1987 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament

1987 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	1986–87
Teams	10
Site	Pauley Pavilion Los Angeles, California
Champions	UCLA (1st title)
Winning coach	Walt Hazzard (1st title)
MVP	Reggie Miller (UCLA)
Attendance	37,662 (5 sessions)
Top scorer	Reggie Miller (UCLA) (83 points)
Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournaments

1986–87 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 15 UCLA †	14	–	4		.778			25	–	7		.781
Arizona	13	–	5		.722			18	–	12		.600
Washington	10	–	8		.556			20	–	15		.571
California	10	–	8		.556			20	–	15		.571
Oregon State	10	–	8		.556			19	–	11		.633
Stanford	9	–	9		.500			15	–	13		.536
Oregon	8	–	10		.444			16	–	14		.533
Arizona State	6	–	12		.333			11	–	17		.393
Washington State	6	–	12		.333			10	–	18		.357
USC	4	–	14		.222			9	–	19		.321
† 1987 Pacific-10 Tournament winner As of March 25, 1987[1] Rankings from AP poll

The 1987 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played March 5–8 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, on the UCLA campus. The champion of the tournament was host UCLA, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Reggie Miller of UCLA.^[2][3]

This was the inaugural Pac-10 tournament.^[4] The format ran for four years, through 1990.^[5]

Seeds

All ten schools participated; teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

Bracket

	Play-in Round Thursday, March 5					Quarterfinals Friday, March 6					Semifinals Saturday, March 7					Final Sunday, March 8
						1	#18 UCLA	99
	8	Arizona State	76			8	Arizona State	83
	9	Washington State	60								1	#18 UCLA	75
											4	California	68
						4	California	64
						5	Oregon State	57
																1	#18 UCLA	76
																3	Washington	64
						3	Washington	86
	7	Oregon	51			6	Stanford	71
	10	USC	49								3	Washington	70
											7	Oregon	56
						2	Arizona	63
						7	Oregon	72

There were no overtime games

All tournament team

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

Aftermath

• Oregon's win over #2 Arizona was the only upset of the 1987 tournament.
• UCLA defeated Washington, who had swept them in the regular season.
• The UCLA–Arizona State quarterfinal set a number of scoring records that still stand.
• UCLA received the automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Arizona was the only other team that received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.
• Washington, California, 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-finals.
• Sunday's championship game had an attendance of 9,117 in the 12,829-seat Pauley Pavilion.
• Reggie Miller scored an individual tournament record of 83 points (3 games) which still stands as of 2022. Miller also set the individual tournament record 27 field goals (49 attempts).
• During the selection show for the 1987 NCAA tournament, there was a spot left open for the #12 seed in the Southeast Region. Kansas, the 5th seed in the region, was due to face either Washington or Houston in the first round. Washington was facing UCLA in the finals of the Pac-10 tournament at the time the selections were announced. UCLA held on to defeat Washington 76-62, putting Houston into the field of 64.

References

1. "2011-12 Men's Basketball Media Guide". Pac-12 Conference. p. 67. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
2. Bergum, Steve (March 9, 1987). "UCLA pooh-poohs Huskies, 76-64". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. C1.
3. "Pooh show some magic as UCLA wins tourney". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). UPI. March 9, 1987. p. D-1.
4. Bonk, Thomas - Pacific 10 Basketball Tournament : UCLA Seems to Have It All Going for First Time. Los Angeles Times, March 6, 1987
5. 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 Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine)