2006 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2006 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament was played at Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado from March 7–10, 2006. Regular season league champion San Diego State held off Wyoming, who were at the time the lowest seed to ever make the championship game (7th), 69–64 in overtime to claim the Mountain West Conference Tournament title and the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. SDSU became the first school in the league's brief history to win multiple tournament titles (2002 & 2006)

2006 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2005–06
Teams9
SitePepsi Center
Denver, Colorado
ChampionsSan Diego State (2nd title)
MVPMarcus Slaughter (SDSU)
2005–06 Mountain West Conference men's basketball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
San Diego State †13–3 .813  24–9  .727
Air Force12–4 .750  24–7  .774
BYU12–4 .750  20–9  .690
UNLV10–6 .625  17–13  .567
New Mexico8–8 .500  17–13  .567
Utah6–10 .375  14–15  .483
Wyoming5–11 .313  14–18  .438
Colorado State4–12 .250  16–15  .516
TCU4–12 .250  16–15  .516
† 2006 Mountain West Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll[1]

With the expansion and addition of TCU to the Mountain West Conference at the start of the 2005–06 athletic year, the conference tournament format was revised to include a play-in game between the 8th and 9th place teams, with the winner advancing to play the regular season MWC champion in the quarterfinals.

It is, to date, the last MWC Tournament played in Denver. In 2007 the tournament returned to the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, where it had previously been from 2000–2003.

Tournament Bracket
  First round Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship
                                     
8 Colorado State 64  
9 Texas Christian 60  
  1 San Diego State 64  
    8 Colorado St. 52  
     
       
  1 San Diego St. 63  
  4 UNLV 60  
       
       
  4 UNLV 65
    5 New Mexico 64  
     
       
  1 San Diego St. 69
  7 Wyoming 64
       
       
  2 Air Force 55
    7 Wyoming 57  
     
       
  7 Wyoming 60
  6 Utah 47  
       
       
  3 BYU 70
    6 Utah 74  
     

  1. sports-reference.com 2005-06 Mountain West Conference Season Summary
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