The tournament champion will get the league's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.
With an RPI around 50, BYU probably needs to make it to the tournament's championship game to get an at-large bid, coach Mike Littlewood has said. Gonzaga's RPI is 35, while Pepperdine's is 77 and Saint Mary's is at 78.
The Cougars started the season winning 19 of their first 20 games and were ranked as high as No. 16 in the country in early April before injuries started to take their toll. They've won five of their last six games, the only loss in that stretch an 8-1 nonconference setback to Utah, which has an RPI of 119 but is still contending for a Pac-12 regular-season title and that league's automatic berth.