USD Men's Basketball 1995-1996

1996 WCC TOURNAMENT

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COMBINED EVENT CREATES 14-GAME HOOP FEST The tenth annual West Coast Conference basketball tournament tips off at Santa Clara University's Toso Pavilion on February 29th with the WCC's au tomatic bids to the men's and women's NCAA tournament at stake. For the second straight year, the WCC's basketball tournaments are combined into one five-day, 14-game festival of hoops. This is the fifth time the women will pick their NCAA entrant via a tournament but only the second time all eight schools will participate. First round action for the women and men begins with Session I at 12 noon with Session 2 following at 6:00 p.m. on their respective opening days. The second game of each doubleheader tips 30 minutes after the conclusion of the preceding game. All men's and women's semifinalists will be re– seeded after the first round so that the highest remaining seed will play the lowest remaining seed. Sunday features two seperate sessions this year starting with the

women's championship game at 12:00 p.m. The men's semis fire off at 5:00 p.m. All three Sunday games will be televised by SportsChannel. The men's championship tips off for a live ESPN national TV aduience at 9:07 p.m. on Monday, March 6th. ~~i'¢i~ii~~ 81~8;; ti1tJ<~1,;'sol[th San Franc/~£~; c1 ... 9408p .../(415) 873i622; FAX 873-7846. {.f".a${'3..illera . .. ii . , Assjftant Commissione~: i Dim Ott & Teresa Kuehn ~Jstants: :Michael Villamor & Phil Simon Administrative Assistant: Nicole Dubee CONFERENCE CALL ON FEB. 26 FOR BRACKETS, TIMES AND ALL-CONFERENCE TEAMS The tourney official bracket and game times will be announced via a media conference call on Monday, February 26, beginning at 10:00 a.m. The league also will announce the 1996 All-Conference teams and the men' s eight coaches will be on the line to take questions from the media. Call the WCC office for the teleconference telephone number.

TICKETS,

TICKETS,

TICKETS

HEADQUARTERS

Order tickets through the Santa Clara University ticket office by calling (408) 554-4660, or by contacting the USO athletic department at (619) 260-4803.

Tournament Headquar– ters is the Santa Clara Marriott at 2700 Mission College Blvd. , just minutes from Toso Pavilion . Reservations for media mem– bers may be made either through the league office or di– rectly with the hotel at ( 408) 988- 1500. But don 't wait too long. The reservation deadline is Feb– ruary 10.

ALL-TOURNAMENT PASS (14 Games) MEN'S TOURNAMENT PASS (7 Games) WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT PASS (7 Games)

$60 $45 $20 $13 $10 $7 $6/ $3

Lower Level, Men's Session Upper Level, Men's Session General Admission, Women ' s Students (Men's/ Women's)

TIE-BREAK£R If there is a tie in the final standings between two or more teams, these steps will be followed to resolve the deadlocks and determine the tour– nament seedings: 1) Best record in head-to-head confer– ence games between the two tied teams. 2) Comparison of the tied teams records against each other WCC member based on de– scending order of finish . 3} Coin flip . In the case of multiple ties within the stand– ings, the tie that can be resolved by the earli– est tie-breaker step will be broken first. The review will begin with the lower tie.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

Feb. 29th (Thur.)

Women's Session #1 Women's Session #2 Women 's Semifinals Men's Session #1 Men's Session #2 Women 's Championship Men's Semifinals Men' s Championship

*12 Noon *6:00 p.m. *6:00 p.m. *12 Noon *6:00 p.m. 12 Noon *5 :00 p.m. 9:07 p.m.

March 1 (Fri.) March 2 (Sat.)

March 3 (Sun.)

March 4 (Mon.)

* All games in a session will follow the preceding game by 30 minutes.