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2012 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2012 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2011–12
Site Staples Center
Los Angeles, California
Champions Colorado (1st title)
Winning coach Tad Boyle (1st title)
MVP Carlon Brown (Colorado)
Attendance 63,414 (total)
11,197 (Championship game)
Top scorer TBD
Television CBS, FSN
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2011–12 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Washington 14 4   .778     24 11   .686
California 13 5   .722     24 10   .706
Oregon 13 5   .722     24 10   .706
Arizona 12 6   .667     23 12   .657
Colorado 11 7   .611     24 12   .667
UCLA 11 7   .611     19 14   .576
Stanford 10 8   .556     26 11   .703
Oregon State 7 11   .389     21 15   .583
Washington State 7 11   .389     19 18   .514
Arizona State 6 12   .333     10 21   .323
Utah 3 15   .167     6 25   .194
USC 1 17   .056     6 26   .188
2012 Pac-12 Tournament winner
As of March 8, 2012; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2012 Pacific Life Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played on March 7–10, 2012 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The tournament champion became the NCAA Tournament automatic qualifier from the conference. The pairings will be announced following the completion of the regular season on March 4, 2012. The first three rounds was all broadcast on FSN with the championship game on CBS. The Pac-12 announced, on March 1, that Men's and Women's tournament games that were not televised would be streamed on YouTube. Also streamed live on YouTube was a post-game press conferences for the semifinals and championship games. In its first season in the Pac-12, No. 6 seeded Colorado defeated No. 4 seeded Arizona 53–51 for the title and the automatic bid to the NCAA National Championship Tournament. Colorado (along with USC in 2009) has been the lowest seeded team ever to win in this tournament's history. Colorado also was the first team ever to win four games to become the champion of this tournament (because the 6th seed plays in the first of four rounds).

Teams was seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

The induction ceremony took place on Saturday, March 10 during the Pac-12 Hall of Honor breakfast. Inductees were:


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