2000 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament

The inaugural Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament was played at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 9–11, 2000. All eight member schools entered the three round tournament seeded according to their regular season league finish.

2000 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	1999–00
Site	Thomas & Mack Center Paradise, NV
Champions	UNLV (1st title)
Winning coach	Bill Bayno
MVP	Mark Dickel (UNLV)
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1999–2000 Mountain West Conference men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
UNLV †	10	–	4		.714			23	–	8		.742
Utah	10	–	4		.714			23	–	9		.719
New Mexico	9	–	5		.643			18	–	14		.563
Colorado State	8	–	6		.571			18	–	12		.600
Wyoming	8	–	6		.571			19	–	12		.613
BYU	7	–	7		.500			22	–	11		.667
Air Force	4	–	10		.286			8	–	20		.286
San Diego State	0	–	14		.000			5	–	23		.179
† 2000 Mountain West tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll[1]

Host school and top seed UNLV won the tournament by beating 6th seed BYU 79–56.^[2] They were not awarded an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament as the MWC did not have one this year. UNLV did receive an at-large invitation.

Bracket

	Quarterfinals March 9					Semifinals March 10					Finals March 11
	3	New Mexico	43
	6	BYU	55
						6	BYU	58
						2	Utah	54
	2	Utah	74
	7	Air Force	65
											6	BYU	56
											1	UNLV	79
	1	UNLV	42
	8	San Diego State	38
						1	UNLV	97
						5	Wyoming	92
	4	Colorado State	68
	5	Wyoming	74

References

1. sports-reference.com 1999-00 Mountain West Conference Season Summary
2. Dahlberg, Tim (March 11, 2000). "UNLV blows out BYU to win MWC championship". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved February 6, 2024.