| Year: | 2022 |
| Conference: | Pac-12 Conference |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Men's |
| Teams: | 12 |
| Arena: | T-Mobile Arena |
| City: | Paradise, Nevada |
| Champions: | Arizona Wildcats |
| Titlecount: | 8th |
| Coach: | Tommy Lloyd |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mvp: | Bennedict Mathurin |
| Mvpteam: | Arizona Wildcats |
| Attendance: | 118,001 |
| Topscorer: | Jaime Jaquez Jr. |
| Topscorerteam: | UCLA |
| Points: | 60 |
| Television: | Pac-12 Network FS1, FOX |
The 2022 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Pac-12 Conference held March 9–12, 2022, at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.[1] The tournament winner, the Arizona Wildcats, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.[2]
The bracket was set on March 5, 2022[3] All 12 schools were scheduled to participate in the tournament. The seedings were determined upon completion of regular season play.[4] The winning percentage of the teams in conference play determined tournament seedings. There are tiebreakers in place to seed teams with identical conference records. The top four teams receive a bye to the quarterfinals.[5] Tie-breaking procedures for determining all tournament seeding is:
1. Results of head-to-head competition during the regular season.
2. Each team's record (won-lost percentage) vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record (won-lost percentage) against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
3. Won-lost percentage against all Division I opponents.
4. Coin toss conducted by the Commissioner or designee.
1. Results (won-lost percentage) of collective head-to-head competition during the regular season among the tied teams.
2. If more than two teams are still tied, each of the tied team's record (won-lost percentage) vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular season standings, and then continuing down through the standings, eliminating teams with inferior records, until one team gains an advantage.
When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record (won-lost percentage) against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
After one team has an advantage and is seeded, all remaining teams in the multiple-team tie-breaker will repeat the multiple-team tie-breaking procedure.
If at any point the multiple-team tie is reduced to two teams, the two-team tie-breaking procedure will be applied.
3. Won-lost percentage against all Division I opponents.
4. Coin toss conducted by the Commissioner or designee.
| Seed | School | Conference | Overall | Tiebreak 1 | Tiebreak 2 | Tiebreak 3 | Tiebreak 4 | Tiebreak 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No. 2 Arizona †# | 18–2 | 28–3 | |||||
| 2 | No. 13 UCLA # | 15–5 | 23–6 | |||||
| 3 | No. 21 USC # | 14–6 | 25–6 | |||||
| 4 | Colorado # | 12–8 | 20–10 | |||||
| 5 | 11–9 | 18–13 | 1–1 vs Washington, 1–1 vs Washington State | 0-1 vs Arizona | 2–0 vs UCLA | |||
| 6 | 11–9 | 16–14 | 1–1 vs Oregon, 1–1 vs Washington State | 0-2 vs Arizona | 0–2 vs UCLA | 0–1 vs USC | 1–0 vs ASU | |
| 7 | 11–9 | 18–13 | 1–1 vs Oregon, 1–1 vs Washington | 0-2 vs Arizona | 0–1 vs UCLA | 0–2 vs USC | 1–1 vs ASU | |
| 8 | 10–10 | 14–16 | ||||||
| 9 | 8–12 | 15–15 | ||||||
| 10 | 5–15 | 12–19 | ||||||
| 11 | 4–16 | 11–19 | ||||||
| 12 | 1–19 | 3–27 | ||||||
| † – Pac-12 Conference regular season champions # – Received a first round bye in the conference tournament. Rankings from AP poll |
| Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First round – Wednesday, March 9 | ||||||
| 1 | 12:00 p.m. | No. 8 Arizona State vs. No. 9 Stanford | 70−71 | Pac-12 Network | 7,565 | |
| 2 | 2:30 p.m. | No. 5 Oregon vs. No. 12 Oregon State | 86−72 | |||
| 3 | 6:00 p.m. | No. 7 Washington State vs. No. 10 California | 66–59 | 8,579 | ||
| 4 | 8:30 p.m. | No. 6 Washington vs. No. 11 Utah | 82–70 | |||
| Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10 | ||||||
| 5 | 12:00 p.m. | No. 1 Arizona vs. No. 9 Stanford | 84–80 | Pac-12 Network | 11,081 | |
| 6 | 2:30 p.m. | No. 4 Colorado vs. No. 5 Oregon | 80–69 | |||
| 7 | 6:00 p.m. | No. 2 UCLA vs. No. 7 Washington State | 75–65 | 10,417 | ||
| 8 | 8:30 p.m. | No. 3 USC vs. No. 6 Washington | 65–61 | FS1 | ||
| Semifinals – Friday, March 11 | ||||||
| 9 | 6:00 p.m. | No. 1 Arizona vs. No. 4 Colorado | 82–72 | Pac-12 Network | 14,158 | |
| 10 | 8:30 p.m. | No. 2 UCLA vs. No. 3 USC | 69–59 | FS1 | ||
| Championship – Saturday, March 12 | ||||||
| 11 | 6:00 p.m. | No. 1 Arizona vs. No. 2 UCLA | 84–76 | FOX | 14,401 | |
| Game times in PT. Rankings denote tournament seed. | ||||||
The 2022 class of the Pac-12 Hall of Honor will be honored on March 11 during a ceremony prior to the tournament semifinals. Following a hiatus in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 class will return to the original format of recognizing one member as a new inductee to the Hall of Honor from each Pac-12 university. The 2022 class includes:[6]
| Team | Points | Rebounds | Assists | Steals | Blocks | Minutes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style= width=125 | Arizona | Mathurin | 57 | Koloko | 23 | Mathurin | 15 | 2 tied | 5 | Ballo | 7 | Mathurin | 107 | |
| style= width=75 | Arizona State | Horne | 21 | Graham | 6 | Jackson | 4 | Jackson | 2 | Boakye | 3 | Heath | 32 | |
| style= width=75 | California | Shepherd | 19 | Thiemann | 10 | Foreman | 3 | Shepherd | 4 | Thiemann | 1 | Shepherd | 39 | |
| style= width=75 | Colorado | Walker | 37 | Walker | 21 | Simpson | 11 | Simpson | 5 | 2 tied | 3 | Walker | 63 | |
| style= width=75 | Oregon | Guerrier | 45 | Dante | 18 | Young | 18 | Young | 5 | 2 tied | 5 | Young | 76 | |
| style= width=75 | Oregon State | Lucas | 22 | 2 tied | 5 | Davis | 5 | 5 tied | 1 | Rand | 2 | Lucas | 39 | |
| style= width=75 | Stanford | Jones | 54 | Ingram | 16 | O'Connell | 11 | Silva | 3 | Keefe | 3 | Ingram | 67 | |
| style= width=75 | UCLA | Jaquez | 60 | Jaquez | 26 | Campbell | 10 | Jaquez | 5 | Johnson | 4 | Jaquez | 106 | |
| style= width=75 | USC | Ellis | 44 | Mobley | 16 | Mobley | 7 | Goodwin | 2 | Mobley | 2 | Mobley | 74 | |
| style= width=75 | Utah | Anthony | 18 | Worster | 8 | Worster | 6 | 3 tied | 1 | Carlson | 2 | Anthony | 37 | |
| style= width=75 | Washington | Brown | 45 | Roberts | 17 | Brown | 10 | Brown | 5 | 3 tied | 1 | Brown | 75 | |
| style= width=75 | Washington State | Roberts | 28 | Jakimovski | 14 | Flowers | 5 | 2 tied | 2 | Jackson | 6 | Flowers | 68 | |
| Name | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennedict Mathurin | SG | 6−6 | 210 | So. | Arizona | |
| Christian Koloko | C | 7−1 | 230 | Jr. | Arizona | |
| Jaime Jaquez Jr. | SF | 6−7 | 225 | Jr. | UCLA | |
| Jules Bernard | SG | 6−7 | 210 | Sr. | UCLA | |
| Boogie Ellis | PG | 6−3 | 185 | Jr. | USC | |
| Spencer Jones | SF | 6−7 | 225 | Jr. | Stanford |