Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

Big West Men's Basketball Tournament
Conference Basketball Championship
Sport	College basketball
Conference	Big West Conference (1989–present) Pacific Coast Athletic Association (1976–1988)
Number of teams	8
Format	Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium	Honda Center
Current location	Anaheim, California
Played	1976–present
Last contest	2016
Current champion	Hawaii Rainbow Warriors
Most championships	UNLV (7)

The Big West Men's Basketball Tournament (formerly the Pacific Coast Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament) is the conference championship tournament in basketball for the Big West Conference.

It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. Only the top eight teams in the conference qualify for the tournament. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. Prior to 1985, it was known as the PCAA (Pacific Coast Athletic Association) Tournament for the conference's former name.^[1]

Results

Pacific Coast Athletic Association

Year	Winner	Score	Opponent	MVP	Venue
1976	San Diego State	76–64	Pacific	None Selected	Stockton Civic Auditorium (Stockton, California)
1977	Long Beach State	76–63	San Jose State	None Selected	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
1978	Cal State Fullerton	64–53	Long Beach State	Greg Bunch, Cal State Fullerton	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
1979	Pacific	82–73	Utah State	Ron Cornelius, Pacific	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
1980	San Jose State	57–55	Long Beach State	Wally Rank, San Jose State	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
1981	Fresno State	52–48	San Jose State	Sid Williams, San Jose State	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
1982	Fresno State	69–57	Cal State Fullerton	Donald Mason, Fresno State	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
1983	UNLV	66–63 (OT)	Fresno State	Sidney Green, UNLV	Inglewood Forum (Inglewood, California)
1984	Fresno State	51–49	UNLV	Richie Adams, UNLV	Inglewood Forum (Inglewood, California)
1985	UNLV	79–61	Cal State Fullerton	Richie Adams, UNLV	Inglewood Forum (Inglewood, California)
1986	UNLV	75–55	New Mexico State	Anthony Jones, UNLV	Inglewood Forum (Inglewood, California)
1987	UNLV	94–69	San Jose State	Freddie Banks, UNLV	Inglewood Forum (Inglewood, California)
1988	Utah State	86–79	UC Irvine	Wayne Englestad, UC Irvine	Inglewood Forum (Inglewood, California)

Big West Conference

Year	Winner	Score	Opponent	MVP	Venue
1989	UNLV	68–62	New Mexico State	Stacey Augmon, UNLV	Long Beach Arena (Long Beach, California)
1990	UNLV	92–74	Long Beach State	Larry Johnson, UNLV	Long Beach Arena (Long Beach, California)
1991	UNLV	98–74	Fresno State	Larry Johnson, UNLV	Long Beach Arena (Long Beach, California)
1992	New Mexico State	74–73	Pacific	Sam Crawford, New Mexico State	Long Beach Arena (Long Beach, California)
1993	Long Beach State	70–62	New Mexico State	Lucious Harris, Long Beach State	Long Beach Arena (Long Beach, California)
1994	New Mexico State	70–64	UC Irvine	Chris Brown, UC Irvine & James Dockery, New Mexico State	Thomas & Mack Center (Las Vegas, Nevada)
1995	Long Beach State	76–69 (OT)	Nevada	Brian Green, Nevada	Thomas & Mack Center (Las Vegas, Nevada)
1996	San Jose State	76–75 (OT)	Utah State	Olivier Saint-Jean, San Jose State	Lawlor Events Center (Reno, Nevada)
1997	Pacific	63–55	Nevada	Corey Anders, Pacific & Faron Hand, Nevada	Lawlor Events Center (Reno, Nevada)
1998	Utah State	78–63	Pacific	Marcus Saxon, Utah State	Lawlor Events Center (Reno, Nevada)
1999	New Mexico State	79–69	Boise State	Billy Keys, New Mexico State	Lawlor Events Center (Reno, Nevada)
2000	Utah State	71–66	New Mexico State	Shawn Daniels & Troy Rolle, Utah State	Lawlor Events Center (Reno, Nevada)
2001	Utah State	50–38	Pacific	Bernard Rock, Utah State	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
2002	UC Santa Barbara	60–56	Utah State	Nick Jones, UC Santa Barbara	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
2003	Utah State	57–54	Cal Poly	Desmond Penigar, Utah State	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
2004	Pacific	75–73	Cal State Northridge	Ian Boylan, Cal State Northridge	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
2005	Utah State	65–52	Pacific	Jaycee Carroll, Utah State	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
2006	Pacific	78–70	Long Beach State	Johnny Gray, Pacific	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
2007	Long Beach State	94–83	Cal Poly	Aaron Nixon, Long Beach State	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
2008	Cal State Fullerton	81–66	UC Irvine	Josh Akognon, Cal State Fullerton	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
2009	Cal State Northridge	71–66 (OT)	Pacific	Rodrigue Mels, Cal State Northridge	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
2010	UC Santa Barbara	69–64	Long Beach State	Orlando Johnson, UC Santa Barbara	Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
2011	UC Santa Barbara	64–56	Long Beach State	Orlando Johnson, UC Santa Barbara	Honda Center (Anaheim, California)
2012	Long Beach State	77–64	UC Santa Barbara	Casper Ware, Long Beach State	Honda Center (Anaheim, California)
2013	Pacific	64–55	UC Irvine	Tony Gill, Pacific	Honda Center (Anaheim, California)
2014	Cal Poly	61–59	Cal State Northridge	Chris Eversley, Cal Poly	Honda Center (Anaheim, California)
2015	UC Irvine	67–58	Hawaii	Will Davis II, UC Irvine	Honda Center (Anaheim, California)
2016	Hawaii	64–60	Long Beach State	Aaron Valdes, Hawaii	Honda Center (Anaheim, California)

