First, the good news: It’s still bad, and it’s still anybody’s bracket. Less good: Even what’s left of the 2019 Pac-12 men’s basketball field — aged, fading starlet that it is, the Norma Desmond of the Power 5 subset — isn’t bad enough to hand the championship trophy over to a bunch that turns the ball over 23 times in 40 minutes. Against Cal.
“I’m not sure we deserved to win this game,” said Colorado men’s basketball coach Tad Boyle told the Pac-12 Network, quite rightly, after his Buffaloes eked out a 56-51 win Wednesday in the first round of the league tourney in Las Vegas.