UA seems destined for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, even with another loss or two before Selection Sunday.
Greg Hansen I long ago created a three-part formula to determine the difference between Big Games and All Other Games at McKale Center, and it has nothing to do with national rankings or Bill Walton sitting behind a microphone:
Not everyone was impressed. By Sunday morning, analytics guru Ken Pomeroy had dropped Arizona from No. 2 to No. 3 in his “proprietary algorithm’’ formula. Kentucky jumped to No. 2, and it’s hard to dispute that. It doesn’t really matter. Arizona will almost surely be a No.1 seed in the NCAA Tournament even if it loses a makeup game at USC next week and drops what seems sure to be a rematch with the Ducks in the semifinals of the Pac-12 Tournament.
Yet the Ducks have all but imploded, losing badly to BYU 81-49; Houston, 78-49; Cal, 78-64; ASU, 81-57; and Saint Mary’s, 62-50. It’s so embarrassing that maybe Altman should give back some of those Pac-12 coach of the year awards for which he has been handsomely compensated.I watched Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd pace back and forth during one of the three stressful time-outs in those 42 seconds. It was tension times 10.
The 7-foot Koloko’s ability to successfully guard a 6-foot 4-inch guard who has played 3,295 minutes of college basketball was the most important of the game’s 140 possessions. What can’t be measured is how much the McKale Center factor played into the game’s frantic finish. Subscribe for just 23¢ per week .asset-body a.tucson-inline-subscribe_button { border: 0; border-radius: 0; display: block; color: #FFFFFF; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 2em; background-color: #0B369F; white-space: normal; padding: 1em; } .asset-body a.tucson-inline-subscribe_button .subscribebigtext { font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; } .asset-body a.tucson-inline-subscribe_button ul { list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 0.
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