2007 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

The 2007 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 7 and March 10, 2007 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, United States. The champion of the tournament was Oregon, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Tajuan Porter of Oregon.[2]

2007 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2006–07
Teams	10
Site	Staples Center Los Angeles, California, USA
Champions	Oregon (2nd title)
Winning coach	Ernie Kent (2nd title)
MVP	Tajuan Porter (Oregon)
Attendance	84,477
Top scorer	Ryan Anderson (California) (62 points)
Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments

2006–07 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 7 UCLA	15	–	3		.833			30	–	6		.833
No. 13 Washington State	13	–	5		.722			26	–	8		.765
No. 23 USC^1	11	–	7		.611			25	–	12		.676
No. 10 Oregon†^2	11	–	7		.611			29	–	8		.784
Arizona	11	–	7		.611			20	–	11		.645
Stanford	10	–	8		.556			18	–	13		.581
Washington	8	–	10		.444			19	–	13		.594
California	6	–	12		.333			16	–	17		.485
Oregon State	3	–	15		.167			11	–	21		.344
Arizona State	2	–	16		.111			8	–	22		.267
† 2007 Pacific-10 Tournament winner As of March 18, 2007; Rankings from AP Poll[1] ^1 Holds tie-breaker, ^2 Holds second tie-breaker.

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	15–3 (26–4)
2	Washington State	13–5 (24–6)
3	USC	11–7 (21–10)	4–0 vs. ORE,
4	Oregon	11–7 (23–7)	1–3 vs. USC, ARIZ
5	Arizona	11–7 (20–9)	1–3 vs. USC, ORE
6	Stanford	10–8 (18–11)
7	Washington	8–10 (18–12)
8	California	6–12 (14–16)
9	Oregon State	3–15 (11–20)
10	Arizona State	2–16 (8–21)

Bracket

	Play-In Round (March 7)					Quarterfinals (March 8)					Semifinals (March 9)					Final (March 10)
						1	#4 UCLA	69
						8	California	76*
	8	California	70
	9	Oregon State	51
											8	California	63
											4	#16 Oregon	81
						4	#16 Oregon	69
						5	Arizona	50
																4	#16 Oregon	81
																3	USC	57
						3	USC	83*
						6	Stanford	79
											3	USC	70
											2	#11 Washington State	61
	7	Washington	59
	10	Arizona State	51
						2	#11 Washington State	74
						7	Washington	64

Asterisks denote overtime period.

Tournament notes

• This was the first time since 2003 that neither of the top two seeds made the final.
• Oregon's 24-point win over USC was the 2nd largest margin of victory for the championship game in this tournament's history. (The largest since a 26-point margin by Arizona in 1988).
• Cal's appearance in the semifinals was the best performance for a #8 seed, since Arizona St. had made it to the semifinals in 1990.
• Arch-rivals Washington and Washington St. met for the first time ever in the tournament (second round). This was the first meeting in five years for any arch-rival pair.

All Tournament Team

• Tajuan Porter, Oregon – Tournament MVP
• Bryce Taylor, Oregon
• Aaron Brooks, Oregon
• Gabe Pruitt, USC
• Taj Gibson, USC
• Ryan Anderson, California

References

1. "2007 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings - Postseason (Mar. 18)". ESPN. Retrieved March 18, 2007.
2. 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 2009-05-08 at WebCite)