The 1987 West Coast Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament (now West Coast Conference) was held from to with the semifinals and finals at the

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. the first edition of the conference tournament and included all eight teams. The first round quarterfinals were held on the home courts of the top four seeds, and two of the hosts were In the semifinals on a neutral court in San Francisco, the lower seeds won both both had losing conference records. Fifth-seeded Santa Clara defeated #7 in the championship game 77–65 to gain the automatic bid to the 64-team and were seeded fifteenth in the West regional. Regular season champion

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, upset by a point in the conference received an at-large bid and were the ninth seed in the Midwest regional; both WCAC teams lost in the first round.

Bracket

:* ''denotes host team''

References

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