1987 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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All Tournament Team

  • Reggie Miller
    Reggie Miller
    Reginald Wayne "Reggie" Miller is a retired American professional basketball player who played his entire 18-year National Basketball Association career with the Indiana Pacers...

    , UCLA
  • Pooh Richardson
    Pooh Richardson
    Jerome "Pooh" Richardson is an American former National Basketball Association player. he was selected in the first round of the 1989 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, their first draft pick in franchise history...

    , UCLA
  • Anthony Taylor, Oregon
  • Chris Welp
    Christian Welp
    Christian Ansgar Welp is a retired German professional basketball player. Welp, a 213 cm , 111 kg center, became the leading scorer in Washington Huskies history as a college basketball player...

    , Washington
  • Phil Zevenbergen
    Phil Zevenbergen
    Phil Zevenbergen is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'10" power forward, Zevenbergen played collegiately at Seattle Pacific University, Edmonds Community College, and the University of Washington...

    , Washington

Aftermath

Oregon scored the first tournament upset, over #2 Arizona. It was the only upset in the 1987 tournament. UCLA defeated Washington, a team that had swept them in the regular season. The UCLA-Arizona State quarterfinal game set a number of scoring records that are still in place as of 2008.

UCLA received the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Arizona received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Washington, Cal, and Oregon State were invited to the NIT
National Invitation Tournament
The National Invitation Tournament is a men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. There are two NIT events each season. The first, played in November and known as the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off , was founded in 1985...

. Attendance for the sessions peaked at 9,352 for the Saturday game session, which were the semi-final games. The championship game had an attendance of 9,117 in the 12,829 seat Pauley Pavilion
Pauley Pavilion
Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion, commonly known as Pauley Pavilion, is an indoor arena located in the Westwood Village district of Los Angeles, California, on the campus of UCLA. It is home to the UCLA Bruins men's and women's basketball teams...

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