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2002 Pacific 10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

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Classification
  
Division I

Teams
  
8

Winning coach
  
Lute Olsen (4th title)

Season
  
2001–02

Champions
  
Arizona (4th title)

Site
  
Staples Center Los Angeles, California

The 2002 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 7 and March 9, 2002 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The event was revived after a 12-year hiatus. USC made their first appearance in the final game. The champion of the tournament was Arizona, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Luke Walton of Arizona. A Staples Center capacity crowd of 18,997 watched the championship game.

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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.

All Tournament Team

  • Luke Walton, Arizona – Tournament MVP
  • Sam Clancy, USC
  • Brandon Granville, USC
  • Jason Gardner, Arizona
  • Salim Stoudamire, Arizona

    • References

    2002 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia
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