2005 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament

2005 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2004–05
Teams	8
Site	Staples Center Los Angeles, California
Champions	Washington (1st title)
Winning coach	Lorenzo Romar (1st title)
MVP	Salim Stoudamire (Arizona)
Attendance	62,147
Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournaments

2004–05 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 9 Arizona	15	–	3		.833			30	–	7		.811
Washington†	14	–	4		.778			29	–	6		.829
No. 18 UCLA 1	11	–	7		.611			18	–	11		.621
Stanford	11	–	7		.611			18	–	13		.581
Oregon State	8	–	10		.444			17	–	15		.531
Arizona State 1	7	–	11		.389			18	–	14		.563
Washington State	7	–	11		.389			12	–	16		.429
Oregon 1	6	–	12		.333			14	–	13		.519
California	6	–	12		.333			13	–	16		.448
USC	5	–	13		.278			12	–	17		.414
† Conference tournament winner As of April 8, 2005 Rankings from Coaches Poll 1 Holds tie-breaker

The 2005 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played between March 10 and March 12, 2005, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The champion of the tournament was Washington, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Salim Stoudamire of Arizona.

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 (Overall)
1	Arizona	15–3 (25–5)
2	Washington	14–4 (24–5)
3	UCLA	11–7 (18–9)
4	Stanford	11–7 (17–11)
5	Oregon State	8–10 (16–13)
6	Arizona State	7–11 (18–12)
7	Washington State	7–11 (12–15)
8	California	6–12 (13–15)

Bracket

	First Round (March 10)					Semifinals (March 11)					Final (March 12)
	1	#8 Arizona	88
	8	California	63
						1	#8 Arizona	90
						5	Oregon State	59
	4	UCLA	72
	5	Oregon State	79
											1	#8 Arizona	72
											2	#14 Washington	81
	3	Stanford	60
	6	Washington State	58
						3	Stanford	63
						2	#14 Washington	66
	2	#14 Washington	95*
	7	Arizona State	90

Tournament Notes

• Arizona's 31-point victory margin (90-59) over Oregon State in the 2nd round was the largest for any game in this tournament's history. It has since been broken, but still remains the second largest margin.
• This is the first and time only time in Pac-12 Tournament history that the 2 seed beat the 1 seed (as of 2013 these seeds have met 5 times).
• Like the previous two years, no universities met their arch-rival in this year's tournament.
• Three universities each had two players on the all-tournament team, which is the only time this has happened.
• There were no blocked shots in the game between Washington and Arizona, although this has happened in other tournaments.

All tournament team

• Salim Stoudamire, Arizona – Tournament MVP
• Channing Frye, Arizona
• Matt Haryasz, Stanford
• Chris Hernandez, Stanford
• Nate Robinson, Washington
• Tre Simmons, Washington

References

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)