1989 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

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1989 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season1988–89
Teams10
SiteGreat Western Forum
Inglewood, California
ChampionsArizona (2nd title)
Winning coachLute Olson (2nd title)
MVPSean Elliott (Arizona)
Attendance41,994 (5 sessions)
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1988–89 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 1 Arizona 17 1   .944 29 4   .879
No. 13 Stanford 15 3   .833 26 7   .788
UCLA 13 5   .722 21 10   .677
Oregon State 13 5   .722 22 8   .733
California 10 8   .556 20 13   .606
Washington 8 10   .444 12 16   .429
Arizona State 5 13   .278 12 16   .429
Washington State 4 14   .222 10 19   .345
Oregon 3 15   .167 8 21   .276
USC 2 16   .111 10 22   .313
1989 Pac-10 Tournament winner
As of April 15, 1989[1]; Rankings from AP Poll

The 1989 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played March 9–12 at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. Like the previous year, both top seeds advanced to the final; Stanford made its first appearance in the title game and met the top-seeded (and top-ranked) Wildcats. Comfortably repeating as champion of the tournament was Arizona, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Repeating as the Most Outstanding Player was Sean Elliott of Arizona.[2][3][4]

This was the tournament's third edition and all ten teams participated.[5][6]

Bracket[]

Play-In Round
Thursday, March 9
Quarterfinals
Friday, March 10
Semifinals
Saturday, March 11
Final
Sunday, March 12
1 #1 Arizona 62
8 Washington State 78 8 Washington State 54
9 Oregon 56 1 #1 Arizona 98
4 Oregon State 87
4 Oregon State 79
5 California 66
1 #1 Arizona 73
2 #12 Stanford 51
3 UCLA 64
6 Washington 54
3 UCLA 86
7 Arizona State 82 2 #12 Stanford 95
10 USC 94 2 #12 Stanford 66
10 USC 61

There were no overtime games

Tournament Notes[]

  • For the 3rd year in a row, no universities, played their arch-rival in the tournament.
  • 70 field goals were scored in a game by Arizona (37) and OSU (33). This is still the record number of FGs by both teams in a game for this tournament.
  • Arizona had 23 assists in the game vs. OSU (a current record).
  • USC upset 7 seed ASU to finally win a Pac-10 Tournament game after 3 tries. They became the 10th team to get a tournament win in its history.

All Tournament Team[]

References[]

  1. ^ "2017-18 Men's Basketball Media Guide". Pac-12 Conference. p. 72. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  2. ^ 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). Accessed 2009-03-09. Archived 2009-05-08.
  3. ^ Clark, Bob (March 13, 1989). "Arizona has No. 1 look to Stanford". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1B.
  4. ^ Bergum, Steve (March 13, 1989). "No. 1 Arizona crushes Stanford". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. C2.
  5. ^ Clark, Bob (March 9, 1989). "Ducks open with Cougs in tourney". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1D.
  6. ^ Bergum, Steve (March 10, 1989). "Cougs down Ducks in Pac-10 opener". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. C1.
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