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WCC tourney brackets announced

| February 28, 2022 1:00 AM

SAN MATEO, Calif. — For the second year in a row, the West Coast Conference and college basketball statistical analyst Ken Pomeroy collaborated to develop a model to seed the West Coast Conference men’s and women’s basketball tournament.

Using the Ken Pomeroy Conference Adjusted Winning Percentage, Gonzaga captured the WCC men’s basketball regular season title and BYU won the WCC women’s basketball regular season crown.

The WCC conducts a 16-game unbalanced men’s basketball regular-season schedule and an 18-game double round-robin women’s basketball regular-season schedule, seeding the conference tournament based on conference winning percentage. With interruptions during the 2021-22 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the WCC did not fully complete these conference schedules, leaving some disparity in the number of conference games completed among member programs. In total, six women’s basketball games and five men’s basketball games were declared no-contests by the conference during the 2021-22 conference regular season.

With an unequal number of games, the WCC partnered with Pomeroy to develop a model that uses a proprietary algorithm that best reflects conference games completed and yields a conference adjusted winning percentage for each men’s and women’s basketball team. The conference adjusted 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 conference adjusted winning percentage.

The Ken Pomeroy Conference Adjusted Winning Percentage rankings for men’s and women’s basketball follow. These rankings are the seedings for the WCC men’s and women’s tournaments.

MEN

  1. Gonzaga, 13-1, .921 adjusted winning percentage
  2. Saint Mary’s, 12-3, .816
  3. Santa Clara, 10-5, .673
  4. San Francisco, 10-6, .655
  5. BYU, 9-6, .595
  6. Portland, 7-7, .429
  7. San Diego, 7-9, .411
  8. Loyola Marymount, 3-12, .222
  9. Pacific, 3-11, .183
  10. Pepperdine, 1-15, .095

WOMEN

  1. BYU, 15.1, .921 adjusted winning percentage
  2. Gonzaga, 15-2, .870
  3. San Francisco, 10-8, .555
  4. Portland, 8-7, .530
  5. Saint Mary’s, 9-9, .501
  6. San Diego, 8-9, .493
  7. Santa Clara, 8-10, .448
  8. Pepperdine, 4-11, .257
  9. Loyola Marymount, 4-13, .241
  10. Pacific, 3-14, .184

The West Coast Conference men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be held March 3-8 at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.

The first two rounds of the men’s tournament and the first four rounds of the women’s tournament will be televised on the WCC’s regional sports network partners, NBC Sports Bay Area, NBC Sports California, ROOT Sports NW, Bally Sports West, Bally Sports SoCal, Bally Sports San Diego, as well as BYUtv. These games will also be available online on the WCC Network.

ESPN will televise the quarterfinals and semifinals of the men’s tournament, and the championship games of both the men’s and women’s tournament.

Thursday, March 3

Women’s and Men’s First Round

Noon – Women’s Game 1: No. 8 seed Pepperdine vs. No. 9 seed LMU (RSNs/BYUtv)

2 p.m. – Women’s Game 2: No. 7 seed Santa Clara vs. No. 10 seed Pacific (RSNs/BYUtv)

6 p.m. – Men’s Game 1: No. 8 seed LMU vs. No. 9 seed Pacific (RSNs/BYUtv)

8 p.m. – Men’s Game 2: No. 7 seed San Diego vs. No. 10 seed Pepperdine (RSNs/BYUtv)

Friday, March 4

Women’s and Men’s Second Round

Noon. – Women’s Game 3: No. 5 seed Saint Mary’s vs. Winner Game 1 (RSNs/BYUtv)

2 p.m. – Women’s Game 4: No. 6 seed San Diego vs. Winner Game 2 (RSNs/BYUtv)

6 p.m. – Men’s Game 3: No. 5 seed BYU vs. Winner Game 1 (RSNs/BYUtv)

8 p.m. Men’s Game 4: No. 6 seed Portland vs. Winner Game 2 (RSNs/BYUtv)

Saturday, March 5

Women’s and Men’s Quarterfinals

1:30 p.m. – Women’s Game 5: No. 4 seed Portland vs. Winner Game 3 (RSNs/BYUtv)

3:30 p.m. – Women’s Game 6: No. 3 seed San Francisco vs. Winner Game 4 (RSNs/BYUtv)

7:30 p.m. – Men’s Game 5: No. 4 seed San Francisco vs. Winner Game 3 (ESPN2)

9:30 p.m. – Men’s Game 6: No. 3 seed Santa Clara vs. Winner Game 4 (ESPN2)

Monday, March 7 –Women’s and Men’s Semifinals

Noon – Women’s Game 7: No. 1 seed BYU vs. Winner Game 5 (RSNs/BYUtv)

2 p.m. – Women’s Game 8: No. 2 seed Gonzaga vs. Winner Game 6 (RSNs/BYUtv)

6 p.m. – Men’s Game 7: No. 1 seed Gonzaga vs. Winner Game 5 (ESPN)

8:30 p.m. – Men’s Game 8: No. 2 seed Saint Mary’s vs. Winner Game 6 (ESPN2)

Tuesday, March 8 – Women’s and Men’s Finals

1 p.m. – Women’s Championship: Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8 (ESPNU)

6 p.m. – Men’s Championship: Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8 (ESPN)

Single-session tickets for tournaments are available at OrleansArena.com