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Pac-10 Wrap & Tourney Preview

Brian Goodman — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:00:45 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 Conference. Get set for this weekend’s conference tournament with RTC’s season recap and postseason preview.

Tournament Preview

This tournament is as wide open as a Pac-10 tournament has ever been. One of Arizona, UCLA or Washington is the favorite (in some order or another) and the three teams likely to be invited to the NCAA Tournament regardless of the outcome of the Pac-10 Tourney. However, Cal, USC and Washington State are three teams who will be playing for their NCAA Tournament [...]

… and Four Teams Down

rtmsf — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:40:32 +0000

David Ely is an RTC contributor.

Every year teams come out of nowhere and burst into the top 25, while sports writers run to their keyboards to type the requisite “Where Did Team X Come From” story. I mean how many people saw Cornell coming last year? Who said last October that Butler would go on to lose the national championship game by just a couple of inches? Conversely, there are teams that look great on paper in the preseason but fail to live up to the hype once the season starts. Think North Carolina last season. [...]

Second Round Game Analysis: Sunday Games

rtmsf — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:51:34 +0000

Over the next two days in a series of separate posts, RTC will break down all 16 of the second round games using our best analytical efforts to understand these teams, the matchups and their individual strengths and weaknesses. Our hope is that you’ll let us know in the comments where you agree, disagree or otherwise think we’ve lost our collective minds. Here are the Sunday games.

12:10 pm – #1 Syracuse vs. #8 Gonzaga (Buffalo pod)

In the CBS national game to start the day, everyone will get this very enticing game between Syracuse and Gonzaga. Given [...]

First Round Game Analysis: Friday Evening

rtmsf — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:55:24 +0000

Over the next two days in a series of separate posts, RTC will break down all 32 of the first round games using our best analytical efforts to understand these teams, the matchups and their individual strengths and weaknesses. Our hope is that you’ll let us know in the comments where you agree, disagree or otherwise think we’ve lost our collective minds. Here are the Friday evening games.

7:10 pm – #8 Gonzaga vs. #9 Florida State (Buffalo pod)

This is a very tough game to call, so let’s start with what we know [...]

Pac-10 Tourney Daily Diary: Finals

rtmsf — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:43:47 +0000

In our attempt to bring you the most comprehensive Championship Week coverage anywhere, RTC is covering several of the conference tournaments from the sites. One of our RTC correspondents is at the Pac-10 Tournament. In addition to live-blogging select games throughout the tournament, he will post a nightly diary with his thoughts on each day’s action. Here is his submission for the championship game.

Washington 79, California 75

Right before the game started, the Washington band got the fans going with a stirring rendition of the NCAA/CBS lead-in song… was that prescient or just lucky? I heard eight different pep [...]

RTC Live: Pac-10 Championship – California vs. Washington

rtmsf — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:28:45 +0000

Welcome back to the Staples Center for what should be the best matchup of the weekend in the 2010 Pac-10 Tournament this afternoon. Both California and Washington have looked relaxed and confident in their two games leading up to this point, and why wouldn’t they be — they have the two best teams in the league and the two best players as well in Jerome Randle and Quincy Pondexter. The two teams played twice this year, each winning comfortably on their home floor, so it stands to reason that a neutral environment such as this would produce an [...]

Pac-10 Tourney Daily Diary: Semifinals

rtmsf — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:58:52 +0000

Washington 79, Stanford 64

It’s not difficult to see why Washington (along with Cal) was picked at the top of the Pac-10 this season. There’s a lot of bounce in those legs. Basketball [...]

Pac-10 Tourney Daily Diary – Quarterfinals

rtmsf — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:07:31 +0000

UCLA 75, Arizona 69

I know that this is a horrific year for the Pac-10, but in terms of the historic caliber of these two programs and the fact that one of [...]

Pac-10 Tournament Preview

rtmsf — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:54:19 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 Conference.

Final Standings

California (13-5, 21-9) Arizona State (12-6, 22-9) Washington (11-7, 21-9) Arizona (10-8, 16-14) USC (8-10, 16-14) Oregon State (8-10, 14-16) UCLA (8-10, 13-17) Stanford (7-11, 13-17) Oregon ( 7-11, 15-15) Washington State (6-12, 16-14)

Conference Awards

Player of the Year: Quincy Pondexter, Sr, Washington. Pondexter won the Pac-10 Player of the Week award a record five times this season while averaging 20 points and eight rebounds a game (second and third in the conference, respectively) for the third place Huskies. Coach of the Year: Herb Sendek, Arizona State. After losing two starters from last [...]

Morning Five: 03.09.10 Edition

rtmsf — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:57:06 +0000

The rush of conference awards are rolling in… here are some conference POYs that were announced on Monday: James Anderson, Oklahoma State (Big 12); Jerome Randle, California (Pac-10); Evan Turner, Ohio State (Big 10); Darington Hobson, New Mexico (Mtn West); Kevin Anderson, Richmond (A10). As for conference COY: Matt Painter, Purdue (Big Ten); Steve Alford, New Mexico (Mtn West); Herb Sendek, Arizona State (Pac-10), Frank Martin, Kansas State (Big 12), Fran Dunphy, Temple (A10). The ACC, Big East and SEC are expected to announce their choices on Tuesday. At the national level, The Sporting News has selected Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim [...]

Checking in on… the Pac-10

rtmsf — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:05:11 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 and Mountain West Conferences.

Standings

California (12-5, 20-9) Arizona State (10-6, 20-9) Washington (9-7, 19-9) USC (8-8, 16-12) Arizona (8-8, 14-14) UCLA (8-8, 13-15) Oregon State (7-9, 13-15) Stanford (7-10, 13-16) Washington State (6-10, 16-12) Oregon (6-10, 14-14)

It may not have been the type of season that Cal head coach Mike Montgomery envisioned at the start of the year when his Golden Bears and their five returning starters were ranked in the top 15, but as the calendar page gets flipped to the only month that really matters in college basketball, his team has just finished clinching at least [...]

Checking in on… the Pac-10

rtmsf — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:50:33 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-10 conferences.

Standings

California 10-5 18-9 Arizona State 9-5 19-8 USC 8-6 16-10 Washington 8-7 18-9 Arizona 7-7 13-13 UCLA 7-7 12-14 Stanford 7-8 13-14 Oregon State 6-8 12-14 Washington State 6-9 16-11 Oregon 4-10 12-14

We haven’t had a Pac-10 update ‘round these parts since the conference season began, but it is no secret that the one-word summation of the Pac-10 season to this point is “ugly.” The only team with anything at all to say about potentially receiving an at-large bid is California, and it is increasingly likely that if Cal fails to win the Pac-10 tournament, they’ll be looking at an NIT bid. For the first [...]

Set Your Tivo: 01.21.10

rtmsf — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:20:50 +0000

SYT Star System

***** – quit your job and divorce your wife if that’s what it takes to watch this game live **** – best watched live, but if you must, tivo and watch it tonight as soon as you get home *** – set your tivo but make sure you watch it later ** – set your tivo but we’ll forgive you if it stays in the queue until 2012 * – don’t waste bandwidth (yours or the tivo’s) of any kind on this game

Louisville @ Seton Hall – 7 pm on ESPN (**)

It appears the basketball gods are punishing [...]

RTC Live: USC @ California

rtmsf — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:56:03 +0000

RTC Live is making a habit of heading over to Berkeley for games at Cal, but if we keep getting games like we had on Wednesday night at Haas Pavilion versus UCLA — a 1-pt game UCLA won with 1.8 seconds remaining — we’ll keep going back. Tonight the Bears welcome the surprise team of the Pac-10, Kevin O’Neill’s USC Trojans. As you know, USC learned earlier this week that, despite their surprisingly strong pre-conference record, they would not be playing in the postseason this year as a result of the OJ Mayo/Tim Floyd/Rodney Guillory fiasco. Somewhat predictably, [...]

ATB: Cornell Loses Its Way in the Phog…

rtmsf — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:25:57 +0000

The (Big) Red Scare. #1 Kansas 71, Cornell 66. Normally, an early January game between a top-ranked Kansas squad and…well, pretty much any Ivy League school sounds about as thrilling as getting the measles twice. Tonight was different. Cornell came into Kansas’ dreaded Allen Fieldhouse already with a few wins over big-conference teams like Alabama, Massachusetts, and St. John’s. They were riding the momentum of a ten-game winning streak and could boast a kid in Ryan Wittman who is nothing close to a kept secret any more. Wittman (24/4/3 assts), a 6’6 long-range bomber averaging 19 PPG and [...]