1989 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1989 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	1988–89
Teams	10
Site	Great Western Forum Inglewood, California
Champions	Arizona (2nd title)
Winning coach	Lute Olson (2nd title)
MVP	Sean Elliott (Arizona)
Attendance	41,994 (5 sessions)
Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments «1988  1990»

The 1989 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 9 and March 12, 1989 at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. Like the previous year, both #1 and #2 seeds were in the final. Stanford made its first appearance in the final game, facing the top seeded Wildcats. The champion of the tournament was Arizona, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Sean Elliott of Arizona.^[1]

Bracket

	Play-In Round (March 9)					Quarterfinals (March 10)					Semifinals (March 11)					Final (March 12)
						8	Washington State	54
	9	Oregon	56			1	Arizona	62
											1	Arizona	98
	8	Washington State	78
											4	Oregon State	87
						5	California	66
						4	Oregon State	79
																1	Arizona	73
																2	Stanford	51
						6	Washington	54
						3	UCLA	64
											3	UCLA	86
	10	USC	94
											2	Stanford	95
	7	Arizona State	82			10	USC	61
						2	Stanford	66

Asterisk denotes overtime period.

Tournament Notes

• For the 3rd year in a row, no universities, played their arch-rival in the tournament.
• 70 field goals were scored in a game by Arizona (37) and OSU (33). This is still the record number of FGs by both teams in a game for this tournament.
• Arizona had 23 assists in the game vs. OSU (a current record).
• USC upset 7 seed ASU to finally win a Pac-10 Tournament game after 3 tries. They became the 10th team to get a tournament win in its history.

All Tournament Team

• Sean Elliott, Arizona
• Jud Buechler, Arizona
• Anthony Cook, Arizona
• Todd Lichti, Stanford
• Gary Payton, Oregon State

References

1. 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). Accessed 2009-03-09. Archived 2009-05-08.