2009–10 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season explained

2009–10 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Season
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League:	NCAA Division I
Sport:	Basketball
No Of Teams:	10
Season:	Regular Season
Season Champ Name:	Champion
League Champ Name:	Runners-Up
Mvp Link:	Pac-10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
Finals:	Tournament
Finals Link:	2010 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
Finals Mvp Link:	Most Valuable Player
Seasonslistnames:	Basketball
Prevseason Year:	08–09
Nextseason Year:	10–11

The 2009–10 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season began with practices on October 17, 2009 and ended with the Pac-10 Tournament on March 10–13, 2010 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Pre-season

Tim Floyd, the head coach at USC resigned and was replaced by Kevin O'Neill, who was on the Arizona staff.
Pre-season media day is scheduled for October 29.
2009–10 PAC-10 Men's Basketball Media Poll:

1. California (25 first place votes)

2. Washington (7)

3. UCLA (5)

4. Arizona

5. Oregon State

6. Oregon

7. Arizona State

8. Washington State

9. USC

10. Stanford

In the ESPN/USA poll: California, No. 12; Washington, No. 13.
In the AP poll: California, No. 13; Washington, No. 14.
In the ESPN The Magazine: California, No. 10; Washington, No. 13; UCLA, No. 30; Oregon State, No. 36^[1]

Rankings

See main article: article and 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings.

November 2, 2009 – Washington (0–0) #14 (AP), #13 (Coaches); California (0–0) #13 (AP), #12 (Coaches)
November 16, 2009 – Washington (3–0) #14 (AP), #14 (Coaches); California (2–0) #13 (AP), #12 (Coaches)
November 23, 2009 – Washington (4–0) #14 (AP), #14 (Coaches); California (2–2) #23 (Coaches)
November 30, 2009 – Washington (5–0) #12 (AP), #10 (Coaches); California (4–2) #25 (Coaches)
December 7, 2009 – Washington (6–1) #17 (AP), #16 (Coaches)
December 14, 2009 – Washington (6–2) #24 (AP), #21 (Coaches)
December 21, 2009 – Washington (7–2) #22 (AP), #19 (Coaches)
December 28, 2009 – Washington (9–2) #17 (AP), #16 (Coaches)
January 4, 2010 – Washington (10–3) #24 (AP), #22 (Coaches)

Conference games

January 23, 2010 – Five conference teams are tie for second place, and the Oregon schools are last.
January 23, 2010 – Washington has lost all road games, including four conference games.
January 31, 2009 – After playing 9 conference games, California and Arizona are tied for first place with 6 wins and 3 losses, followed by Arizona State and UCLA at third place with a 5–4 conference record.
February 4, 2010 – Four teams tied for first place, Arizona, Arizona State, California and UCLA.

Conference tournament

See main article: article and 2010 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament.

March 10–13, 2010 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California
Tournament winner became the NCAA tournament automatic qualifier
USC did not participate in the conference tournament this season

Head coaches

Sean Miller, Arizona

Herb Sendek, Arizona State

Mike Montgomery, California

Ernie Kent, Oregon

Craig Robinson, Oregon State

Johnny Dawkins, Stanford

Ben Howland, UCLA

Kevin O'Neill, USC

Lorenzo Romar, Washington

Ken Bone, Washington State

Post season

NCAA tournament

Thurs., Mar. 18, – No. 11 Washington def. No. 6 Marquette 80–78, San Jose, CA (East Region)
Fri., Mar. 19, – No. 8 California def. No. 9 Louisville 77–62, Jacksonville, FL (South Region)
Sat., Mar. 20 – Washington def. New Mexico 82–64, San Jose, Calif. (East Region)
Sun., Mar. 21 – Duke def. California 68–53, Jacksonville, FL (South Region)
Thu., Mar. 25 – West Virginia def. Washington 69–56, Carrier Dome, Syracuse, New York (East Region)

NIT

Tues., Mar. 18 – No. 8-seed Jacksonville def. No. 1-seed Arizona State 67–66, (first round, Arizona State bracket)

CBI

Wed., Mar. 19 – Boston University def. Oregon State 96–78, 7 p.m. (first round, Gill Coliseum)

Highlights and notes

November

50 former Pac-10 players were listed on the NBA opening day rosters, the average of 5.0 player per conference team tops among all conferences, with 14 former UCLA players are on the teams.
November 26, 2009 – UCLA's loss to Portland 74–47 was the worst defeat during the Ben Howland era.^[2]

December

December 1, 2009 – UCLA head coach Ben Howland announced that by mutual agreement, sophomore forward Drew Gordon is no longer a member of the team. Gordon will transfer at the end of the school quarter.
December 6, 2009 – After winning just one in their first four games, the Beavers won three games in a row.

