2020 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament

2020 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament
2020 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2019–20
Teams	12
Site	T-Mobile Arena; Paradise, Nevada
Television	Pac-12 Network; Fox Sports 1
	Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournaments ← 2019 2021 →

2019–20 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 13 Oregon	13	–	5	.722	24	–	7	.774
UCLA	12	–	6	.667	19	–	12	.613
USC	11	–	7	.611	22	–	9	.710
Arizona State	11	–	7	.611	20	–	11	.645
Arizona	10	–	8	.556	21	–	11	.656
Colorado	10	–	8	.556	21	–	11	.656
Stanford	9	–	9	.500	20	–	12	.625
Oregon State	7	–	11	.389	18	–	13	.581
Utah	7	–	11	.389	16	–	15	.516
California	7	–	11	.389	14	–	18	.438
Washington State	6	–	12	.333	16	–	16	.500
Washington	5	–	13	.278	15	–	17	.469
Note: The 2020 Pac-12 Tournament was canceled prior to the quarterfinals due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rankings from AP poll

The 2020 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Pac-12 Conference, scheduled to be played March 11–14, 2020, at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It was canceled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] The winner of the tournament was to have received the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA tournament.

The NCAA announced on March 11, 2020 that no fans would be able to attend the Men's and Women's 2020 NCAA tournaments, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2] A number of conference basketball tournaments followed suit by either canceling entirely, or playing as scheduled, but with no spectators in attendance.^[3]^[4] However, tournaments that were held in Las Vegas, including the Pac-12, were conducted with spectators in attendance on Wednesday, March 11.^[5] By the evening of March 11, the Pac-12 announced that the remaining games would be played only with "essential staff, television network partners, credentialed media and limited family and friends."^[6]

On March 12, the Pac-12 canceled the tournament before any more games were to be played.^[1] On the afternoon of March 12, 2020, the NCAA announced that all remaining winter and spring championships for both men's and women's sports were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.^[7] Because of its late West Coast tip-off, the first round match-up between Colorado and Washington State would prove to be the last completed game of the 2019-20 men's basketball season.

Seeds

All 12 Pac-12 schools are eligible to participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. As a result, the top four teams receive a bye to the quarterfinals of the tournament.

Tie-breaking procedures for determining all tournament seeding was:

For two-team tie

1. Results of head-to-head competition during the regular season.

2. Each team's record (won-lost percentage) vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record (won-lost percentage) against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.

3. Won-lost percentage against all Division I opponents.

4. Coin toss conducted by the Commissioner or designee.

For multiple-team tie

1. Results (won-lost percentage) of collective head-to-head competition during the regular season among the tied teams.

2. If more than two teams are still tied, each of the tied team's record (won-lost percentage) vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular season standings, and then continuing down through the standings, eliminating teams with inferior records, until one team gains an advantage.

When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record (won-lost percentage) against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.

After one team has an advantage and is seeded, all remaining teams in the multiple-team tie-breaker will repeat the multiple-team tie-breaking procedure.

If at any point the multiple-team tie is reduced to two teams, the two-team tie-breaking procedure will be applied.

3. Won-lost percentage against all Division I opponents.

4. Coin toss conducted by the Commissioner or designee.

Seed	School	Conference	Overall	Tiebreak 1	Tiebreak 2	Tiebreak 3	Tiebreak 4
1	Oregon†#	13–5	23–7
2	UCLA#	12–6	19–12
3	Arizona State#	11–7	20–11	1–1 vs. USC	1–1 vs. Oregon
4	USC#	11–7	21–9	1–1 vs. Arizona State	0–1 vs. Oregon
5	Arizona	10–8	20–11	1–0 vs. Colorado
6	Colorado	10–8	21–10	0–1 vs. Arizona
7	Stanford	9–9	20–11
8	Oregon State	7–11	17–13	2–2 vs. California/Utah	1–1 vs. Oregon
9	Utah	7–11	16–14	2–2 vs. Oregon State/California	0–2 vs. Oregon	0–2 vs. UCLA	1–2 vs. ASU/USC
10	California	7–11	13–18	2–2 vs. Oregon State/Utah	0–2 vs. Oregon	0–1 vs. UCLA	0–2 vs. ASU/USC
11	Washington State	6–12	15–16
12	Washington	5–13	15–16
† – Pac-12 Conference regular season champions # – Received a first round bye in the conference tournament.

Schedule

Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television	Attendance
First round – Wednesday, March 11
1	12:00 pm	No. 8 Oregon State vs. No. 9 Utah	71−69	Pac-12 Network	8,048
2	2:30 pm	No. 5 Arizona vs. No. 12 Washington	77−70		8,048
3	6:00 pm	No. 7 Stanford vs. No. 10 California	51–63		7,452
4	8:30 pm	No. 6 Colorado vs. No. 11 Washington State	68–82		7,452
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 12
5	12:00 pm	No. 1 Oregon vs. No. 8 Oregon State	canceled	Pac-12 Network	N/A
6	2:30 pm	No. 4 USC vs. No. 5 Arizona			N/A
7	6:00 pm	No. 2 UCLA vs. No. 10 California			N/A
8	8:30 pm	No. 3 Arizona State vs. No. 11 Washington State		FS1	N/A
Semifinals – Friday, March 13
9	6:00 pm	Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner	canceled	Pac-12 Network	N/A
10	8:30 pm	Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner	canceled	FS1	N/A
Championship – Saturday, March 14
11	7:30 pm	Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner	canceled	FS1	N/A
Game times in PT. Rankings denote tournament seed.

