The 1989 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played March 9–12 at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. Like the previous year, both top seeds advanced to the final; Stanford made its first appearance in the title
game and met the top-seeded (and top-ranked) Wildcats. Comfortably repeating as champion of the tournament was Arizona, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Repeating as the Most Outstanding Player was Sean Elliott of Arizona.[2][3][4]
This was the tournament's third edition and all ten teams participated.[5][6]
Bracket
Play-in Round Thursday, March 9
Quarterfinals Friday, March 10
Semifinals Saturday, March 11
Final Sunday, March 12
1
#1 Arizona
62
8
Washington State
78
8
Washington State
54
9
Oregon
56
1
#1 Arizona
98
4
Oregon State
87
4
Oregon State
79
5
California
66
1
#1 Arizona
73
2
#12 Stanford
51
3
UCLA
64
7
Arizona State
82
6
Washington
54
10
USC
94
3
UCLA
86
2
#12 Stanford
95
2
#12 Stanford
66
10
USC
61
There were no overtime games
Tournament Notes
Arizona was ranked #1 in the nation entering the tournament.[7]
For the 3rd year in a row, no universities played their arch-rival in the tournament.
70 field goals were scored in a game by Arizona (37) and OSU (33). This is still the record number of FGs by both teams in a game for this tournament.
Arizona had 23 assists in the game vs. OSU (a current record).
USC upset 7 seed ASU to finally win a Pac-10 Tournament game after 3 tries. They became the 10th team to get a tournament win in its history.[8]
^Baker, Chris - Trojans to Take On Sun Devils Tonight. Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1989. USC will play Arizona State tonight in a Pacific 10 Conference basketball tournament game at 9 p.m. at the Forum. "We're like a time bomb waiting to go off," said USC Coach George Raveling. "I wouldn't be surprised if we won a couple of games and moved on in the tournament."