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2016–17 Pac 12 Conference men's basketball season

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League
  
NCAA Division I

Location
  
United States of America

Start date
  
November 2016

Number of teams
  
12

2016–17 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season

TV partners
  
ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, Fox Sports 1, FOX, Pac-12 Network

The 2016–17 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season begins with practices in October 2016 and ends with the 2017 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament in March 2017 at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada. The regular season begins on the first weekend of November 11, 2016 with Arizona-Michigan State, with the conference schedule starting in the last week of December 28, 2016 with UCLA-Oregon.

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This is the sixth season under the Pac-12 Conference name and the 58th since the conference was established under its current charter as the Athletic Association of Western Universities in 1959. Including the history of the Pacific Coast Conference, which operated from 1915 to 1959 and is considered by the Pac-12 as a part of its own history, this is the Pac-12's 102nd season of men's basketball.

Pre-season

  • October 21, 2016 – Pac-12 Men's Basketball Media Day, Pac-12 Networks Studios, San Francisco, Calif.
  • () first place votes

    Rankings

    The Pac-12 had 4 teams ranked and 3 others receiving votes in the preseason Coaches' Poll. It had four teams ranked in the preseason AP Poll and one other receiving votes.

    Conference Schedule

    This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

    Points scored

    Through February 24, 2017

    Head Coaches

    Note: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Overall and Pac-12 records are from time at current school.

    Pac-12 Tournament

    The conference tournament is scheduled for Wednesday–Saturday March 8–11, 2017 at the T-Mobile Arena, Paradise, NV. TBA were seeded one and two respectively. The top four teams had a bye on the first day, March 9, 2017. Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.

    All-Pac-12 awards and teams

    The Pac-12 Coach of the Year Award in both men’s and women’s basketball is now known as the John Wooden Coach of the Year Award. Voting was by conference coaches.

  • To be announced after the Pac-12 Tournament.
  • References

    2016–17 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season Wikipedia