Pac-12 Morning Five: 12.13.11 Edition
There was a time when the Pac-10 conference was right there with the Big Ten in a race for the most conservative conference in college sports. But since Larry Scott took over as the conference...
View ArticlePac-12 and Big Ten Strategic Collaboration: What Does It Mean For Hoops Heads?
In the excitement over the start of the Pac-12 basketball season, we’ve neglected thus far to mention the announcement Wednesday of a new “strategic collaboration” between the Pac-12 and the Big Ten....
View ArticleMorning Five: 02.07.12 Edition
Alabama star forward Tony Mitchell was suspended indefinitely on Monday by head coach Anthony Grant, who did not elaborate on specific causes other than to say that it wasn’t the result of a specific...
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: 02.07.12 Edition
Last week at this time, California sat at #30 in the RPI, one of the factors that the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee uses to determine at-large participants. However, after losing at home to...
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: 02.16.12 Edition
Larry Scott has made quite a splash in his two-plus years in his current job. Aside from being partially responsible for making the Pac-10 obsolete and ushering in the era of the Pac-12, he helped the...
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: 03.30.12 Edition
Without doing the math and coming up with an exact number, it’s easy to say that somewhere in the neighborhood of 330-340 teams in the NCAA’s Division I will end their basketball season with a loss,...
View ArticlePac-12 Weekly Five: 05.11.12 Edition
We’re at that time of the year when we the rosters start to solidify. Most of the key recruits have made their picks, and teams are beginning to add the finishing touches to their recruiting classes....
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: 05.25.12 Edition
Money was a big story in the Pac-12 this week. First and foremost, USA Today unveiled an estimate of the worth of the Pac-12 television deals this week. Navigate Research, a Chicago-based firm that...
View ArticleWrapping Up The Pac-12′s Summer Exhibition Tours
Seven Pac-12 schools took a foreign exhibition trip this summer. We recap them below with Drew taking UCLA, Utah, and Colorado, and Connor taking the rest. Not Every Team Went Tropical, But All of Them...
View ArticleMarching to Vegas: With The Pac-12 Networks Leading The Way
From the moment it was first rumored, the relocation of the conference tournament to Las Vegas has created quite a buzz among Pac-12 basketball fans. Adam Butler (@pachoopsAB) of PacHoops will be here...
View ArticleFire Ed Rush. Yesterday.
It may be the most important story to come out of the Pac-12 this season. More than any game that was played, more than any coach’s hiring or firing, more than the Shabazz Muhammad recruitment or...
View ArticlePac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott Makes A Lot Of Money: Are You Surprised?
Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. Lavish contracts of conference commissioners and university presidents and whopping cable rights deals lie at the nexus of most...
View ArticleMorning Five: 07.18.13 Edition
On Wednesday ESPN finished its two-day unveiling of brackets for the 11 holiday season events that it more or less controls through its television rights, and the possibilities, as usual, are endless....
View ArticleBobby Dibler, Pac-12 Officiating Coordinator, May We Never Hear From You Again
Adam Butler of Pachoops.com (@pachoopsab) joins us as a guest columnist for the second straight year. He took in the Pac-12 Media Day on Thursday. He took to the stage rather unassumingly and...
View ArticleHighlighted Quotes From Each Team at Pac-12 Media Day
Pac-12 Media Day, the annual effusing of excitement, promise and not caring for the media poll, was held on Friday at the conference’s network headquarters in San Francisco. There were no on-stage...
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