2006 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season200506
Teams10
SiteStaples Center
Los Angeles, California
ChampionsUCLA (2nd title)
Winning coachBen Howland (1st title)
MVPLeon Powe (California)
Attendance74,801
Top scorersLeon Powe (California)
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(80 points)
2005–06 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 2 UCLA144 .778327  .821
No. 12 Washington135 .722267  .788
California126 .6672011  .645
Arizona 1117 .6112013  .606
Stanford117 .6111614  .533
USC810 .4441713  .567
Oregon711 .3891518  .455
Oregon State 1513 .2781318  .419
Arizona State513 .2781117  .393
Washington State414 .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]

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) 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 UCLA 79
8 Oregon State 71 8 Oregon State 47
9 Arizona State 68 1 #13 UCLA 71
4 Arizona 59
4 Arizona 73
5 Stanford 68
1 #13 UCLA 71
3 California 52
3 California 82
7 Oregon 66 6 USC 67
10 Washington State 55 3 California 91**
7 Oregon 87
2 #12 Washington 73
7 Oregon 84
 ** Double Overtime

Tournament Notes

  • This was the first tournament in 3 years in which the top two seeds didn't play in the final game.
  • UCLA's 19-point margin of victory over Cal (71-52) is one of the largest in this tournament's history for the championship game.
  • California had someone selected for the All Tournament team for the first time. Two players were in fact selected.
  • Leon Powe of Cal made a record total 30 free throws for a single Pac-10/12 tournament (30-of-41, 3 games). This record still stands.
  • Leon Powe's 41 FT attempts for those games is also a tournament record.[3]

All tournament team

References

  1. "2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings - Postseason (Apr. 3)". ESPN. Retrieved April 3, 2006.
  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)

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