Washington

Take a wild guess who is ranked as the top coach in the Pac 10?  You got it, that guy.

 

CBE Classic (Nov 24-25)

Syracuse vs. Florida

Kansas vs. Washington

 

Before you turn on the TV for this tournament, do yourself a favor.  Forget about last season.  None of these teams resemble what you saw a year ago.

National champion Kansas lost no less than eight players from their roster, five of them to the NBA Draft.  For just about any other program this would mean a dreadful rebuilding year.  Not Kansas. 

After a day of delay, Washington was able to announce its commitments for the 2009 men's basketball season.

The four players who signed national letters of intent, Abdul Gaddy, Charles Garcia, Clarence Trent, and C.J. Wilcox, are a second consecutive recruiting coup for coach Lorenzo Romar and his staff. The three initial recruits, Garcia, Trent and Wilcox, were rated the 17th best group in the country by Rivals.com. The addition of Gaddy, after he twice decommitted from Arizona, moved the class into the top 10 rankings of many recruiting services.

Pac-10 Player Grades

 

 

Conference Rank: 5th

This is the fifth of six fantasy stats projections of BCS conference starters. The lineups are based on the Starting Fives series of articles released two weeks ago, along with a couple of changes due to recent developments.

 

Arizona

Arizona State

UCLA

USC

Washington

 

PAC-10 FIVE-YEAR STANDINGS

 

This ranking tries to answer a simple question: Who has been the best team in the Pac-10 over the last five years?

 

It’s the same old story in the Pac-10 this season.  UCLA should once again dominate the conference and a boatload of departed talent is being replaced with a boatload of new talent.