2024–25 Western Athletic Conference men's basketball season

2024–25 WAC men's basketball season
2024–25 WAC men's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Teams	9
TV partner(s)	ESPN, ESPN+
Regular season
WAC tournament
WAC men's basketball seasons
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The 2024–25 WAC men's basketball season began with practices in October followed by the start of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in early November 2024. The conference began play in January 2025. This is the WAC's 63rd season of basketball. The WAC competed with nine teams due to two teams having left the conference since the prior season. UTRGV and Stephen F. Austin both joined the Southland Conference since the prior year.^[1] The WAC tournament will be held in March 2025 with all nine teams competing for the automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The opening round will be held at Burns Arena in St. George, Utah with the remaining rounds at the Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas-area community of Paradise, Nevada.^[2]

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2024–25 WAC men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf.				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Utah Valley	15	–	1	.938	25	–	9	.735
Grand Canyon †	13	–	3	.813	26	–	8	.765
California Baptist	9	–	7	.563	17	–	15	.531
Abilene Christian	8	–	8	.500	16	–	16	.500
Seattle	8	–	8	.500	14	–	18	.438
Tarleton State	7	–	9	.438	12	–	20	.375
UT Arlington	6	–	10	.375	13	–	18	.419
Southern Utah	4	–	12	.250	12	–	19	.387
Utah Tech	2	–	14	.125	7	–	26	.212

† 2025 WAC tournament winner

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This was intended to be last WAC season for both Grand Canyon and Seattle, which announced that they would join the West Coast Conference (WCC) the following year.^[3] While Seattle will go through with its conference change, Grand Canyon reneged on its WCC move in favor of joining the Mountain West Conference no later than 2026.^[4]

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Place	Team	Points	First place votes
1.	Grand Canyon	64	8
2.	UT Arlington	49	--
3	Seattle U	46	1
4.	California Baptist	45	--
5.	Utah Valley	38	--
6.	Tarleton	30	--
7.	Abilene Christian	29	--
8.	Utah Tech	12	--
9.	Southern Utah	11	--

Name	School	Yr.	Pos.
Tyon Grant-Foster†	Grand Canyon	Senior	G
Dominique Daniels Jr.	California Baptist	Senior	G
Ray Harrison	Grand Canyon	Senior	G
John Christofilis	Seattle U	Junior	G
Freddy Hicks	Tarleton State	Senior	G/F

Team	Tournament	Finish
Abilene Christian	Montana State MTE^[6]	2nd
California Baptist	Acrisure Holiday Invitational^[7]	3rd
Grand Canyon	Acrisure Holiday Invitational^[7]	1st
Seattle U	Vegas Showdown^[8]	4th
Southern Utah	San Diego MTE^[9]	1st
Tarleton	Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship^[10]	4th
UT Arlington	Jacksonville Classic^[11]	4th
Utah Tech	Montana MTE^[12]	3rd
Utah Valley	Samford MTE^[13]	3rd

Date	Conference USA team	WAC team	Score	Location	Leader
November 9	New Mexico State	Utah Tech	75–63	Burns Arena • St. George, UT	CUSA (1–0)
	UTEP	Utah Valley	89–60	UCCU Center • Orem, UT	Tied (1–1)
	Sam Houston	Tarleton	91–62	Wisdom Gym • Stephenville, TX	CUSA (2–1)
	Western Kentucky	Grand Canyon	74–72	Global Credit Union Arena • Phoenix, AZ	Tied (2–2)
	Louisiana Tech	UT Arlington	92–77	College Park Center • Arlington, TX	CUSA (3–2)
	Liberty	Seattle	66–64	Redhawk Center • Seattle, WA	CUSA (4–2)
	Middle Tennessee	Abilene Christian	79–56	Moody Coliseum • Abilene, TX	CUSA (5–2)
	Kennesaw State	California Baptist	88–84	Fowler Events Center • Riverside, CA	CUSA (5–3)
	Florida International	Southern Utah	80–75	America First Event Center • Cedar City, UT	CUSA (5–4)
November 20	Kennesaw State	Abilene Christian	84–78	Convocation Center • Kennesaw, GA	CUSA (6–4)
December 14	Jacksonville State	Utah Valley	70–66	Pete Mathews Coliseum • Jacksonville, FL	CUSA (7–4)
December 16	UTEP	Tarleton	67–62	Don Haskins Center • El Paso, TX	CUSA (8–4)
	Louisiana Tech	Grand Canyon	74–66	Thomas Assembly Center • Ruston, LA	(CUSA 9–4)
	Middle Tennessee	California Baptist	75–64	Murphy Center • Murfreesboro, TN	CUSA (10–4)
	New Mexico State	Southern Utah	72–66	Pan American Center • Las Cruces, NM	CUSA (11–4)
December 17	Western Kentucky	Seattle	86–73	E. A. Diddle Arena • Bowling Green, KY	CUSA (12–4)
December 21	Liberty	UT Arlington	79–56	Liberty Arena • Lynchburg, VA	CUSA (13–4)
December 30	Florida International	Utah Tech	80–66	Ocean Bank Convocation Center • Miami, FL	CUSA (14–4)
WINNERS ARE IN BOLD. HOME TEAM IN ITALICS. Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. Did not participate: none

