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Basketball: More from Sporting News
By Jeff Faraudo
Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 2:08 pm in Basketball, Pre-season.
I gave you the Sporting News’ nationals picks a couple weeks ago, but just got my hands on their Pac-10 predictions. TSN tabs Washington to win the conference, with Cal second. UCLA is third, followed by Oregon, Arizona, Oregon State, Washington State, USC, Stanford and Arizona State.
TSN’s five-man all-conference squad: Jerome Randle and Patrick Christopher of Cal, Isaiah Thomas and Quincy Pondexter of Washington and Nic Wise of Arizona.
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October 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
So, is this like saying that Quincy Pondexter is the top “Big Man” in the Pac?
Chuckle. These 5 represent three 1′s, one 2, and one 3. Quincy is really a 3 playing out of position at 4.
If nobody else has any bigs, Cal may win league just yet.
October 16th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I think Cal has what it takes to win the league since I believe that there are few great bigs in the league this year. I don’t think they have what it takes to go deep in the tournament though.
October 16th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
“I don’t think they have what it takes to go deep in the tournament though.”
…and by extension, they may have trouble against their non-conference opponents with good/deep frontcourts: Syracuse, UNC/Ohio St, Iowa State. And if Cal doesn’t do well in the non-con, it will be tough to get a top-5 seed in the tournament.