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Mountain West releases official bracket for 2015 conference tournament

Mountain West Basketball Tournament - Championship - UNLV v New Mexico

LAS VEGAS, NV - MARCH 16: Cameron Bairstow (L) #41 and Alex Kirk #53 of the New Mexico Lobos stretch prior to the start of the first half of the championship game of the Reese’s Mountain West Conference Basketball tournament against the UNLV Rebels at the Thomas & Mack Center on March 16, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Getty Images)

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With San Jose State’s Academic Progress Rate numbers making the program ineligible for postseason play in 2014-15, the Mountain West needed to adjust the format for its 2015 men’s basketball tournament bracket. And for a league with 11 members, losing one for the March 11-14 event simply means making the move from a first round triple-header to a doubleheader on Wednesday, March 11.

On Thursday the Mountain West officially released that bracket, with teams seeded seventh through tenth playing on the first day of the event. The eight and nine seeds will play at Noon (Pacific time), with the seven and ten seeds playing at approximately 2:30 p.m.

Other than that shift the bracket remains the same, with the eight/nine winner taking on the tournament’s top seed at Noon on Thursday, March 12 and the seven/ten winner playing the two seed at 6:00 p.m. in the first game of Thursday’s night session. All games will once again be played at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, with the women’s tournament also being played at the arena.

The women will play their first three rounds March 9-11, with the championship game being played on Friday, March 13 ahead of the men’s semifinals.

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