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.[1] 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.[1] The Pac-12 announced, on March 1, that Men's and Women's tournament games that were not televised would be streamed on YouTube.[2] Also streamed live on YouTube was a post-game press conferences for the semifinals and championship games.[2] 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).
Seeds
Teams was seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.[3]
*Game Times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.[4]
Bracket
First round March 7, 2012
Quarterfinals March 8, 2012
Semifinals March 9, 2012
Championship Game March 10, 2012
1
Washington
84
9
Oregon State
86
8
Washington State
64
9
Oregon State
69
9
Oregon State
61
4
Arizona
72
4
Arizona
66
5
UCLA
58
5
UCLA
55
12
USC
40
4
Arizona
51
6
Colorado
53
2
California
77
7
Stanford
71
7
Stanford
85
10
Arizona State
65
2
California
59
6
Colorado
70
3
Oregon
62
6
Colorado
63
6
Colorado
53
11
Utah
41
Tournament notes
This was the first tournament ever held under the "Pac-12" name, after Colorado and Utah joined the conference on July 1, 2011.
March 7, 2012 – Josiah Turner of Arizona was suspended indefinitely from the basketball team for a violation of team rules, announced by head coach Sean Miller.
This was the lowest-scoring game for both teams in a tournament championship game.
Arizona beat Oregon State for the 6th time in Pac-10/12 tournament history, the most wins any university has over any other, (Arizona is now 6-0 all time vs. OSU in the tournament).
Stanford and ASU combined for 26 3-pt. field goals which set a current tournament record (15 and 11).
Oregon State and Washington combined for a record game low % of free throws made, only 49.2% (29 of 59) (OSU was 17 of 32; UW was 12 of 27).
In the Colorado vs. Arizona game, there were only 12 assists (6 for each team), a record game low for a combined total.
Austin Dufault of Colorado had 15 personal fouls throughout the tournament (4 games) setting a Pac-12 Tournament record.
André Roberson of Colorado had a record 41 rebounds (4 games) for one tournament.[5]
^Articles refer to 1958, when Oregon State and California were both 12-6 in first place in the PCC. California was invited to the NCAA tournament. Note that in the 1962-1963 season, UCLA and Stanford were tied atop the AAWU standings and only UCLA was invited to the NCAA tournament, according to the Pac-12 media guide.
