The 1977 Pacific Coast Athletic Association men's basketball tournament (now known as the Big West Conference men's basketball tournament) was held March 2–6 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.[2]
| 1977 Pacific Coast Athletic Association men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 1976–77 |
| Teams | 6 |
| Site | Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim, CA |
| Champions | Long Beach State (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Dwight Jones (1st title) |
| MVP | None |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Long Beach State † | 9 | – | 3 | .750 | 21 | – | 8 | .724 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Diego State | 9 | – | 3 | .750 | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Jose State | 8 | – | 4 | .667 | 18 | – | 11 | .621 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal State Fullerton | 7 | – | 5 | .583 | 16 | – | 10 | .615 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 5 | – | 7 | .417 | 11 | – | 14 | .440 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Santa Barbara | 3 | – | 9 | .250 | 8 | – | 18 | .308 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fresno State | 1 | – | 11 | .083 | 7 | – | 20 | .259 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 1977 PCAA Tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Long Beach State defeated San Jose State in the championship game, 76–63, to win their first PCAA/Big West men's basketball tournament.
The 49ers, in turn, received a bid to the 1977 NCAA tournament, where they lost to Idaho State in the first round.
Format
editThe tournament field expanded from four to seven teams. Long Beach State, by virtue of tying with San Diego State for the regular season title but winning the tie breaker by sweeping them, received a first round bye while the other six teams were seeded for the first round based on regular season conference records. The 2nd through 4th seeds hosted the 5th through 7th seeds on their home courts. The three winners of those games and Long Beach State moved on to the semifinal round at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Bracket
edit| First round Wednesday, March 2 | Semifinals Thursday, March 3 | Championship Sunday, March 6 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Long Beach State | 65* | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Cal State Fullerton | 64 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Pacific | 68 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Cal State Fullerton | 79 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Long Beach State | 76 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | San Jose State | 63 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | San Jose State | 71 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | UC Santa Barbara | 52 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | San Jose State | 75 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | San Diego State | 74 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Fresno State | 41 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | San Diego State | 51 | ||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "1976-77 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Season Summary". Sports Reference. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
- ^ "1976-77 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved April 16, 2016.