1988 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament

1988 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 1987–88
Teams 10
Site The Forum
Inglewood, CA
Champions Utah State (1st title)
Winning coach Rod Tueller (1st title)
MVP Wayne Englestad (UC Irvine)

The 1988 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 10–13 at The Forum in Inglewood, California.[1] This was the final tournament while the conference was still known as the PCAA; it would change to the Big West for the following season.

Utah State defeated UC Irvine in the final, 86–79, and captured their first PCAA/Big West championship. The fifth-seeded Anteaters upset three-time defending champions UNLV in the semifinal round.

The Aggies, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1988 NCAA Tournament. Fellow PCAA members UNLV and UC Santa Barbara (the Gauchos' first-ever tournament appearance) joined them in the field with at-large bids.

Format

The tournament field expanded beyond eight teams for the first team, with all ten conference members in participation. The ten teams were seeded in the bracket based on regular season record.

The top six seeds were given a bye into the quarterfinal round while the four lowest-seeded teams were placed into the first round.

Bracket

  First Round
Thursday, March 10		 Quarterfinals
Friday, March 11		 Semifinals
Saturday, March 12		 Championship
Sunday, March 13
                                     
       
  1 UNLV 61  
    8 Cal State Fullerton 56  
9 Fresno State 59
8 Cal State Fullerton 73  
  1 UNLV 70  
  5 UC Irvine 74  
       
       
  5 UC Irvine 74
    4 Long Beach State 69  
     
       
  5 UC Irvine 79
  2 Utah State 86
       
       
  3 UC Santa Barbara 56
    6 New Mexico State 52  
     
       
  3 UC Santa Barbara 66
  2 Utah State 73  
7 San José State 76  
10 Pacific 60  
  7 San José State 72
    2 Utah State 80  
     

References

  1. ↑ "1987-88 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
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