Well Doug Bruno said they could not have made up the postponed UConn game until SC freed up the schedule. With schedules so tight, I think alot of games will not be made up
It's a foregone conclusion they aren't going to make up every missed game, but it would be nice to chip away at it. Some teams are gonna be close to not getting in the minimum number of games to qualify for NCAA Tourney I think.
Washington and Cal are not going to play 25 games without some make-up.
Obviously for Cal and Washington it's a non issue, ASU very unlikely, but for UCLA and Oregon St. I wouldn't want to be cutting it that close. There could certainly be more postponed/cancelled games between now and the end of the season. They might be on the wrong side of the bubble, but certainly have a chance to play their way in. Every game matters for them I think.
Another question is how do you determine conference standings? Should teams be penalized for making up most of there games but there record suffered because of it verses the team that seem more causal in who they select for make up. The conference and NCAA may look at that and drop them down in seedings. Some teams are more aggressive in getting make up in and others not so much. I will leave it at that.
In the postgame today Graves mentioned (hinted) that there would be a make-up game next week and another the week after (Colorado at home; and Washington State away, assuming I've got this straight). If so, and if there are no additional cancellations, that would mean that Oregon will have played a full Pac12 schedule (including the UCLA forfeit) by tournament time. Don't know how many other teams will have the same opportunity.
Do you have anything more to back up the statement the Oregon State declined a make up a game with Stanford. According to Pac-12 policy they are risking a forfeit.
All good on those who have completed the conference with two or less make up games left before Vegas but what about a team that finish let just throw this out there at .500 in the conference. Finishes 6th in the conference at 9-9 and another team at 6-6 also at .500 made up less games.
Without solid evidence/proof of Oregon State "ducking" Stanford, I am calling this B.S. Any idiot can start a rumor and it will spread easily in social media.
I have not seen anything either. If Lorcan can expand upon it?
I believe this talk comes from OSU not making up their two missed games against Stanford last season, combined with a remark by Tara (again, last season) to the effect that Stanford wanted to make up missed games but some opponents weren't interested. She did not mention any specific team, but internet message board folks jumped from those thin facts all the way to the conclusion that OSU was ducking Stanford.
+1. That's what I was thinking of too. (I thought I had posted something to that effect earlier and I think maybe it got deleted, as now I can't find it?)
It was one missed game, not two, and Oregon State was specifically mentioned in the video below (around the 5:20 mark), which makes sense given they were the lone team.
pac-12.com
Well, anyone who saw Stanford demolish UCLA last night knows the Card aren't an easy mark without Jones, so...
The 3 ball has mostly been absent all year for the Beavs, I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Just a friendly note that they aren't called the Lady Sun Devils, and since this is exclusively a women's basketball forum, there is no need to invent such a designation to clarify we're talking about the women's team. And if anything, since the men's team is currently well below .500 and led by a coach who was recently suspended for acting like a child mid temper-tantrum, the men should be playing second fiddle to the ladies these days...
I agree completely. I'm listening to Jeff Munn on the radio broadcast.
You are correct, it's Devil's 5-2 advantage from beyond the arc at the half.
I'm pretty sure you don't even want to think about what this season would be looking like if Loville didn't transfer in.
It's a stretch to characterize the conference "cannibalizing itself" when the bubble teams you mentioned have few to no non-conference wins of note. That said, I'd put the odds at 0% that only 3 Pac-12 teams make the tournament. Someone has to finish 4th (and 5th, etc.) in the conference, after all.