Classification Division I Teams 8 | Season 2011–12 | |
Site Orleans Arena
Paradise, Nevada, USA Champions New Mexico State (3rd title) Winning coach Marvin Menzies (2nd title) | ||
The 2012 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament, was held March 7–10, 2012 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States to crown a champion of the Western Athletic Conference. The winner of the tournament received an automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Tournament. The 2012 Championship game was televised on ESPN2 at 9:00 pm Pacific Time.
Format
With the departure of Boise State to the Mountain West Conference, WAC Commissioner Karl Benson announced during the basketball preseason teleconferences that the league would change its postseason basketball tournament to a regular quarterfinal format, getting rid of the double-bye format used in 2011. This format was to be used for 2012 only; the format was to be re-evaluated for 2013 after new five new teams came in and three schools departed for a total of 10 participating institutions in 2012–13.