The Pacific-12 Convention Men's Basketball Tournament, known since 2003 beneath sponsorship agreements as the Pacific Life Pac-10 Males's Basketball Tournament, and in any other case often called the Pac-12 Match, is the annual concluding tournament for the NCAA college basketball in the Pacific-12 Convention, going down in Los Angeles on the Staples Center every year.
The predecessor convention of the Pacific-12, the Pacific Coast Convention began taking part in basketball in the 1915-sixteen season. The PCC was break up into North and South Divisions for basketball beginning with the 1922-23 season. The winners of the 2 divisions would play a better of three collection of video games to determine the PCC basketball champion. If two division teams tied, they'd have an one game playoff to produce the division representative. Starting with the primary NCAA Males's Basketball Championship in 1939, the winner of the PCC divisional playoff was given the automatic berth within the NCAA tournament. Oregon, the 1939 PCC champion, won the championship game within the 1939 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
The last divisional playoff was within the 1954-55 season. After that, there was no divisional play and all teams performed one another in a round robin competition. From the 1955-fifty six season via the 1985-86 season, the regular season convention champion was awarded the NCAA tournament berth from the PCC, later AAWU, Pac-8 and Pac-10.
Starting with the 1975 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Event, the Pac-12 would usually place no less than one different at-giant staff in the tournament. Though, for the reason that run by UCLA that ended in the Nineteen Seventies, the PAC-10 would struggle to get out of the early rounds of the NCAA tournament.
By the 1985-86 season, the Pac-10 was one in all three remaining conferences that gave their computerized NCAA tournament bid to the regular season spherical-robin champion. The other two conferences were the Ivy League and the Huge Ten Conference.