Pac-10 basketball: Cal wraps it up, the seeds are set, Randle vs. Fields and...
Everything’s settled. UCLA wins the tiebreaker with Oregon State (based on the season sweep); Stanford wins the tiebreaker with Oregon (season sweep) and avoids the opening-round game; and WSU is...
View ArticlePac-10 basketball: Cal’s Randle wins POY, Sendek’s the COY, plus the...
The news from the Pac-10 office … * Cal’s Jerome Randle is the 2010 Player of the Year. My feeling: You could make a strong argument for Randle, an equally strong argument for Stanford’s Landry Fields...
View ArticlePac-10 tournament: Thoughts on Thursday’s action
*** Five thoughts on the Pac-10 quarters, starting with the day’s only upset. (UCLA over Arizona: Not an upset, despite what the seeds might say.) 1) Stanford basketball: 80 minutes from the NCAA...
View ArticlePac-10 tournament: Thoughts on Friday’s action
A few thoughts as I flip from Stanford-Washington over to the more entertaining second WAC semifinal. In fact, just about every tournament I watched today (and I watched a lot of them) was more...
View ArticleThe Hotline’s all-Western Region team: It starts with Jimmer
Mentioned this the other day at the end of a tournament post … If you were picking an all-Western team team (from the Pac-10, WAC, WCC, Mountain West, Big Sky and Big West) to win six games in the...
View ArticlePac-10 basketball: Projections for the 2010-11 race
The projections are based primarily on the number of returning quality players — as determined by me based on what we’ve seen so far — and secondarily on the signed recruits. That might not be the best...
View ArticleStanford basketball: Offseason news and notes
Six items to report after touching base with Johnny Dawkins over the weekend. He was on the recruiting trail after watching his alma mater win the men’s title and his current employer come within a...
View ArticlePac-10 basketball: Previewing the NBA Draft
This post will be short and (hopefully) sweet — not because I’m currently elbow-deep in expansion news but because there isn’t much to say on this subject other than: The worst Pac-10 basketball season...
View ArticleNBA Draft winners and losers: The college perspective
Here’s the Hotline’s annual look at the draft, with one quick programming note: Now that things are slowing down on the expansion front, I plan to address several topics — including Pac-10 football and...
View ArticleHotline update: Responding to your comments
*** Look for a handful of college basketball posts over the next week or 10 days (both Pac-10 and national items) before the Hotline ramps up football coverage. Did my best to answer the questions from...
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