Release courtesy of West Coast Conference

SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The West Coast Conference has announced the brackets and game times for the 2020 University Credit Union WCC Basketball Tournament at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. The tournament will begin with a first round match-up at 6 p.m. on Thursday and continue through the championship game on March 10. All nine games will be televised live nationwide, and all nine will be streamed on-line.
 
Continuing the new format of the championship that began last season, Thursday features first round games. Seeds 7-10 will play in the tournament's first day beginning at 6 p.m.
 
Friday will see seeds 5-6 enter the competition at 6 p.m. Saturday introduces seeds 3-4 with quarterfinal games beginning at 6 p.m.
 
There will be no games on March 8, and the tournament resumes with the semifinals on March 9. The champion will be crowned on March 10.
 
No. 3/4 Gonzaga finished as the WCC men's basketball regular-season champion with a 15-1 record, followed by No. 17/18 Brigham Young in second at 13-3. Saint Mary's and Pacific followed with identical 11-5 records with the Gaels claiming the three-seed by virtue of a tiebreaking series against San Francisco in which the Gaels earned two wins.
 
San Francisco is the fifth-seed at 9-7 followed by Pepperdine (six), Santa Clara (seven), LMU (eight), San Diego (nine) and Portland (10) to round out the men's seeds.
  
For the seventh straight year, every game from the 2020 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Tournament will be nationally televised. Four games can be seen live in well over 60 million homes nationwide via cable and satellite on BYUtv. Those games will also be streamed live on the WCC Network, the West Coast Conference's digital platform.
 
For the fifth straight year, Spectrum SportsNet, the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, will televise a pair of men's games, broadcasting the first round games on Thursday. These broadcasts can also be seen on NBC Sports Bay Area Plus, ROOT Sports Northwest and AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain. On Friday afternoon, NBC Sports California -- home of the Oakland Athletics, San Jose Sharks and Sacramento Kings -- will televise the men's second round, with those broadcasts airing on Root Sports Northwest and AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain as well.
 
The two Saturday night third round games will be televised on ESPN2 beginning at 7 p.m. On Monday, one men's semifinal will air at 6 p.m. on ESPN, with the other semifinal immediately to follow on ESPN2.
 
On Tuesday at 6 p.m., the West Coast Conference men's championship game will air live on ESPN. All six ESPN Networks telecasts can also be seen live on the ESPN app.
 
The winner of the 2020 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Basketball Tournament will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
 
Thursday, March 5
FIRST ROUND 
Men's Game 1: No. 8 LMU vs No. 9 San Diego, 6 p.m. (Spectrum SportsNet, NBCSports Bay Area+, ROOT Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men's Game 2: No. 7 Santa Clara vs No. 10 Portland, 8 p.m. (Spectrum SportsNet, NBCSports Bay Area+, ROOT Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
 
Friday, March 6
SECOND ROUND 
Men's Game 3: No. 5 San Francisco vs Game 1 Winner, 6 p.m. (NBCSports California, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
Men's Game 4: No. 6 Pepperdine vs Game 2 Winner, 8 p.m. (NBCSports California, Root Northwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, BYUtv, WCC Network)
 
Saturday, March 7
THIRD ROUND 
Men's Game 5: No. 4 Pacific vs Game 3 Winner, 7 p.m. (ESPN2, ESPN app)
Men's Game 6: No. 3 Saint Mary's vs Game 4 Winner, 9 p.m. (ESPN2, ESPN app)
 
Monday, March 9
SEMIFINALS 
Men's Semifinal: No. 1 Gonzaga vs Game 5 Winner, 6 p.m. (ESPN, ESPN app)
Men's Semifinal: No. 2 Brigham Young vs Game 6 Winner, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN2, ESPN app)
 
Tuesday, March 10
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Men's Championship Game, 6:00 p.m. (ESPN, ESPN app)