The 1989 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played March 9–12 at the

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. 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

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, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Repeating as the Most Outstanding Player was

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

Bracket

There were no overtime games

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.Baker, Chris
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."'' * Arizona, UCLA, Oregon State, and Stanford all were invited to the

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. * California was invited to the

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All tournament team

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, Oregon State

References

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