2023 Big West Conference men's basketball tournament

2023 Big West Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2022–23
Teams	10
Site	Dollar Loan Center Henderson, Nevada
Champions	UC Santa Barbara (5th title)
Winning coach	Joe Pasternack (2nd title)
Television	ESPN+ ESPNU ESPN2
Big West Conference men's basketball tournaments

2022–23 Big West men's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
UC Santa Barbara †	15	–	5		.750			27	–	8		.771
UC Irvine	15	–	5		.750			23	–	12		.657
UC Riverside	14	–	6		.700			22	–	12		.647
Cal State Fullerton	12	–	6		.667			20	–	13		.606
Hawai'i	13	–	7		.650			22	–	11		.667
UC Davis	11	–	8		.579			18	–	14		.563
Long Beach State	11	–	9		.550			17	–	16		.515
Cal State Bakersfield	6	–	14		.300			11	–	22		.333
UC San Diego*	5	–	13		.278			10	–	20		.333
Cal State Northridge	4	–	16		.200			7	–	25		.219
Cal Poly	1	–	18		.053			8	–	25		.242
* ineligible for the 2023 NCAA tournament due to transition period
† 2023 Big West tournament winner

The 2023 Big West Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference of the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held March 7–11, 2023, at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada. The winner, the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA tournament.

Seeds

Of the 11 conference teams, 10 were eligible for the tournament. UC San Diego was ineligible for the tournament, as it was in the third year of the four-year transition required for teams transferring to Division I from Division II. Teams were seeded based on their performance within the conference, and teams with identical conference records were seeded using a tiebreaker system. Unlike previous years before 2020, teams were no longer reseeded before the semifinals.

Seed	School	Record	Tiebreaker
1	UC Irvine	15-5	2-0 vs UCR
2	UC Santa Barbara	15-5	0-2 vs UCR
3	UC Riverside	14-6
4	Cal State Fullerton	12-6
5	Hawai'i	13-7
6	UC Davis	11-8
7	Long Beach State	11-9
8	Cal State Bakersfield	6-14
9	Cal State Northridge	4-16
10	Cal Poly	1-18

Schedule and results

Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television
First round – Tuesday, March 7
1	6:00 pm	No. 8 Cal State Bakersfield vs. No. 9 Cal State Northridge	51–47	ESPN+
2	8:30 pm	No. 7 Long Beach State vs. No. 10 Cal Poly	68–88
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9
3	12:00 pm	No. 1 UC Irvine vs. No. 8 Cal State Bakersfield	75–51	ESPN+
4	2:30 pm	No. 4 Cal State Fullerton vs. No. 5 Hawai'i	62–60OT
5	6:00 pm	No. 2 UC Santa Barbara vs. No. 10 Cal Poly	64–54
6	8:30 pm	No. 3 UC Riverside vs. No. 6 UC Davis	68–52
Semifinals – Friday, March 10
7	6:00 pm	No. 1 UC Irvine vs No. 4 Cal State Fullerton	80–83	ESPN+
8	8:30 pm	No. 2 UC Santa Barbara vs No. 3 UC Riverside	92–87	ESPNU
Final – Saturday, March 11
9	6:30 pm	No. 4 Cal State Fullerton vs No. 2 UC Santa Barbara	62–72	ESPN2
*Game times in PST. Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

	First round March 7 ESPN+					Quarterfinals March 9 ESPN+					Semifinals March 10 ESPN Networks					Championship March 11 ESPN2
						1	UC Irvine	75
	8	Cal State Bakersfield	51			8	Cal State Bakersfield	51
	9	Cal State Northridge	47								1	UC Irvine	80
											4	Cal State Fullerton	83
						4	Cal State Fullerton	62*
						5	Hawai'i	60
																4	Cal State Fullerton	62
																2	UC Santa Barbara	72
						2	UC Santa Barbara	64
	7	Long Beach State	68			10	Cal Poly	54
	10	Cal Poly	88								2	UC Santa Barbara	92
											3	UC Riverside	87
						3	UC Riverside	68
						6	UC Davis	52