2009 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2009 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2008–09
Teams	10
Site	Staples Center Los Angeles, California
Champions	USC (1st title)
Winning coach	Tim Floyd (1st title)
MVP	DeMar DeRozan, (USC)
Attendance	16,988
Television	FSN CBS (Championship game)
Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments

2008–09 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
#15 Washington	14	–	4	.778	26	–	9	.743
#18 UCLA	13	–	5	.722	26	–	9	.743
#19 Arizona State	11	–	7	.611	25	–	10	.714
California	11	–	7	.611	22	–	11	.667
USC†	9	–	9	.500	22	–	13	.629
Arizona	9	–	9	.500	21	–	14	.600
Washington State	8	–	10	.444	17	–	16	.515
Oregon State	7	–	11	.389	18	–	18	.500
Stanford	6	–	12	.333	20	–	14	.588
Oregon	2	–	16	.111	8	–	23	.258

† 2009 Pacific-10 Tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll

The 2009 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament began with the first round on March 11, 2009 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, with quarterfinals on March 12, semifinals on March 13, and the finals on March 14 (3:00 p.m. PT).^[1] In front of a crowd of 16,988, #6 seed USC defeated #4 seed Arizona State for the Pac-10 Tournament Championship, which was the first and only time for their program. This was also the first time a team seeded sixth in the tournament went on to win the championship, although it would happen again three years later. The Trojans received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA National Tournament.

Seeds

All Pacific-10 schools played 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)	Tiebreaker
1	Washington	14–4 (24–7)	1-1 vs. UCLA
2	UCLA	13–5 (24–7)	1-1 vs. UW
3	California	11–7 (22–9)	1-1 vs. ASU
4	Arizona State	11–7 (22–8)	1-1 vs. Cal
5	Arizona	9–9 (19–12)	1-1 vs USC
6	USC	9–9 (18–12)	1-1 vs. Arizona
7	Washington State	8–10 (16–14)
8	Oregon State	7–11 (13–16)
9	Stanford	6–12 (17–12)
10	Oregon	2–16 (8–22)

2009 Pac-10 Tournament

Game time: First round – March 11, 6:00 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.; Quarterfinals – March 12, 12:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.; Semi-finals – March 13, 6:00 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.; Championship game – March 14, 3:00 p.m. (Pacific time)

First Round March 11			Quarterfinals March 12			Semifinals March 13			Final March 14

			1	Washington (#10)	85
8	Oregon State	54	9	Stanford	73
						1	Washington (#10)	65
9	Stanford	62
						4	Arizona State (#23)	75
			4	Arizona State (#23)	68

			5	Arizona	56
									4	Arizona State (#23)	63
									6	USC	66
			3	California	75
			6	USC	79
						6	USC	65
7	Washington State	62
						2	UCLA (#14)	55
10	Oregon	40	2	UCLA (#14)	64

			7	Washington State	53

Tournament notes

Washington Huskies won the Pac-10 regular season title with a win over Arizona, 83–78, on Saturday, February 28, 2009, ending UCLA's three-year reign. They then went on to defeat Washington State, 67–60, for their first outright conference title since 1953.
The Oregon State Beavers are coached by President Obama's brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, who in his first season has improved the team's last year record of 5–25, finishing with 13 regular season wins.
As a part of the tournament, a Pride of the Pac-10 luncheon was held on Friday, March 13, to honor the 2007-2008 Pac-10 Medal Winners, male and female athletes from each school for their excellence in athletics, academics and community service.
Regular season honors: James Harden, Arizona State, player of the year; Isaiah Thomas, Washington, freshman of the year; Taj Gibson, USC, defensive player of the year; Justin Dentmon, Washington, most improved player of the year; Lorenzo Romar, Washington, coach of the year.
Game officials for the championship game were Dick Cartmell, Dave Libbey and Michael Reed.
This tournament had not one but two pairs of arch-rivals meet (a first). Arizona and ASU met (for the 2nd time in tournament history) in the second round and UCLA met USC (also for the 2nd time in tournament history) in the third round.
Six teams were invited to play in the 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Division I Championship: Washington, UCLA, California, Arizona State, USC, and Arizona.

All-Tournament Team

Daniel Hackett, USC
Taj Gibson, USC
Derek Glasser, Arizona State
James Harden, Arizona State
Jeff Pendergraph, Arizona State

Most Outstanding Player

DeMar DeRozan, USC^[2]

2009 Hall of Honor inductees

Pac-10 men’s basketball Hall of Honor banquet was held on Saturday, March 14, 2009 to honor the following individuals from each of the Pac-10 member schools.

Lute Olson – Arizona
Royce Youree – Arizona State
Nibs Price – Cal
Michael Warren – UCLA
Greg Ballard – Oregon
Paul Valenti – Oregon State
Gus Williams – USC
Jim Pollard – Stanford
Detlef Schrempf – Washington
Isaac Fontaine – Washington State

References

↑ Pac-10 Tournament official site
↑ "Pac-10 All-Tournament Team". Archived from the original on 2009-08-02. Retrieved 2009-03-15.

External links

Pac-10 Basketball Tournament site

Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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