The Stanford Cardinal won the regular season championship.
Only three teams, Stanford (#2), Arizona (#4), and UCLA (#18), finished the season in the Coaches Poll.
However, in the final post-NCAA tournament coaches' poll, USC was also ranked, coming in at #14, behind Arizona (#2), Stanford (#5) and UCLA (#12).
Five Pac-10 teams participated in the 2001 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
Arizona made it all the way to the national championship game, losing to Duke, 82-72