Can the Zags immediately channel the elite play that carried them to nonconference victories over the likes of Iowa, West Virginia, Kansas and Virginia? But just as the Hoyas were hitting their best stride yet under coach Patrick Ewing, a red-hot Colorado team that couldn't miss wound up molly-whopping them. (Its easy to forget, but there was a time when the Pac-12 was as strong as any conference.). The 2021 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Pac-12 Conference, which was played March 1013, 2021, at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The campaign was led by the Arizona Wildcats with three upsets over No. The Pac-12 can achieve greatness in high-stakes sports. Talk about a whiplash-inducing program. 2004-2023 CBS Interactive. * denotes overtime period section: | slug: ncaa-tournament-scores-winners-and-losers-pac-12-makes-statement-chaos-rules-as-upsets-continue | sport: collegebasketball | route: article_single.us | 14 seed Abilene Christian took down Texas -- a team that spent time in the top five of the AP Poll not long ago and won the Big 12 tournament -- to secure its first-ever NCAA Tournament win at the Division I level. Paid out over six years, they're worth $19.8 million for the conference, to be split evenly among the 12 members. The 2022 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Pac-12 Conference held March 9-12, 2022, at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. 2 seed. The Pac-12 had originally planned to create a tournament for the 2021 season, but the pandemic and uncertainty it last fall created in scheduling scuttled those plans. The tournament's No. Now that weve laid out the dollars secured and the dollars at stake, lets add a morsel of context. The program advanced to its first-ever Sweet 16 in 2021 as Shields was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year in 2019 and 2021. The only reason this scenario befell the Pac-12 is because the national consensus from the beginning of the season was that this league was power six in name only, and, with abridged and mostly regionalized nonconference schedules because of COVID, there was no chance for the league to punch through that bias until now. The league's regular season and tournament champion, STANFORD (21-2), was chosen to be the conference's sole host for the opening rounds of the tournament. 4 recruit in Class of 2024, commits to Arizona, NBA announces 242 players declaring early for draft. In 2018, Virginia as the No. The Bruins went wire-to-wire for the win, too, in one of their most impressive outings in over a month. Chargers were supposed to draft a tight end. I agree to receive the "CBS Sports HQ Newsletter" and marketing communications, updates, special offers (including partner offers), and other information from CBS Sports and the Paramount family of companies. The second-longest such streak belongs to the Big 12, which goes back to 1999. 6 Stanford 58, Game 4: No. The Pac-12 Tournament could be one of the most closely contested conference tournaments of the 2020-21 season. are from time at current school and are through the end the 202122 season. 6 USC took out No. The 11 units earned are more than the Pac-12 collected in the previous two NCAA tournaments combined (three in 2018 and seven in 2019). 1 overall seed Oregon (19-5, 14-4 in Pac-12 play) wasn't even determined until the final day of the regular season.