The 2006 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was played between March 8 and March 11, 2006, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The champion of the tournament was UCLA, which received the Pac-10's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Most Outstanding Player was Harish Ganesan of California.^[2]

All Pacific-10 schools play in the tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

 ** Double Overtime

• This was the first tournament in 3 years in which the top two seeds didn't play in the final game.
• UCLA's 19-point margin of victory over Cal (71-52) is one of the largest in this tournament's history for the championship game.
• California had someone selected for the All Tournament team for the first time. Two players were in fact selected.
• Leon Powe of Cal made a record total 30 free throws for a single Pac-10/12 tournament (30-of-41, 3 games). This record still stands.
• Leon Powe's 41 FT attempts for those games is also a tournament record.^[3]

• Leon Powe, California – Tournament MVP
• Brandon Roy, Washington
• Chamberlain Oguchi, Oregon
• Ayinde Ubaka, California
• Jordan Farmar, UCLA
• Arron Afflalo, UCLA