2000 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament

The inaugural Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament was played at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 9–11, 2000. All eight member schools entered the three round tournament seeded according to their regular season league finish.

2000 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season199900
SiteThomas & Mack Center
Paradise, NV
ChampionsUNLV (1st title)
Winning coachBill Bayno
MVPMark Dickel (UNLV)
Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournaments
1999–2000 Mountain West Conference men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
UNLV104 .714238  .742
Utah104 .714239  .719
New Mexico95 .6431814  .563
Colorado State86 .5711812  .600
Wyoming86 .5711912  .613
BYU77 .5002211  .667
Air Force410 .286820  .286
San Diego State014 .000523  .179
2000 Mountain West tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

Host school and top seed UNLV won the tournament by beating 6th seed BYU 79–56. They were not awarded an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament as the MWC did not have one this year. UNLV did receive an at-large invitation.

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