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1989 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament

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Field	Value
Year	1989
Conference	Pacific-10 Conference
Gender	Men's
Teams	10
Arena	Great Western Forum
City	Inglewood, California
Champions	[Arizona](1988-89-arizona-wildcats-men-s-basketball-team)
TitleCount	2nd
Coach	Lute Olson
CoachCount	2nd
MVP	Sean Elliott
MVPTeam	Arizona
Attendance	41,994 (5 sessions)

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.

This was the tournament's third edition and all ten teams participated.

Bracket

Tournament Notes

Arizona was ranked #1 in the nation entering the tournament.
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.
Arizona, UCLA, Oregon State, and Stanford all were invited to the 1989 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
California was invited to the 1989 National Invitation Tournament.

All tournament team

Sean Elliott, Arizona
Jud Buechler, Arizona
Anthony Cook, 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 [http://www.pac-10.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/102607aan.html 2007–08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide]). Accessed 2009-03-09. 2009-05-08.
Clark, Bob. (March 13, 1989). "Arizona has No. 1 look to Stanford". Eugene Register-Guard.
Bergum, Steve. (March 13, 1989). "No. 1 Arizona crushes Stanford". Spokesman-Review.
Clark, Bob. (March 9, 1989). "Ducks open with Cougs in tourney". Eugene Register-Guard.
Bergum, Steve. (March 10, 1989). "Cougs down Ducks in Pac-10 opener". Spokesman-Review.
Crowe, Jerry - [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-09-sp-1506-story.html PACIFIC 10 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT : Arizona a Lock? No, but It’s Close : Only Pac-10 Losses in Last 2 Seasons Were to Stanford]. Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1989
Baker, Chris - [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-09-sp-1539-story.html Trojans to Take On Sun Devils Tonight]. Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1989. USC will play Arizona State tonight in a Pacific 10 Conference basketball tournament game at 9 p.m. at the Forum. ''"We're like a time bomb waiting to go off," said USC Coach George Raveling. "I wouldn't be surprised if we won a couple of games and moved on in the tournament."''

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