2003 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament

none February 2026 August 2023 2003 Pacific-10 Conference Men's 8 Staples Center Los Angeles, California Oregon 1st Ernie Kent 1st The 2003 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played between March 13 and March 15, 2003, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The champion of the tournament was Oregon, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Upsets defined this tournament, and for the first time, neither Arizona nor UCLA were in the final game. The Most Outstanding Player was Luke Ridnour of Oregon.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 ) It was also the first year that longtime sponsor of the tournament, Pacific Life, sponsored the event.Sponsorship Pacific Life December 2022 Seeds The top eight 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. SeedSchoolConference RecordTiebreaker1Arizona17–12Stanford14–43California13–54Arizona State11–75Oregon10–86Oregon State6–127USC6–128UCLA6–12 Bracket First Round (March 13) Semifinals (March 14) Finals (March 15) 1 #1 Arizona 89* 8 UCLA 96 4 Arizona State 82 5 Oregon 83 3 #24 California 69 6 Oregon State 46 2 #15 Stanford 74 7 USC 79 8 UCLA 74 5 Oregon 75 3 #24 California 62 7 USC 79 5 Oregon 74 7 USC 66 Tournament notes This tournament opened with the lowest seed, UCLA, stunning top seed and No. 1 ranked Arizona 96–89 in overtime. The second game had another upset with 5 seed Oregon beating 4 seed Arizona State. The upsets continued into the next session with the 7 seed USC beating 2 seed Stanford 79–74. The fourth upset was when USC defeated 3 seed California. The championship game featured 5 seed Oregon defeating 7 seed USC 74–66. Oregon, had then become the lowest seed ever to win this tournament (although in later tournaments the 6 seed would win). 7 seed USC became the lowest seed ever to make the championship game of the Pac-10 Tournament (still the lowest to date). Also of note, this was the first time that neither of the top two seeds were in the final game, and in fact both the 1 and 2 seeds were knocked out in the first round. This is the only Pac-10 Tournament in which neither school from Washington participated. Arizona set a record for most field goal attempts in one game with 88 vs. UCLA. (33-of-88) (OT). This tournament record still stands. Five teams were invited to the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Arizona – 17 1 .944 28–4 Stanford – 14 4 .778 24–9 California – 13 5 .722 22–9 Arizona State – 11 7 .611 20–12 Oregon – 10 8 .556 23–10 Arizona was the #1 seed in the West Regional bracket. All tournament team Luke Ridnour, Oregon – Tournament MVP James Davis, Oregon Luke Jackson, Oregon Desmon Farmer, USC Rory O'Neil, USC Ray Young, 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) Category:2002–03 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season Category:Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament