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2002 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2001–02
Teams8
SiteStaples Center
Los Angeles, California
ChampionsArizona (4th title)
Winning coachLute Olsen (4th title)
MVPLuke Walton (Arizona)
Attendance18,997 (final game)
Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournaments← 19902003 →
2001–02 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
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

References

  1. "Pacific 10 conference 2001–02 standings". Retrieved July 10, 2011.
  2. "2002 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings". ESPN. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
  3. PAC-10 News – This week in Pac-10 Men's basketball Archived 2008-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, PAC-10, March 17, 2008
  4. 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)
  5. Harris, Beth (March 10, 2002). "Walton carries 'Cats to title". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1G.
  6. "Walton puts on show". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 10, 2002. p. C7.
  7. Conrad, John (March 7, 2002). "Ducks are underdogs no longer". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1E.
  8. "Pac-10 takes on some one-and-done hoops". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 7, 2002. p. C3.
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