Pac-12 M5: 01.07.13 Edition
All year long we have seen freshman Damyean Dotson make dazzling plays for Oregon, and last night at Oregon State, he had his best game yet. Dotson scored 15 of his 21 points in the second half, a...
View ArticlePac-12 Weekly Honors: Week Eight
Another week, another group of honors for Pac-12 people and things… Team of the Week – Oregon At first glance, the thought was that Arizona State’s 2-0 start, including a win over Colorado, would be...
View ArticleWhat We Learned Last Week in the Pac-12
The first week of Pac-12 conference play wrapped up on Sunday and here are some takeaways from the first two games of action for each team. Coming into conference play, it seemed like third place would...
View ArticlePac-12 Power Rankings: Week Eight
Here’s a look at the power rankings that Drew, Parker, Adam, and I have compiled after the eighth week of Pac-12 games (delta in parentheses): Arizona, 14-0 (2-0, -): By the skin of its teeth, Arizona...
View ArticleOregon Basketball and The Season of New: Anatomy of a Rivalry
Welcome to Oregon Basketball and The Season of New, a weekly Pac-12 microsite column from Rockne Roll (@raroll). His column will focus on the various issues facing college basketball through the prism...
View ArticleRushed Reactions: Oregon 76, UCLA 67
Andrew Murawa is an RTC correspondent and Pac-12 microsite writer. He filed this report after Saturday afternoon’s UCLA-Oregon game in Westwood. Three Key Takeaways. The Battle for First Place. In the...
View ArticleNight Line, Weekend Edition: Oregon Hard Pressed To Avoid National Radar Now
Bennet Hayes is a regular contributor for RTC. You can find him @HoopsTraveler on Twitter. Night Line runs on weeknights during the season, highlighting a major storyline development from that day’s...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 02.11.13 Edition
It was another wild weekend in the Pac-12 that left the conference standings even more confusing than they were before the weekend, with a three-way tie for first place and five other teams within two...
View ArticlePac-12 Weekly Honors: Week 14
Another wild week in the Pac-12, with six games decided by five points or less, including a pair of overtime games. Plenty of candidates for all the honors this week, but here’s who we settled on. Team...
View ArticlePac-12 Report Card, Volume VII: The Honor Roll
With the end of the semester in sight, some students are making big strides while others continue to underachieve. This week Professor Pac has a couple of A’s to hand out, while the rest of the...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 03.12.13 Edition
The Pac-12 released its awards and “all-conference teams” on Monday, and I put that in quotes since the conference doesn’t care to follow one of the most simple rules of basketball. Regardless,...
View ArticleRTC’s 2013 Pac-12 Tournament Preview
The 2013 Pac-12 Championship is upon us. If you want to know who the favorites, dark-horses and long-shots are, or are just looking for a possible team to make a run all the way from Las Vegas to the...
View ArticleNCAA Regional Reset: Midwest Region
Bennet Hayes (@hoopstraveler) is the NCAA Tournament’s Midwest Region correspondent. The Midwest Regional begins Friday night in Indianapolis with Louisville vs. Oregon followed by Duke vs. Michigan...
View ArticleHow Can Oregon Stay Competitive With Louisville?
When Oregon takes the floor Friday evening against Louisville, it will do so as a heavy underdog to the top seed. Las Vegas sees the Ducks as 10-point underdogs, while Ken Pomeroy says the Cardinals...
View ArticleMorning Five: 05.23.13 Edition
The Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Draft lottery for the second time in three years on Tuesday night, which means that the team that selected rising superstar Kyrie Irving #1 overall in 2011 will get...
View Article2013-14 RTC Class Schedule: Arizona Wildcats
Bennet Hayes is an RTC columnist. He can be reached @HoopsTraveler. Periodically throughout the preseason, RTC will take an in-depth look at the schedules of some of the more prominent teams in college...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 10.21.13 Edition
This time of year is always preview heavy (we’ll start rolling out our own previews later today), and Athlon Sports breaks down Oregon in this piece. As they point out in the opening, Dana Altman and...
View ArticleCBS Sports’ Top 100 Players: The Pac-12 Breakdown
Last week, CBSSports.com’s group of writers announced their picks for the top 100 college basketball players in the 2013-14 season. It’s a fun if meaningless exercise that is created in order to...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 10.25.13 Edition
Four-star power forward Zylan Cheatham, a Class of 2014 prospect out of South Mountain High School (AZ), is set to pick a school within the next week, and The Husky Haul breaks down why he would be a...
View ArticleThe Inane Ramblings of a Pac-12 Homer…
So, the other night, I’m sitting around, minding my own business, doing a podcast with Shane and Randy talking about the Pac-12. When out of the blue, I get accused by an attacker who shall remain...
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