2018–19 West Coast Conference men's basketball season

The 2018–19 West Coast Conference men's basketball season began with practices in September 2018 and will end with the 2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament March 2019. This is the 68th season for WCC men's basketball, and the 30th under its current name of "West Coast Conference". The conference was founded in 1952 as the California Basketball Association, became the West Coast Athletic Conference in 1956, and dropped the word "Athletic" in 1989.

2018–19 West Coast Conference men's basketball season
LeagueNCAA Division I
SportMen's basketball
Number of teams10
Regular season
Season championsGonzaga
Season MVPRui Hachimura, Gonzaga
Tournament
ChampionsSaint Mary's
  Runners-upGonzaga
Finals MVPJordan Hunter - Saint Mary's
2018–19 West Coast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
No. 4 Gonzaga160 1.000  334  .892
Saint Mary's115 .688  2212  .647
BYU115 .688  1913  .594
San Francisco97 .563  2110  .677
Loyola Marymount88 .500  2212  .647
Santa Clara88 .500  1615  .516
San Diego79 .438  2115  .583
Pepperdine610 .375  1618  .471
Pacific412 .250  1418  .438
Portland016 .000  725  .219
2019 WCC Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

Head coaches

Coaching changes

On February 13, 2018, Pepperdine announced that head coach Marty Wilson would not return following the end of the season.[1] He finished at Pepperdine with a seven-year record of 88–129 (91–139 when including his 3–10 record as interim head coach in 1995–96). On March 12, the school hired Lorenzo Romar as head coach.[2] Romar returned to Pepperdine where he started his coaching career in 1996.[3]

On March 8, 2018, San Diego head coach Lamont Smith, who had been placed on administrative leave following an arrest for domestic violence 10 days earlier, resigned as head coach.[4] Assistant coach Sam Scholl took over as interim head coach for the Toreros during the WCC Tournament and the CIT.[5] On April 2, the school announced Scholl would remain the head coach.[6]

Coaches

Team Head Coach Previous job Years
at school
Overall
record
WCC
record
WCC
Tournament
record
NCAA
Tournaments
Sweet
Sixteens
BYU Dave Rose Dixie State 14 329–122 (.729) 84–38 (.689) 9–7 (.563) 8 1
Gonzaga Mark Few Gonzaga
(asst.)
20 535–118 (.819) 260–30 (.897) 42–4 (.913) 19 8
Loyola Marymount Mike Dunlap Charlotte Bobcats 5 48–75 (.390) 23–49 (.319) 2–4 (.333) 0 0
Pacific Damon Stoudamire Memphis Grizzlies (asst.) 3 25–40 (.385) 13–23 (.361) 1–2 (.333) 0 0
Pepperdine Lorenzo Romar Arizona (asst.) 1 42–44 (.488) 22–20 (.524) 1–3 (.250) 7 3
Portland Terry Porter Minnesota Timberwolves (asst.) 3 21–44 (.323) 6–30 (.167) 1–2 (.333) 0 0
Saint Mary's Randy Bennett Saint Louis
(asst.)
18 392–162 (.708) 188–74 (.718) 20–15 (.571) 6 1
San Diego Sam Scholl San Diego
(asst.)
1 2–1 (.667) 0–0 (–) 0–0 (–) 0 0
San Francisco Kyle Smith Columbia 3 42–30 (.583) 19–17 (.528) 1–2 (.333) 0 0
Santa Clara Herb Sendek Arizona State 3 28–36 (.438) 18–18 (.500) 1–2 (.333) 8 1

Notes:

  • Year at school includes 2018–19 season.
  • Overall and WCC records are from time at current school and are through the beginning of the 2018–19 season.

Preseason

Preseason poll

Source[7]

Rank Team
1. Gonzaga (9)
2. Saint Mary's
3. BYU (1)
4. San Francisco
5. San Diego
6. Pacific
7. Loyola Marymount
8. Pepperdine
9. Santa Clara
10. Portland
(first place votes)

All-WCC Preseason Men's Basketball team

Honor Recipient
Preseason All-WCC Team
James Batemon, Loyola Marymount
Yoeli Childs, BYU
KJ Feagin, Santa Clara
Frankie Ferrari, San Francisco
Jordan Ford, Saint Mary's
Rui Hachimura, Gonzaga
Zach Norvell Jr., Gonzaga
Josh Perkins, Gonzaga
Isaiah Piñeiro, San Diego
Killian Tillie, Gonzaga

Source[7]

Rankings

Legend
    Improvement in ranking
  Drop in ranking
  Not ranked previous week
RV Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25 of poll
(Italics) Number of first place votes
 Pre/
Wk 1
Wk
2
Wk
3
Wk
4
Wk
5
Wk
6
Wk
7
Wk
8
Wk
9
Wk
10
Wk
11
Wk
12
Wk
13
Wk
14
Wk
15
Wk
16
Wk
17
Wk
18
Wk
19
Post
BYU AP
C
Gonzaga AP 3 (1) 3 3 1 (32) 1 (43) 4 (1) 8 7 7 5 5 4 4 4 3 2 (6) 1 (44) 1 (42) 1 (41) 4 (1)
C 4 (1) 4 (1) 3 1 (17) 1 (21) 6 (1) 9 8 8 6 5 4 4 4 3 2 (4) 1 (26) 1 (27) 1 (28) 3 (3)
Loyola
Marymount
AP RV
C
Pacific AP
C
Pepperdine AP
C
Portland AP
C
Saint
Mary's
AP
C RV
San
Diego
AP
C
San
Francisco
AP RV RV RV RV
C RV
Santa
Clara
AP
C

WCC regular season

Conference matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

  BYU Gonzaga LMU Pacific Pepperdine Portland Saint Mary's San Diego San Francisco Santa Clara
vs. Brigham Young 2–00–20–20–10–21–10–22–00–1
vs. Gonzaga 0–2 0–20–20–10–10–20–20–20–2
vs. Loyola Marymount 2–02–0 0–21–10–21–02–00–10–2
vs. Pacific 2–02–02–0 0–20–22–01–01–02–0
vs. Pepperdine 1–01–01–12–0 0–21–10–22–02–0
vs. Portland 2–01–02–02–02–0 1–02–02–02–0
vs. Saint Mary's 1–12–00–10–21–10–1 0–21–10–2
vs. San Diego 2–02–00–20–12–00–22–0 0–21–0
vs. San Francisco 0–22–01–00–10–20–21–12–0 1–1
vs. Santa Clara 1–02–02–00–20–20–22–00–11–1
Total 11–516–08–84–126–100–1611–57–99–78–8

Postseason

West Coast Conference Tournament

NCAA Tournament

See also

References

  1. Johnson, Raphielle (February 13, 2018). "Pepperdine to replace Marty Wilson at season's end". nbcsports.com. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  2. Star, Bruce Pascoe Arizona Daily. "Pepperdine officially re-hires Arizona's Lorenzo Romar as head coach". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  3. "Pepperdine expected to hire coach Lorenzo Romar". ajc. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  4. Goodman, Jeff (March 9, 2018). "San Diego's Lamont Smith resigns from basketball post". ESPN.com. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  5. Norcross, Don (March 11, 2018). "Toreros get another chance to play basketball". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
  6. Norcross, Don (April 2, 2018). "USD names Sam Scholl new men's basketball coach". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
  7. "Gonzaga picked to Win 2018-19 Men's Basketball Championship". West Coast Conference. October 18, 2018. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
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