{"id":27,"date":"2016-03-07T19:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T01:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/2016-pac12-tournament-preview\/"},"modified":"2016-03-07T19:17:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T01:17:06","slug":"2016-pac12-tournament-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/2016-pac12-tournament-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Pac&#45;12 tournament preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pac-12 Conference<br \/>\nMarch 9-12. All games at Las Vegas.<br \/>\nkPOY: Jakob Poeltl, Utah.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pac-12 tournament gets underway with four first-round games on Wednesday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Pac-12 provides one of the most compelling tournaments in 2016 with each of the top four seeds having a healthy chance of winning the tournament. Arizona and Oregon have been fairly steady all season, but Cal and Utah are hot, hot, hot.<\/p>\n<p>Cal went 8-1 over the last half of the Pac-12 schedule and the Bears posted the best defensive efficiency in the conference. Meanwhile, Utah went 12-2 over the closing stretch. So while Arizona is a slight favorite here, there\u2019s good reason for fan bases of the top four teams to feel excessively optimistic. Especially since alcohol is served at the MGM Grand Arena. <\/p>\n<p>On the other side, USC has lost six of its past eight as its defense has imploded. But the Trojans are safely in the field of 68, because in the RPI, the Pac-12 is the big winner this season. <\/p>\n<pre>                   Qtrs Semis Final Champ\n 4 Arizona          100  76.8  43.6  26.1\n 1 Oregon           100  76.8  42.2  25.0\n 3 California       100  71.9  41.7  20.5\n 2 Utah             100  66.4  35.7  16.8\n 5 Colorado        80.8  21.7   7.4   2.7\n 7 USC             54.1  19.1   7.4   2.5\n 6 Oregon St.      59.0  18.2   7.0   2.2\n10 UCLA            45.9  14.4   5.1   1.5\n 8 Washington      55.3  13.8   4.1   1.3\n11 Arizona St.     41.0   9.9   3.1   0.7\n 9 Stanford        44.7   9.4   2.5   0.7\n12 Washington St.  19.2   1.5   0.2   0.02\n\n<\/pre>\n<p><u><strong>Pac 12 tourney records (since 1999)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<pre>Colorado       8- 3\nOregon        19-10\nArizona       18-12\nUCLA          16-11\nWashington    14-10\nUSC           12-11\nUtah           4- 4\nStanford      12-14\nCalifornia    11-14\nOregon St.     6-12\nWashington St. 3-12\nArizona St.    3-13\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pac-12 Conference March 9-12. All games at Las Vegas. kPOY: Jakob Poeltl, Utah. The Pac-12 tournament gets underway with four first-round games on Wednesday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The Pac-12 provides one of the most compelling tournaments in 2016 with each of the top four seeds having a healthy chance of winning the [&hellip;]<\/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\/27"}],"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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}