POST-GAME NOTES

2015 Pac-12 Men’s Tournament Championship Saturday Mar. 14 // Las Vegas // MGM Grand Arena Final Score: #1 Arizona 80, #2 Oregon 52

• With today’s victory, Arizona has claimed the 2015 Pac-12 Tournament Championship.

• Arizona now owns a record of 27-13 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament.

• 1-seeds are now 31-10 and 2-seeds are now 22-14 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament.

• This victory is Arizona’s 5th ever conference tournament championship and first conference tournament championship since 2002.

• Arizona is the 6th school to win the conference tournament in the past 7 years.

• The last time the regular season champion also won the conference tournament was in 2008 when UCLA did it.

• Arizona’s 28-point margin of victory is the largest it has ever been in the conference championship game. The closest was when Arizona defeated Oregon State by 26 points in 1988.

• The 2015 Pac-12 All-Tournament Team is made up of Utah’s Delon Wright, Oregon’s Joseph Young, Arizona’s Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Arizona’s T.J. McConnell and Arizona’s Stanley Johnson.

• The last time Arizona had 3+ players on the All-Tournament team was when Kyle Fogg, Solomon Hill and Jesse Perry all made it in 2012.

• After missing out on last year’s Pac-12 Tournament due to injury, Brandon Ashley took home this year’s Most Outstanding Player at the tournament this year. He averaged 19.7 and 6.3 rebounds per game in this year’s tournament.

• The last time an Arizona player won the Most Outstanding Player in the conference tournament was when Salim Stoudamire won it in 2005.

• Arizona outscored their opponents by 56 total points this tournament.

• After a career game from Ashley in yesterday’s semifinals (24 points), he scored in double figures for the 26th time this season by netting 20 points today. He has now scored double-digit points in 14 of Arizona’s last 17 games.

• Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Stanley Johnson has been scoring well as of late. He finished the game with 14 points today, which is the 28th time he has reached double figures this season. He eclipsed the 10-point mark all 3 games during the Pac-12 Tournament.

• T.J. McConnell finished the game with 6 assists today. That gives him 23 for the tournament, which is the 3rd most assists any player has ever had at the conference tournament.

• Gabe York buried multiple 3-pointers (2) once again for the Wildcats. This is the 18th time this year he has done so. It is also 5th game in a row and the 7th time in the last 8 games.

• The Wildcats dominated the paint today. They outrebounded Oregon 37-20 and outscored the 36-18 in the paint.

• Arizona is now 24-0 when their bench outscores their opponent’s reserves. The Wildcats won that battle 18-5 today.

• Arizona outscored Oregon by a combined 80 points in their 3 matchups this season.

• It was just another day at the office for the Pac-12 Player of the Year and the conference’s leading scorer Joseph Young. After scoring 7 points while shooting 2-for-10 from the field in the first half, he caught fire and scored 12 in the second half. His 19 points mark the 31st time he has scored in double figures this season.

• Young finished the tournament with 74 total points (24.7 per game), which is the 3rd most any player has ever scored in a Pac-12 Tournament. It is the most a player has scored in an entire tournament since Arizona’s Derrick Williams scored 66 in the 2011 tournament.

• Young also tied UCLA’s Reggie Miller for most field goals made in a tournament by making 27 shots in the past 3 days.

• Young has moved into a 3rd place in Oregon’s all-time record book for field goals made in a season. After making 7 shots today, he now has 245 on the season.

• Dillon Brooks scored in double figures as well for the Ducks today. He managed to score 10+ points in all of this year’s Pac-12 Tournament games. Young and Brooks scored 32 of Oregon’s 52 points today.

• Oregon was held to just 20 total rebounds today. That ties the lowest mark of the year by the Ducks. The last time it happened was on Jan. 28 when Arizona held them to 20 in McKale Center.

• Today’s loss is the first time Oregon has lost in the conference tournament championship.