UCU WCC TOURNAMENT CENTRAL | MEN’S BRACKET | WOMEN’S BRACKET
SAN MATEO, Calif. – The West Coast Conference has announced the brackets and game times for the
2021 University Credit Union WCC Basketball Tournament at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. The tournament will begin with a women's first round match-up at 12:30 p.m. PT on Thursday, March 4 and continue through the men's championship game on Tuesday, March 9. All 17 games will be televised live nationwide, and all will be streamed on-line.
Thursday, March 4 features first round women’s and men’s games. On the women’s side the 8-seed and 9-seed will compete at 12:30 p.m. PT, followed by two men’s games where the 7-10 seeds will compete starting at 6:00 p.m.
Friday, March 5 will see seeds 5-7 enter the competition during the women’s session beginning at 11 a.m. The men follow with the 5-6 seeds joining the fray starting at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 6 introduces seeds 3-4 with quarterfinal games beginning at 11 a.m.
There will be no games on Sunday, March 7, and the tournament resumes with women's and men's semifinals on Monday, March 8. The two champions will be crowned on Tuesday, March 9 in front of ESPN national television audiences.
SEEDING THE 2021 UCU WCC TOURNAMENT
Due to the unbalanced nature of the conference schedule due to COVID interruptions, the WCC teamed with Ken Pomeroy to develop a model that uses a proprietary algorithm that best reflects conference games completed and yields an adjusted conference winning percentage for each men’s and women’s basketball team. The adjusted conference winning percentage accounts for the strength of the opponent and the location (home/away) of the game played. The offensive and defensive efficiency metric is not utilized in the algorithm to determine a team’s adjusted conference winning percentage.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL FINAL KEN POMEROY ADJUSTED CONFERENCE WINNING PERCENTAGE RANKINGS
| Rank |
Team |
AWP |
W |
L |
| 1 |
Gonzaga |
.962 |
15 |
0 |
| 2 |
BYU |
.810 |
10 |
3 |
| 3 |
Pepperdine |
.590 |
7 |
6 |
| 4 |
Saint Mary's |
.580 |
4 |
6 |
| 5 |
LMU |
.557 |
7 |
5 |
| 6 |
Pacific |
.504 |
6 |
7 |
| 7 |
Santa Clara |
.453 |
4 |
5 |
| 8 |
San Francisco |
.306 |
4 |
9 |
| 9 |
San Diego |
.228 |
2 |
7 |
| 10 |
Portland |
.008 |
0 |
11 |
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL FINAL KEN POMEROY ADJUSTED CONFERENCE WINNING PERCENTAGE RANKINGS
| Rank |
Team |
AWP |
W |
L |
| 1 |
Gonzaga |
.917 |
16 |
1 |
| 2 |
BYU |
.808 |
13 |
3 |
| 3 |
San Francisco |
.587 |
10 |
7 |
| 4 |
San Diego |
.563 |
9 |
5 |
| 5 |
Santa Clara |
.545 |
9 |
8 |
| 6 |
Portland |
.510 |
9 |
8 |
| 7 |
Pacific |
.503 |
9 |
9 |
| 8 |
Saint Mary's |
.225 |
4 |
14 |
| 9 |
LMU |
.224 |
4 |
14 |
| 10 |
Pepperdine |
.112 |
2 |
16 |
No. 1/1 Gonzaga finished as the WCC men’s basketball regular-season champion with an unblemished 24-0 record, posting its second unbeaten conference season (15-0) in three seasons in the process. Brigham Young collected the two seed at 10-3. Pepperdine claimed the three seed while Saint Mary’s finished with the four seed.
LMU is seeded fifth followed by Pacific (six), Santa Clara (seven), San Francisco (eight), San Diego (nine) and Portland (10) to round out the men’s tournament field.
On the women's side, No. 21/19 Gonzaga claimed its 15th regular-season championship over the past 16 seasons with a 16-1 mark. Brigham Young earned the two seed with a 13-3 conference slate. San Francisco vaulted into the three seed after upending the Cougars in the regular season finale.
San Diego, the 2020 WCC Tournament runner-up, earned the four seed but will not compete due to a COVID pause announced by the program on Thursday.
With the Toreros out of the field, all of the following teams move up one position. Santa Clara moves into the four seed followed by defending WCC Tournament Champion Portland in the five spot, followed by Pacific (six), Saint Mary’s (seven), LMU (eight) and Pepperdine (nine).
For the eighth straight year, every game from the 2021 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Tournament will be nationally televised. Seven women’s games can be seen live in well over 60 million homes nationwide via cable and satellite on BYUtv. Those games will also be streamed live on the WCC Network, the West Coast Conference's digital platform.
These broadcasts can also be seen on FOX Sports Prime Ticket, FOX Sports San Diego, NBC Sports Bay Area and ROOT Sports Northwest.
Stadium will air two men’s first round games on Thursday and two men’s second round games on Friday, with game times set for 6 p.m. PT and 9 p.m. PT each evening.
The two men's Saturday night third round games will be televised on ESPNU and ESPN2, respectively, beginning at 6 p.m. On Monday, one men's semifinal will air at 6 p.m. on ESPN, with the other semifinal to follow on ESPN2.
On Tuesday, the women's championship game will be shown nationwide at 1 p.m. on ESPNU. At 6 p.m., the West Coast Conference men's championship game will air live on ESPN. All six ESPN Networks telecasts can also be seen live on the ESPN app.
The men's and women's winners of the 2021 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Basketball Tournament will each receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Thursday, March 4
FIRST ROUND
Women’s Game 1: No. 8 LMU vs No. 9 Pepperdine, 12:30 p.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, Root Sports Northwest, FOX Sports Prime Ticket, FOX Sports San Diego, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men’s Game 1: No. 8 San Francisco vs No. 9 San Diego, 6 p.m. (Stadium)
Men’s Game 2: No. 7 Santa Clara vs No. 10 Portland, 9 p.m. (Stadium)
Friday, March 5
SECOND ROUND
Women’s Game 3: No. 5 Portland vs Game 1 Winner, 11 a.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, FOX Sports Prime Ticket, FOX Sports San Diego, Root Sports Northwest, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Women’s Game 4: No. 6 Pacific vs No. 7 Saint Mary’s, 2 p.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, FOX Sports Prime Ticket, FOX Sports San Diego, Root Sports Northwest, , BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men’s Game 3: No. 5 LMU vs Game 1 Winner, 6 p.m. (Stadium)
Men’s Game 4: No. 6 Pacific vs Game 2 Winner, 9 p.m. (Stadium)
Saturday, March 6
THIRD ROUND
Women’s Game 4: No. 4 Santa Clara vs Game 2 Winner, 11 a.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, FOX Sports Prime Ticket, FOX Sports San Diego, Root Sports Northwest, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Women’s Game 5: No. 3 San Francisco vs Game 3 Winner, 2 p.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, FOX Sports Prime Ticket, FOX Sports San Diego, Root Sports Northwest, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men’s Game 5: No. 4 Saint Mary’s vs Game 3 Winner, 6 p.m. (ESPNU, ESPN app)
Men’s Game 6: No. 3 Pepperdine vs Game 4 Winner, 9 p.m. (ESPN2, ESPN app)
Monday, March 8
SEMIFINALS
Women’s Semifinal: No. 1 Gonzaga vs Game 4 Winner, 11 a.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, FOX Sports Prime Ticket, FOX Sports San Diego, Root Sports Northwest, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Women’s Semifinal: No. 2 BYU vs Game 5 Winner, 2 p.m. (NBCSports Bay Area, FOX Sports Prime Ticket, FOX Sports San Diego, Root Sports Northwest, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men’s Semifinal: No. 1 Gonzaga vs Game 5 Winner, 6 p.m. (ESPN, ESPN app)
Men’s Semifinal: No. 2 Brigham Young vs Game 6 Winner, 9 p.m. (ESPN2, ESPN app)
Tuesday, March 9
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Women's Championship Game, 1:00 p.m. (ESPNU, ESPN app)
Men's Championship Game, 6:00 p.m. (ESPN, ESPN app)