2021 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

For the thirteenth consecutive year, the 2021 WCC Tournament will be held in the Orleans Arena. When the Orleans Arena is setup for basketball games, the seating capacity is 7,471.[4] The tournament is scheduled to be held at the Orleans Arena at least until 2022.[5] The Orleans Arena is located at the 1,886 room Orleans Hotel and Casino about 1 mile west of the Las Vegas Strip.[6] The tickets for the WCC Tournament typically sell out quickly.[7]

All 10 WCC schools participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.[8] The tournament will follow a format similar to that used from 2003 to 2011, with slight changes to the terminology used for the rounds prior to the semifinals. The 7 through 10 seeds play in the "first round", the 5 and 6 seeds start play in the "second round", and the 3 and 4 seeds start in the "third round". The top two seeds received byes into the semifinals.[9]