2006 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2006
Conference:	Pacific-10 Conference
Gender:	Men's
Teams:	10
Arena:	Staples Center
City:	Los Angeles, California
Champions:	UCLA
Titlecount:	2nd
Coach:	Ben Howland
Coachcount:	1st
Mvp:	Leon Powe
Mvpteam:	California
Attendance:	74,801
Topscorer:	Leon Powe
Topscorerteam:	California
Topscorer2:	q
Points:	80

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.^[1]

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

 ** 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.^[2]

All tournament team

• 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)

Notes and References

1. 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)
2. 2013-14 Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Media Guide