2006 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

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 Leon Powe of California.[2]

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)
Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
2005–06 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
No. 2 UCLA144 .778  327  .821
No. 12 Washington135 .722  267  .788
California126 .667  2011  .645
Arizona 1117 .611  2013  .606
Stanford117 .611  1614  .533
USC810 .444  1713  .567
Oregon711 .389  1518  .455
Oregon State 1513 .278  1318  .419
Arizona State513 .278  1117  .393
Washington State414 .222  1117  .393
2006 Pacific-10 Tournament winner
As of April 3, 2006; Rankings from Coaches Poll [1]
1 Holds tie-breaker

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 47  
8 Oregon State 71  
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  
6 USC 67  
  3 California 91**
  7 Oregon 87  
7 Oregon 66  
10 Washington State 55  
  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 2009-05-08 at WebCite)
  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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