Saturday Night Five: Searching for answers as the Pac-12, and the entire West Coast, is ousted from March Madness
Instant reaction to Pac-12 developments on the court …The 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 onThe Pac-12 put five teams into the 2021 tournament, advanced four to the Sweet 16, three to the Elite Eight and one to the Final Four — one of the greatest collective performances in conference history.
There’s no carryover from one tournament to the next regular season. Nor, it seems, it there carryover from the regular season to the tournament.The Big Ten had a stellar season and put no teams in the Elite Eight.2. Money matters Watching the game without knowing the seeds, you would have thought Arizona was the No. 5 and Houston the No. 1.On Friday, the Hotlinewhy that was the case. In summary, it wasn’t one thing; it was a handful of things, including:
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.Success 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.
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