The 2020 WAC men's basketball tournament was to be the postseason men's basketball tournament for the

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during the 2019–20 season. All tournament games were to be played at the

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, from March 12–14, 2020. The tournament champion would have received the WAC's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA tournament. On March 12, both the WAC Tournament and the NCAA Tournaments were cancelled amid the

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Seeds

8 of the 9 teams in the WAC were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. California Baptist was ineligible due to their transition from Division II to Division I. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. ° Solely for the purposes of tournament seeding, the conference added two losses to Chicago State, one loss to Kansas City, one win to Utah Valley and two wins to Seattle's conference records for those games not played on March 5th (Chicago State at Seattle) and 7th (Chicago State at Utah Valley, Kansas City at Seattle), 2020. The conference then applied their standard tiebreaking formulas against the revised results to break any ties.

Schedule and results

Bracket

References

External links

2020 Western Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Championships
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