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Pac-12 Roundup: Washington emerges as the team to beat

Three weeks in, and the Pac-12 basketball season is already high on excitement. The conference is absolutely wide open, and there are an abundance of teams that seem to be within striking distance of the regular season crown.

But the cream should rise to the top with each passing week, and it’ll be fun to watch. Here’s our roundup of the third week of conference play.

Going into the season, Mike Hopkins’ Washington squad had a fair amount of prognosticators picking them to win the conference. While they’ve had pretty easy opponents in Pac-12 play so far, the fact still remains that UW officially holds the lead in the Pac-12.