The 2006 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played between March 8 and March 11, 2006, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The champion of the tournament was UCLA, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
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.
Bracket
** Double Overtime
Tournament Notes
- This was the first tournament in 3 years in which the top two seeds didn't play in the final game.
- UCLA's 19-point margin of victory over Cal (71-52) is one of the largest in this tournament's history for the championship game.
- California had someone selected for the All Tournament team for the first time. Two players were in fact selected.
- Leon Powe of Cal made a record total 30 free throws for a single Pac-10/12 tournament (30-of-41, 3 games). This record still stands.
- Leon Powe's 41 FT attempts for those games is also a tournament record.
All tournament team
References
2007âÂÂ08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide pages 50âÂÂ60 (PDF copy available at 2007âÂÂ08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide)