Classification Division I Champions Colorado (1st title) | Season 2011–12 Winning coach Tad Boyle (1st title) | |
Site Staples Center
Los Angeles, California MVP Carlon Brown (Colorado) | ||
The 2012 Pacific Life Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played on March 7–10, 2012 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The tournament champion became the NCAA Tournament automatic qualifier from the conference. The pairings will be announced following the completion of the regular season on March 4, 2012. The first three rounds was all broadcast on FSN with the championship game on CBS. The Pac-12 announced, on March 1, that Men's and Women's tournament games that were not televised would be streamed on YouTube. Also streamed live on YouTube was a post-game press conferences for the semifinals and championship games. In its first season in the Pac-12, No. 6 seeded Colorado defeated No. 4 seeded Arizona 53–51 for the title and the automatic bid to the NCAA National Championship Tournament. Colorado (along with USC in 2009) has been the lowest seeded team ever to win in this tournament's history. Colorado also was the first team ever to win four games to become the champion of this tournament (because the 6th seed plays in the first of four rounds).
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Seeds
Teams was seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.
All-Tournament Team
Most Outstanding Player
2012 Hall of Honor inductees
The induction ceremony took place on Saturday, March 10 during the Pac-12 Hall of Honor breakfast. Inductees were: