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
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
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2009–10 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
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
† Conference tournament winner As of March 25, 2010 Rankings from AP Poll * Ineligible for conference tournament

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 earned its first regular season conference title in a half century and was the top seed in the conference 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).
• This was the second meeting between Cal and Washington in the Pac-10 tournament, Cal won 84–81 in the play-in round in 2008.
• Cal and Washington both were invited to participate in the NCAA Tournament, with Cal getting an at-large bid.
• Arizona State was invited to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT)
• Oregon State was invited to the College Basketball Invitational (CBI)

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

Main article: Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Hall of Honor

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". Archived from the original on February 22, 2009. Retrieved October 30, 2009.
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. March 13, 2010. Archived from the original on March 23, 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2010.
4. Pac-10 Basketball Hall of Honor to Induct 2009–10 Class Archived 2010-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, Pac-10.org

External links

• Pac-10 Basketball Tournament site