1994 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament

1994 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Teams 10
Site Delta Center
Salt Lake City, UT
Champions Hawaiʻi (1st title)
Winning coach Riley Wallace (1st title)
MVP Trevor Ruffin (Hawaiʻi)
WAC Men's Basketball Tournaments
«1993  1995»

Template:1993–94 WAC men's basketball standings

The 1994 Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 9–12 at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1]

Hawaiʻi defeated BYU in the championship game, 73–66, to clinch their first WAC men's tournament championship.

The Rainbow Warriors, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Tournament. They were joined in the tournament by the conference's regular season champions, New Mexico, who received an at-large bid to the tournament.

Format

No changes were made to the tournament format from the previous year. The top six teams received byes into the quarterfinal round, leaving the lowest four-seeded teams to play in the first round. Teams were seeded based on regular season conference records.

Bracket

  First Round
Wednesday, March 9
Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 10
Semifinals
Friday, March 11
Championship
Saturday, March 12
                                     
        
  1  New Mexico 61  
    9  San Diego State 46  
9  San Diego State 54
8  Wyoming 51  
  1  New Mexico 58  
  4  Hawaiʻi 61  
        
        
  5  Colorado State 61
    4  Hawaiʻi 65  
      
        
  4  Hawaiʻi 73
  3  BYU 66
        
        
  3  BYU 96
    6  Utah 65  
      
        
  3  BYU 87
  2  Fresno State 72  
7  UTEP 72  
10  Air Force 58  
  7  UTEP 66
    2  Fresno State 88  
      

References

  1. "1993-94 Western Athletic Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
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