2000 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

The inaugural Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament was played at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 9–11, 2000. All eight member schools entered the three round tournament seeded according to their regular season league finish.

2000 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season199900
SiteThomas & Mack Center
Paradise, NV
ChampionsUNLV (1 title)
MVPMark Dickel (UNLV)
1999–2000 Mountain West Conference men's basketball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
UNLV104 .714  238  .742
Utah104 .714  239  .719
New Mexico95 .643  1814  .563
Colorado State86 .571  1812  .600
Wyoming86 .571  1912  .613
BYU77 .500  2211  .667
Air Force410 .286  820  .286
San Diego State014 .000  523  .179
2000 Mountain West Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll[1]

Host school and top seed UNLV won the tournament by beating 6th seed BYU 79–56. They were not awarded an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament as the MWC did not have one this year. UNLV did receive an at-large invitation.

Bracket

Quarterfinals
March 9
Semifinals
March 10
Finals
March 11
         
3 New Mexico 43
6 BYU 55
6 BYU 58
2 Utah 54
2 Utah 74
7 Air Force 65
6 BYU 56
1 UNLV 79
1 UNLV 42
8 San Diego State 38
1 UNLV 97
5 Wyoming 92
4 Colorado State 68
5 Wyoming 74

References

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