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1987 Pacific 10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

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Classification
  
Division I

Champions
  
UCLA (1st title)

Teams
  
10

MVP
  
Reggie Miller (UCLA)

Site
  
Pauley Pavilion Los Angeles, California

Winning coach
  
Walt Hazzard (1st title)

The 1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 5 and March 8, 1987, at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, on the UCLA campus. The champion of the tournament was UCLA, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Reggie Miller of UCLA. This was the very first Pac-10 Conference Basketball tournament.

Contents

Seeds

All Pacific 10 schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

Bracket

Asterisk denotes overtime period.

All Tournament Team

  • Reggie Miller, UCLA
  • Pooh Richardson, UCLA
  • Anthony Taylor, Oregon
  • Chris Welp, Washington
  • Phil Zevenbergen, Washington

    • Aftermath

  • Oregon scored the first tournament upset, over #2 Arizona. It was the only upset in the 1987 tournament.
  • UCLA defeated Washington, a team that had swept them in the regular season.
  • The UCLA-Arizona State quarterfinal game set a number of scoring records that are still in place as of 2008.
  • UCLA received the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament and Arizona received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.
  • Washington, Cal, 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-final games. The championship game had an attendance of 9,117 in the 12,829 seat Pauley Pavilion.
  • Reggie Miller scored an individual tournament record high of 83 points (3 games) which still stands to this day.
  • Reggie Miller also made an individual tournament record 27 field goals (49 attempts) for this.

    • References

    1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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