2010 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2010 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2009–10
Teams	9
Site	Staples Center Los Angeles, California
Champions	Washington (2nd title)
Winning coach	Lorenzo Romar (2nd title)
MVP	Isaiah Thomas, (Washington)
Attendance	15,851
Television	FSN, CBS
Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments «2009  2011»

2009–10 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
y-California	13	–	5		.722			24	–	11		.686
Arizona State	12	–	6		.667			22	–	11		.667
†-Washington	11	–	7		.611			26	–	10		.722
Arizona	10	–	8		.556			16	–	15		.516
USC*	8	–	10		.444			16	–	14		.533
Oregon State	8	–	10		.444			14	–	18		.438
UCLA	8	–	10		.444			14	–	18		.438
Stanford	7	–	11		.389			14	–	17		.452
Oregon	7	–	11		.389			16	–	16		.500
Washington State	6	–	12		.333			16	–	15		.516
† 2010 Pacific-10 Tournament winner As of March 25 , 2010; Rankings from AP Poll * Ineligible for conference tournament y-Clinched conference championship

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.

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
						8	Oregon	74
						1	California	90
	9	Washington State	80
	8	Oregon	82
											1	California	85
										5	UCLA	72
						5	UCLA	75
						4	Arizona	69
																1	California	75
																3	Washington	79
						7	Stanford	70
						2	Arizona State	61
											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

• Jamal Boykin, F, California
• Quincy Pondexter, F, Washington
• Jerome Randle, G, California
• Theo Robertson, F, California
• Michael Roll, G, UCLA

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]

• Mike Bibby (Arizona)
• Jeremy Veal (Arizona State)
• Earl Robinson (California)
• Kenya Wilkins (Oregon)
• Dave Gambee (Oregon State)
• Reggie Miller (UCLA)
• John Arrillaga (Stanford)
• John Block (USC)
• Eldridge Recasner (Washington)
• Paul Lindemann (Washington State)

See also

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

References

1. Pac-10 Tournament official site
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, Pac-10.org

External links

• Pac-10 Basketball Tournament site