How The 2020 WCC Tournament Bracket Looks Heading Into Final Day Of Season
Feb 28, 2020, 8:47 PM | Updated: Feb 29, 2020, 7:12 pm
WCC logo located within in the paint on BYU Basketball Marriott Center Floor. Saturday, February 22nd, 2020. (Photo: Mitch Harper, KSLsports.com)
(Photo: Mitch Harper, KSLsports.com)
SALT LAKE CITY – With one day left in the West Coast Conference regular season, the WCC Tournament bracket is starting to take shape.
BYU controls its own destiny for the two-seed in the conference tournament which would give them a three-round bye to the Semifinals. Saint Mary’s remains in the hunt for the two-seed if they can knock off Gonzaga in The Kennel on Saturday night.
“It’s really important. It gives you a real advantage. If you get that two-seed you’re just one game away from playing in that championship game,” said BYU coach Mark Pope. “Every single game in the WCC Tournament is going to be hard. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing in the 7-10 play-in or the 8-9 first game, it’s going to be hard.
“That’s why we have this regular season is to try and earn ourselves as far as we can and then go ahead and go fight and compete. Whatever happens, we’ll find an answer, that’s what we have done all season, but we’re certainly competing for the highest seed we can get.”
Gonzaga has the No. 1 seed once again for the fourth year in a row.
This is the second consecutive year that the WCC has given the number one and two seeds byes to the semifinal round of the tournament.
How the WCC Tournament Bracket looks heading into the final day of the regular season
#1 seed: Gonzaga (Clinched)
#2 seed: BYU (Clinch with a win at Pepperdine or Saint Mary’s loses at Gonzaga)
#3 seed: Saint Mary’s (Can go no lower than the three-seed win or lose at Gonzaga)
#4 seed: Pacific (Clinched)
#5 seed: San Francisco (Clinch 5-seed with a win over LMU or Pepperdine loss to BYU)
#6 seed: Pepperdine (Waves move to 5-seed with win over BYU and USF loss to LMU)
#7 seed: Santa Clara (Clinch 7-seed with win over Portland or LMU loss to USF)
#8 seed: Loyola Marymount (Lions move to 7-seed with win over USF and Santa Clara loss to Portland)
#9 seed: San Diego (Clinched)
#10 seed: Portland (Clinched)
Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and host of the Cougar Tracks Podcast (SUBSCRIBE) and Cougar Sports Saturday (Saturday from 12-3 pm) on KSL Newsradio. Follow him on Twitter: @Mitch_Harper.
