2023 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament explained

Year:2023
Conference:Pac-12 Conference
Division:I
Gender:Men's
Teams:12
Arena:T-Mobile Arena
City:Paradise, Nevada
Champions:Arizona Wildcats
Titlecount:9th
Coach:Tommy Lloyd
Coachcount:2nd
Mvp:Ąžuolas Tubelis
Mvpteam:Arizona
Attendance:65,721
Television:Pac-12 Network
ESPN

The 2023 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Pac-12 Conference held March 8–11, 2023, at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The tournament winner of the conference tournament, Arizona, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Seeds

The bracket will be set in March 2023. All 12 schools are scheduled to participate in the tournament. The seedings will be determined upon completion of regular season play. 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.[1] 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.
SeedSchoolConferenceOverallTiebreak 1Tiebreak 2Tiebreak 3
1 UCLA# 18–2 27–4
2 Arizona14–6 25–6 2–0 vs. USC
3 USC14–6 22–9 0–2 vs. Arizona
4 Oregon12–8 18–13
5 11–9 16–15 1–1 vs. Arizona State 0–2 vs. UCLA 2–2 vs. Arizona/USC
6 11–9 20–11 1–1 vs. Washington State 0–2 vs. UCLA 1–3 vs. Arizona/USC
7 10–10 17–14
8 8–12 16–15 2–0 vs. Colorado
9 8–12 16–15 0–2 vs. Washington
10 7–13 13–18
11 5–15 11–20
12 2–18 3–28
† – Pac-12 Conference regular season champions
# – Received a first round bye in the conference tournament.
Rankings from AP poll

Schedule

GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendance
First round – Wednesday, March 8
112:00 p.m.No. 8 Washington vs. No. 9 Colorado68−74Pac-12 Network7,469
22:30 p.m.No. 5 Washington State vs. No. 12 California69−52
36:00 p.m.No. 7 Utah vs. No. 10 Stanford62−738,810
48:30 p.m.No. 6 Arizona State vs. No. 11 Oregon State63−57
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9
512:00 p.m.No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 9 Colorado80−69Pac-12 Network10,406
62:30 p.m.No. 4 Oregon vs. No. 5 Washington State75−70
76:00 p.m.No. 2 Arizona vs. No. 10 Stanford95−8411,226
88:30 p.m.No. 3 USC vs. No. 6 Arizona State72−77ESPN
Semifinals – Friday, March 10
96:00 p.m.No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 4 Oregon75−56Pac-12 Network13,788
108:30 p.m.No. 2 Arizona vs. No. 6 Arizona State78−59ESPN
Championship – Saturday, March 11
117:30 p.m.No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 2 Arizona59−61ESPN14,022
Game times in PT. Rankings denote tournament seed.

Bracket

* denotes overtime period

Game statistics

Championship

Awards and honors

Hall of Honor

The 2023 class of the Pac-12 Hall of Honor will be honored on March 3 during the 2023 Women's Tournament during a ceremony prior to the tournament semifinals. The 2023 class will be the first ever all-female class inducted into the Hall of Honor in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX. The class includes:[2]

Team and tournament leaders

Source:[3]

Team Points Rebounds Assists StealsBlocksMinutes
style= width=125Arizona Ąžuolas Tubelis 56 Ąžuolas Tubelis 31 Pelle Larsson 13 Cedric Henderson Jr. 6 Oumar Ballo 5 Ąžuolas Tubelis 105
style= width=75Arizona State Desmond Cambridge Jr. 48 Warren Washington 23 Frankie Collins 14 Desmond Cambridge 9 Warren Washington 3 DJ Horne 99
style= width=75California Monty Bowser 19 Joel Brown 6 Joel Brown 4 Joel Brown 2 3 tied 1 2 tied35
style= width=75Colorado 2 tied 35 Luke O'Brien 17 Julian Hammond III 8 Luke O'Brien 3 2 tied 1 Julian Hammond III 70
style= width=75Oregon Keeshawn Barthelemy 25 N’Faly Dante 21 Will Richardson 7 2 tied 2 Kel’el Ware 4 Will Richardson 67
style= width=75Oregon State Glenn Taylor 17 2 tied 7 Michael Rataj 5 2 tied 3 2 tied 37
style= width=75Stanford Brandon Angel 35 Brandon Angel 19 Michael O’Connell 8 2 tied 3 Max Murrell 5 Brandon Angel 67
style= width=75UCLA Tyger Campbell 62 Jaime Jaquez Jr. 29 Tyger Campbell 15 Tyger Campbell 4 Adem Bona 5 Jaime Jaquez Jr. 110
style= width=75USC 2 tied 16 Joshua Morgan 10 Boogie Ellis 4 3 tied 2 Joshua Morgan 1 Drew Peterson 38
style= width=75Utah Branden Carlson 27 Branden Carlson 10 Lazar Stefanovic 4 Rollie Worster 1 Keba Keita 1 2 tied32
style= width=75Washington Cole Bajema 16 Jamal Bey 7 Keyon Menifield 6 Keion Brooks Jr. 3 2 tied 1 Keyon Menifield 37
style= width=75Washington State TJ Bamba 36 DJ Rodman 15 TJ Bamba 7 2 tied 2 Mouhamed Gueye 3 TJ Bamba 70

All-Tournament Team

NamePos.HeightWeightYear Team
Ąžuolas TubelisPower forward6–11245JuniorArizona
Oumar BalloCenter7−0260RS-JuniorArizona
Jaime Jaquez Jr.Small forward6−7225SeniorUCLA
Tyger Campbell5−11180SeniorUCLA
Amari BaileyShooting guard6−5185FreshmanUCLA
Desmond Cambridge Jr.Shooting guard6−4180Graduate SeniorArizona State

Most Outstanding Player

Tournament notes

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Men's Basketball Standings. https://web.archive.org/web/20150801071702/http://pac-12.com/mens-basketball/standings. dead. August 1, 2015. 2021-01-06. pac-12.com. en.
  2. Web site: Pac-12 to induct its first ever all-female class into the Conference's Hall of Honor in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Title IX . https://web.archive.org/web/20230223184106/https://pac-12.com/article/2023/02/16/pac-12-induct-its-first-ever-all-female-class-conferences-hall-honor-celebration . dead . February 23, 2023 . Pac-12.com.
  3. Web site: 2022-23 2023 MBB Pac-12 Championship Men's Basketball Tournament Team Leaders .