Power Conferences & Gonzaga	Record
ACC	1–5
Big East	0–0
Big Ten	1–3
Big 12	0–8
Pac-12	0–0
SEC	0–2
Gonzaga	0–0
Power Conference Total	2–18

Other NCAA Division I Conferences	Record
America East	1–0
American	0–0
A-10	1–2
ASUN	2–0
Big Sky	5–7
Big South	0–0
Big West	4–5
CAA	1–0
C-USA	5–15
Horizon	0–0
Ivy League	0–0
MAAC	0–1
MAC	0–0
MEAC	1–0
MVC	2–4
Mountain West	2–4
NEC	2–0
OVC	0–0
Patriot League	0–0
SoCon	0–2
Southland	1–4
SWAC	3–0
Summit	5–2
Sun Belt	5–2
WCC (except Gonzaga)	2–1
Other Division I Total	42–49
Non-Division I Total	18–0
NCAA Division I Total	44–67

2024–25 Western Athletic Conference men's basketball season

Pre-season

WAC Media days

WAC Preseason All-Conference

Regular season

Early season tournaments

Conference USA-Western Athletic Conference Challenge

Records against other conferences

Record against ranked non-conference opponents

Rankings

Head coaches

Coaching changes

Coaches

Post season

WAC tournament

NCAA tournament

National Invitation Tournament

College Basketball Invitational

College Basketball Crown Postseason Tournament

Awards and honors

Players of the week

Totals per school - Players of the week

All-WAC

All-Freshman team

All-Defensive team

Other awards

Home game attendance

See also

References

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Date	Visitor	Home	Score
November 17	Tarleton	#14/12 Baylor	L, 41–104
November 29	Seattle	#10/11 Duke	L, 48–70
December 9	Abilene Christian	#RV/25 Baylor	L, 57–88
December 11	California Baptist	#23/24 San Diego State	L, 75–81
December 28	Abilene Christian	#13 Texas A&M	L, 54–92

		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25
NV		No votes received

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Seasons at school	Overall record	WAC record	WAC titles	NCAA tournaments
Abilene Christian	Brette Tanner	(Associate HC)	4th	54–46 (.540)	28–28(.500)	0	0
California Baptist	Rick Croy	St. Mary's (assistant)	12th	101-84 (.546)	47-55 (.461)	0	0
Grand Canyon	Bryce Drew	Vanderbilt	5th	94-32 (.746)	50-18 (.735)	2	3
Seattle U	Chris Victor	(Assistant/interim HC)	4th	66-35 (.653)	36-20 (.643)	1	0
Southern Utah	Rob Jeter	Western Illinois	2nd	10-21 (.323)	5-15 (.250)	0	0
Tarleton	Billy Gillispie	Ranger College	5th	59-51 (.536)	34-28 (.548)	0	0
UT Arlington	K. T. Turner	Kentucky (assistant)	2nd	20-14 (.588)	13-7 (.650)	0	0
Utah Tech	Jon Judkins	Snow College	20th	319-168 (.655)	22-48 (.314)	0	0
Utah Valley	Todd Phillips	(Associate HC)	2nd	16-16 (.500)	11-9 (.550)	0	0

Seed	Region	School	First Four	First round	Second round	Sweet Sixteen	Elite Eight	Final Four	Championship
13	West	Grand Canyon	N/A	lost to Maryland 81–49		–	–	–	–
	Bids	W-L (%):	0–0 (–)	0–1 (.000)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	TOTAL: 0–1 (.000)

Seed	School	First round	Second round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
N/A	Utah Valley	lost to San Francisco 70–79	–	–	–	–
	W-L (%):	0–1 (.000)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	TOTAL: 0–1 (.000)

