2002 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

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The 2002 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 7 and March 9, 2002 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. 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. A Staples Center capacity crowd of 18,997 watched the championship game.^[1][2]

Contents 1 Seeds 2 Bracket 3 All Tournament Team 4 References

[edit] Seeds

The top eight Pacific 10 schools play in the tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference Record
1	Oregon	14-4
2	Arizona	12-6
3	California	12-6
4	USC	12-6
5	Stanford	12-6
6	UCLA	11-7
7	Arizona State	7-11
8	Washington	5-13

[edit] Bracket

	First Round (March 7)					Semifinals (March 8)					Finals (March 9)
	1	Oregon	86
	8	Washington	64
						1	Oregon	78
						4	USC	89
	4	USC	103
	5	Stanford	78
											4	USC	71
											2	Arizona	81
	3	California	67
	6	UCLA	61
						3	California	78
						2	Arizona	90
	2	Arizona	73
	7	Arizona State	56

[edit] All Tournament Team

• Luke Walton, Arizona - Tournament MVP
• Sam Clancy, USC
• Brandon Granville, USC
• Jason Gardner, Arizona
• Salim Stoudamire, Arizona

[edit] References

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