Performance by School

Member	Winners	Winning Years
UNLV	7	1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991
Utah State	6	1988, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005
Long Beach State	5	1977, 1993, 1995, 2007, 2012
Pacific	5	1979, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2013
Fresno State	3	1981, 1982, 1984
New Mexico State	3	1992, 1994, 1999
UC Santa Barbara	3	2002, 2010, 2011
Cal State Fullerton	2	1978, 2008
San Jose State	2	1980, 1996
San Diego State	1	1976
Cal State Northridge	1	2009
Cal Poly	1	2014
UC Irvine	1	2015
Hawaii	1	2016

Italics: No longer a conference member

See also

References

↑ "2011-12 Big West men's basketball media guide" (PDF). Big West Conference. 2011. Retrieved December 31, 2011.

Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Big West Conference men's basketball

Teams	Cal Poly Mustangs Cal State Fullerton Titans Cal State Northridge Matadors Hawaiʻi Rainbow Warriors Long Beach State 49ers UC Davis Aggies UC Irvine Anteaters UC Riverside Highlanders UC Santa Barbara Gauchos

Championships & awards	Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Player of the Year

Seasons	1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

NCAA men's college basketball tournaments (United States)

Division I

Pre-season	2K Sports Classic AdvoCare Invitational Barclays Center Classic Battle 4 Atlantis Cancún Challenge Cayman Islands Classic CBE Hall of Fame Classic Charleston Classic Diamond Head Classic Emerald Coast Classic Global Sports Classic Great Alaska Shootout Gulf Coast Showcase Hall of Fame Tip Off Las Vegas Classic Las Vegas Invitational Legends Classic Maui Invitational Men Who Speak Up Main Event NIT Season Tip-Off Paradise Jam Puerto Rico Tip-Off Savannah Invitational Vancouver Showcase Wooden Legacy

Conference postseason	ACC America East The American American South American West Atlantic 10 Atlantic Sun Big 12 Big East Big Eight Big Sky Big South Big Ten Big West CAA Conference USA East Coast Great Midwest Great West Horizon Ivy League MAAC MEAC Metro Mid-American Missouri Valley Mountain West Northeast Ohio Valley Pac-12 Patriot SEC Southern Southland Southwest SWAC Sun Belt Summit WAC West Coast

Postseason	NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament National Invitation Tournament Vegas 16 College Basketball Invitational CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament National Commissioners Invitational Tournament 1922 National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament

Division II

Conference postseason	CCAA GNAC Heartland Northern Sun RMAC

Postseason	NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship ECAC Tournaments

Division III

Postseason	NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/5/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.