2008 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2008 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held between March 12 and March 15, 2008 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. All ten schools in the conference qualify for the tournament. Number one seed UCLA defeated number two seed Stanford 67–64 to win the conference tournament. UCLA was the regular season champion. A record crowd of 18,997, the Staples Center capacity for Basketball, was on hand to watch UCLA defeat USC 57–54 in the semi finals. On January 3, 2010, USC Athletic Director Mike Garrett announced that the school is vacating the 2007–08 season's victories for NCAA violations by the basketball team.
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