January

January 3, 2010 – USC Athletic Director Mike Garrett announced that the school is forfeiting the 2007–08 season's victories, not participating in any post season tournaments in 2010 and reducing the number of scholarships for two years for violation of NCAA rules.^[3]

March

Oregon State basketball coach Craig Robinson has agreed to a two-year contract extension, through the 2015–16 season.
March 17, 2010 – California's Omondi Amoke was suspended for team rules violation going into the NCAA tournament.^[4]
March 17, 2010 – Oregon head coach Ernie Kent's contract was terminated effective June 30.^[5]
March 19, 2010 – Oregon athletic director Mike Bellotti step down to join ESPN as a football analyst.

June

June 10, 2010 – NCAA to release the report of its investigation of the USC basketball team.
June 10, 2010 – Colorado Buffaloes join the Pac-10 as its 11th member.

Awards and honors

Three guards from the Pac-10 Conference have been named to the pre-season John R. Wooden Award list: Nic Wise, Arizona; Jerome Randle, California; Isaiah Thomas, Washington.^[6]

Scholar-Athlete of the Year

Senior Landry Fields, Stanford – Scholar-Athlete of the Year, presented by Toyo Tires

Player-of-the-Week

Nov. 16 – Quincy Pondexter, WASH
Nov. 23 – Klay Thompson, WSU^[7]
Nov. 30 – Klay Thompson, WSU^[8]
Dec. 7 – Quincy Pondexter, WASH
Dec. 14 – Patrick Christopher, CAL
Dec. 21 – Alex Stepheson, USC
Dec. 28 – Mike Gerrity, USC
Jan. 4 – Michael Dunigan, ORE
Jan. 11 – Ty Abbott, ASU
Jan. 18 – Quincy Pondexter, WASH
Jan. 25 – Landry Fields, STAN
Feb. 1 – Nic Wise, ARIZ
Feb. 8 – Quincy Pondexter, WASH
Feb. 15 – Jerome Randle, CAL
Feb. 22 – Landry Fields, STAN
Mar. 1 – Jamal Boykin, CAL
Mar. 8 – Quincy Pondexter, WASH

All-Pac-10 teams

Player of The Year

Jerome Randle, California

Freshman of The Year

Derrick Williams, Arizona

Defensive Player of The Year

Seth Tarver, Oregon State

Most Improved Player of The Year

Nikola Vucevic, USC

Coach of The Year

Herb Sendek, Arizona State

FIRST TEAM:

Name	School	Pos.	Year	Hometown
Ty Abbott	ASU	G	Jr.	Phoenix, ARIZ
Patrick Christopher	CAL	G	Sr.	Compton, Calif.
Landry Fields	STAN	G/F	Sr.	Long Beach, Calif.
Quincy Pondexter	WASH	F	Sr.	Fresno, Calif.
Jerome Randle	CAL	G	Sr.	Chicago, Ill.
Michael Roll	UCLA	G	Sr.	Aliso Viejo, Calif.
Isaiah Thomas	WASH	G	So.	Tacoma, Wash.
Klay Thompson	WSU	G	So.	Ladera Ranch, Calif.
Derrick Williams	ARIZ	F	Fr.	La Mirada, Calif.
Nic Wise	ARIZ	G	Sr.	Houston, Texas

All-Academic

First Team:

Player, School	Year	GPA	Major
Mustafa Abdul-Hamid, UCLA	Jr.	3.81	Global Studies
Landry Fields, Stanford	Sr.	3.03	Communication
Nikola Koprivica, Washington State	Sr.	3.32	International Studies
Roeland Schaftenaar, Oregon State	Sr.	3.17	Business
Drew Shiller, Stanford	Sr.	3.14	Communication

Second Team:

Player, School	Year	GPA	Major
Jorge Gutierrez, California	So.	3.09	Undeclared
Malcolm Lee, UCLA	So.	3.13	Undeclared
Abe Lodwick, Washington State	So.	3.26	Communication
Garrett Sim, Oregon	So.	3.08	Undeclared
Jack Trotter, Stanford	So.	3.31	Undeclared

USBWA All-District team

Notes and References

Elena Bergeron, Matt Giles, Ian Gordon and Dan Hodes, Splite Takes, ESPN The Magazine, College Basketball Preview: 2009/10
David Wharton, UCLA's loss to Portland is a real drag, Los Angeles Times, November 27, 2009
David Wharton and Baxter Holmes, O.J. Mayo scandal leads to heavy sanctions for USC basketball; team 'shocked and saddened', Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2010
https://www.espn.com/los-angeles/ncb/news/story?id=5004562 Amoke suspended for rules violation
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-mar-16-la-sp-college-basketball-notes-20100317-story.html Oregon fires basketball coach Kent
http://www.pac-10.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/082009aab.html Three Pac-10 Men's Basketball Players Named to Wooden Award Preseason List
http://www.pac-10.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/112309aac.html Washington State's Thompson Named Pac-10 Men's Basketball Player of the Week
http://www.pac-10.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/113009aag.html Washington State's Thompson Named Pac-10 Men's Basketball Player of the Week