2020 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament

2020 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2019–20
Teams	10
Finals site	Orleans Arena Paradise, Nevada
Champions	Portland (2nd title)
Winning coach	Michael Meek (1st title)
MVP	Alex Fowler (Portland)
Television	ESPNU/BYUtv
West Coast Conference women's basketball tournaments

2019–20 West Coast Conference women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 11 Gonzaga	17	–	1		.944			28	–	3		.903
San Diego	13	–	5		.722			20	–	11		.645
BYU	13	–	5		.722			18	–	11		.621
Portland †	11	–	7		.611			21	–	11		.656
Pacific	9	–	9		.500			17	–	14		.548
Pepperdine	8	–	10		.444			16	–	15		.516
Saint Mary's	6	–	12		.333			12	–	19		.387
San Francisco	5	–	13		.278			12	–	19		.387
Santa Clara	5	–	13		.278			12	–	19		.387
Loyola Marymount	3	–	15		.167			7	–	25		.219
† 2020 WCC tournament winner As of December 3, 2024 Rankings from AP poll

The 2020 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament was played between March 5–10, 2020, at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Portland was the winner of the WCC Women's Tournament and would have automatically advanced to the 2020 NCAA Tournament, but that tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seeds

All 10 WCC schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with the following tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records:

• Head-to-head record.
• Record against the top team in the conference not involved in the tie, going down through the standings as necessary to break the tie. Should more than one team be tied for a position in the standings, collective records against all teams involved in that tie are considered.
• RPI at the end of the conference season.

Seed	School	Conference	Overall*	Tiebreaker
1	Gonzaga	17-1	28-2
2	San Diego	13-5	19-10
3	BYU	13-5	18–10
4	Portland	11-7	18-11
5	Pacific	9-9	16-13
6	Pepperdine	8-10	14-14
7	Saint Mary's	6-12	11-18
8	Santa Clara	5–13	11-18
9	San Francisco	5-13	12-18
10	Loyola Marymount	3-15	7-24

* Overall record at end of regular season.

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance
First round – Thursday March 5, 2020
1	1	12:00 PM	#8 Santa Clara 72** vs. #9 San Francisco 65	BYUtv
	2	2:00 PM	#7 Saint Mary's 72 vs. #10 LMU 63
Second round – Friday March 6, 2020
2	3	12:00 PM	#5 Pacific 67 vs. #8 Santa Clara 49	BYUtv
	4	2:00 PM	#6 Pepperdine 87 vs. #7 Saint Mary's 72
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 7, 2020
3	5	1:00 PM	#4 Portland 76 vs. #5 Pacific 69	BYUtv
	6	3:00 PM	#3 BYU 51 vs. #6 Pepperdine 62
Semifinals – Monday, March 9, 2020
4	7	12:00 PM	#1 Gonzaga 69 vs. #4 Portland 70	BYUtv
	8	2:00 PM	#2 San Diego 59 vs. #6 Pepperdine 44
Championship – Tuesday, March 10, 2020
5	9	1:00 PM	#4 Portland 64** vs. #2 San Diego 63	ESPNU
*Game times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding. **denotes overtime game

Bracket and scores

• All games except the championship aired on BYUtv games and were simulcast on WCC Network and multiple RSN's: NBC Sports Bay Area, Fox Sports Prime Ticket, Fox Sports San Diego, and Root Sports. . The championship aired on ESPNU.

	Opening round Thursday, March 5					Second round Friday, March 6					Third round Saturday, March 7					Semifinals Monday, March 9					Championship Tuesday, March 10
																1	Gonzaga	69
																4	Portland	70
											4	Portland	76
											5	Pacific	69
						5	Pacific	67
	8	Santa Clara	72*			8	Santa Clara	48
	9	San Francisco	65																		4	Portland	64*
																					2	San Diego	63
																2	San Diego	59
																6	Pepperdine	44
											3	BYU	51
											6	Pepperdine	62
						6	Pepperdine	87
	7	Saint Mary's	72			7	Saint Mary's	72
	10	LMU	63

* denotes overtime game

See also

• 2019-20 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
• West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament
• 2020 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament
• West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament