The 2016–17 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season begins with practices in October 2016 and ends with the 2017 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament in March 2017 at the

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. The regular season begins on the first weekend of November 11, 2016 with Arizona-Michigan State, with the conference schedule starting in the last week of December 28, 2016 with UCLA-Oregon. This is the sixth season under the Pac-12 Conference name and the 58th since the conference was established under its current charter as the Athletic Association of Western Universities in 1959. Including the history of the

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, which operated from 1915 to 1959 and is considered by the Pac-12 as a part of its own history, this is the Pac-12's 102nd season of men's basketball.

Preseason

* October 21, 2016 – Pac-12 men's basketball media day, Pac-12 Networks Studios, San Francisco, Calif. ''() first place votes''

Recruiting classes

Rankings

The Pac-12 had 4 teams ranked and 3 others receiving votes in the preseason

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. It had four teams ranked in the preseason AP Poll and one other receiving votes.

Pac-12 regular season

Conference schedule

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

Points scored

''Through March 6, 2017''

Head coaches

''Note:'' Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Overall and Pac-12 records are from time at current school.

Postseason

Pac-12 tournament

The conference tournament is scheduled for Wednesday–Saturday March 8–11, 2017 at the

, Paradise, NV. Oregon and Arizona were seeded one and two respectively. The top four teams had a bye on the first day, March 8, 2017. Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.

NCAA tournament

National Invitation Tournament

Awards and honors

Player of the Week

* Nov. 14 –

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, Oregon State * Nov. 21 – Charlie Moore, California * Nov. 28 –

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, UCLA * Dec. 5 –

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, UCLA * Dec. 12 –

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, Colorado * Dec. 19 – T. J. Leaf, UCLA (2) * Dec. 25 – Jordan McLaughlin, USC * Jan. 2 –

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, Oregon * Jan. 9 –

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, California * Jan. 16 – Bryce Alford, UCLA * Jan. 23 – Lauri Markkanen, Arizona * Jan. 30 – Shaqquan Aaron, USC * Feb. 6 – Dillon Brooks, Oregon (2) * Feb. 13 – Lonzo Ball, UCLA (2) * Feb. 20 – Lauri Markkanen, Arizona (2) * Feb. 27 – Dillon Brooks, Oregon (3) * Mar. 6 – Jordan McLaughlin, USC (2)

All-Americans

AP
First team *

(UCLA) Second team *

(Oregon) Third team * Markelle Fultz (Washington) * Lauri Markkanen (Arizona) USBWA
First team * Lonzo Ball (UCLA) Second team * Dillon Brooks (Oregon) USBWA: Wayman Tisdale Freshman of the Year * Lonzo Ball (UCLA) NABC
First team * Lonzo Ball (UCLA) Second team * Dillon Brooks (Oregon) Third team * Markelle Fultz (Washington) * Lauri Markkanen (Arizona) Sporting News
First team * Lonzo Ball (UCLA) Second team * Dillon Brooks (Oregon) Third team * Lauri Markkanen (Arizona) * Markelle Fultz (Washington)

All-District

NABC District 20 first team * Lonzo Ball (UCLA) * Dillon Brooks (Oregon) * Markelle Fultz (Washington) * Lauri Markkanen (Arizona) *

(California) District 20 second team *

(UCLA) * Kyle Kuzma (Utah) *

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(Stanford) * Josh Hawkinson (Washington State) *

(Colorado) USBWA District VIII: All-District Team * Kyle Kuzma (Utah) *

(Colorado) District IX: Player of the Year * Lonzo Ball (UCLA) District IX: All-District Team * Lonzo Ball (UCLA) * Jordan Bell (Oregon) * Dillon Brooks (Oregon) * Markelle Fultz (Washington) *

(UCLA) * Lauri Markkanen (Arizona) *

(California)

Conference awards

Voting was by conference coaches.

Individual awards

All-Pac-12

;First Team ;Second Team

All-Freshman Team

All-Defensive Team

NBA draft

References

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