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Bracket

First round Wednesday, March 11			Quarterfinals Thursday, March 12		Semifinals Friday, March 13	Championship Saturday, March 14

			1	#13 Oregon

			8	Oregon State
8	Oregon State	71

9	Utah	69






			4	USC

			5	Arizona
5	Arizona	77

12	Washington	70






			2	UCLA

			10	California
7	Stanford	51

10	California	63






			3	Arizona State

			11	Washington State
6	Colorado	68

11	Washington State	82

* denotes overtime period

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Game statistics

First round

Pac-12 Network

March 11
12:00 pm PST

[1]

No. 8 Oregon State 71, No. 9 Utah 69
Scoring by half: 31−39, 40−30
Pts: Tinkle, 19 Rebs: Thompson, 5 Asts: 2 tied, 5		Pts: Plummer, 35 Rebs: Battin, 8 Asts: Gach, 6

T-Mobile Arena
Paradise, NV
Attendance: 8,048
Referees: Eric Curry, Tommy Nunez, Tony Padilla

Pac-12 Network

March 11
2:30 pm PST

[2]

No. 5 Arizona 77, No. 12 Washington 70
Scoring by half: 35−30, 42−40
Pts: Green, 19 Rebs: Nnaji, 19 Asts: Smith, 6		Pts: Stewart, 29 Rebs: Stewart, 12 Asts: 2 tied, 3

T-Mobile Arena
Paradise, NV
Attendance: 8,048
Referees: Dave Hall, Verne Harris, Mike Reed

Pac-12 Network

March 11
6:00 pm PST

[3]

No. 7 Stanford 51, No. 10 California 63
Scoring by half: 20−30, 31−33
Pts: Davis, 16 Rebs: da Silva, 7 Asts: Davis, 3		Pts: 2 tied, 18 Rebs: Anticevich, 8 Asts: Austin, 3

T-Mobile Arena
Paradise, NV
Attendance: 7,452
Referees: Randy McCall, Deldre Carr, Mike Scyphers

Pac-12 Network

March 11
8:30 pm PST

[4]

No. 6 Colorado 68, No. 11 Washington State 82
Scoring by half: 25−35, 43−47
Pts: Wright IV, 21 Rebs: Wright IV, 9 Asts: 2 tied, 1		Pts: Elleby, 30 Rebs: Elleby, 10 Asts: Elleby, 5

T-Mobile Arena
Paradise, NV
Attendance: 7,452
Referees: Chris Rastatter, Michael Irving, Greg Nixon

Quarterfinals

Pac-12 Network

March 12
12:00 pm PST

No. 1 Oregon vs. No. 8 Oregon State

T-Mobile Arena
Paradise, NV

Pac-12 Network

March 12
2:30 pm PST

No. 4 USC vs. No. 5 Arizona

T-Mobile Arena
Paradise, NV

Pac-12 Network

March 12
6:00 pm PST

No. 2 UCLA vs. No. 10 California

T-Mobile Arena
Paradise, NV

FS1

March 12
8:30 pm PST

No. 3 Arizona State vs. No. 11 Washington State

T-Mobile Arena
Paradise, NV

Semifinals

Pac-12 Network

March 13
6:00 pm PST

Game 5 Winner vs. Game 6 Winner

T-Mobile Arena
Paradise, NV

FS1

March 13
8:30 pm PST

Game 7 Winner vs. Game 8 Winner

T-Mobile Arena
Paradise, NV

Championship

FS1

March 14
7:30 pm PST

Game 9 Winner vs. Game 10 Winner

T-Mobile Arena
Paradise, NV

Awards and honors

Hall of Honor

The following former players were inducted into the Pac-12 Hall of Honor, though a planned ceremony on Friday, March 13 prior to the tourney's semifinals did not occur due to its cancelation. They are: Sean Rooks (Arizona men's basketball), Melissa Belote Ripley (Arizona State women's swimming), Don Bowden (California men's track & field), Bill Marolt (Colorado men's skiing), Dan Fouts (Oregon football), Joni Huntley (Oregon State women's track & field), Jennifer Azzi (Stanford women's basketball), Jonathan Ogden (UCLA football), Barbara Hedges (USC athletic director), Kathy Kreiner-Phillips (Utah women's skiing), Lincoln Kennedy (Washington football), and Jeanne Eggart Helfer (Washington State women's basketball). ^[10]

Team and tournament leaders

Team	Points		Rebounds		Assists		Steals		Blocks		Minutes
Arizona	Green	19	Nnaji	9	Smith	6	Mannion	4	Koloko	2	2 tied	36
Arizona State	DNP
California	2 tied	18	Anticevich	8	Austin	3	Brown	2	2 tied	1	South	32
Colorado	Wright IV	21	Wright IV	9	4 tied	1	Bey	2	Parquet	2	Bey	32
Oregon	DNP
Oregon State	Tinkle	19	Thompson	5	2 tied	5	Reichle	3	Kelly	2	Thompson	39
Stanford	Davis	16	da Silva	7	Davis	3	Davis	2	2 tied	1	Davis	38
UCLA	DNP
USC	DNP
Utah	Plummer	35	Battin	8	Gach	6	Gach	2	None	0	2 tied	38
Washington	Stewart	29	Stewart	9	2 tied	3	Bey	4	2 tied	1	Stewart	32
Washington State	Elleby	32	Elleby	10	Bonton	6	Elleby	3	3 tied	1	Elleby	37