The 2005 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played between March 10 and March 12, 2005, at

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. The champion of the

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was Washington, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Salim Stoudamire of Arizona.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
)

Seeds

The top eight 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

Tournament Notes

*Arizona's 31-point victory margin (90-59) over Oregon State in the 2nd round was the largest for any game in this tournament's history. It has since been broken, but still remains the second largest margin. * This is the first and time only time in Pac-12 Tournament history that the 2 seed beat the 1 seed (as of 2013 these seeds have met 5 times). * Like the previous two years, no universities met their arch-rival in this year's tournament. * Three universities each had two players on the all-tournament team, which is the only time this has happened. * There were no blocked shots in the game between Washington and Arizona, although this has happened in other tournaments.

All tournament team

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, Arizona – Tournament MVP *

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, Arizona *

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, Stanford * Chris Hernandez, Stanford *

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, Washington *

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, Washington

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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