Brackets, Game Times Announced for 2020 University Credit Union WCC Basketball Tournament

The BYU men will play in the second semifinal on Monday, March 9, at 8:30 p.m. PST on ESPN2. The BYU women will play in the second quarterfinal on Saturday, March 7, at 3 p.m. PST on BYUtv. 

Men's Bracket | Women's Bracket

SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The West Coast Conference has announced the brackets and game times for the 2020 University Credit Union WCC Basketball Tournament at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. The tournament will begin with a women's first round match-up at 12 p.m. PT on Thursday, March 5 and continue through the men's championship game on Tuesday, March 10. All 18 games will be televised live nationwide, and all 18 will be streamed on-line.

Continuing the new format of the championship that began last season, Thursday, March 5, features first round games on both the women’s and men’s sides. Seeds 7-10 will play in the tournament's first day beginning with the women’s session at 12 p.m. and the men’s session at 6 p.m.

Friday, March 6, will see seeds 5-6 enter the competition with the women’s session again beginning at 12 p.m. followed by the men’s session at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 7 introduces seeds 3-4 with quarterfinal games beginning at 1 p.m. following the Saturday morning Hall of Honor ceremony at the Orleans Hotel & Casino.

There will be no games on Sunday, March 8, and the tournament resumes with women's and men's semifinals on Monday, March 9. The two champions will be crowned on Tuesday, March 10.

No. 3/4 Gonzaga finished as the WCC men’s basketball regular-season champion with a 15-1 record, followed by No. 17/18 BYU in second at 13-3. Saint Mary’s and Pacific followed with identical 11-5 records with the Gaels claiming the three-seed by virtue of a tiebreaking series against San Francisco in which the Gaels earned two wins.

San Francisco is the fifth-seed at 9-7 followed by Pepperdine (six), Santa Clara (seven), LMU (eight), San Diego (nine) and Portland (10) to round out the men’s seeds.

On the women's side, No. 11/10 Gonzaga claimed its 14th regular-season championship over the past 15 seasons with a 17-1 mark. San Diego and BYU had identical 13-5 records with the Toreros claiming the two-seed by virtue of a tiebreaking series against Portland.

Portland is the four-seed at 11-7, followed by Pacific (five), Pepperdine (six) and Saint Mary’s (seven).

Santa Clara and San Francisco had identical 5-13 records with the Broncos claiming the eight-seed by virtue of a tiebreaking series against San Diego, and LMU rounds out the women’s seed at 10.

For the seventh straight year, every game from the 2020 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Tournament will be nationally televised. Twelve games can be seen live in well over 60 million homes nationwide via cable and satellite on BYUtv. Those games - including eight women's games and the first four men's games - will also be streamed live on the WCC Network, the West Coast Conference's digital platform.

For the fifth straight year, Spectrum SportsNet, the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, will televise a pair of men's games, broadcasting the first round games on Thursday. These broadcasts can also be seen on NBC Sports Bay Area Plus, ROOT Sports Northwest and AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain. On Friday afternoon, NBC Sports California -- home of the Oakland Athletics, San Jose Sharks and Sacramento Kings -- will televise the men’s second round, with those broadcasts airing on Root Sports Northwest and AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain as well.

The two men's Saturday night third round games will be televised on ESPN2 beginning at 7 p.m. On Monday, one men's semifinal will air at 6 p.m. on ESPN, with the other semifinal immediately to follow on ESPN2.

On Tuesday, the women's championship game will be shown nationwide at 1 p.m. on ESPNU. At 6 p.m., the West Coast Conference men's championship game will air live on ESPN. All six ESPN Networks telecasts can also be seen live on the ESPN app.

The men's and women's winners of the 2020 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Basketball Tournament will each receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Thursday, March 5
FIRST ROUND 
Women’s Game 1: No. 8 Santa Clara vs No. 9 San Francisco, 12 p.m. (NBCSports California, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Women’s Game 2: No. 7 Saint Mary’s vs No. 10 LMU, 2 p.m. (NBCSports California, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men’s Game 1: No. 8 LMU vs No. 9 San Diego, 6 p.m. (Spectrum SportsNet, NBCSports Bay Area+, ROOT Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men’s Game 2: No. 7 Santa Clara vs No. 10 Portland, 8 p.m. (Spectrum SportsNet, NBCSports Bay Area+, ROOT Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)

Friday, March 6
SECOND ROUND 
Women’s Game 3: No. 5 Pacific vs Game 1 Winner, 12 p.m. (NBCSports California, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Women’s Game 4: No. 6 Pepperdine vs Game 2 Winner, 2 p.m. (NBCSports California, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men’s Game 3: No. 5 San Francisco vs Game 1 Winner, 6 p.m. (NBCSports California, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men’s Game 4: No. 6 Pepperdine vs Game 2 Winner, 8 p.m. (NBCSports California, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)

Saturday, March 7
THIRD ROUND 
Women’s Game 5: No. 4 Portland vs Game 3 Winner, 1 p.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Women’s Game 6: No. 3 BYU vs Game 4 Winner, 3 p.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men’s Game 5: No. 4 Pacific vs Game 3 Winner, 7 p.m. (ESPN2, ESPN app)
Men’s Game 6: No. 3 Saint Mary’s vs Game 4 Winner, 9 p.m. (ESPN2, ESPN app)

Monday, March 9
SEMIFINALS 
Women’s Semifinal: No. 1 Gonzaga vs Game 5 Winner, 12 p.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Women’s Semifinal: No. 2 San Diego vs Game 6 Winner, 2 p.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men’s Semifinal: No. 1 Gonzaga vs Game 5 Winner, 6 p.m. (ESPN, ESPN app)
Men’s Semifinal: No. 2 BYU vs Game 6 Winner, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN2, ESPN app)

Tuesday, March 10
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Women's Championship Game, 1 p.m. (ESPNU, ESPN app)
Men's Championship Game, 6 p.m. (ESPN, ESPN app)