1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
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)
Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments   1988»

1986–87 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
UCLA†	14	–	4		.778			25	–	7		.781
Arizona	13	–	5		.722			18	–	12		.600
Washington	10	–	8		.556			20	–	15		.571
California	10	–	8		.556			20	–	15		.571
Oregon State	10	–	8		.556			19	–	11		.633
Stanford	9	–	9		.500			15	–	13		.536
Oregon	8	–	10		.444			16	–	14		.533
Arizona State	6	–	12		.333			11	–	17		.393
Washington State	6	–	12		.333			10	–	18		.357
USC	4	–	14		.222			9	–	19		.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 between March 5 and March 8, 1987 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on the UCLA campus. The champion of the tournament was UCLA, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Reggie Miller of UCLA. This was the very first Pac-10 Conference Basketball tournament.^[2]

Seeds

All Pacific 10 schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference (Overall)
1	UCLA	14–4 (25–7)
2	Arizona	13–5 (18–12)
3	Washington	10–8 (20–15)
4	California	10–8 (20–15)
5	Oregon State	10–8 (19–11)
6	Stanford	9–9 (15–13)
7	Oregon	8–10 (16–14)
8	Arizona State	6–12 (11–17)
9	Washington State	6–12 (10–18)
10	USC	4–14 (9–19)

Bracket

	Play-In Round (March 5)					Quarterfinals (March 6)					Semifinals (March 7)					Final (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

Asterisk denotes overtime period.

All Tournament Team

• Reggie Miller, UCLA
• Pooh Richardson, UCLA
• Anthony Taylor, Oregon
• Chris Welp, Washington
• Phil Zevenbergen, Washington

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". Pacific-12 Conference. p. 67. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
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)