1995 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament

1995 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	10
Site	The Pit Albuquerque, NM
Champions	Utah (1st title)
Winning coach	Rick Majerus (1st title)
MVP	Keith Van Horn (Utah)
WAC Men's Basketball Tournaments «1994  1996»

The 1995 Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 8–11 at The Pit at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico.^[1]

Top-seeded Utah defeated defending champions Hawaiʻi in the championship game, 67–54, to clinch their first WAC men's tournament championship.

The Utes, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Tournament. They were joined in the tournament by BYU, who received an at-large bid to the tournament.

Format

No changes were made to the tournament format from the previous year. The top six teams received byes into the quarterfinal round, leaving the lowest four-seeded teams to play in the first round. Teams were seeded based on regular season conference records.

Bracket

	First Round Wednesday, March 8					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 9					Semifinals Friday, March 10					Championship Saturday, March 11
						1	Utah	72
						9	San Diego State	63
	9	San Diego State	71
	8	Fresno State	57
											1	Utah	86
										5	New Mexico	50
						5	New Mexico	63
						4	Wyoming	56
																1	Utah	67
																6	Hawaiʻi	54
						3	UTEP	65
						6	Hawaiʻi	66
											6	Hawaiʻi	66
										7	Colorado State	64
	7	Colorado State	84
	10	Air Force	75
						7	Colorado State	75
						2	BYU	73

References

1. "1994-95 Western Athletic Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2016.