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

Seeds

All Pacific-10 schools play in the tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

Bracket

: ** Double Overtime

Tournament Notes

* This was the first tournament in 3 years in which the top two seeds didn't play in the final game. * UCLA's 19-point margin of victory over Cal (71-52) is one of the largest in this tournament's history for the championship game. * California had someone selected for the All Tournament team for the first time. Two players were in fact selected. * Leon Powe of Cal made a record total 30 free throws for a single Pac-10/12 tournament (30-of-41, 3 games). This record still stands. * Leon Powe's 41 FT attempts for those games is also a tournament record.2013-14 Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Media Guide

All tournament team

* Leon Powe, California – Tournament MVP * Brandon Roy, Washington *

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, Oregon *

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, California * Jordan Farmar, UCLA * Arron Afflalo, UCLA

References

2007–08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide pages 50–60 (PDF copy available a
2007–08 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide
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