Utah State defeated Pacific in the championship game, 65–52, to obtain the sixth Big West Conference men's basketball tournament championship in school history.
The Aggies earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament as the #14 seed in the Chicago regional. Pacific received an at-large bid as the #8 seed in the Albuquerque regional. This year marks the most recent time the Big West Conference has received more than one bid to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Format
Eight of the ten teams in the conference participated, with UC Riverside and Cal Poly not qualifying. Teams were seeded based on regular season conference records. The top four seeds received byes, with the top two seeds receiving a second bye into the semifinal round.