| 1988 West Coast Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 1987–88 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Site | Toso Pavilion Santa Clara, CA |
| Champions | Loyola Marymount (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Paul Westhead (1st title) |
| MVP | Hank Gathers (Loyola Marymount) |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 15 Loyola Marymount † | 14 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 28 | – | 4 | .875 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saint Mary's | 9 | – | 5 | .643 | 19 | – | 9 | .679 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Santa Clara | 9 | – | 5 | .643 | 20 | – | 11 | .645 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pepperdine | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 17 | – | 13 | .567 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gonzaga | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 16 | – | 12 | .571 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Francisco | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Diego | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 11 | – | 17 | .393 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portland | 1 | – | 13 | .071 | 6 | – | 22 | .214 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1988 West Coast Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 5–7 at the Toso Pavilion (now Leavey Center) on the campus of Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. This was the second edition of the tournament; it included all eight teams and all seven games were held at the same site.
Regular season champion Loyola Marymount defeated tournament host and #3 seed Santa Clara 104–96 in the final to win their first WCAC (now WCC) tournament championship.
The Lions earned the automatic bid to the 64-team NCAA tournament and were seeded tenth in the West regional. Sent to Salt Lake City, they outscored Wyoming 119–115, but were stopped 123–97 by second-seeded North Carolina.
Bracket
| Quarterfinals Saturday, March 5 | Semifinals Sunday, March 6 | Championship Monday, March 7 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | #18 Loyola Marymount | 110 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | San Diego | 104 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | #18 Loyola Marymount | 109 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Pepperdine | 106 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Gonzaga | 70 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Pepperdine | 81 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | #18 Loyola Marymount | 104 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Santa Clara | 96 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Santa Clara | 90 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | San Francisco | 88 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Santa Clara | 69 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Saint Mary's | 62 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Portland | 48 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Saint Mary's | 68 | ||||||||||||
Notes
- The tournament champion, Loyola Marymount, scored over 100 points in all three games (San Diego: 110–104, Pepperdine: 109–106, Santa Clara: 104–96) for a total of 323 points.
References
- "1987-88 West Coast Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
- Blanchette, John (March 5, 1988). "Zags draw Waves in opener". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. D7.
- "Loyola Marymount nearly trips over lowly Pilots". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. March 6, 1988. p. 6B.
- "Loyola claims WCAC crown". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. Associated Press. March 8, 1988. p. 2D.
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