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held March 3–7, 2017 at the Orleans Arena in

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. Regular-season champion

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also won the WCC tournament, and with it the conference's automatic bid into the

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with a 74-56 win over

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in the finals. The WCC's eight-year tournament contract with Orleans Arena expired after the 2016 WCC tournament, with the WCC looking to potentially moving the tournament to a different Las Vegas-area venue (the MGM Grand Garden Arena or the T-Mobile Arena), keep it at the Orleans Arena, or move it elsewhere. In May 2016, the WCC announced that it reached an agreement on a new three-year contract with the Orleans Arena, which will run through the 2019 WCC year-end tournament.

Seeds

All 10 WCC teams were eligible for the tournament. The top six teams received a first round bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Schedule

Bracket

Game summaries

First round

No. 8 Pepperdine vs. No. 9 Pacific

Broadcasters: Dave McCann,

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Series History: Pacific leads 31–27 ----

No. 7 San Diego vs. No. 10 Portland

Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Blaine Fowler
Series History: San Diego leads 52–29 ----

Quarterfinals

No. 3 BYU vs. No. 6 Loyola Marymount

Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Blaine Fowler
Series History: BYU leads 13–3 ----

No. 4 Santa Clara vs. No. 5 San Francisco

Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Blaine Fowler
Series History: Santa Clara leads 79–76 ----

No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 9 Pacific

Broadcasters: Roxy Bernstein, Jon Barry
Series History: Gonzaga leads 12–1 ----

No. 2 Saint Mary's vs. No. 10 Portland

Broadcasters: Roxy Bernstein, Jon Barry
Series History: Saint Mary's leads 65–29 ----

Semifinals

No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 4 Santa Clara

Broadcasters: Dave O'Brien, Dick Vitale,

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Series History: Gonzaga leads 59–30 ----

No. 2 Saint Mary's vs. No. 3 BYU

Broadcasters: Dave O'Brien, Jon Barry, Jeff Goodman
Series History: BYU leads 12–11 ----

Championship

No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 2 Saint Mary's

Broadcasters: Dave O'Brien, Dick Vitale, Jeff Goodman
Series History: Gonzaga leads 67–29 ----

References

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