Jon Wilner offers some takeaways on the key developments in the Pac-12 over the past week, including Oregon’s surge to the Sweet 16, UW’s exit, Mike Hopkins’ extension and more.
1. Nuance dominates.
One week down, and the Hotline is ready to pronounce the NCAA Tournament a success for the Pac-12. And a failure.
It’s both, and neither.
It’s certainly not an abject failure given that Washington and Arizona State each advanced one round and Oregon made the Sweet 16 … and that expectations were in the gutter following the awful regular season.
But it’s hardly an unqualified success given that the Huskies and Sun Devils weren’t competitive in their second game and that the conference advanced just one team to the Sweet 16 — same as the West Coast and American.