1989 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season198889
Teams10
SiteGreat Western Forum
Inglewood, California
ChampionsArizona (2nd title)
Winning coachLute Olson (2nd title)
MVPSean Elliott (Arizona)
Attendance41,994 (5 sessions)
1988–89 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 1 Arizona171 .944294  .879
No. 13 Stanford153 .833267  .788
UCLA135 .7222110  .677
Oregon State135 .722228  .733
California108 .5562013  .606
Washington810 .4441216  .429
Arizona State513 .2781216  .429
Washington State414 .2221019  .345
Oregon315 .167821  .276
USC216 .1111022  .313
Conference 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
7 Arizona State 82 6 Washington 54
10 USC 94 3 UCLA 86
2 #12 Stanford 95
2 #12 Stanford 66
10 USC 61

There were no overtime games

Tournament Notes

  • Arizona was ranked #1 in the nation entering the tournament.[7]
  • 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.[8]
  • Arizona, UCLA, Oregon State, and Stanford all were invited to the 1989 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
  • California was invited to the 1989 National Invitation Tournament.

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. 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.
  7. Crowe, Jerry - PACIFIC 10 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT : Arizona a Lock? No, but It’s Close : Only Pac-10 Losses in Last 2 Seasons Were to Stanford. Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1989
  8. Baker, Chris - Trojans to Take On Sun Devils Tonight. Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1989. USC will play Arizona State tonight in a Pacific 10 Conference basketball tournament game at 9 p.m. at the Forum. "We're like a time bomb waiting to go off," said USC Coach George Raveling. "I wouldn't be surprised if we won a couple of games and moved on in the tournament."
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