The 2020 NCAA tournament was shaping up to be something of a return to relevance for the Pac-12. Heading into conference tournament week, SI's Bracket Watch had seven Pac-12 teams in the field, which would have been tied for the league's most tournament bids since it expanded to 12 teams in 2012.
Instead, the Pac-12 (like the rest of the college basketball world) had to settle for anticlimactic disappointment. It's been 23 years since the conference last won a national title (Arizona, 1997), and the league has only one Final Four appearance (Oregon, 2017) in the past dozen seasons.