SAN MATEO, Calif. – For the second year in a row, the West Coast Conference and renowned college basketball statistical analyst Ken Pomeroy have collaborated to develop a comprehensive model to seed the University Credit Union West Coast Conference Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament.
The WCC regularly conducts a 16-game unbalanced men’s basketball regular-season schedule and an 18-game double round-robin women’s basketball regular-season schedule, seeding the conference tournament based on conference winning percentage. With interruptions during the 2021-22 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the WCC did not fully complete these conference schedules, leaving some disparity in the number of conference games completed among member programs. In total, six women’s basketball games and five men’s basketball games were declared non-contests by the Conference during the 2021-22 regular season.
With an unequal number of games, the WCC partnered with Ken Pomeroy to develop a model that uses a proprietary algorithm that best reflects conference games completed and yields an adjusted conference winning percentage for each men’s and women’s basketball team. The conference adjusted winning percentage accounts for the strength of the opponent and the location (home/away) of the game played. The offensive and defensive efficiency metric is not utilized in the algorithm to determine a team’s adjusted conference winning percentage.
Using the Ken Pomeroy Conference Adjusted Winning Percentage, Gonzaga captured the WCC men’s basketball regular season title and BYU captured the WCC women’s basketball regular season crown.
The Ken Pomeroy Conference Adjusted Winning Percentage rankings for men’s and women’s basketball are listed below. These rankings are the seedings for the 2022 University Credit Union WCC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament.
KEN POMEROY CONFERENCE ADJUSTED WINNING PERCENTAGE RANKINGS - MEN’S BASKETBALL
| RANK |
TEAM |
AWP |
W-L |
| 1 |
Gonzaga |
.921 |
13-1 |
| 2 |
Saint Mary’s |
.816 |
12-3 |
| 3 |
Santa Clara |
.673 |
10-5 |
| 4 |
San Francisco |
.655 |
10-6 |
| 5 |
BYU |
.595 |
9-6 |
| 6 |
Portland |
.429 |
7-7 |
| 7 |
San Diego |
.411 |
7-9 |
| 8 |
LMU |
.222 |
3-12 |
| 9 |
Pacific |
.183 |
3-11 |
| 10 |
Pepperdine |
.095 |
1-15 |
KEN POMEROY CONFERENCE ADJUSTED WINNING PERCENTAGE RANKINGS - WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
| RANK |
TEAM |
AWP |
W-L |
| 1 |
BYU |
.921 |
15-1 |
| 2 |
Gonzaga |
.870 |
15-2 |
| 3 |
San Francisco |
.555 |
10-8 |
| 4 |
Portland |
.530 |
8-7 |
| 5 |
Saint Mary’s |
.501 |
9-9 |
| 6 |
San Diego |
.493 |
8-9 |
| 7 |
Santa Clara |
.448 |
8-10 |
| 8 |
Pepperdine |
.257 |
4-11 |
| 9 |
LMU |
.241 |
4-13 |
| 10 |
Pacific |
.184 |
3-14 |
The 2022 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament will be held March 3-8 at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first two rounds of the men’s tournament and the first four rounds of the women’s tournament will be televised on the WCC’s regional sports network partners, NBC Sports Bay Area, NBC Sports California, ROOT Sports NW, Bally Sports West, Bally Sports SoCal, Bally Sports San Diego, as well as BYUtv. These games will also be available online on the WCC Network. ESPN will televise the quarterfinals and semifinals of the men’s tournament, and the championship games of both the men’s and women’s tournament.
2022 UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION WCC MEN’S AND WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
Thursday, March 3 – Women’s and Men’s First Round
12:00 p.m. – Women’s Game 1: No. 8 seed Pepperdine vs. No. 9 seed LMU (RSNs/BYUtv/WCC Network)
2:00 p.m. – Women’s Game 2: No. 7 seed Santa Clara vs. No. 10 seed Pacific (RSNs/BYUtv/WCC Network)
6:00 p.m. – Men’s Game 1: No. 8 seed LMU vs. No. 9 seed Pacific (RSNs/BYUtv/WCC Network)
8:00 p.m. – Men’s Game 2: No. 7 seed San Diego vs. No. 10 seed Pepperdine (RSNs/BYUtv/WCC Network)
Friday, March 4 – Women’s and Men’s Second Round
12:00 p.m. – Women’s Game 3: No. 5 seed Saint Mary’s vs. Winner Game 1 (RSNs/BYUtv/WCC Network)
2:00 p.m. – Women’s Game 4: No. 6 seed San Diego vs. Winner Game 2 (RSNs/BYUtv/WCC Network)
6:00 p.m. – Men’s Game 3: No. 5 seed BYU vs. Winner Game 1 (RSNs/BYUtv/WCC Network)
8:00 p.m. Men’s Game 4: No. 6 seed Portland vs. Winner Game 2 (RSNs/BYUtv/WCC Network)
Saturday, March 5 –Women’s and Men’s Quarterfinals
1:30 p.m. – Women’s Game 5: No. 4 seed Portland vs. Winner Game 3 (RSNs/BYUtv/WCC Network)
3:30 p.m. – Women’s Game 6: No. 3 seed San Francisco vs. Winner Game 4 (RSNs/BYUtv/WCC Network)
7:30 p.m. – Men’s Game 5: No. 4 seed San Francisco vs. Winner Game 3 (ESPN2)
9:30 p.m. – Men’s game 6: No. 3 seed Santa Clara vs. Winner Game 4 (ESPN2)
Monday, March 7 –Women’s and Men’s Semifinals
12:00 p.m. – Women’s game 7: No. 1 seed BYU vs. Winner Game 5 (RSNs/BYUtv)
2:00 p.m. – Women’s Game 8: No. 2 seed Gonzaga vs. Winner Game 6 (RSNs/BYUtv)
6:00 p.m. – Men’s Game 7: No. 1 seed Gonzaga vs. Winner Game 5 (ESPN)
8:30 p.m. – Men’s Game 8: No. 2 seed Saint Mary’s vs. Winner Game 6 (ESPN2)
Tuesday, March 8 – Women’s and Men’s Finals
1:00 p.m. – Women’s Basketball Championship: Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8 (ESPNU)
6:00 p.m. – Men’s Basketball Championship: Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8 (ESPN)
Single-session tickets for the University Credit Union WCC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament are available
here.