Marching to Vegas: Who Will Break Out Along the Way?
Adam Butler (@pachoopsab) of Pachoops again will be joining us all year, providing us with his weekly take on our favorite conference, as we begin the March to Las Vegas. To date we’ve prognosticated...
View ArticleFour Thoughts on Arizona’s Season Opener
Arizona opened its season in ho-hum fashion on Friday night with an 11-point win over a middling Cal Poly team. While the final margin wasn’t necessarily impressive, the Wildcats did show off some...
View ArticlePac-12 Roundup: Week Three
Out of the country? Living under a rock? Here’s what you missed in the third week of Pac-12 basketball. Power Rankings (As voted upon by Connor Pelton, Andrew Murawa, and Adam Butler): Nick Johnson Is...
View ArticleIt’s a Love/Hate Relationship: Volume III
Jesse Baumgartner is an RTC columnist. His Love/Hate column will publish each week throughout the season. In this piece he’ll review the five things he loved and hated about the previous seven days of...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 12.09.13 Edition
By the time you read this, odds are good that the new AP poll will have been released with Arizona topping the list for the first time in more than a decade. After Michigan State fell at home to North...
View ArticleOne Month In: Where Are All the Great Teams?
This week will see a new team take its turn at the top of the polls, but like their predecessors in the rankings’ top slot, the Arizona Wildcats will seize the reins just days after a performance in...
View ArticlePac-12 POY and FrOY Odds After One Month
We’re a month into the season, something basically approaching the quarter-pole of the year. Let’s take a little time over the next couple days to recount what we’ve seen so far and prognosticate a bit...
View ArticleThree Thoughts on Arizona’s Win at Michigan
Imagine this scenario: you’re one of the youngest teams in the nation. You’ve just assumed the number one spot in the polls, and the following weekend, you’re hearding across country to play the...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 12.20.13 Edition
UCLA got its big chance on the national stage on Thursday night against Duke at Cameron Square Garden, and the Bruins looked real good for about 30 minutes. Unfortunately, those minutes were...
View ArticlePac-12 Non-Conference Superlatives
As part of the conclusion of the non-conference slate, it’s time for Connor and Drew to recognize some of the Pac-12 highlights through nearly two months of the regular season. We’ll cover all the...
View ArticleTakeaways From the Pac-12′s Weekend Games
It was a busy Pac-12 weekend around the conference. Here are some thoughts on each of the weekend’s five games. Colorado 100, Oregon 91 It was a game that largely lived up to the hype, with both teams...
View ArticleThoughts on Arizona’s Big Road Win at UCLA
This is the early conference game that both Arizona and UCLA fans had likely been looking forward to for a couple weeks. It’s the biggest historic rivalry in the conference and it was Arizona’s first...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 01.17.14 Edition
We’re now two and a half weeks into conference play (my god, these seasons fly by don’t they) and California is inarguably the hottest team in the conference, out to a 4-0 start in league play with...
View ArticleBrandon Ashley’s Foot Injury and the Long-Term Impact on Arizona
Arizona lost late Saturday night at California; you probably know that by now. With Syracuse’s win over Duke that kept the Orange undefeated, the Wildcats will likely drop out of the top spot in the...
View ArticleMorning Five: 02.03.14 Edition
Saturday was full of great college basketball action with plenty of upsets and late-game heroics, but the biggest event of the day was Brandon Ashley injuring his foot in a loss to Cal. X-rays in...
View ArticlePac-12 Weekend Round-Up: Arizona, Justin Cobbs, Hallice Cooke and More…
What a great sports weekend, am I right? There were 10 Pac-12 basketball games since last Wednesday and eight of them were decided by two possessions or fewer. The #1 team in the nation went down....
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 02.05.14 Edition
When sophomore forward Brandon Ashley went up for a rebound Saturday night in Berkeley, his right foot came down on one of David Kravish’s shoes. It was announced the next day that Ashley’s foot was...
View ArticleOtskey’s Observations: Episode XI
Each week throughout the season, RTC columnist Brian Otskey (@botskey) will run down his observations from the previous week of college basketball. Early Returns on Chris Collins Look Great When former...
View ArticlePac-12 Roundup: Week 12
Out of the country? Living under a rock? Here’s what you missed in the 12th week of Pac-12 basketball. Power Rankings (as voted upon by Connor Pelton, Andrew Murawa, and Adam Butler) For the first...
View ArticleOne Game In: Doom and Gloom For the New Arizona?
It was Arizona’s first night without Brandon Ashley. While the rest of these Wildcats have spent three months playing with each other, make no mistake — this is the equivalent of a brand new team out...
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