STAPLES Center and L.A Live - site of the Pacific Life Pac-10 Tournament PAC-10 TOURNAMENT 2011 PACIFIC LIFE PAC-10 TOURNAMENT Staples Center will continue to host the Paci!c Life Pac-10 Tournament in 2011, with games played Wednesday, March 9 through Saturday, March 12. This is the 10th consecutive year that Staples Center has served as the host site of the Pac-10 Tournament. However, there will be a new twist to the Pac-10 Tournament this season as the women will join the men in Staples Center and play their semi!nal games on the afternoon of Friday, March 11, and their championshp game on the morning of Saturday, March 12. Opening rounds and quarter!nal play of the Pac- 10 women’s basketball tournament will be conducted at USC's Galen Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, March 9 and Thursday, March 10. FSN, the Pac-10's television partner, will broadcast both games on Wednesday, the quarter!nals on Thursday and the semi!nals on Friday. Saturday's championship game will be broadcast by CBS-TV. The Pac-10 Conference previously held a 10-team postseason tournament from 1987-90. On October 23, 2000, the Pac-10 CEO Group/Council voted to institute a Pac-10 men's basketball tournament following the 2002 season. The original Pac-10 Tournament was inaugurated following the 1986-87 season at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion where the host UCLA Bruins captured the !rst Pac-10 postsea- son title. Subsequent Tournaments were held at Arizona’s McKale Center (1988), the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles (1989), and Arizona State’s University Activity Center (1990). Arizona's Sean Elliott was tabbed the Most Outstanding Player in 1988 and again in 1989 as he led the Wildcats to a pair of Pac-10 crowns. Arizona captured its third Pac-10 crown following the 1990 season, which happened to mark the end of the !rst run of the Pac-10 Tournament. The Wildcats made it four in a row with the return of the Pac-10 Tournament in 2002. However, the streak ended there as Oregon captured the tournament crown in 2003. In 2004, Stanford nearly ran the table in the regular season, !nishing league play with a 17-1 record. It's only loss came at Washington in the last game of the season. However, the Cardinal retaliated with a 77-66 victory over Washington in the championship game to capture the school's !rst-ever postseason conference crown. In 2005, it was Washington's turn. For the fourth consecutive year, a different school cut down the nets on Saturday as the Huskies claimed their !rst Pac-10 Tournament crown with a 81-72 victory over Arizona. The UCLA Bruins were the !fth different team over !ve seasons to capture the Pac-10 Tournament title with their 71-52 victory over California in the 2006 championship game. What was different about the 2006 Paci!c Life Tournament? It was the !rst time since the Pac-10 resurrected the league tournament that all 10 Pac-10 teams participated. In the previous four tournaments, only the top eight teams quali!ed for the Pac-10 Tournament. Oregon returned to the award stand in 2007 with its' 81-57 victory over USC in the championship game. A record 84,477 fans attended the four-day Tournament. UCLA returned to the victory stand in 2008 with its 67-64 win over Stanford, catapulting the Bruins to their third consecutive NCAA Final Four appearance. In 2009, USC became the lowest seeded team to win the Pac-10 Tournament. The Trojans entered tournament play as the No. 6 seed, then proceded to knock off No. 3 California and No. 2 UCLA to reach the championship game. It was the fourth time USC played in the championship game, but this time it came out victorious with a 66-63 win over No. 4 Arizona State to win the Pac-10 Tournament crown. Washington raised the championship hardware for the second time, with a 79-75 win over California in the 2010 Pac-10 Tournament. 2011 PACIFIC LIFE PAC-10 TOURNAMENT BRACKET Wed., March 9 Thurs., March 10 Fri., March 11 Sat., March 12 No. 4 Seed 12 noon - FSN No. 5 Seed 6:00 p.m. - FSN No. 1 Seed No. 8 Seed 2:30 p.m. - FSN 6:00 p.m. - FSN No. 9 Seed 3:10 or 3:15 p.m. No. 2 Seed CBS 2011 Pac-10 Tournament Champions No. 7 Seed 6:00 p.m. - FSN 8:30 p.m. - FSN No. 10 Seed 8:30 p.m. - FSN No. 3 Seed 8:30 p.m. - FSN No. 6 Seed 46 2010-112010-11 MEN'S MEN'S BASKET BASKETBALLBALL // PAC-10 TOURNATEAMMENTS 2011 PACIFIC LIFE PAC-10 TOURNAMENT PAC-10 TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE-SEEDING AND TIE-BREAKING PROCEDURES Seeding: The seedings and pairings shall be determined upon completion of regular season play on Saturday, March 5. The won-lost