1987 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament

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1987 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 198687
Teams10
Site Pauley Pavilion
Los Angeles, California
Champions UCLA (1st title)
Winning coach Walt Hazzard (1st title)
MVP Reggie Miller (UCLA)
Attendance37,662 (5 sessions)
Top scorerReggie Miller (UCLA)
(83 points)
1988  
1986–87 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 15 UCLA144 .778257  .781
Arizona 135 .7221812  .600
Washington 108 .5562015  .571
California 108 .5562015  .571
Oregon State 108 .5561911  .633
Stanford 99 .5001513  .536
Oregon 810 .4441614  .533
Arizona State 612 .3331117  .393
Washington State 612 .3331018  .357
USC 414 .222919  .321
1987 Pacific-10 Tournament winner
As of March 25, 1987 [1]
Rankings from AP poll

The 1987 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played March 5–8 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, on the UCLA campus. The champion of the tournament was host UCLA, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Reggie Miller of UCLA. [2] [3]

Contents

This was the inaugural Pac-10 tournament. [4] The format ran for four years, through 1990. [5]

Seeds

All ten schools participated; teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

Bracket

Play-in Round
Thursday, March 5
Quarterfinals
Friday, March 6
Semifinals
Saturday, March 7
Final
Sunday, March 8
1 #18 UCLA99
8 Arizona State76 8 Arizona State 83
9 Washington State 60 1 #18 UCLA75
4 California 68
4 California64
5 Oregon State 57
1 #18 UCLA76
3 Washington 64
3 Washington86
7 Oregon51 6 Stanford 71
10 USC 49 3 Washington70
7 Oregon 56
2 Arizona 63
7 Oregon72

There were no overtime games

All tournament team

Aftermath

References

  1. "2011-12 Men's Basketball Media Guide". Pac-12 Conference. p. 67. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  2. Bergum, Steve (March 9, 1987). "UCLA pooh-poohs Huskies, 76-64". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. C1.
  3. "Pooh show some magic as UCLA wins tourney". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). UPI. March 9, 1987. p. D-1.
  4. Bonk, Thomas - Pacific 10 Basketball Tournament : UCLA Seems to Have It All Going for First Time. Los Angeles Times, March 6, 1987
  5. 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 Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine )