The 2003 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 13 and March 15, 2003 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The champion of the tournament was Oregon, which received the Pac 10's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Luke Ridnour of Oregon.[1] It was also the first year that long time sponsor of the tournament, Pacific Life, sponsored the event.[2]
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The top eight Pacific 10 schools play in the tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.
| Seed | School | Conference Record |
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| 1 | Arizona | 17–1 |
| 2 | Stanford | 14–4 |
| 3 | California | 13–5 |
| 4 | Arizona State | 11–7 |
| 5 | Oregon | 10–8 |
| 6 | Oregon State | 6–12 |
| 7 | USC | 6–12 |
| 8 | UCLA | 6–12 |
| First Round (March 13) | Semifinals (March 14) | Finals (March 15) | |||||||||||
| 1 | Arizona | 89* | |||||||||||
| 8 | UCLA | 96 | |||||||||||
| 8 | UCLA | 74 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Oregon | 75 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Arizona State | 82 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Oregon | 83 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Oregon | 74 | |||||||||||
| 7 | USC | 66 | |||||||||||
| 3 | California | 69 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Oregon State | 46 | |||||||||||
| 3 | California | 62 | |||||||||||
| 7 | USC | 79 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Stanford | 74 | |||||||||||
| 7 | USC | 79 | |||||||||||
This tournament opened with the lowest seed, UCLA, stunning top seed and number 1 ranked Arizona 96–89 in overtime. The second game had another upset with 5 seed Oregon beating 4 seed Arizona State. The upsets continued into the next session with the 7 seed USC beating 2 seed Stanford 79–74. The fourth upset was when USC defeated 3 seed California. The championship game featured 5 seed Oregon defeating 7 seed USC 74–66.
Five teams were invited to the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Arizona was the #1 seed in the West Regional bracket.
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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