1987 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament

none August 2023 June 2025 1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's 10 Pauley Pavilion Los Angeles, California UCLA 1st Walt Hazzard 1st Reggie Miller UCLA 37,662 (5 sessions) Reggie Miller UCLA 83 Yes The 1987 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played March 5–8 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, on the UCLA campus. The champion of the tournament was host UCLA, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Reggie Miller of UCLA.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cKgpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e-8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3055%2C5122943 Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Bergum Steve UCLA pooh-poohs Huskies, 76-64 March 9, 1987 C1https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g05TAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AocDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2403%2C6250477 The Bulletin Bend, Oregon UPI Pooh show some magic as UCLA wins tourney March 9, 1987 D-1 This was the inaugural Pac-10 tournament.Bonk, Thomas - Pacific 10 Basketball Tournament : UCLA Seems to Have It All Going for First Time. Los Angeles Times, March 6, 1987 The format ran for four years, through 1990.2007–08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide pages 50–60 (PDF copy available at 2007–08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide https://web.archive.org/web/20090302194145/http://www.pac-10.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/102607aan.html 2009-03-02 ) Seeds All ten schools participated; teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. Bracket Play-in RoundThursday, March 5 QuarterfinalsFriday, March 6 SemifinalsSaturday, March 7 FinalSunday, March 8 8 Arizona State 76 9 Washington State 60 7 Oregon 51 10 USC 49 1 #18 UCLA 99 8 Arizona State 83 4 California 64 5 Oregon State 57 3 Washington 86 6 Stanford 71 2 Arizona 63 7 Oregon 72 1 #18 UCLA 75 4 California 68 3 Washington 70 7 Oregon 56 1 #18 UCLA 76 3 Washington 64 There were no overtime games All tournament team Reggie Miller, UCLA Pooh Richardson, UCLA Anthony Taylor, Oregon Chris Welp, Washington Phil Zevenbergen, Washington Aftermath Oregon's win over #2 Arizona was the only upset of the 1987 tournament. UCLA defeated Washington, who had swept them in the regular season. The UCLA–Arizona State quarterfinal set a number of scoring records that still stand. UCLA received the automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Arizona was the only other team that received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Washington, California, 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-finals. Sunday's championship game had an attendance of 9,117 in the 12,829-seat Pauley Pavilion. Reggie Miller scored an individual tournament record of 83 points (3 games) which still stands as of 2022. Miller also set the individual tournament record 27 field goals (49 attempts). During the selection show for the 1987 NCAA tournament, there was a spot left open for the #12 seed in the Southeast Region. Kansas, the 5th seed in the region, was due to face either Washington or Houston in the first round. Washington was facing UCLA in the finals of the Pac-10 tournament at the time the selections were announced. UCLA held on to defeat Washington 76-62, putting Houston into the field of 64. References Tournament Category:Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament