Pac-12 basketball preview: Arizona leads the way heading into regular season

By Dirk Facer, Deseret News

Published: Monday, Dec. 31 2012 10:40 a.m. MST

Summary

The Pac-12 regular season opens with 11 teams sporting winning records, led by Arizona. Tabbed as a narrow favorite in the Pac-12’s preseason media poll, Arizona has certainly lived up to expectations. The Wildcats were perfect in the preseason.

Scoring leader: Senior G Jarred DuBois, 13.5 ppg

Rebounding leader: Freshman F Jordan Loveridge, 7.6 rpg

Assists leader: DuBois, 4.0 apg

2012-13 vs. Top 25: 0-0

National RPI: 115th

National strength of schedule: 91st

EXTRA STUFF: Utah tops the Pac-12 in field goal percentage defense (.352) and 3-point shooting defense (.307). ... The Utes grab a conference-best 29 defensive rebounds per game. ... Loveridge has three double-doubles this season. ... Utah had double-digit leads in three of its four losses. ... The Utes are 1-14 on the road over the past two seasons — prevailing at Texas State (74-69) on Nov. 30.

RPI and strength of schedule rankings source: www.teamrankings.com

Email: dirk@desnews.com

Twitter: @DirkFacer

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B C

Park City, UT

Just Smiling

It's obviously going to take awhile longer for Ute nation to come to grips with the reality that one game - in football or basketball - does not a season make, UNLESS that one game is THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP game.
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CougFaninTX

Frisco, TX

In the spirit of fair and balanced reporting, this article should have mentioned the caliber of the pre-season schedule. USC lost to teams like Illinois, Marquette, San Diego St, New Mexico and Nebraska. Utah beat teams like Willamette, Idaho St, More..

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