2006 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament

2006 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2005–06
Teams	10
Site	Staples Center Los Angeles, California
Champions	UCLA (2nd title)
Winning coach	Ben Howland (1st title)
MVP	Leon Powe (California)
Attendance	74,801
Top scorers	Leon Powe (California) #q (80 points)
Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournaments

2005–06 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 2 UCLA †	14	–	4		.778			32	–	7		.821
No. 12 Washington	13	–	5		.722			26	–	7		.788
California	12	–	6		.667			20	–	11		.645
Arizona 1	11	–	7		.611			20	–	13		.606
Stanford	11	–	7		.611			16	–	14		.533
USC	8	–	10		.444			17	–	13		.567
Oregon	7	–	11		.389			15	–	18		.455
Oregon State 1	5	–	13		.278			13	–	18		.419
Arizona State	5	–	13		.278			11	–	17		.393
Washington State	4	–	14		.222			11	–	17		.393
† Conference tournament winner As of April 3, 2006 Rankings from Coaches Poll 1 Holds tie-breaker

The 2006 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played between March 8 and March 11, 2006, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The champion of the tournament was UCLA, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Harish Ganesan of California.

Seeds

All 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)	Tiebreaker
1	UCLA	14–4 (24–6)
2	Washington	13–5 (24–5)
3	California	12–6 (18–9)
4	Arizona	11–7 (18–11)	2–0 vs. STAN
5	Stanford	11–7 (15–12)	0–2 vs. ARIZ
6	USC	8–10 (17–12)
7	Oregon	7–11 (13–17)
8	Oregon State	5–13 (12–17)
9	Arizona State	5–13 (11–16)
10	Washington State	4–14 (11–16)

Bracket

	Play-in Round Wednesday, March 8					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 9					Semifinals Friday, March 10					Final Saturday, March 11
						1	#13 UCLA	79
	8	Oregon State	71			8	Oregon State	47
	9	Arizona State	68								1	#13 UCLA	71
											4	Arizona	59
						4	Arizona	73
						5	Stanford	68
																1	#13 UCLA	71
																3	California	52
						3	California	82
	7	Oregon	66			6	USC	67
	10	Washington State	55								3	California	91**
											7	Oregon	87
						2	#12 Washington	73
						7	Oregon	84

 ** Double Overtime

Tournament Notes

• This was the first tournament in 3 years in which the top two seeds didn't play in the final game.
• UCLA's 19-point margin of victory over Cal (71-52) is one of the largest in this tournament's history for the championship game.
• California had someone selected for the All Tournament team for the first time. Two players were in fact selected.
• Leon Powe of Cal made a record total 30 free throws for a single Pac-10/12 tournament (30-of-41, 3 games). This record still stands.
• Leon Powe's 41 FT attempts for those games is also a tournament record.

All tournament team

Jordan Farmar

• Leon Powe, California – Tournament MVP
• Brandon Roy, Washington
• Chamberlain Oguchi, Oregon
• Ayinde Ubaka, California
• Jordan Farmar, UCLA
• Arron Afflalo, UCLA

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)