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
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 they lost in the first round to Florida.

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*

• Asterisk (*) indicates overtime game

References