The 2023 Big West Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference of the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held March 7–11, 2023, at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada. The winner, the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA tournament." bigwest.org. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
Seeds Of the 11 conference teams, 10 were eligible for the tournament. UC San Diego was ineligible for the tournament, as it was in the third year of the four-year transition required for teams transferring to Division I from Division II. Teams were seeded based on their performance within the conference, and teams with identical conference records were seeded using a tiebreaker system. Unlike previous years before 2020, teams were no longer reseeded before the semifinals.
SeedSchoolRecordTiebreaker1 UC Irvine15-52-0 vs UCR2 UC Santa Barbara15-50-2 vs UCR3 UC Riverside14-64 Cal State Fullerton12-65 Hawai'i13-76 UC Davis11-87 Long Beach State11-98 Cal State Bakersfield6-149 Cal State Northridge4-1610 Cal Poly1-18
Schedule and results GameTime " bigwest.org. Retrieved 2023-01-31.MatchupScoreTelevision First round – Tuesday, March 716:00 pm No. 8 Cal State Bakersfield vs. No. 9 Cal State Northridge 51–47 ESPN+28:30 pm No. 7 Long Beach State vs. No. 10 Cal Poly68–88 Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9312:00 pm No. 1 UC Irvine vs. No. 8 Cal State Bakersfield75–51ESPN+42:30 pm No. 4 Cal State Fullerton vs. No. 5 Hawai'i62–60OT56:00 pm No. 2 UC Santa Barbara vs. No. 10 Cal Poly64–5468:30 pm No. 3 UC Riverside vs. No. 6 UC Davis68–52 Semifinals – Friday, March 1076:00 pm No. 1 UC Irvine vs No. 4 Cal State Fullerton80–83ESPN+88:30 pm No. 2 UC Santa Barbara vs No. 3 UC Riverside92–87ESPNU Final – Saturday, March 1196:30 pmNo. 4 Cal State Fullerton vs No. 2 UC Santa Barbara62–72ESPN2 *Game times in PST. Rankings denote tournament seed
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