Act now to get your Pac 10 Basketball Tournament tickets, which will likely not be available for very long due to their immense popularity. The Pac 10 plays their postseason tournament at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The winner of this conference tourney, like many others across the country, will determine the automatic bid the Pac 10 will send to the ultimate goal of all college hoops teams, the NCAA Tournament.
The Pac 10 tournament has had a tenuous history. Prior to 1987, the conference did not hold an annual postseason tournament. From 1987 to 1990 the conference held a playoffs, but then abandoned it until 2002, when NCAA basketball tickets to see the Pac 10 Tournament reentered the college sports tickets market. UCLA, Arizona, Stanford, and Oregon have all won the Pac 10 Tournament in the past.
Unlike the actual NCAA Tournament, the Pac 10 Tournament has a very likely chance of pitting classic rivals against one another, such as UCLA and Arizona, or Oregon and Oregon State. The fact that the tourney is always held at the Staples Center has been a blessing for UCLA and USC, but has been a burden for teams like Washington State, whose fans must travel much farther to get to the games.