Arizona, UCLA and Gonzaga all lost in the Sweet 16 to lower seeds, while USC couldn't get out of the first round.
1. Everything, and nothingThe end of the Pac-12’s participation in the 2022 NCAA Tournament was abrupt, unsatisfactory, unceremonious or disappointing … or all four and more.We know this because what happened last March had no bearing whatsoever on this season.
What will next season bring? Any number of outcomes, but what happened in the NCAAs will stay in the NCAAs. The Wildcats needed overtime to repel the No. 9 seed in the second round and then were dispatched by the No. 5 in the Sweet 16.4. UCLA’s empty finishThe Bruins led North Carolina by four points with 5:44 remaining.Both numbers are problematic: They couldn’t stop UNC guard Caleb Love, and they couldn’t manufacture baskets themselves. That’s where the game was lost.
So often, survival in March comes down to a handful of sequences with 45, 60 or 75 seconds remaining that tilt the advantage to one team and force the other into must-foul mode.5. Our theory of everythingSuccess in the NCAA Tournament depends on toughness and on guard play. That’s it, folks. Highly-skilled big men aren’t the prime movers of advancement.None of them made it out of the Sweet 16.
And the same fate befell Gonzaga — if we expand our sweep to include another West Coast team — which wasn’t up to the task on the perimeter against Arkansas’s JD Notae and Co.
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