1989 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

The 1989 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played March 9–12 at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. Like the previous year, both top seeds advanced to the final; Stanford made its first appearance in the title game and met the top-seeded (and top-ranked) Wildcats. Comfortably repeating as champion of the tournament was Arizona, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Repeating as the Most Outstanding Player was Sean Elliott of Arizona.[2][3][4]

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

1988–89 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 1 Arizona †	17	–	1		.944			29	–	4		.879
No. 13 Stanford	15	–	3		.833			26	–	7		.788
UCLA	13	–	5		.722			21	–	10		.677
Oregon State	13	–	5		.722			22	–	8		.733
California	10	–	8		.556			20	–	13		.606
Washington	8	–	10		.444			12	–	16		.429
Arizona State	5	–	13		.278			12	–	16		.429
Washington State	4	–	14		.222			10	–	19		.345
Oregon	3	–	15		.167			8	–	21		.276
USC	2	–	16		.111			10	–	22		.313
† 1989 Pac-10 Tournament winner As of April 15, 1989[1]; Rankings from AP Poll

This was the tournament's third edition and all ten teams participated.[5][6]

Bracket

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

There were no overtime games

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. "2017-18 Men's Basketball Media Guide". Pac-12 Conference. p. 72. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
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). Accessed 2009-03-09. Archived 2009-05-08.
3. Clark, Bob (March 13, 1989). "Arizona has No. 1 look to Stanford". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1B.
4. Bergum, Steve (March 13, 1989). "No. 1 Arizona crushes Stanford". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. C2.
5. Clark, Bob (March 9, 1989). "Ducks open with Cougs in tourney". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1D.
6. Bergum, Steve (March 10, 1989). "Cougs down Ducks in Pac-10 opener". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. C1.