Can Stanford Begin to Turn Its Season Around?
Stanford is halfway through its big two-game non-conference road trip and, heading into their game with Northwestern on Friday night, they’re in a position they certainly didn’t want to be in: The...
View ArticlePac-12 Burning Questions: So… About Those Preseason Predictions?
With non-conference play all but wrapped up, we start to turn our attention to conference play this week. But, before we do we want to take a look back and see what we talked about prior to the season....
View ArticleWrapping Up Pac-12 Non-Conference Play By Reassessing Our All-Conference...
Later tonight, the second leg of the Pac-12 college basketball season begins as conference play tips off with the Battle of the Bachynskis, when Utah travels to Arizona State. After last year’s...
View ArticlePac-12 Burning Questions: Which Non-Conference Trends Are Here To Stay?
Conference play is underway, and it’s time to take what we’ve learned from a couple months of uneven schedules and evolving lineups and try to project that forward to a couple grueling months of the...
View ArticleRushed Reactions: UCLA 68, Stanford 60
Andrew Murawa filed this report after Saturday afternoon’s Pac-12 contest between UCLA and Stanford in Pauley Pavilion. Three Key Takeaways. It’s Not Just Offense. While there were moments today when...
View ArticlePac-12 Report Card: Volume II
Professor Pac is back to break down and evaluate each team’s performances in the past week. With three pet pupils atop the leaderboard still without a loss, it’s no surprise who is earning the As thus...
View ArticleMarching to Vegas: Weighing a Pair of Midweek Upsets
From the moment it was first rumored, the relocation of the conference tournament to Las Vegas has created quite a buzz among Pac-12 basketball fans. Adam Butler (@pachoopsAB) of PacHoops will be here...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 02.08.13 Edition
Despite playing very well on the road against Arizona Wednesday night, Stanford was not happy with what Johnny Dawkins considered a moral victory. The Cardinal fell short to the Wildcats 73-66, but...
View ArticlePac-12 Report Card, Volume VI: Solid Students
Yesterday we unveiled this week’s honor roll; today we take a look at five teams earning good, solid, average grades. Check in later today for the four teams that will be serving detention this week....
View ArticleSo Shabazz Is Leaving, But Who Else?
Saturday night following UCLA’s win over Arizona, Ben Howland admitted that, yes, Shabazz Muhammad had, barring some strange unforeseen circumstances, played his last game at Pauley Pavilion, thus...
View ArticlePac-12 Postseason Honors
With the Pac-12 regular season now two days in the books and with the first Pac-12 Tournament in Las Vegas on the immediate horizon, we’ve got a brief moment in time to look back at the regular season...
View ArticleThe RTC Pac-12 All-Conference Teams
Earlier today we released our picks for the conference awards, handing out, among others, Player of the Year to Allen Crabbe and Freshman of the Year to Jahii Carson. Not surprisingly, those two...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 03.12.13 Edition
The Pac-12 released its awards and “all-conference teams” on Monday, and I put that in quotes since the conference doesn’t care to follow one of the most simple rules of basketball. Regardless,...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 03.27.13 Edition
News on this UCLA head coaching search is moving quickly with Pete Thamel reporting that the Bruins are moving on down the list as Shaka Smart is working on an extension with VCU and Brad Stevens is...
View ArticleStanford Post-Mortem
Now that we are officially in the offseason, it’s time to take a look back and evaluate each team’s 2012-13 performance. Here’s a look at Stanford. What Went Right After three years of showing signs of...
View ArticleCBS Sports’ Top 100 Players: The Pac-12 Breakdown
Last week, CBSSports.com’s group of writers announced their picks for the top 100 college basketball players in the 2013-14 season. It’s a fun if meaningless exercise that is created in order to...
View ArticleThe Inane Ramblings of a Pac-12 Homer…
So, the other night, I’m sitting around, minding my own business, doing a podcast with Shane and Randy talking about the Pac-12. When out of the blue, I get accused by an attacker who shall remain...
View ArticlePac-12 Team Preview: Stanford Cardinal
We continue unveiling our team-by-team breakdowns, in roughly the reverse order of where we expect these teams to finish in the conference standings. Stanford Cardinal Strengths. Experience and depth....
View ArticleThe RTC Interview Series: Pac-12 Preview with Don MacLean and Miles Simon
Rush The Court is back with another edition of One on One: An Interview Series, which we will bring you periodically throughout the offseason. If you have any specific interview requests or want us to...
View ArticleIntroducing the Pac-12 All-Conference Teams
Later today, maybe even by the time you get around to reading this, there will be real live full-fledged regular season basketball to watch. It’s a beautiful thing. As our last little bit of preview...
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