2010 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

The 2010 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played with the first round on March 10, 2010 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, with quarterfinals on March 11, semifinals on March 12, and the finals on March 13 (3:00 p.m. PT).[1] Washington, the tournament champion, became the NCAA Tournament automatic qualifier from the conference.

2010 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season200910
Teams9
SiteStaples Center
Los Angeles, California
ChampionsWashington (2nd title)
Winning coachLorenzo Romar (2nd title)
MVPIsaiah Thomas, (Washington)
Attendance15,851
TelevisionFSN, CBS
Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
2009–10 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
California y135 .722  2411  .686
Arizona State126 .667  2211  .667
Washington117 .611  2610  .722
Arizona108 .556  1615  .516
USC*810 .444  1614  .533
Oregon State810 .444  1418  .438
UCLA810 .444  1418  .438
Stanford711 .389  1417  .452
Oregon711 .389  1616  .500
Washington State612 .333  1615  .516
2010 Pacific-10 Tournament winner
As of March 25, 2010; Rankings from AP Poll
* Ineligible for conference tournament
y-Clinched regular season championship

Seeds

All Pacific-10 schools except USC played in the tournament.[2] USC was banned from post season play as a result of self-imposed sanctions for illegal benefits received during the 2007–2008 season. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed School Record:
Conference (Overall)
Tiebreaker
1 California 13–5 (21–9)
2 Arizona State 12–6 (22–9)
3 Washington 11–7 (21–9)
4 Arizona 10–8 (16–14)
5 UCLA 8–10 (13–17) 2-0 vs. Oregon St.
6 Oregon State 8–10 (14–16) 0-2 vs. UCLA
7 Stanford 7–11 (13–17) 2-0 vs. Oregon
8 Oregon 7–11 (15–15) 0-2 vs. Stanford
9 Washington State 6–12 (16–14)

2010 Pac-10 Tournament

Schedule

  • Wed., Mar. 10: Oregon vs. Washington State, 8 p.m. FSN;
  • Thur., Mar. 11: Arizona vs. UCLA, 12 noon FSN; Oregon vs. California, 2:30 p.m. FSN; Stanford vs. Arizona State, 6 p.m. FSN; Washington vs. Oregon State, 8:30 p.m. FSN
  • Fri., Mar. 12: Semifinal 1, 6 p.m. FSN; Semifinal 2, 8:30 p.m. FSN
  • Sat., Mar. 13 Championship Game, 3:15 p.m. CBS (Pacific time)
  First Round
March 10
Quarterfinals
March 11
Semifinals
March 12
Final
March 13
                                     
       
  1 California 90  
    8 Oregon 74  
8 Oregon 82
9 Washington State 80  
  1 California 85  
  5 UCLA 72  
       
       
  4 Arizona 69
    5 UCLA 75  
     
       
  1 California 75
  3 Washington 79
       
       
  2 Arizona State 61
    7 Stanford 70  
     
       
  7 Stanford 64
  3 Washington 79  
       
       
  3 Washington 59
    6 Oregon State 52  
     

Tournament notes

  • Officials: Dick Cartmell, Scott Thornley, Michael Reed
  • The championship game attendance (15,851) declined for the second consecutive year and dropped by over 1,000 from 2009.
  • Cal was given a 1 seed in this tournament for the first time.
  • Jerome Randle became Cal's leading scorer during the tournament when Cal defeated UCLA 85–72 in the semifinals, surpassing Sean Lampley with 1,790 career points[3] and was perfect at the free-throw line (16–16), a new record. The old mark was made by Sean Elliott of Arizona, who was 96.3% (26–27) in 1989.
  • The Golden Bears shot 87.0% free throws (20–23) at the championship game and set the Pac-10 tournament team record of 85.2% (52–61) for the three games, breaking Arizona's 1989 mark of 82.6% (57–69).
  • Cal had their best seed (1) in any Pac-10/12 tournament in this year. This has been their only time to be top-seeded.
  • This was the second time meeting between Cal and Washington in the Pac-10 tournament, Cal won in 2008 84–81.
  • Cal and Washington both were invited to participate in the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, with Washington receiving the automatic bid, and Cal getting an at-large bid.
  • Arizona State was invited to participate in the 2010 National Invitation Tournament
  • Oregon State was invited to participate in the 2010 College Basketball Invitational

All-Tournament Team

Most Outstanding Player

  • Isaiah Thomas, G, Washington

2010 Hall of Honor inductees

Pac-10 men’s basketball Pac-10 Hall of Honor luncheon was held on Saturday, March 13, 2010 to honor an individual from each of the Pac-10 member schools.[4]

See also

  • 2008–09 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings

References

  1. "Pac-10 Tournament official site". Archived from the original on 2009-02-22. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
  2. ESPN USC punishes itself for rules violations, ESPN.com, January 3, 2010
  3. "California beats UCLA 85–72 in Pac-10 semifinals". Pac-10.org. 2010-03-13. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
  4. Pac-10 Basketball Hall of Honor to Induct 2009–10 Class Archived 2010-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, Pac-10.org
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