2026 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament

The 2026 West Coast Conference women's basketball Tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference for the 2025–26 season. All tournament games were played at Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas-area community of Paradise, Nevada from March 5–10, 2026. In its final WCC season before leaving for the Pac-12 Conference in July 2026, Gonzaga won the tournament and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2026 NCAA tournament.

Seeds All 12 conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The tiebreakers operated in the following order: Head-to-head record Record against the top-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the standings until the tie is broken NET rating after the final regular-season conference games on February 28

SeedSchoolConf. recordTiebreaker(s)1Loyola Marymount16–22Gonzaga15–33Santa Clara13–51–0 vs. Oregon State4Oregon State13–50–1 vs. Santa Clara5Portland11–76Pepperdine10–87San Francisco9–98Pacific6–122–1 vs. Saint Mary's/Washington State/1–0 vs. Washington State9Washington State6–122–1 vs. Pacific/Saint Mary's/0–1 vs. Pacific10Saint Mary's6–121–3 vs. Pacific/Washington State11San Diego4–1412Seattle1–17

Schedule and results GameTimeMatchup ScoreTelevision First Round - Thursday, March 5112:00 p.m.No. 9 Washington State vs. No. 12 Seattle80–58ESPN+22:30 p.m.No. 10 Saint Mary's vs. No. 11 San Diego62–66 Second Round - Friday, March 6312:00 p.m.No. 8 Pacific vs. No. 9 Washington State76–82ESPN+42:30 p.m.No. 7 San Francisco vs. No. 11 San Diego61–52 Third Round – Saturday, March 7512:00 p.m.No. 5 Portland vs. No. 9 Washington State72–62ESPN+62:30 p.m.No. 6 Pepperdine vs. No. 7 San Francisco69–86 Quarterfinals - Sunday, March 8711:30 a.m.No. 4 Oregon State vs. No. 5 Portland60–50ESPN+82:00 p.m.No. 3 Santa Clara vs. No. 7 San Francisco87–69 Semifinals - Monday, March 9912:00 p.m.No. 1 Loyola Marymount vs. No. 4 Oregon State67–73ESPN+102:30 p.m.No. 2 Gonzaga vs. No. 3 Santa Clara88–60ESPN+ Final – Tuesday, March 10111:00 p.m.No. 2 Gonzaga vs. No. 4 Oregon State76–66ESPN2 *Game times in PST. Rankings denote tournament seed.

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See also 2026 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament

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