Conference play is scheduled to begin in earnest this week for Pac-12 basketball, but questions linger like it’s the winter of 2020-21: — How many teams will play all 20…
Wilner Hotline – Pac-12 men’s basketball preview: It’s a three-team race for the top (unless COVID decides otherwise)
Pac-12 men’s basketball teams are unlikely to reach the goal of winning 75 percent of their non-conference games, and they might not come close. The current win rate is 66…
Story by Jon Wilner(Wilner Hotline) Welcome to a new feature on the Hotline, where we attempt to forecast Selection Sunday outcomes with a format comparable to our weekly bowl projections….
by Jon Wilner The Hotline is often pummeled on social media for erroneous picks and wayward forecasts, and that’s fine. If we minded being wrong, we wouldn’t predict the result…
Corvallis, Oregon And so, we’re left to another season of hearing “as long as we beat the Wildcats, it’s a great season.” Arizona State failed to put up much of…
Instant reaction to Pac-12 developments on and off the field … 1. Sunday in Seattle It has been 713 days since Jimmy Lake was named the head coach of the…
Two teams trying to find themselves met on the field Saturday night in Seattle. Arizona State fought through penalties(8) a 14-0 deficit, and poor third-down conversions(just 3 of 12) to…
Tuesday night was generally positive for the Pac-12 as it attempts to build on the momentum from the wildly successful NCAA tournament. — The top teams were impressive. — The…
J.R. Redmond, one of the heartbeats of the 1997 Sun Devil Rose Bowl team, sat down at table 10 next to me at the Biltmore. Redmond, Jake Plummer, Juan Roque,…
Story by Jon Wilner We’re one week past the midway point of the 2021 season, and the Pac-12, having stumbled against non-conference competition and currently eating its own in league…