The 2002 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played March 7–9 at Staples Center in

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. The event was revived after eleven seasons without, and USC made its first appearance in the final. The champion of the

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

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of Arizona, and a capacity crowd of 18,997 attended the championship game on

Seeds

The top eight teams participated, with all in the Thursday Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The previous four editions included all ten teams, with the final on Sunday.

Bracket

Tournament Notes

* Arch-rivals Arizona and ASU met for the first time in a Pac-10 Tournament (the 2nd meeting ever by any arch-rival universities). * Only one lower seeded team beat a higher seeded team the whole tournament (#4 USC over #1 Oregon in the second round). * In this tournament Oregon set the team single game record for the most blocked shots with 9 (vs. Washington). * This was the first Pac-10 Basketball Tournament held in the 21st Century.

All tournament team

, Arizona – Tournament MVP *

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, USC * Brandon Granville, USC *

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, Arizona *

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, Arizona

References

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