2011 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2011 Big West Conference Men's
Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2010–11
Teams 8
Site Honda Center
Anaheim, California
Champions UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (3rd title)
Winning coach Bob Williams (3rd title)
MVP Orlando Johnson UC Santa Barbara
Television ESPNU/ESPN2
Post-Big West Conference
tournament(s)
2011 NIT, 2011 NCAA,
2011 CBI, 2011 CIT
Big West Conference Men's
Basketball Tournaments
«2010  2012»

The 2011 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 10–12, 2011 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The Tournament was previously held at the Anaheim Convention Center. The winner of the tournament, UC Santa Barbara, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, where it lost in the first round to Florida.

Contents

Format

The top eight teams in the conference qualified for the 2011 Big West Tournament.

Seeds

Through games of March 3, 2011

Seed School Conf (Overall) Tiebreaker
#1 Long Beach State 14–2 (20–10)
#2 Cal Poly 10–5 (15–13)
#3 Pacific 8–7 (16–13)
#4 Cal State Northridge 8–7 (12–17)
#5 UC Santa Barbara 7–8 (14–13)
#6 UC Irvine 6–9 (13–17)
#7 Cal State Fullerton 6–9 (10–19) 1–1 vs UCR
#8 UC Riverside 5–10 (10–18) 1–1 vs CSF
UC Davis 4–11 (10–19)

Bracket

  Quarterfinals
March 10
Semifinals
March 11
Finals
March 12
                           
  1  Long Beach State 79  
8  UC Irvine 72  
  1  Long Beach State 74  
  7  UC Riverside 63  
4  Pacific 67
  5  UC Santa Barbara 79  
    1  Long Beach State 56
  5  UC Santa Barbara 64
  3  Cal State Northridge 75  
6  Cal State Fullerton 54  
  3  Cal State Northridge 63
  5  UC Santa Barbara 83  
2  Cal Poly 66
  7  UC Riverside 70*  

See also

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