2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Pac-12 Conference, scheduled to be played March 11–14, 2020, at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It was cancelled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The winner of the tournament was to have received the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Tournament.
The NCAA announced on March 11, 2020 that no fans would be able to attend the Men's and Women's 2020 NCAA tournaments, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of conference basketball tournaments followed suit by either cancelling entirely, or playing as scheduled, but with no spectators in attendance. However, tournaments that were held in Las Vegas, including the Pac-12, were conducted with spectators in attendance on Wednesday, March 11. By the evening of March 11, the Pac-12 announced that the remaining games would be played only with "essential staff, television network partners, credentialed media and limited family and friends."
On March 12, the Pac-12 cancelled the tournament before any more games were to be played. On the afternoon of March 12, 2020, the NCAA announced that all remaining winter and spring championships for both men's and women's sports were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Seeds

All 12 Pac-12 schools are eligible to participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. As a result, the top four teams receive a bye to the quarterfinals of the tournament.
Tie-breaking procedures for determining all tournament seeding was:
1. Results of head-to-head competition during the regular season.
2. Each team's record vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage.
When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record against the collective tied teams as a group, rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
3. Won-lost percentage against all Division I opponents.
4. Coin toss conducted by the Commissioner or designee.
1. Results of collective head-to-head competition during the regular season among the tied teams.
2. If more than two teams are still tied, each of the tied team's record vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular season standings, and then continuing down through the standings, eliminating teams with inferior records, until one team gains an advantage.
When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record against the collective tied teams as a group, rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
After one team has an advantage and is seeded, all remaining teams in the multiple-team tie-breaker will repeat the multiple-team tie-breaking procedure.
If at any point the multiple-team tie is reduced to two teams, the two-team tie-breaking procedure will be applied.
3. Won-lost percentage against all Division I opponents.
4. Coin toss conducted by the Commissioner or designee.
SeedSchoolConferenceOverallTiebreak 1Tiebreak 2Tiebreak 3Tiebreak 4
1Oregon13–523–7
2UCLA12–619–12
3Arizona State11–720–111-1 vs. USC1-1 vs. Oregon
4USC11–721–91-1 vs. Arizona State0-1 vs. Oregon
5Arizona10–820–111-0 vs. Colorado
6Colorado10–821–100-1 vs. Arizona
7Stanford9–920–11
8Oregon State7–1117–132–2 vs. California/Utah1–1 vs. Oregon
9Utah7–1116–142–2 vs. Oregon State/California0–2 vs. Oregon0–2 vs. UCLA1–2 vs. ASU/USC
10California7–1113–182–2 vs. Oregon State/Utah0–2 vs. Oregon0–1 vs. UCLA0–2 vs. ASU/USC
11Washington State6–1215–16
12Washington5–1315–16

Schedule

Bracket


* denotes overtime period

Game statistics

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Championship

Awards and honors

Hall of Honor

The following former players were inducted into the Pac-12 Hall of Honor, though a planned ceremony on Friday, March 13 prior to the tourney's semifinals did not occur due to its cancelation. They are: Sean Rooks, Melissa Belote Ripley, Don Bowden, Bill Marolt, Dan Fouts, Joni Huntley, Jennifer Azzi, Jonathan Ogden, Barbara Hedges, Kathy Kreiner-Phillips, Lincoln Kennedy, and Jeanne Eggart Helfer.

Team and tournament leaders

Tournament notes