1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 198687
Teams 10
Site Pauley Pavilion
Los Angeles, California
Champions UCLA (1st title)
Winning coach Walt Hazzard (1st title)
MVP Reggie Miller (UCLA)
Attendance 37,662 (5 sessions)
Top scorer Reggie Miller (UCLA)
(83 points)
1986–87 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
#15 UCLA144 .778  257  .781
Arizona135 .722  1812  .600
Washington108 .556  2015  .571
California108 .556  2015  .571
Oregon State108 .556  1911  .633
Stanford99 .500  1513  .536
Oregon810 .444  1614  .533
Arizona State612 .333  1117  .393
Washington State612 .333  1018  .357
USC414 .222  919  .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]

This was the inaugural Pac-10 tournament,[4] and the initial run was four years, through 1990.

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
                                     
    8 Arizona State 83  
9 Washington State 60     1 UCLA 99    
  1 UCLA 75  
8 Arizona State 76    
  4 California 68    
5 Oregon State 57
   
  4 California 64  
    1 UCLA 76
  3 Washington 64
  6 Stanford 71    
3 Washington 86    
  3 Washington 70
10 USC 49  
  7 Oregon 56  
7 Oregon 51     7 Oregon 72
 
    2 Arizona 63  

There were no overtime games

All Tournament Team

Aftermath

  • Oregon scored the first tournament upset, over #2 Arizona. It was the only upset in the 1987 tournament.
  • UCLA defeated Washington, a team that had swept them in the regular season.
  • The UCLA-Arizona State quarterfinal game set a number of scoring records that are still in place as of 2008.
  • UCLA received the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament and Arizona received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.
  • Washington, Cal, and Oregon State were invited to the NIT.
  • Attendance for the sessions peaked at 9,352 for the Saturday game session, which were the semi-final games. The championship game had an attendance of 9,117 in the 12,829 seat Pauley Pavilion.
  • Reggie Miller scored an individual tournament record high of 83 points (3 games) which still stands to this day.
  • Reggie Miller also made an individual tournament record 27 field goals (49 attempts) for this.

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. 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 2009-05-08 at WebCite)
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