1988 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1988 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	10
Site	McKale Center Tucson, Arizona
Champions	Arizona (1st title)
Winning coach	Lute Olson (1st title)
MVP	Sean Elliott Arizona
Attendance	66,477 (5 sessions)
Post-Pacific-10 Conference tournament(s)	1988 NIT, 1988 NCAA
Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments «1987  1989»

The 1988 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 10 and March 13, 1988 at McKale Center in Tucson, Arizona on the University of Arizona campus. Both teams made their first trip to the final game and it was the first final to feature both #1 and #2 seeds. The champion of the tournament was Arizona, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the 1988 NCAA Tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Sean Elliott of Arizona.

Bracket

	Play-In Round (March 10)					Quarterfinals (March 11)					Semifinals (March 12)					Final (March 13)
						9	California	64
	9	California	75			1	Arizona	88
											1	Arizona	97
	8	USC	59
											4	Stanford	83
						5	Oregon	67
						4	Stanford	88
																1	Arizona	93
																2	Oregon State	67
						6	Washington State	73
						3	UCLA	71
											6	Washington State	68
	10	Washington	96
											2	Oregon State	74**
	7	Arizona State	82			10	Washington	61
						2	Oregon State	80

Asterisk denotes overtime period.

Tournament Notes

• Arizona's 26 point win (93-67) over Oregon State was the largest margin of victory for the final game in Pac-10/12 Tournament history.
• #10 Washington and #10 Cal each upset their opponents early on to be the first winners for their respective seeds in Pac-10 Tournament history.

All Tournament Team

• Sean Elliott, Arizona
• Anthony Cook, Arizona
• Steve Kerr, Arizona
• Todd Lichti, Stanford
• Gary Payton, Oregon State

References

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))