percent- age record of the teams in regular season Conference play will determine tournament seedings. The team with the best won-lost percentage in Conference play will be seeded #1, the next best won-lost percentage in Conference play will be seeded #2, and so forth through all the seeds. Tie-Breakers: Tie breaking procedures for determining all tournament seeding will be: 1. Two-team tie a. Results of head-to-head competition during the regular season. b. Each team’s record vs. the team occupying the highest position in the !nal regular standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group’s own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams. c. Won-lost percentage against all Division I opponents. d. Coin toss conducted by the Commissioner or designee. 2. Multiple-team tie a. Results of collective head-to-head competition during the regular season among the tied teams. b. If more than two teams are still tied, each of the tied team’s record vs. the team occupying the highest position in the !nal regular season standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group’s own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams. If at any point the multiple-team tie is reduced to two teams, the two-team tie-breaking procedure will be applied. c. Won-lost percentage against all Division I opponents. d. Coin toss conducted by the Commissioner or designee. PAC-10 TOURNAMENT SUMMARY 1987 PAC-10 TOURNAMENT 1988 PAC-10 TOURNAMENT 1989 PAC-10 TOURNAMENT 1990 PAC-10 TOURNAMENT Pauley Pavilion McKale Center Great Western Forum University Activity Center Los Angeles, CA Tucson, AZ Los Angeles, CA Tempe, AZ Session 1 - Thur., March 5 Session 1 - Thur., March 10 Session 1 - Thur., March 9 Session 1 - Thur., March 8 Game 1: (8) ASU 76, (9) WSU 60 Game 1: (9) CAL 75, (8) USC 59 Game 1: (8) WSU 78, (9) ORE 56 Game 1: (8) ASU 57, (9) WASH 51 Game 2: (7) ORE 51, (10) USC 49 Game 2: (10) WASH 96, (7) ASU 82 Game 2: (10) USC 94, (7) ASU 82 Game 2: (7) USC 85, (10) WSU 68 Attendance: 4,851 Attendance:12,635 Attendance: 4,830 Attendance: 4,567 Session 2 - Fri., March 6 Session 2 - Fri., March 11 Session 2 - Fri., March 10 Session 2 - Fri., March 9 Game 3: (4) CAL 64, (5) OSU 57 Game 3: (4) STAN 88, (5) ORE 67 Game 3: (4) OSU 79, (5) CAL 66 Game 3: (4) UCLA 94, (5) ORE 76 Game 4: (1) UCLA 99, ASU 83 Game 4: (1) ARIZ 88, CAL 64 Game 4: (1) ARIZ 62, WSU 54 Game 4: ASU 83, (1) OSU 75 Attendance: 8,918 Attendance: 13,436 Attendance: 7,195 Attendance: 4,380 Session 3 - Fri., March 6 Session 3 - Fri., March 11 Session 3 - Fri., March 10 Session 3 - Fri., March 9 Game 5: (3) WASH 86, (6) STAN 71 Game 5: (2) OSU 80, WASH 61 Game 5: (2) STAN 66, USC 61 Game 5: (2) ARIZ 80, USC 57 Game 6: ORE 72, (2) ARIZ 63 Game 6: (6) WSU 73, (3) UCLA 71 Game 6: (3) UCLA 64, (6) WASH 54 Game 6: (6) STAN 77, (3) CAL 61 Attendance: 5,424 Attendance: 13,061 Attendance: 9,001 Attendance: 8,079 Session 4 - Sat., March 7 Session 4 - Sat., March 12 Session 4 - Sat., March 11 Session 4 - Sat., March 10 Game 7: UCLA 75, CAL 68 Game 7: ARIZ 97, STAN 83 Game 7: ARIZ 98, OSU 87 Game 7: UCLA 79, ASU 78 Game 8: WASH 70, ORE 56 Game 8: OSU 74, WSU 68, 2OT Game 8: STAN 95, UCLA 86 Game 8: ARIZ 85, STAN 61 Attendance: 9,352 Attendance: 13,549 Attendance: 10,565 Attendance: 10,989 Session 5 - Sun., March 8 Session 5 - Sun., March 13 Session 5 - Sun., March 12 Session 5 - Sun., March 11 Game 9: UCLA 76, WASH 64 Game 9: ARIZ 93, OSU 67 Game 9: ARIZ 73, STAN 51 Game 9: ARIZ 94, UCLA 78 Attendance: 9,117 Attendance: 13,796 Attendance: 10,403 Attendance: 8,037 2010-11 M2010-11EN'S BASKET MEN’SBALL BASKETBALL // PTAC-10EAMS TOURNAMENT 47 PAC-10 TOURNAMENT SUMMARY 2002 PAC-10 TOURNAMENT 2005 PAC-10 TOURNAMENT 2008 PAC-10 TOURNAMENT Staples Center Staples Center Staples Center Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA Session 1 - Thur., March 7 Session 1 - Thur., March 10 Session 1 - Wed., March 12 Game 1: (1) ORE 86, (8) WASH 64 Game 1: (1) ARIZ 88, (8) CAL 63 Game 1: (8) CAL 84, (9) WASH 81 Game 2: (4) USC 103, (5) STAN 78 Game 2: (5) OSU 79, (4) UCLA 72 Game 2: (7) ARIZ 87, (10) OSU 56 Attendance: 12,096 Attendance: 14,014 Attendance: 11,642 Session 2 Session 2 Session 2 - Thur., March 13 Game 3: (2) ARIZ 73, (7) ASU 56 Game 3: (2) WASH 95, (7) ASU 90 (OT) Game 3: (4) USC 69, (5) ASU 55 Game 4: (3) CAL 67, (6) UCLA 61 Game 4: (3) STAN 60, (6) WSU 58 Game 4: (1) UCLA 88, CAL 66 Attendance: 17,839 Attendance: 14,393 Attendance: 17,194 Session 3 - Fri., March 8 Session 3 - Fri., March 11 Session 3 Game 5: USC 89, ORE 78 Game 5: ARIZ 90, OSU 59 Game 5: (3) WSU 75, (6) ORE 70 Game 6: ARIZ 90, CAL