March 12, 2006

Recap |  Box Score

UCLA captured its first tournament championship since the inaugural Pac-10 Tournament in 1987 ... The Bruins are the fifth different team to win the tournament since the conference reinstated the event in 2002.

PACIFIC LIFE PAC-10 ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM:
Chamberlain Oguchi (Oregon) - 21.0 ppg, tournament record 14 3-pointers
Brandon Roy (Washington) - 30.0 ppg
Ayinde Ubaka (California) -- 17.0 ppg, 3.7 apg
Arron Afflalo (UCLA) - 12.3 ppg, 3.3 apg
Jordan Farmar (UCLA) - 19 pts, 5 3-pointers in championship game
Most Outstanding Player: Leon Powe (California) - 26.7 ppg, 11.3 rpg

Cal's 52 points are the second fewest scored in a Pac-10 Tournament championship game ... Only Stanford's 51 in the 1989 final was less ... Although no team had held consecutive opponents to under 60 points before this year's tournament, UCLA held all three opponents under 60: Oregon State (47), Arizona (59), California (52).

California's Leon Powe scored 17 points in the championship game and finished the tournament with 80 points, the second-highest total in Pac-10 Tournament history. Only Reggie Miller's 83 points in the 1987 tourney surpassed Powe's total ... Powe also set his school's season free throw and free throw attempts records with 189 makes and 261 attempts ... His 29 conversions and 39 attempts in this season's Pac-10 Tournament set tournament records ... He also finished with 34 rebounds in the tournament, the second most in tournament history behind Washington's Phil Zevenbergen, who had 37 in 1987 ... His 20 rebounds in Cal's quarterfinal victory over USC was also a Pac-10 Tournament game record.

Jordan Farmar was the third player in this tournament to hit five 3-pointers in a game this tournament: Chamberlain Oguchi of Oregon (twice), Kevin Kruger (Arizona State), and Farmar ... His five treys were a career high.

For the second consecutive game, Cal fell behind, 32-16, in the first half before going on a run ... Yesterday, the Golden Bears went on a 19-3 run to tie the Ducks at 35 in the second half of their double overtime victory ... Today, the Bears went on a 19-4 run to cut the lead to one, but UCLA responded with an 24-8 run to extend their lead to 17 points.

The championship game attendance of 18,544 was the third most in Pac-10 Tournament history ... The attendance numbers for the tournament were 7,936 (Wednesday), 15,144 (Thursday Session 1), 15,321 (Thursday Session 2), 17,856 (Friday), and 18,544 (Saturday) ... The total tournament attendance of 74,821 was the largest in Pac-10 Tournament history, surpassing the previous high of 67,819, set in 2002.