2010–11 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season

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2010–11 Pac-10 Men's Basketball Season
LeagueNCAA Division I
SportBasketball
Number of teams10
Regular Season
Season championsArizona Wildcats
  Runners-upUCLA Bruins
Season MVPDerrick Williams, Arizona
Tournament
ChampionsWashington Huskies
  Runners-upArizona Wildcats
Finals MVPIsaiah Thomas, Washington
Basketball seasons
2010–11 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 17 Arizona 14 – 4   .778 30 – 8   .789
UCLA 13 – 5   .722 23 – 11   .676
No. 23 Washington † 11 – 7   .611 24 – 11   .686
USC 10 – 8   .556 19 – 15   .559
California 10 – 8   .556 18 – 15   .545
Washington State 9 – 9   .500 22 – 13   .629
Oregon 7 – 11   .389 21 – 18   .538
Stanford 7 – 11   .389 15 – 16   .484
Oregon State 5 – 13   .278 11 – 20   .355
Arizona State 4 – 14   .222 12 – 19   .387
† Conference tournament winner
As of March 30, 2011[1]
Rankings from AP poll[2]


The 2010–11

Staples Center in Los Angeles. The regular season began on the weekend of November 12, with the conference schedule starting on December 30. The conference dedicated the season to legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, who died in June 2010 at age 99.[3]

The

NCAA tournament
: Arizona, Washington, UCLA and USC.

This was the final season for the Pac-10 under that name. In July 2011, two schools joined the conference, at which time its name officially changed to Pac-12 Conference. Colorado arrived from the Big 12 and Utah entered from the Mountain West.

Pre-season

  • Pre-season media day was held on October 28, 2010 at
    Nokia Theatre
    in downtown Los Angeles.
  • Dana Altman was named the head coach of the Oregon Ducks.
  • 2010–11 PAC-10 Men's Basketball Media Poll:[4]
Rank, School (first-place votes), Points
1. Washington (33) 348
2. Arizona (1) 296
3. UCLA (1) 281
4. Arizona State 215
5. Washington State 191
6. USC 178
7. California 151
8. Oregon State 120
9. Stanford 98
10. Oregon 47

Rankings

Main article: 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings
  • November 8, 2010 – Washington #17 (Coaches)
  • November 15, 2010 – Washington #17 (AP), #15 (Coaches)
  • November 22, 2010 – Washington #13 (AP), #11 (Coaches)
  • November 29, 2010 – Washington #23 (AP), #22 (Coaches)
  • December 6, 2010 – Washington #21 (AP), #22 (Coaches)
  • January 3, 2011 – Washington #23 (AP)
  • January 10, 2011 – Washington #17 (AP), #18 (Coaches)

Non-Conference games

  • November 24, 2010 – UCLA lost to No. 7 Villanova at the semifinals of the NIT Season Tip-Off.
  • December 18, 2010 – UCLA upset No. 16 (AP)
    John R. Wooden Classic
    .

Conference games

  • December 29 – First conference games.

Conference tournament

Main article: 2011 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
First Round
March 9 		Quarterfinals
March 10 		Semifinals
March 11 		Final
March 12
1 Arizona (#16) 78
8 Stanford 67 9 Oregon State 69
9 Oregon State 69 1 Arizona (#16) 67
4 Southern California 62
4 Southern California 70
5 California 56
1 Arizona (#16) 75
3 Washington 77
3 Washington 89
7 Washington State 76 6 Washington State 87
10 Arizona State 69 3 Washington 69
7 Oregon 51
2 UCLA 59
7 Oregon 76


Head coaches

Sean Miller, Arizona
Herb Sendek, Arizona State
Mike Montgomery, California
Dana Altman, Oregon
Craig Robinson, Oregon State
Johnny Dawkins, Stanford
Ben Howland, UCLA
Kevin O'Neill, USC
Lorenzo Romar, Washington
Ken Bone, Washington State

