Why is the Pac 12 so Dominant?

[Ripper32]

Have they even lost a game?

 

[AZHuskiePop]

We were 1-0 against thst conference

 

[SeattleHoop]

The media bias is real. Better conference than the Big 10 for sure. They were just never talked about. More Pac 12 teams should have made the tournament

 

[SeattleHoop]

We were 1-0 against thst conference

I felt we caught Evan Mobley at the right time. He still wasn’t settled in with their system yet

 

[CTBasketball]

They’ve been shooting the ball well.

 

[Ripper32]

The media bias is real. Better conference than the Big 10 for sure. They were just never talked about. More Pac 12 teams should have made the tournament

Arizona would have qualified without the imposed ban.

 

[SeattleHoop]

Arizona would have qualified without the imposed ban.

I forgot they were doing that.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

It's all random. Even Wayne Tinkle wouldn't have said his team was going to be in the Sweet 16 if you talked to him after they lost to Wyoming.

 

[SeattleHoop]

They’ve been shooting the ball well.

I hope your not chalking it up to shooting luck. They are 7-0 in the tourney and counting.
Good teams shoot the ball well

 

[bendm]

The media bias is real. Better conference than the Big 10 for sure. They were just never talked about. More Pac 12 teams should have made the tournament

and oregon state wouldnt even have made it w/o winning the conference tourney. who sucks now @HuskyHawk ?!

 

[BugsyCT]

They're 7-0 already and UCLA is currently leading their game. Usually the Pac-12 is weak but they're having a great tourney. And doing it in a year without Arizona.

 

[phillionaire]

Bill Walton gave them the cosmic energy necessary to perform well in the tournament

 

[Scoe]

They are underrated now the second the media hypes them up they become overrated and get exposed.

 

[BGesus4]

The difference between the best team and the 50th best team is just not very much anymore. On any given day, with teams that have never seen each other before it can go either way.

 

[HuskyHawk]

and oregon state wouldnt even have made it w/o winning the conference tourney. who sucks now @HuskyHawk ?!

Run it over again and they could go 0-7. It’s all matchups. Always is. It has generally been the 6th best conference in Kenpom and other measures for many years now. Nothing about this year changes that unless they do it again next year and the year after that.

 

[auror]

They’ve been shooting the ball well.

They are shooting 45% from 3 as a conference, including shooting over 40% in 5 of the 7 games. The 2 games they didn't shoot over 40%, Oregon State made 32 FTs at a 90% clip in one and USC beat Drake which was a perfect matchup for them defensively.

 

[bendm]

Run it over again and they could go 0-7. It’s all matchups. Always is. It has generally been the 6th best conference in Kenpom and other measures for many years now. Nothing about this year changes that unless they do it again next year and the year after that.

tough to earn your respect. was the big10 just unlucky with their matchups too? i also think the PAC is sixth best but you said they straight up s-u-c-k. it's not like theyre the aac.

 

[UConnJim]

Blame it on a COVID season and the limited number out of conference games which made comparing conferences difficult. It appears that the computers over-rated the Big 10 and playing over-rated teams helps your computer numbers and they under-rated the Pac 12.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Oregon was very underseeded

 

[HooperScooper]

Bill Walton gave them the cosmic energy necessary to perform well in the tournament

Yeah, 5 Pac 12 teams in the Final Four.

 

[superjohn]

Run it over again and they could go 0-7. It’s all matchups. Always is. It has generally been the 6th best conference in Kenpom and other measures for many years now. Nothing about this year changes that unless they do it again next year and the year after that.

This year is totally different than every other year, way less out of conference games to gauge how good teams actually are. Big 10 beat nobody out of conference.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Conference of Champions

 

[BuffaloHusky]

Just a random observation but travel is always a big deal in the PAC-12 as Colorado to Washington or Eugene to Tucson are further than for instance Rutgers to Lincoln and Pac-12 teams tend to have more WTF losses than any other conference. That always distorts the leagues image nationally.

 

[Travelman6]

Yeah, 5 Pac 12 teams in the Final Four.

He is smoking that wacky tabacky again.

...Or more than usual anyway.

 

[SaeHusky]

What happened was that unlike the Big Ten the pre season teams in the Pac 12 that were ranked high such as Arizona State /Arizona started losing so instead of the media thinking that the Pac 12 teams which were beating the preseason favorites were actually good they went on the assumption that teams such as Arizona State and Arizona just weren't has good as they thought they were.