2005 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2005 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200405
Teams 8
Site Pepsi Center
Denver, Colorado
Champions New Mexico (1st title)
MVP Danny Granger (New Mexico)
Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
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The 2005 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament was played at Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado from March 9–12, 2005. Second-seeded New Mexico upset regular season league champion Utah 60–56 in the championship game to win the Mountain West Conference Tournament and the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. It was the first time in the history of the tournament that the league's top two seeds advanced to the title tilt.

This marked the final conference tournament played under the league's original 8-team format. TCU joined the Mountain West in the 2005–06 athletic year. From that point on, the tournament adopted a first round play-in game, pitting the 8th and 9th place teams against each other for the right to play the regular season MWC champion in the tournament quarterfinals.

Bracket

Quarterfinals
March 9
Semifinals
March 11
Finals
March 12
         
1 Utah 62
8 Colorado State 49
1 Utah 73
4 UNLV 67
4 UNLV 70
5 Wyoming 63
1 Utah 56
2 New Mexico 60
2 New Mexico 85
7 BYU 71
2 New Mexico 77
6 San Diego State 67
3 Air Force 68
6 San Diego State 73
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