2006 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2006 Pacific-10 Conference Men's
Basketball Tournament

Tournament logo
Classification Division I
Season 2005–06
Teams 10
Site Staples Center
Los Angeles, California
Champions UCLA (2nd title)
Winning coach Ben Howland (1st title)
MVP Leon Powe California
Attendance 74,801
Top scorer Leon Powe California
(80 points)
Post-Pacific-10 Conference
tournament(s)
2006 NIT, 2006 NCAA
Pacific-10 Conference Men's
Basketball Tournaments
«2005  2007»

The 2006 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 8 and March 11, 2006 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The champion of the tournament was UCLA, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Leon Powe of California.[1]

Contents

Seeds

All 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 (Overall)
1 UCLA 14–4 (24–6)
2 Washington 13–5 (24–5)
3 California 12–6 (18–9)
4 Arizona 11–7 (18–11)
5 Stanford 11–7 (15–12)
6 USC 8–10 (17–12)
7 Oregon 7–11 (13–17)
8 Oregon State 5–13 (12–17)
9 Arizona State 5–13 (11–16)
10 Washington State 4–14 (11–16)

Bracket

  Play-In Round (March 8) First Round (March 9) Semifinals (March 10) Finals (March 11)
                                     
    1  UCLA 79  
8  Oregon State 71     8  Oregon State 47    
  1  UCLA 71  
9  Arizona State 68    
  4  Arizona 59    
4  Arizona 73
   
  5  Stanford 68  
    1  UCLA 71
  3  California 52
  3  California 82    
6  USC 67    
  3  California 91**
7  Oregon 66  
  7  Oregon 87  
10  Washington State 55     2  Washington 73
 
    7  Oregon 84  

All Tournament Team

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)