Only three teams, Washington (#14), UCLA (#17) and Arizona State (#19), finished the season in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll.
Oregon Ducks played in the Maui Invitational Tournament and Washington State Cougars were there at the Legends Classic.
USC, the #6 seed team, won the 2009 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on March 14, in front of a crowd of 16,988.
Oregon State defeated Stanford (65–62) in over-time in the semi-finals and played UTEP for the championship in a best of three-game series.
"[2] Russ Pennell left Arizona after a year coaching one of the country's premiere basketball programs.
[3] James Harden (SG, Sophomore), of Arizona State was named to the 2009 Consensus All-America first team.
The U.S. Basketball Writers Association's 2008–09 Men's All-District Teams (District IX: CA, OR, WA, HI, AZ, AK):