Pac-12 basketball featured the likes of several top-tier players throughout the 2010s. Which players make the All-Decade Team for each program?
Pac-12 basketball has fallen a bit out of favor recently as the conference has struggled to keep up with its Power 5 brethren. Last season was an especially good example of how the league has dropped in its stature. By the end of the season, the Pac-12 was perceived to be much closer to conferences like the AAC and the Atlantic 10 than it was to, say, the Big XII and SEC.
But this is the self-proclaimed Conference of Champions! Surely, it can’t all be bad. Actually, this decade has been pretty low on high points for the league, with a few Final Four appearances, but no national championships.
Back at the beginning of the 2010s, the league added in two Rocky Mountain schools in Colorado and Utah to graduate from the Pac-10 to the Pac-12. As we wind down this decade and head into the next, it seems like as good a time as any to reflect on the best players from each program since 2010.
These lists are going to feature plenty of Pac-12 Players of the Year, all-league selections, and even a couple All-Americans. There will be one-and-dones, four-year players, NBA stars, and guys you’ve probably already forgotten all about.
There’s surely going to be some disagreement about who made the cut, so let me know who I missed. You can comment on the post or send a tweet to @andrewdieckhoff. These lists weren’t always easy to make — sometimes because there were too many good players at a position, sometimes because there weren’t enough. Regardless, I welcome any and all feedback.
To break this into easily-consumed parts, I have divided this piece into six easy installments, looking at traveling partners together. Without further adieu, let’s start down in the desert first with both of the Arizona schools.