Brackets, Game Times Announced for 2019 UCU WCC Basketball Championships

Men's Bracket | Women's Bracket

The BYU women have earned the No. 2 seed and are scheduled to play in the semifinals on Monday, March 11, at 2 p.m. PDT. The Cougars will play the winner of No. 3 seed Pepperdine vs. No. 6 seed Pacific, No. 7 seed Santa Clara or No. 10 seed San Diego.

The BYU men have earned the No. 3 seed and are scheduled to play in the quarterfinals on Saturday, March 9, at 9 p.m. PST in the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. The Cougars will play one of three teams – No. 6 seed Santa Clara, No. 7 San Diego or No. 10 Portland.

SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The West Coast Conference has announced the brackets and game times for the 2019 University Credit Union WCC Basketball Championships at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. The tournament will begin with a women's first round match-up at 12:00 p.m. PT on Thursday, March 7 and continue through the men's championship game on Tuesday, March 12. All 18 games will be televised live nationwide, and all 18 will be streamed on-line.

With a new format at the 2019 edition of the championship, Thursday, March 7 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 8 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 9 introduces seeds 3-4 with third round 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 10, and the tournament resumes with women's and men's semifinals on Monday, March 11. The two champions will be crowned on Tuesday, March 12. 

No. 1/1 Gonzaga finished as the WCC men’s basketball regular season champion with a perfect 16-0 record, the first undefeated conference season for a WCC team since the 2012-13 season. Saint Mary’s and Brigham Young followed with identical 11-5 records with the Gaels claiming the two-seed by virtue of a tiebreaking split series against San Francisco, giving BYU the three-seed for the fifth-consecutive season.

San Francisco is the fourth-seed at 9-7 followed by Loyola Marymount and Santa Clara with identical 8-8 records. The Lions swept the Broncos to earn the five-seed. San Diego (seven), Pepperdine (eight), Pacific (nine) and Portland (10) round out the men’s seeds and will start tournament play on Thursday night in the first round.  

On the women's side, No. 16/14 Gonzaga claimed its 13th regular season championship over the past 14 seasons with a 16-2 mark. Brigham Young earned the second-seed with a 15-3 record.

Pepperdine and Saint Mary’s each finished with identical 12-6 records, but the Waves earn the third-seed due to a tiebreaker with a season-sweep against fifth-seeded Loyola Marymount. The Lions and Pacific also tied with each going 10-8, but LMU earned the fifth-seed thanks to its 1-1 record against BYU.

Santa Clara (seven), Portland (eight), San Francisco (nine) and San Diego (10) round out the women's bracket and will start tournament play on Thursday afternoon in the first round.

For the sixth straight year, every game from the 2019 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Championships 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 TheW.tv, the West Coast Conference's digital platform.

For the fourth 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 California, ROOT Sports Northwest, and AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain. On Friday afternoon, NBC Sports Bay Area -- home of the San Francisco Giants and Golden State Warriors -- will televise the men’s second round, with those broadcasts airing on Spectrum 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 WatchESPN.

The men's and women's winners of the 2019 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Basketball Championships will each receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Thursday, March 7
FIRST ROUND 
Women’s Game 1: No. 8 Portland vs No. 9 San Francisco, 12 p.m. (BYUtv, TheW.tv)
Women’s Game 2: No. 7 Santa Clara vs No. 10 San Diego, 2 p.m. (BYUtv, TheW.tv)
Men’s Game 1: No. 8 Pepperdine vs No. 9 Pacific, 6 p.m. (Spectrum SportsNet, NBCSports California, ROOT Northwest, AT&T Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, TheW.tv)
Men’s Game 2: No. 7 San Diego vs No. 10 Portland, 8 p.m. (Spectrum SportsNet, NBCSports California, ROOT Northwest, AT&T Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, TheW.tv)

Friday, March 8
SECOND ROUND 
Women’s Game 3: No. 5 Loyola Marymount vs Game 1 Winner, 12 p.m. (BYUtv, TheW.tv)
Women’s Game 4: No. 6 Pacific vs Game 2 Winner, 2 p.m. (BYUtv, TheW.tv)
Men’s Game 3: No. 5 Loyola Marymount vs Game 1 Winner, 6 p.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, Spectrum SportsNet, BYUtv, TheW.tv)
Men’s Game 4: No. 6 Santa Clara vs Game 2 Winner, 8 p.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, Spectrum SportsNet, BYUtv, TheW.tv) 

Saturday, March 9
THIRD ROUND
Women’s Game 5: No. 4 Saint Mary’s vs Game 3 Winner, 1 p.m. (BYUtv, TheW.tv)
Women’s Game 6: No. 3 Pepperdine vs Game 4 Winner, 3 p.m. (BYUtv, TheW.tv)
Men’s Game 5: No. 4 San Francisco vs Game 3 Winner, 7 p.m. (ESPN2, WatchESPN)
Men’s Game 6: No. 3 Brigham Young vs Game 4 Winner, 9 p.m. (ESPN2, WatchESPN)

Monday, March 11
SEMIFINALS 
Women’s Semifinal: No. 1 Gonzaga vs Game 5 Winner, 12 p.m. (BYUtv, TheW.tv)
Women’s Semifinal: No. 2 Brigham Young vs Game 6 Winner, 2 p.m. (BYUtv, TheW.tv)
Men’s Semifinal: No. 1 Gonzaga vs Game 5 Winner, 6 p.m. (ESPN, WatchESPN)
Men’s Semifinal: No. 2 Saint Mary’s vs Game 6 Winner, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN2, WatchESPN) 

Tuesday, March 12
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Women's Championship Game, 1:00 p.m. (ESPNU, WatchESPN)
Men's Championship Game, 6:00 p.m. (ESPN, WatchESPN)