One of the things that has come out of doing preseason ratings is that a team can survive a lot of attrition is they return a high-usage player. Oregon\u2019s roster was gutted in the offseason for a variety of reasons, but they still had Joseph Young. They were preseason 34th and enter the Pac-12 tournament the 2-seed. (Though, their overall ranking is 49th.) <\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure Dana Altman has done a good job this season—actually I\u2019m, not because it\u2019s really difficult to evaluate coaching ability.—but because he had an extremely efficient, high-usage player coming back, there was a bigger margin for error in filling out the rest of the team. At least, that\u2019s my theory.<\/p>\n
Arizona won the league by three games, and to this point is the second-biggest favorite to win its tourney (Gonzaga was at 66.6%). Thus, the all-kenpom.com team is dominated by Wildcats. I\u2019m pretty sure the Ducks are the least likely two-seed champ in all the land. They made up a three-game deficit on Utah with five to play to force a tie that was decided by Oregon\u2019s win over the Utes, which was conveniently played in Eugene. <\/p>\n
Utah\u2019s rating is so much better due to its complete annihilation of the opponents in its wins. The Utes had just one single-digit win in Pac-12 play (at Washington State) and three all season (Wichita State and at BYU). <\/p>\n
The top three seeds are locks for the NCAA tournament, with UCLA and Stanford looking to play their way in with a couple of wins. <\/p>\n
Pac-12<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n All-kenpom.com:<\/strong> Stanley Johnson, Arizona (kPOY); Delon Wright, Utah; Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Arizona; T.J. McConnell, Arizona; Brandon Ashley, Arizona.<\/p>\n March 11-14 at Las Vegas.<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the things that has come out of doing preseason ratings is that a team can survive a lot of attrition is they return a high-usage player. Oregon\u2019s roster was gutted in the offseason for a variety of reasons, but they still had Joseph Young. They were preseason 34th and enter the Pac-12 tournament […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Qtrs Semis Final Champ\n 1 Arizona 100 95.8 85.6 64.9\n 3 Utah 100 78.5 63.1 24.3\n 2 Oregon 100 68.5 19.8 3.6\n 4 UCLA 100 60.8 8.7 2.9\n 6 Stanford 74.8 18.9 11.1 2.2\n 5 Arizona St. 73.3 33.1 4.1 1.2\n10 Colorado 53.6 17.6 3.0 0.3\n 7 Oregon St. 46.4 13.9 2.1 0.2\n 8 California 61.1 3.0 0.9 0.2\n11 Washington 25.2 2.6 0.8 0.08\n12 USC 26.7 6.1 0.3 0.05\n 9 Wash. St. 38.9 1.2 0.3 0.03\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"