2001 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2001 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200001
Teams 7
Site Thomas & Mack Center
Paradise, NV
Champions BYU (1 title)
MVP Mekeli Wesley (BYU)
Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2000  2002»

The 2001 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament was played at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 8–10, 2001. Only 7 of the conference's 8 member schools would compete in the tournament. Host school UNLV was banned from postseason play in the wake of rules violations while recruiting Lamar Odom that ultimately led to the ouster of head coach Bill Bayno. The format of the tournament was temporarily changed, giving regular season champion Utah a quarterfinal bye to await the winner of the New Mexico-Colorado State game. Of note, this marked the first time that UNLV failed to appear in the championship game of the league tournament while held at the Thomas & Mack Center. As of 2011, eleven MWC Tournaments had been held in Las Vegas, with UNLV appearing in all but three championship games (2001, 2009).

Second seeded BYU would win the tournament and the league's automatic NCAA Tournament bid with a 69–65 win over #5 seed New Mexico.

Bracket

  Quarterfinals
March 8
Semifinals
March 9
Finals
March 10
                           
        
  1  Utah 53  
    5  New Mexico 56  
4  New Mexico 76
  5  Colorado State 65  
    5  New Mexico 65
  2  BYU 69
  3  Wyoming 73  
6  San Diego State 58  
3  Wyoming 66
    2  BYU 77  
2  BYU 69
  7  Air Force 54  
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