2017 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2017 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2016–17
Teams	11
Site	Thomas & Mack Center Paradise, Nevada
Television	MW Net, CBSSN, CBS
Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments «2016  2018»

2016–17 Mountain West Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Colorado State	0	–	0		–			6	–	1		.857
San Diego State	0	–	0		–			4	–	1		.800
Nevada	0	–	0		–			6	–	2		.750
New Mexico	0	–	0		–			5	–	2		.714
UNLV	0	–	0		–			5	–	2		.714
Fresno State	0	–	0		–			4	–	2		.667
Wyoming	0	–	0		–			4	–	2		.667
Air Force	0	–	0		–			5	–	3		.625
Boise State	0	–	0		–			4	–	3		.571
San Jose State	0	–	0		–			3	–	3		.500
Utah State	0	–	0		–			3	–	3		.500
† 2017 MWC Tournament winner As of December 4, 2016; Rankings from AP

The 2017 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament will take place from March 8–11, 2017 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The winner of the tournament will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Tournament.

Seeds

All 11 conference teams participated in the tournament. The top five seeds received first round byes.

Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Schedule

Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television
First round – Wednesday, March 8
1	11:00 am	#8 vs. #9	MW Net
2	1:30 pm	#7 vs. #10	MW Net
3	4:00 pm	#6 vs. #11	MW Net
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9
4	12:00 pm	#1 vs. Winner of game 1	CBSSN
5	2:30 pm	#4 vs. #5	CBSSN
6	6:00 pm	#2 vs. Winner of game 2	CBSSN
7	8:30 pm	#3 vs. Winner of game 3	CBSSN
Semifinals – Friday, March 10
8	6:00 pm	Winner of game 4 vs. Winner of game 5	CBSSN
9	8:30 pm	Winner of game 6 vs. Winner of game 7	CBSSN
Championship – Saturday, March 11
10	3:00 pm	Winner of game 8 vs. Winner of game 9	CBS
*Game times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

	First round Wednesday, March 8 MWN					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 9 CBSSN					Semifinals Friday, March 10 CBSSN					Championship Saturday, March 11 CBS
						1
	8
	9
						4
						5
						2
	7
	10
						3
	6
	11

* denotes overtime period

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