2008 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament

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. 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.

2008 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season200708
Teams10
SiteStaples Center
Los Angeles, California
ChampionsUCLA (3rd title)
Winning coachBen Howland (2nd title)
MVPDarren Collison (UCLA)
Attendance81,809 (5 sessions)
18,672 (Final)
Top scorerBrook Lopez (Stanford)
(65 points)
Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournaments
2007–08 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 2 UCLA162 .889354  .897
No. 11 Stanford135 .722288  .778
No. 21 Washington State117 .611269  .743
Arizona State99 .5002113  .618
Oregon99 .5001814  .563
Arizona810 .4441915  .559
Washington711 .3891617  .485
California612 .3331716  .515
Oregon State018 .000625  .194
USC*07 .000012  .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.
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