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2000 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament

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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.

ClassificationDivision I
Season1999–00
ChampionsUNLV (1st title)
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2000 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season1999–00
SiteThomas & Mack Center
Paradise, NV
ChampionsUNLV (1st title)
Winning coachBill Bayno
MVPMark Dickel (UNLV)
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1999–2000 Mountain West Conference men's basketball standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
UNLV †10–4 .71423–8  .742
Utah10–4 .71423–9  .719
New Mexico9–5 .64318–14  .563
Colorado State8–6 .57118–12  .600
Wyoming8–6 .57119–12  .613
BYU7–7 .50022–11  .667
Air Force4–10 .2868–20  .286
San Diego State0–14 .0005–23  .179
† 2000 Mountain West tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll[1]
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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

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