Monday, November 26, 2012

Weekly Pac-12 Rankings

We're well into the season now. We're understanding more and more about each of these teams' strengths and weaknesses.  And the more information we gather, the more movement we see in these rankings.

1Colorado (5-0) | Last week: #1: Picked up where they left off last week with a win against Air Force last night.  They got solid play from their entire starting five and still own the conference's best win.
2California (6-0) | Last week: #3: Great showing in the DirecTV Classic.  Cobbs and Crabbe are awesome, and you can go ahead and add Ty Wallace to the list of Pac-12 freshmen to keep an eye on.
3Oregon State (4-1) | Last week: #2: Capped off the quiet week with a win against Montana State last night. No offense to the Beavers, but Colorado and Cal both have more momentum right now.
4Oregon (5-1) | Last week: #4: Winning the Las Vegas Invitational was too tall of a task to expect.  Still, they took down #18 UNLV on its home court and hung around with #22 Cincinnati. Solid.
5Arizona State (4-1) | Last week: T-#5: Decent showing in Las Vegas by beating Arkansas and not embarrassing themselves against #14 Creighton.  They should cruise through the remainder of their non-conference schedule.
6Arizona (3-0) | Last week: T-#5: Can't say Arizona did enough to warrant a place in the top-5 this week.  They easily handled Long Beach State though.
7Southern Cal (3-3) | Last week: T-#5: Embarrassing display against Illinois. But they played better the rest of the week and showed a lot of toughness in the second half against #25 San Diego State: coming back from way behind and almost pulling off the upset.
8Utah (4-1) | Last week: #12: This week we got some glimpses of what this team can do. It wasn't against top-notch competition, but I found it surprisingly good -- particularly Wright State. I'll hold the Utes steady here for now; but if they survive the Texas trip, it may be time to get bullish.
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Stanford (4-3) | Last week: #10: No bad losses this week, so that's good.  But they haven't exactly done anything yet to make us forget about Belmont.
10Washington State (3-3) | Last week: #11: I didn't expect the Cougars to beat #12 Kansas, but they downright looked like a Div.-II team that night. A win over Texas A&M would have been good for the conference. Their next chance to impress will be against Gonzaga in a couple weeks.
11Washington (2-3) | Last week: #9: I've put the Albany loss in the past. But Colorado State? That's two ugly home losses for the Huskies now. And how does a team with Aziz N'Diaye get out rebounded 40-19?
12UCLA (4-2) | Last week: #8: My oh my.

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