Before we go team by team, let’s take it bucket by bucket:
Broadly speaking, should the Pac-12 expect an uptick in performance in men’s basketball?
Will the number of teams showing year-over-year improvement in 2019-20 exceed the number of teams showing year-over-year decline?
Will the conference send more than three teams to the NCAAs? And will it produce a team seeded higher than, ahem, ninth?
Our buckets of better and worse for the regular season:
* Indisputably better: Colorado and Arizona
* Uptick likely: USC
* More of the same: California, Stanford, Washington State, UCLA
* Regression likely: Arizona State, Utah, Oregon State, Washington.