| 2002 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2001–02 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Site | Staples Center Los Angeles, California |
| Champions | Arizona (4th title) |
| Winning coach | Lute Olsen (4th title) |
| MVP | Luke Walton (Arizona) |
| Attendance | 18,997 (final game) |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 6 Oregon | 14 | – | 4 | .778 | 26 | – | 9 | .743 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| California | 12 | – | 6 | .667 | 23 | – | 9 | .719 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 10 Arizona† | 12 | – | 6 | .667 | 24 | – | 10 | .706 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 18 USC | 12 | – | 6 | .667 | 22 | – | 10 | .688 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stanford | 12 | – | 6 | .667 | 20 | – | 10 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 20 UCLA | 11 | – | 7 | .611 | 21 | – | 12 | .636 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arizona State | 7 | – | 11 | .389 | 12 | – | 15 | .444 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washington | 5 | – | 13 | .278 | 11 | – | 17 | .393 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon State | 4 | – | 14 | .222 | 11 | – | 17 | .393 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washington State | 1 | – | 17 | .056 | 6 | – | 21 | .222 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † Conference tournament winner As of July 10, 2011 Rankings from Coaches Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2002 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played March 7–9 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The event was revived after eleven seasons without, and USC made its first appearance in the final. The champion of the tournament was Arizona, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Luke Walton of Arizona, and a capacity crowd of 18,997 attended the championship game on Saturday.
Seeds
The top eight teams participated, with all in the Thursday quarterfinals. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The previous four editions (1987–1990) included all ten teams, with the final on Sunday.
Bracket
| Quarterfinals Thursday, March 7 | Semifinals Friday, March 8 | Final Saturday, March 9 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | #9 Oregon | 86 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Washington | 64 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | #9 Oregon | 78 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | #22 USC | 89 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | #22 USC | 103 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | #16 Stanford | 78 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | #22 USC | 71 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | #15 Arizona | 81 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | #25 California | 67 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | UCLA | 61 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | #25 California | 78 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | #15 Arizona | 90 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | #15 Arizona | 73 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Arizona State | 56 | ||||||||||||
Tournament Notes
- Arch-rivals Arizona and ASU met for the first time in a Pac-10 Tournament (the 2nd meeting ever by any arch-rival universities).
- Only one lower seeded team beat a higher seeded team the whole tournament (#4 USC over #1 Oregon in the second round).
- In this tournament Oregon set the team single game record for the most blocked shots with 9 (vs. Washington).
- This was the first Pac-10 Basketball Tournament held in the 21st century.
All tournament team
- Luke Walton, Arizona – Tournament MVP
- Sam Clancy, USC
- Brandon Granville, USC
- Jason Gardner, Arizona
- Salim Stoudamire, Arizona
References
- "Pacific 10 conference 2001–02 standings". Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- "2002 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings". ESPN. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- PAC-10 News – This week in Pac-10 Men's basketball Archived 2008-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, PAC-10, March 17, 2008
- 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 Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine)
- Harris, Beth (March 10, 2002). "Walton carries 'Cats to title". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1G.
- "Walton puts on show". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 10, 2002. p. C7.
- Conrad, John (March 7, 2002). "Ducks are underdogs no longer". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1E.
- "Pac-10 takes on some one-and-done hoops". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 7, 2002. p. C3.
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