Post season

NCAA tournament

  • March 15, 2011 – Tournament begins.
  • April 4, 2011 – National Championship game.
  • March 13, 2011 – Four Pac-10 teams were selected: Arizona (
    Southwest Region
    ).
  • March 16, 2011 – USC ended its tournament hopes when they were defeated in the first round to VCU.
  • March 17, 2011 – UCLA defeated Michigan State to advance to the third round to face Florida on Saturday, March 19, 2011.
  • March 19, 2011 – UCLA was defeated by Florida 65–73 and ended its season.
  • March 20, 2011 – Arizona defeated Texas 70–69 to advance to the Sweet Sixteen and Washington was defeated by North Carolina 83–86 to end the season.
  • March 24, 2011 – Arizona defeated 1-seed Duke 93–77 in the Sweet Sixteen to advance to the Elite 8.
  • March 26, 2011 – Arizona was defeated by UConn 65–63 in the Elite 8.

NIT

CBI

Highlights and notes

  • November 12, 2010 – UCLA and Oregon kicked off the season with wins over San Diego State and North Dakota State respectively.
  • February 25, 2011 – California was placed on two years probation for impermissible recruiting phone calls.[5]
  • February 26, 2011 – UCLA defeated Arizona in the final men's basketball game in Pauley Pavilion before the building goes into renovation for a year. The late Coach John Wooden's great-grandson Tyler Trapani scored the last two points for the Bruins.[6]

Awards and honors

  • The Pac-10 Coach of the Year Award in both men’s and women’s basketball is now known as the John Wooden Coach of the Year Award.[3]

Scholar-Athlete of the Year

Player-of-the-Week

All-Americans

All-Pac-10 teams

Voting was by conference coaches:[7]

FIRST TEAM:

Further information:
All-Pac-10 men's basketball team
Name School Pos. Year Ht., Wt. Hometown (Prev. school)
Matthew Bryan-Amaning WASH F Sr. 6–9 240 London, England (South Kent School, Conn.)
Jeremy Green STAN G Jr. 6–4 198 Austin, Texas (Bowie HS)
Jorge Guiterrez
 CAL G Jr. 6–3 195 Chihuahua, Mexico (Findlay College Prep, Nev.)
Tyler Honeycutt UCLA F So. 6–8 183 Los Angeles, Calif. (Sylmar HS)
Malcolm Lee UCLA G Jr. 6–4 195 Riverside, Calif. (John W. North HS)
Reeves Nelson UCLA F So. 6–8 235 Modesto, Calif. (Modesto Christian HS)
Isaiah Thomas WASH G Jr. 5–9 185 Tacoma, Wash. (South Kent School, Conn.)
Klay Thompson WSU G Jr. 6–6 202 Ladera Ranch, Calif. (Santa Margarita HS)
Nikola Vucevic
 USC F Jr. 6–10 240 Bar, Montenegro (Stoneridge Prep)
Derrick Williams ARIZ F So. 6–8 240 La Mirada, Calif. (La Mirada HS)

All-Academic

First Team:

Player, School Year GPA Major

Second Team:

Player, School Year GPA Major

USBWA All-District team

References

  1. ^ "Pac-10 Standings - 2010-11". ESPN. Retrieved February 17, 2011.
  2. ^ "2011 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings". ESPN. Retrieved February 7, 2011.
  3. ^ a b Bolch, Ben (October 28, 2010). "Pacific-10 Conference dedicating basketball season to John Wooden". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 5, 2011.
  4. ^ Preseason Pac-10 Media Poll Archived 2012-04-05 at the Wayback Machine, UCLABruins.com, October 28, 2010
  5. ^ Associated Press, Cal punished for impermissible calls, ESPN.com, February 25, 2011
  6. ^ Painter, Jill (February 26, 2011). "Trapani's shot leaves lasting image at Pauley Pavilion". Los Angeles Daily News. Archived from the original on March 19, 2011. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
  7. Pacific-10 Conference. March 7, 2011. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on August 17, 2011.
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