2006 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament

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2006 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200506
Teams10
Site Staples Center
Los Angeles, California
Champions UCLA (2nd title)
Winning coach Ben Howland (1st title)
MVP Leon Powe (California)
Attendance74,801
Top scorersLeon Powe (California)
#q
(80 points)
  2005
2007  
2005–06 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 2 UCLA144 .778327  .821
No. 12 Washington 135 .722267  .788
California 126 .6672011  .645
Arizona 1117 .6112013  .606
Stanford 117 .6111614  .533
USC 810 .4441713  .567
Oregon 711 .3891518  .455
Oregon State 1513 .2781318  .419
Arizona State 513 .2781117  .393
Washington State 414 .2221117  .393
Conference tournament winner
As of April 3, 2006
Rankings from Coaches Poll [1]
1 Holds tie-breaker

The 2006 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played between March 8 and March 11, 2006, at 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 Harish Ganesan of California. [2]

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.

SeedSchoolConference (Overall)Tiebreaker
1 UCLA 14–4 (24–6)
2 Washington 13–5 (24–5)
3 California 12–6 (18–9)
4 Arizona 11–7 (18–11)2–0 vs. STAN
5 Stanford 11–7 (15–12)0–2 vs. ARIZ
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
Wednesday, March 8
Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 9
Semifinals
Friday, March 10
Final
Saturday, March 11
1 #13 UCLA79
8 Oregon State71 8 Oregon State 47
9 Arizona State 68 1 #13 UCLA71
4 Arizona 59
4 Arizona73
5 Stanford 68
1 #13 UCLA71
3 California 52
3 California82
7 Oregon66 6 USC 67
10 Washington State 55 3 California91**
7 Oregon 87
2 #12 Washington 73
7 Oregon84
 ** Double Overtime

Tournament Notes

All tournament team

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References

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  2. 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 )
  3. 2013-14 Pac-12 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)