1991 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament

1991 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season1990–91
Teams8
SiteToso Pavilion
Santa Clara, California
ChampionsPepperdine (1st title)
Winning coachTom Asbury (1st title)
MVPGeoff Lear (Pepperdine)
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1992 →
1990–91 West Coast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Pepperdine 13 1   .929 22 9   .710
Loyola Marymount 9 5   .643 16 15   .516
San Diego 8 6   .571 17 12   .586
Saint Mary's 7 7   .500 13 17   .433
Santa Clara 7 7   .500 16 13   .552
Gonzaga 5 9   .357 14 14   .500
San Francisco 4 10   .286 12 17   .414
Portland 3 11   .214 5 23   .179
Conference tournament winner
Rankings from AP poll

The 1991 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament was the fifth edition of the tournament, held March 2–4 at the Toso Pavilion at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.[1]

Top seed Pepperdine entered the tournament on a thirteen-game winning streak and defeated #4 seed Saint Mary's in the championship game, 71–68 in overtime, to win the Waves' first WCC tournament title.[2]

Pepperdine's Doug Christie, the WCC player of the year, sprained his right knee in the quarterfinal opener against Portland, which ended his season.[3]

The Waves received the conference's automatic bid to the 64-team NCAA tournament as the fourteenth seed in the West regional.[4]

  1. ^ "1990-91 West Coast Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  2. ^ "Shorthanded Waves sink Gaels". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 5, 1991. p. C5.
  3. ^ "Waves win game, lose best player". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. March 3, 1991. p. 4E.
  4. ^ Hamilton, Linda (March 15, 1991). "Seton Hall's second-half defense stops Pepperdine". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. D3.