The 2024 West Coast Conference Tournament will take place at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas from March 7-12. All nine teams from the league will participate in the single-elimination bracket with the winner receiving the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Saint Mary’s won the WCC regular season championship with a 15-1 record in conference play and earned the No. 1 seed in the tournament. Right behind them are perennial conference powerhouse Gonzaga at No. 2 and both have earned a triple-bye straight into the semifinal round.
2024 West Coast Conference Tournament Bracket
* All times ET
Thursday, March 7
Game 1: No. 9 Pacific 43, No. 8 Pepperdine 102
Friday, March 8
Game 2: No. 8 Pepperdine 52, No. 5 San Diego 57
Game 3: No. 7 Loyola Marymount 70, No. 6 Portland 78
Saturday, March 9
Game 4: No. 4 Santa Clara 104, No. 5 San Diego 79
Game 5: No. 3 San Francisco 72, No. 6 Portland 51
Monday, March 11
Game 6: No. 1 Saint Mary’s 79, No. 4 Santa Clara 65
Game 7: No. 2 Gonzaga 89, No. 3 San Francisco 77
Tuesday, March 12
Championship: No. 1 Saint Mary’s 69, No. 2 Gonzaga 60
Saint Mary’s wins the WCC and an NCAA Tournament automatic bid
As is always the case, the WCC was an incredibly top-heavy league in the regular season, so it will be interesting to see if any if the bottom five seeds can catch fire and put a scare into the top four seeds later on. San Diego is the only team in that group that finished with a regular season record over .500 and owns a victory over Santa Clara.
Odds to win
Saint Mary’s −105
Gonzaga +110
San Francisco +850
Santa Clara +2500
San Diego +15000
Portland +15000
LMU +20000
Pepperdine +30000
Pacific +30000
WCC March Madness Bids
The only two teams making the NCAA Tournament are the regular season champion Saint Mary’s Gaels, and likely the Gonzaga Bulldogs if there aren’t too many bid thieves. And these are the two teams that have won every conference tournament since 2008, when the San Diego Toreros came home with the trophy.
With BYU now in the Big 12, and San Francisco continuing their unrelenting streak of winning every game that doesn’t matter by beating everyone except the Big Two in the conference, it would take a miracle for someone other than the Gaels or Zags to head home with yet another conference title.