Week	Player of the Week	School	Newcomer of the Week	School
November 11	JaKobe Coles	Grand Canyon	JaKobe Coles	Grand Canyon
November 18	Jaden Wells	UT Arlington	Jaden Wells	UT Arlington
November 25	Jamir Simpson	Southern Utah	Jamir Simpson	Southern Utah
December 2	Dominique Daniels Jr.	Cal Baptist	Carter Welling	Utah Valley
December 9	Hunter Jack Madden	Abilene Christian	Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe	Seattle U
December 16	Dominique Daniels Jr. (2)	Cal Baptist	Lance Ware	UT Arlington
December 23	Carter Welling	Utah Valley	Carter Welling (2)	Utah Valley
December 31	Lance Ware	UT Arlington	Lance Ware (2)	UT Arlington
January 6	Tyon Grant-Foster	Grand Canyon	AJ Braun	California Baptist
January 13	Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe	Seattle U	Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe (2)	Seattle U
January 20	Tanner Toolson	Utah Valley	Dominick Nelson	Utah Valley
January 27	Dominick Nelson	Utah Valley	Dominick Nelson (2)	Utah Valley
February 3	Tyon Grant-Foster (2)	Grand Canyon	Lance Ware (3)	UT Arlington
February 10	Brayden Maldonado	Seattle U	Brayden Maldonado	Seattle U
February 17	Dominique Daniels Jr. (3)	Cal Baptist	Carter Welling (3)	Utah Valley
February 24	Kendal Coleman	Cal Baptist	JaKobe Coles (2)	Grand Canyon
March 3	Dominick Nelson (2)	Utah Valley	Dominick Nelson (3)	Utah Valley
March 9	Dominick Nelson (3)	Utah Valley	Dominick Nelson (4)	Utah Valley

School	Player of the week	Newcomer of the week	Total
Abilene Christian University	1		1
California Baptist University	4	1	5
Grand Canyon University	3	2	5
Seattle University	2	3	5
Southern Utah University	1	1	2
Tarleton State University
University of Texas at Arlington	2	4	6
Utah Tech University
Utah Valley University	5	7	10
Total	18	18	36

Name	School
Dominick Nelson‡	Utah Valley
Jakobe Coles	Grand Canyon
Tyon Grant-Foster	Grand Canyon
Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe	Seattle
Dominique Daniels, Jr.	California Baptist

Name	School
Duke Brennan	Grand Canyon
Jamir Simpson	Southern Utah
Lance Ware	UT Arlington
Tanner Toolson	Utah Valley
Carter Welling	Utah Valley

Name	School
Dontrez Williams	Abilene Christian
Bradey Henige	California Baptist
Keitenn Bristow†	Tarleton
Madiba Owona	Utah Tech
Jackson Holcombe	Utah Valley

Index to colors and formatting
WAC member won
WAC member lost

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7	Game 8	Game 9	Game 10	Game 11	Game 12	Game 13	Game 14	Game 15	Game 16	Game 17	Total	Average	% of Capacity
Abilene Christian	Moody Coliseum	3,600	1,832	1,434	1,026	1,024	1,065	1,191	1,064	1,123	1,854†	1,232	1,346	1,484	1,450	1,523	1,851			20,499	1,367	38%
California Baptist	CBU Events Center	5,050	3,294	2,557	3,607	4,233†	2,737	2,064	2,603	2,720	2,611	3,867	2,567	2,865	4,174	3,952	3,161	3,062		50,074	3,130	62%
Grand Canyon	GCU Arena	7,000	7,053	7,332	7,002	7,022	7,004	7,038	7,024	7,112	7,214	7,398†	7,129	7,105	7,191	7,219	7,286	7,186	N/A	114,315	7,145	102%
Seattle U	Redhawk Center/Climate Pledge Arena	999/18,100^[14]	999	966	1,194‡	688	852	840	1,461†‡	949	772	999	707	999	864	999				13,289	949	95%
Southern Utah	America First Event Center	5,300	1,486	2,856†	965	1,006	995	900	741	1,453	1,061	N/A	1,253	989	2,414	1,555	1,074			18,748	1,339	25%
Tarleton State	Wisdom Gymnasium	3,000	1,487	1,176	1,379	856	715	898	1,376	1,801	1,312	1,786	2,123	3,000†	3,000†					20,909	1,608	54%
UT Arlington	College Park Center	7,000	1,001	3,195	1,169	1,369	1,256	1,824	1,529	1,450	1,430	1,754	1,574	5,183†	1,750					24,484	1,883	27%
Utah Tech	Burns Arena	4,779	1,392	1,126	1,559	1,046	1,016	1,652	1,736	2,993	1,671	1,984	3,185†	1,663	1,556					22,579	1,737	36%
Utah Valley	UCCU Center	8,500	2,075	1,653	2,135	1,463	1,601	2,351	1,863	2,334	2,681	1,676	2,813	3,449†						26,094	2,175	26%
Total		62.329																		310,991	21,332	52%

Name	School
Collin Moore	Grand Canyon
Duke Brennan	Grand Canyon
Carter Welling‡	Utah Valley
Maleek Arington	Seattle
Lance Ware	UT Arlington