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Coaches in the Pac-12 say the downturn is part of a cycle; the league sent six teams to the NCAA Tournament just four years ago, after all.
And Pomeroy buys that argument, recalling that six of the 10 teams in the old Pac-10 finished with losing records in 2003-04 — no more than four teams will do so this year — not long before the Bruins ignited the conference’s most recent run of success.
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Stumblin’ with the Pac
Team League Overall RPI
Washington 14-3 21-8 49
Cal 13-4 23-7 36
Oregon 12-5 21-8 48
Arizona 12-5 21-9 66
Colorado 11-6 19-10 77
UCLA 10-7 17-13 131
Stanford 9-8 19-10 105
Oregon State 6-11 16-13 156
Washington St. 6-11 14-15 182
Arizona State 5-12 9-20 253
Utah 3-14 6-23 259
USC 1-16 6-24 272
Through Thursday’s games Source: RealTimeRPI.com
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"The problem is none of the teams are going to get a good seed" in the NCAA Tournament, he said. "So whatever negative reputation the league has now, it’s going to be very difficult to do anything about that in the tournament."
As always, recruiting has been at the heart of it all.
Since 2008, the league has had only three top-10 recruiting classes, according to the Rivals.com recruiting service. Two of them belonged to UCLA, which obviously couldn’t sustain them.
The other belonged to Arizona, which had the No. 4 class last season and is one team with a particularly bright future. Coach Sean Miller is so far assembling the top current recruiting class in the country loaded with frontcourt talent, while the Bruins were not far behind — until the SI article, anyway — and had locked up swingman Kyle Anderson, one of the top-rated players in the country.
In other words, there is hope for a brighter future. It just isn’t going to come this season.
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