1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

Infobox NCAA Basketball Conference Tournament
Year = 1987
Conference = Pacific-10 Conference
Gender = Men's


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Caption =
Teams = 10
Arena = Pauley Pavilion
City = Los Angeles, California
Champions = UCLA
TitleCount = 1st
Coach = Walt Hazzard
CoachCount = 1st
MVP = Reggie Miller
MVPTeam = UCLA
Attendance = 37,662 (5 sessions)
OneTopScorer = Reggie Miller
TwoTopScorers =
TopScorer = Reggie Miller
TopScorerTeam = UCLA
TopScorer2 =
TopScorer2Team =
Points = 83The 1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 5 and March 8, 1987 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on the UCLA campus. The champion of the tournament was UCLA, which received the Pac 10's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Reggie Miller of UCLA. This was the very first Pac-10 Conference Basketball tournament. [2007-08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide pages 50-60 (PDF copy available at [http://www.pac-10.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/102607aan.html 2007-08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide] )]

eeds

All Pacific 10 schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

Bracket

10TeamBracket | RD1=Play-In Round (March 5) | RD2=Quarterfinals (March 6) | RD3=Semifinals (March 7) | RD4=Final (March 8)
RD1-seed1=9
RD1-team1=Washington State
RD1-score1=60
RD1-seed2=8
RD1-team2=Arizona State
RD1-score2=76
RD1-seed3=10
RD1-team3=USC
RD1-score3=49
RD1-seed4=7
RD1-team4=Oregon
RD1-score4=51
RD2-seed1=8
RD2-team1=Arizona State
RD2-score1=83
RD2-seed2=1
RD2-team2=UCLA
RD2-score2=99
RD2-seed3=5
RD2-team3=Oregon State
RD2-score3=57
RD2-seed4=4
RD2-team4=California
RD2-score4=64
RD2-seed5=6
RD2-team5=Stanford
RD2-score5=71
RD2-seed6=3
RD2-team6=Washington
RD2-score6=86
RD2-seed7=7
RD2-team7=Oregon
RD2-score7=72
RD2-seed8=2
RD2-team8=Arizona
RD2-score8=63
RD3-seed1=1
RD3-team1=UCLA
RD3-score1=75
RD3-seed2=4
RD3-team2=California
RD3-score2=68
RD3-seed3=3
RD3-team3=Washington
RD3-score3=70
RD3-seed4=7
RD3-team4=Oregon
RD3-score4=56
RD4-seed1=1
RD4-team1=UCLA
RD4-score1=76
RD4-seed2=3
RD4-team2=Washington
RD4-score2=64

Asterisk denotes overtime period.

All Tournament Team

*Reggie Miller, UCLA
*Pooh Richardson, UCLA
*Anthony Taylor, Oregon
*Chris Welp, Washington
*Phil Zevenbergen, Washington

Aftermath

Oregon scored the first tournament upset, over #2 Arizona. It was the only upset in the 1987 tournament. UCLA defeated Washington, a team that had swept them in the regular season. The UCLA-Arizona State quarterfinal game set a number of scoring records that are still in place as of 2008.

UCLA received the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Arizona received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Washington, Cal, and Oregon State were invited to the NIT. Attendance for the sessions peaked at 9,352 for the Saturday game session, which were the semi-final games. The championship game had an attendance of 9,117 in the 12,829 seat Pauley Pavilion.

References

2007-08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide pages 50-60 (PDF copy available at [http://www.pac-10.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/102607aan.html 2007-08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide] )

ee also

*1987 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
*1987 National Invitation Tournament
*Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament