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2006 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
2006 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2005–06
Teams	10
Site	Staples Center; Los Angeles, California
Champions	UCLA (2nd title)
Winning coach	Ben Howland (1st title)
MVP	Leon Powe (California)
Attendance	74,801
Top scorers	Leon Powe (California); #q; (80 points)
	Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournaments ← 2005 2007 →

2005–06 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 2 UCLA †	14	–	4	.778	32	–	7	.821
No. 12 Washington	13	–	5	.722	26	–	7	.788
California	12	–	6	.667	20	–	11	.645
Arizona ¹	11	–	7	.611	20	–	13	.606
Stanford	11	–	7	.611	16	–	14	.533
USC	8	–	10	.444	17	–	13	.567
Oregon	7	–	11	.389	15	–	18	.455
Oregon State ¹	5	–	13	.278	13	–	18	.419
Arizona State	5	–	13	.278	11	–	17	.393
Washington State	4	–	14	.222	11	–	17	.393

† Conference tournament winner As of April 3, 2006 Rankings from Coaches Poll ^[1] ¹ Holds tie-breaker

The 2006 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played between March 8 and March 11, 2006, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The champion of the tournament was UCLA, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Harish Ganesan of California.^[2]

Seeds

All 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.

Seed	School	Conference (Overall)	Tiebreaker
1	UCLA	14–4 (24–6)
2	Washington	13–5 (24–5)
3	California	12–6 (18–9)
4	Arizona	11–7 (18–11)	2–0 vs. STAN
5	Stanford	11–7 (15–12)	0–2 vs. ARIZ
6	USC	8–10 (17–12)
7	Oregon	7–11 (13–17)
8	Oregon State	5–13 (12–17)
9	Arizona State	5–13 (11–16)
10	Washington State	4–14 (11–16)

Bracket

Play-in Round Wednesday, March 8			Quarterfinals Thursday, March 9			Semifinals Friday, March 10			Final Saturday, March 11

			1	#13 UCLA	79
8	Oregon State	71	8	Oregon State	47
9	Arizona State	68				1	#13 UCLA	71
						4	Arizona	59
			4	Arizona	73
			5	Stanford	68
									1	#13 UCLA	71
									3	California	52
			3	California	82
7	Oregon	66	6	USC	67
10	Washington State	55				3	California	91**
						7	Oregon	87
			2	#12 Washington	73
			7	Oregon	84

** Double Overtime

Tournament Notes

This was the first tournament in 3 years in which the top two seeds didn't play in the final game.
UCLA's 19-point margin of victory over Cal (71-52) is one of the largest in this tournament's history for the championship game.
California had someone selected for the All Tournament team for the first time. Two players were in fact selected.
Leon Powe of Cal made a record total 30 free throws for a single Pac-10/12 tournament (30-of-41, 3 games). This record still stands.
Leon Powe's 41 FT attempts for those games is also a tournament record.^[3]