The Pac-12 is bringing the conference’s men’s and women’s hoops tournaments backmost to Las Vegas aft the adding of caller schools including erstwhile Mountain West Conference universities.
The Pac-12 hoops tournaments volition beryllium held astatine MGM Grand Garden Arena for astatine slightest the adjacent 2 seasons, the league announced Wednesday. The league returns aft what volition beryllium a three-year hiatus, amid the Pac-12 lone featuring 2 universities, Washington State and Oregon State, implicit that clip aft the bulk of their erstwhile rank exited to Power 4 conferences.
“Bringing the adjacent epoch of the Pac-12 and our hoops tournaments backmost to Las Vegas and the MGM Grand Garden Arena is simply a testament to the spot of our teams and brands,” Pac-12 Commissioner Teresa Gould said successful a statement. “With combined dates and caller formats for some our men’s and women’s events, our affluent hoops bequest meets translation with breathtaking caller energy.”
The instrumentality of the Pac-12’s hoops tournaments to Las Vegas comes aft the adding of erstwhile MW schools Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Utah State arsenic full-time members and assemblage hoops powerhouse Gonzaga for hoops lone starting this year.
The 2027 tourney is scheduled to hap March 9-13. With an uneven fig of members, determination volition beryllium a play-in crippled betwixt the No. 8 and 9 seeds, with the No. 1 and 2 seeds receiving a treble bye and not playing until the semifinals connected March 12. The No. 3 and 4 seeds person a single-bye and archetypal play successful the quarterfinals.
The Pac-12 past played their league hoops tournaments astatine T-Mobile Arena betwixt 2017 and 2024 and antecedently hosted the tourney astatine MGM Grand Garden Arena betwixt 2013 and 2016.
With the announcement of the Pac-12’s return, Southern Nevada volition big 5 league hoops tournaments successful March. The Mountain West Conference tournaments volition beryllium held astatine the Thomas & Mack Center, the women’s Big Ten tourney astatine T-Mobile Arena, the Big West tournaments astatine Lee’s Family Forum successful Henderson, and the West Coast Conference tournaments astatine The Orleans Arena.
The United Athletic Conference, formerly the Western Athletic Conference, has yet to denote wherever its assemblage hoops tournaments volition beryllium held. The WAC hoops tournaments had been held astatine The Orleans Arena since 2010.
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