Pac-12 Morning Five: 01.02.12 Edition
For awhile, as Herb Sendek seemed to be building a new power in Tempe and the Lute Olson regime was falling apart in Tucson, it appeared that the balance of power in the Arizona basketball landscape...
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: 01.27.12 Edition
Sometimes, life just ain’t fair. After earning Pac-12 Player of the Week honors last week after averaging 28.5 points per game last week, Washington State senior guard Faisal Aden left the Cougars...
View ArticlePac-12 Mount Rushmore
The history of this conference is pretty lopsided. UCLA has won 11 national championships while all the other schools in the conference combine for five titles with no other school winning more than...
View ArticlePac-12 Weekly Honors: Week 15
Team of the Week Washington – In coming back from what was a 13-point deficit with just 11 minutes left, the Huskies not only managed to pull off a season sweep of Apple Cup rival Washington State,...
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: Leap Day Edition
It’s the last day of February, a glorious time to be a college hoops fan, right? But for UCLA fans, not only are they on the verge of being on the outside looking in during the NCAA Tournament for the...
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: 03.07.12 Edition
On the eve of the kickoff of the Pac-12 Tournament comes news that the conference has reached an agreement to move at least the next two conference tournaments to Las Vegas. No official announcement...
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: 03.23.12 Edition
After some speculation that Oregon head coach Dana Altman might be interested in returning to his Nebraska roots and taking the open Cornhusker position, it seems set in stone now that he will remain...
View ArticleArizona Week: Evaluating the Recent Past
For better or worse, there are three overriding eras in the history of the Arizona basketball program, all revolving around Hall of Fame head coach Lute Olson. There is, of course, the Lute Olson era,...
View ArticleArizona Week: Q&A With Pachoops’ Adam Butler
As we head toward closing out our coverage of the Arizona basketball program in our third of a summer-long series of in-depth looks at Pac-12 schools, we’re inviting Adam Butler of Pachoops back in to...
View ArticleArizona Week: State of the Program Address
We been all around the Arizona basketball program this week, but we’ve got one last post to go, the one in which we step way back and look at the big picture of the program, not just looking at what...
View ArticleJim Calhoun Hints At Retirement: How Will UConn Sustain His Progress?
Christopher Johnson is an RTC columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. When programs are so closely associated with one legendary coach, it’s often difficult to properly gauge their sustainability...
View ArticlePac-12 Weekly Five: 10.04.12 Edition
We’re still about a week out from the start of practices, but Utah already has to recalibrate its plans for the year, as 7’3” fifth-year senior David Foster reinjured the foot that kept him on the...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 01.17.13 Edition
Since the firing of Kevin O’Neill on Monday morning, coaches on the hot seat are on the minds of many around the conference. Bud Withers of The Seattle Times points to Craig Robinson, Johnny Dawkins...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 11.25.13 Edition
Welcome to Feast Week! It’s already been a great November of basketball with high quality hoops from coast to coast (and beyond), but we have still got one of the best weeks of the regular season...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 12.04.13 Edition
Oregon head coach Dana Altman was rewarded after a quick start to the 2013-14 season with a three-year contract extension last week. The Oregonian takes a closer look inside his new contract, which...
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