It will be held from March 9–11, 2017 at Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada.
The winner of the tournament, New Mexico State, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament with a 70-60 win over California State-Bakersfield.
[1] Grand Canyon was ineligible to participate in the conference tournament during its transition to Division I.
The top seed will receive a bye to the semifinals.
Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.