1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

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1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's
Basketball Tournament
Teams 10
Site Pauley Pavilion
Los Angeles, California
Champions UCLA (1st title)
Winning Coach Walt Hazzard (1st title)
MVP Reggie Miller UCLA
Attendance 37,662 (5 sessions)
Top scorer Reggie Miller UCLA
(83 points)
Pacific-10 Conference Men's
Basketball Tournaments
«1986  1988»

The 1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 5 and March 8, 1987 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on the UCLA campus. The champion of the tournament was UCLA, which received the Pac 10's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Reggie Miller of UCLA. This was the very first Pac-10 Conference Basketball tournament.[1]

Contents

[edit] Seeds

All Pacific 10 schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed School Conference (Overall)
1 UCLA 14-4 (25-7)
2 Arizona 13-5 (18-12)
3 Washington 10-8 (20-15)
4 California 10-8 (20-15)
5 Oregon State 10-8 (19-11)
6 Stanford 9-9 (15-13)
7 Oregon 8-10 (16-14)
8 Arizona State 6-12 (11-17)
9 Washington State 6-12 (10-18)
10 USC 4-14 (9-19)

[edit] Bracket

  Play-In Round (March 5) Quarterfinals (March 6) Semifinals (March 7) Final (March 8)
                                     
    8  Arizona State 83  
9  Washington State 60     1  UCLA 99  
  1  UCLA 75  
8  Arizona State 76    
  4  California 68  
5  Oregon State 57
 
  4  California 64  
    1  UCLA 76
  3  Washington 64
  6  Stanford 71  
3  Washington 86  
  3  Washington 70
10  USC 49  
  7  Oregon 56  
7  Oregon 51     7  Oregon 72
    2  Arizona 63  

Asterisk denotes overtime period.

[edit] All Tournament Team

[edit] Aftermath

Oregon scored the first tournament upset, over #2 Arizona. It was the only upset in the 1987 tournament. UCLA defeated Washington, a team that had swept them in the regular season. The UCLA-Arizona State quarterfinal game set a number of scoring records that are still in place as of 2008.

UCLA received the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Arizona received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Washington, Cal, and Oregon State were invited to the NIT. Attendance for the sessions peaked at 9,352 for the Saturday game session, which were the semi-final games. The championship game had an attendance of 9,117 in the 12,829 seat Pauley Pavilion.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2007-08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide pages 50-60 (PDF copy available at 2007-08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide)

2007-08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide pages 50-60 (PDF copy available at 2007-08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide)

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