreaker1 Gonzaga16–227–3 2 BYU15–323–6 3 Pepperdine12–619–101–1 vs SMC, 0–2 vs GU, 1–1 vs BYU, 2–0 vs LMU4 Saint Mary's12–619–101–1 vs Pep, 0–2 vs GU, 1–1 vs BYU, 1–1 vs LMU5 Loyola Marymount10–817–131–1 vs. UOP, 1–1 vs. BYU6 Pacific10–817–111–1 vs. LMU, 0–2 vs. BYU7Santa Clara6–1213–168Portland5–1313–16 9San Francisco2–166–231–1 vs. San Diego & Santa Clara, Higher RPI (239)10San Diego2–16 9–201–1 vs. San Francisco & Santa Clara, Lower RPI (266) * Overall record at end of regular season.

Schedule SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance First round – Thursday March 7, 20191112:00 PM#8 Portland vs. #9 San FranciscoBYUtv5,23422:00 PM#7 Santa Clara vs. #10 San Diego Second round – Friday March 8, 20192312:00 PM#5 Loyola Marymount vs. #9 San FranciscoBYUtv5,23742:00 PM#6 Pacific vs. #7 Santa Clara Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 9, 2018351:00 PM#4 Saint Mary's vs #5 Loyola MarymountBYUtv5,33963:00 PM#3 Pepperdine vs #6 Pacific Semifinals – Monday, March 11, 20184712:00 PM#1 Gonzaga vs #4 Saint Mary'sBYUtv5,51182:00 PM#2 BYU vs #3 Pepperdine Championship – Tuesday, March 12, 2019591:00 PM#1 Gonzaga vs. #2 BYUESPNU5,892 *Game times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket and scores All games except the championship will air on BYUtv games and be simulcast on TheW.tv. The championship will air on ESPNU.

2019 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament

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