It will be held March 13–16, 2024, at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada.
The winner will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA tournament.
Big West commissioner Dan Butterly stated that the decision was made to improve the regular season champion's odds of winning the tournament and thus receiving the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
UC San Diego is ineligible for the tournament, as it is in the final year of the four-year transition required for teams transferring to Division I from Division II.
Teams are seeded based on their performance within the conference, and teams with identical conference records are seeded using a tiebreaker system.