The Seattle Times · Jan 1, 2020
Pac 12 power rankings: Oregon and everybody else
Here’s how to sum up Pac-12 men’s basketball, which closes the 2019 portion of the season and heads into 2020 and conference play this week:
There’s Oregon, and then there’s everybody else.
At 11-2, the Ducks are ranked No. 4 in the Associated Press top 25 poll and their only two losses were narrow defeats in the Bahamas against No. 1 Gonzaga and North Carolina.
Oregon, the preseason favorite in a media poll, is the front-runner in a top-heavy conference that includes seven teams with double-digit wins.
The Pac-12 posted a respectable 73.9 winning percentage (113-40) in nonconference games, which puts the league in good shape to push five or six teams into the NCAA tournament.