The 2002 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played March 7–9 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
The event was revived after eleven seasons without, and USC made its first appearance in the final.
The Most Outstanding Player was Luke Walton of Arizona, and a capacity crowd of 18,997 attended the championship game on Saturday.
[7][8] Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.
The previous four editions (1987–1990) included all ten teams, with the final on Sunday.