The 2020 WAC men's basketball tournament was to be the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference during the 2019–20 season. All tournament games were to be played at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, from March 12–14, 2020. The tournament champion would have received the WAC's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA tournament.
On March 12, both the WAC Tournament and the NCAA Tournaments were cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Seeds 8 of the 9 teams in the WAC were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. California Baptist was ineligible due to their transition from Division II to Division I. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
SeedSchoolConferenceRecordSeeding °RecordTiebreaker1Tiebreaker21New Mexico State16–016–02UT Rio Grande Valley9–79–71–1 v SU1–1 v CBU3Seattle7–79–71–1 v UTRGV0–2 v CBU4Grand Canyon8–88–82–0 v UMKC5Kansas City8–78–80–2 v GCU6Utah Valley5–106–101–1 v CSUB2–0 v GCU7CSU Bakersfield6–106–101–1 v UVU1–1 v GCU8Chicago State0–140–16 ° Solely for the purposes of tournament seeding, the conference added two losses to Chicago State, one loss to Kansas City, one win to Utah Valley and two wins to Seattle's conference records for those games not played on March 5th (Chicago State at Seattle) and 7th (Chicago State at Utah Valley, Kansas City at Seattle), 2020. The conference then applied their standard tiebreaking formulas against the revised results to break any ties.
Schedule and results GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevision Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 12112:00 pmNo. 1 New Mexico State vs. No. 8 Chicago StatecanceledESPN+22:30 pmNo. 4 Grand Canyon vs. No. 5 Kansas City36:00 pmNo. 2 UT Rio Grande Valley vs. No. 7 CSU Bakersfield48:30 pmNo. 3 Seattle vs. No. 6 Utah Valley Semifinals – Friday, March 1356:00 pmGame 1 winner vs. Game 2 winnercanceledESPN+68:30 pmGame 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner Final – Saturday, March 1477:00 pmGame 5 winner vs. Game 6 winnercanceledESPNU Game times in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Rankings denote tournament seed.
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References
External links 2020 Western Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Championships