The 2022 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the

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(WCC) during the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament was held during March 3–8, 2022, at the

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. Los Angeles–based University Credit Union was the title sponsor of the tournament for the fourth consecutive year.TritonPoint Wealth
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, received the conference's automatic bid to the

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Venue

For the 14th consecutive year, the 2022 WCC Tournament was held in the Orleans Arena. When Orleans Arena is set up for basketball games, the seating capacity is 7,471. The Orleans Arena is located at the 1,886-room Orleans Hotel and Casino, about 1 mile west of the

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. Tickets for the WCC Tournament typically sell out quickly. In 2021, due to the

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, no fans were permitted to attend this tournament.

Seeds

All 10 WCC schools participated in the tournament. Teams are typically seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. However, due to numerous regular-season game cancellations, the WCC announced that the seeding for the 2021 edition would be determined using an adjusted conference winning percentage. With several conference games being canceled during the 2022 regular season, the conference was expected to use the adjusted conference winning percentage for seeding the 2022 tournament. Developed in partnership with

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, the adjusted conference winning percentage (Pomeroy AWP) takes into account the strength of the opponent and the location where each game was played. The tournament followed a format similar to that used from 2003 to 2011. The 7 through 10 seeds played in the "first round", the 5 and 6 seeds started play in the "second round", and the 3 and 4 seeds started in the "quarterfinals". The top two seeds received byes into the semifinals. As expected, the WCC released the tournament seedings based on the Pomeroy AWP a few days prior to the start of the tournament.

Schedule

Notes

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, and

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. (RSNs may not carry every game)

Bracket

* denotes overtime period

References

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