Pac-10 Conference Recap by Scott Allen As predicted, Arizona and its five returning starters won the regular season title outright. The Wildcats rolled over competition throughout much of the season and suffered only one loss in conference play to Stanford at home. The Cardinal, led by lone-senior Julius Barnes, finished […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Conference Tournament Preview Arizona is amazing, California is cool and collect, Stanford is that same old sultry jazz singer and everyone else is, well, okay. After Arizona proved that no matter how many upstart Bay Area teams come to town, being number one means you […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Bubbles Anyone? It may be cold, a blizzard wreaking havoc in New York, rain where rain shouldn’t be in Los Angeles, but yet there is still talk of bubbles in the college basketball circuits. Something usually saved for the springtime is already being spoken of […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Order is being restored in the Pac-10 with the top six teams evening out. This makes sportswriters’ jobs easy when debating the top six teams; basically, we look at the standings and count down using the number of losses as our frame of reference. First, […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa The Law of the Jungle It’s been two weeks since I last chimed in on the Pac-10, and boy am I tired. It’s a jungle out there. Living here in Los Angeles, one gets kind of lazy about their basketball teams. After all, the Lakers […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Will Not Coach for Food Pac-10 play went on unabashed and teams were eager to provide the types of games it did last year. It was lucky for those of us that enjoy watching the Pac-10 that UCLA did not play in every game, otherwise […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Lavin for President, ’cause he ain’t staying here As Steve Lavin combs his hair back and Jason Kapono sighs, the alumni whisper to each other. Is this the year? Is this the year they finally get what they have been asking for each of the […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa The beginning of Pac-10 play usually forces me to rethink my perceptions of the rational world. After all, if Arizona State could beat Oregon last year, then am I really a sentient being, or merely a pawn in a much larger, much more ordered reality? […]

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa State of the Union The last week of non-conference games for the Pac-10 played out how Madam Sasha predicted when reading the tea leaves for me the other day. Oregon and Arizona killed UC Riverside and Davidson, respectively. Washington and Washington State eeked by CS […]