EUGENE – The Pac-12 Conference is primed to add to the excitement of #MarchMadness as the #NCAAM tournament tips off today in Indianapolis with the First Four. Here is the when and who you need to watch out for the next few days.
Oregon State claimed the Conference’s automatic NCAA Tournament bid by winning its first-ever Pac-12 Tournament title last Saturday. It was only the Beavers’ second title-game appearance in the tourney’s 24 stagings (1988).
The Beavers became the first team picked last in the Pac-12 preseason poll to both reach the Pac-12 title game and win the Conference Tournament crown.
Five Pac-12 programs earned bids to the 2021 NCAA Tournament with COLORADO, OREGON, OREGON STATE, UCLA, USC all dancing, the most for the league since a record seven selections in 2016. The five bids are tied for the seventh-most in Conference history (7 – 2016; 6 – 2014, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2002; 5 – 2021, 2013, 2003, 2001, 1997, 1995).
6 x 17 – Thanks to OREGON STATE’s run to the Pac-12 Tournament title, the Pac-12 is 1-of-3 leagues to boast six 17-win teams along with the Big 12 and Big Ten. • The Pac-12 is also 1-of-5 conferences to have at least three 20-win teams (Big Ten – 4; Big 12, Conference USA, Ohio Valley – 3).
82.2% – COLORADO is currently shooting 82.2 percent (419-510) from the free throw line as a team, which ranks second in NCAA Division I behind only Summit League Tournament champion and NCAA Tournament automatic qualifier Oral Roberts (82.4%, 364-442). • Colorado’s free throw rate is currently ahead of ARIZONA’s Conference-record rate of 78.6 percent (511-650) set in 2003-04 and on the heels of the current NCAA Division I record of 82.2 percent (535-651) set by Harvard in 1983-84.
126 – The Pac-12 played 126 of a possible 130 Conference games in 2020-21 – 116-of-120 scheduled regular-season contests and all 10 games of the 11-team Pac-12 Tournament. • Only the Missouri Valley (98.9%), Ohio Valley (99.2%) and Big Ten (97.4%) played a larger percentage of their scheduled league contests than the Pac-12 (96.9%).
PAC-12 TIPOFF
ALL-AMERICANS: USC freshman Evan Mobley will earn consensus Second Team All-America honors to give the Pac-12 at least one consensus All-American for the seventh time in the past eight seasons and 124 consensus selections all-time. • Mobley will be USC’s first consensus All-American since Sam Clancy earned Second Team status in 2002. • Additionally, OREGON’s Chris Duarte has been named a Third Team All-American by the Associated Press and USBWA.
THE UNICORN & THE BROW: USC’s Evan Mobley is the first player in Pac-12 Men’s Basketball history, and only the second in major conference history (Kentucky’s Anthony Davis, 2011-12) to be voted league Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year & Freshman of the Year in the same season.
NON-CONFERENCE: Pac-12 programs combined to post a .732 win percentage (52-19) in countable NCAA Division I non-conference contests in 2020-21. • The .732 win percentage was the second-best for the Pac-12 over the past five seasons, just behind the .739 posted in 2019-20 when the league was projected to earn as many as six NCAA Tournament bids.
PAC-12 ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AWARDS PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Evan Mobley, Fr., F, USC DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Evan Mobley, Fr., F, USC FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: Evan Mobley, F, USC MOST IMPROVED PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Jaiden Delaire, Jr., F, STANFORD SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR: Jordan Brown, R-So., F, ARIZONA SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Oscar da Silva, Sr., F, STANFORD JOHN R. WOODEN COACH OF THE YEAR: Andy Enfield, USC
2021 PAC-12 ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM All-Tournament Team Evan Mobley, F, USC Evan Battey, F, COLORADO McKinley Wright IV, G, COLORADO Jarod Lucas, G, OREGON STATE Ethan Thompson, G, OREGON STATE
Most Outstanding Player Warith Alatishe, F, OREGON STATE
PAC-12 NATIONAL AWARDS
ASSOCIATED PRESS ALL-AMERICA Evan Mobley, USC (Second Team) Chris Duarte, Oregon (Third Team) Remy Martin, Arizona State (Honorable Mention) McKinley Wright IV, Colorado (Honorable Mention)
USBWA ALL-AMERICA Evan Mobley, USC (Second Team) Chris Duarte, Oregon (Third Team)
SPORTING NEWS ALL-AMERICA Evan Mobley, USC (Second Team)
USBWA WAYMAN TISDALE FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR TOP 4 FINALIST Evan Mobley, USC
NAISMITH MEN’S COACH OF THE YEAR LATE SEASON TOP 15 WATCH LIST Andy Enfield, USC
WOODEN AWARD PLAYER OF THE YEAR NATIONAL BALLOT TOP 15 Evan Mobley, USC
NAISMITH TROPHY PLAYER OF THE YEAR TOP 10 SEMIFINALIST Evan Mobley, USC
NAISMITH TROPHY DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR TOP 10 SEMIFINALISTS Evan Mobley, USC
NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME AWARDS TOP 10 CANDIDATES/FINALISTS
Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year McKinley Wright IV, Colorado (Top 10 Candidate)
Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Chris Duarte, Oregon (Finalist)
Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Ziaire Williams, Stanford (Top 10 Candidate)
Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Oscar da Silva, Stanford (Top 10 Candidate)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Evan Mobley, USC (Finalist)
SENIOR CLASS AWARD TOP 10 CANDIDATE Oscar da Silva, Stanford
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2021 NCAA TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE All games in Indianapolis, Ind., unless otherwise denoted; * if advances
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