2008 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament

2008 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2007–08
Teams10
SiteStaples Center
Los Angeles, California
ChampionsUCLA (3rd title)
Winning coachBen Howland (2nd title)
MVPDarren Collison[1] (UCLA)
Attendance81,809 (5 sessions)
18,672 (Final)
Top scorerBrook Lopez (Stanford)
(65 points)
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2007–08 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 2 UCLA 16 2   .889 35 4   .897
No. 11 Stanford 13 5   .722 28 8   .778
No. 21 Washington State 11 7   .611 26 9   .743
Arizona State 9 9   .500 21 13   .618
Oregon 9 9   .500 18 14   .563
Arizona 8 10   .444 19 15   .559
Washington 7 11   .389 16 17   .485
California 6 12   .333 17 16   .515
Oregon State 0 18   .000 6 25   .194
USC* 0 7   .000 0 12   .000
Conference tournament winner
As of April 5, 2008
Rankings from AP Poll
*USC vacated 11 conference and 21 overall wins,
due to NCAA rules violations.
UCLA's Kevin Love on the perimeter at Pac-10 Championship game against Stanford at Staples Center, Los Angeles, 2008. Ben Howland and the UCLA bench looks on from the sideline.

The 2008 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was held between March 12 and March 15, 2008, at Staples Center in Los Angeles. All ten schools in the conference qualified for the tournament. Number one seed UCLA defeated number two seed Stanford 67–64 to win the conference tournament. It was the first time since 2005 that the top two seeded teams were in the final game. UCLA was the regular season champion. A record crowd of 18,997 (Staples Center capacity for Basketball) was on hand to watch UCLA defeat USC 57–54 in the semi-finals.[2] On January 3, 2010, USC Athletic Director Mike Garrett announced that the school was to vacate the 2007–08 season's victories for NCAA violations by the basketball team.[3]

  1. ^ "No. 3 UCLA Beats No. 11 Stanford for Pac-10 Tournament Title". Archived from the original on March 18, 2008. Retrieved March 16, 2008.
  2. ^ Pac-10 News – This week in Pac-10 Men's basketball Archived 2008-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, Pac-10, March 17, 2008
  3. ^ David Wharton and Baxter Holmes, O.J. Mayo scandal leads to heavy sanctions for USC basketball; team 'shocked and saddened', Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2010