2018–19 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season

2018–19 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball standings
	† 2019 Pac-12 Tournament winner ; As of April 9, 2018; Rankings from AP Poll

2018–19 Pac–12 men's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	12
TV partner(s)	ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, Fox Sports 1, FOX, Pac-12 Network
Regular season
Tournament

The 2018–19 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October 2018 followed by the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November 6, 2018. The conference schedule began on December 2018. The season was the seventh season under the Pac–12 Conference name and the 59th since the conference was established under its current charter as the Athletic Association of Western Universities in 1959. Including the history of the Pacific Coast Conference, which operated from 1915 to 1959 and is considered by the Pac-12 as a part of its own history, this was the Pac-12's 103rd season of basketball.^[1]

The Pac-12 Tournament was held from March 13–16, 2019 at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada.

Pre-season

Recruiting classes

Rankings
Team	ESPN^[2]	Rivals^[3]	Scout^[4]	247Sports^[5]	Signees
Arizona	No. 31	No. 35	No. 19	No. 22	3
Arizona State	No. 19	No. 24	No. 7	No. 11	4
California	-	No. 41	No. 34	No. 44	4
Colorado	-	No. 92	No. 97	No. 85	3
Oregon	No. 4	No. 4	No. 3	No. 3	5
Oregon State	-	No. 52	No. 71	No. 84	3
Stanford	No. 28	No. 26	No. 22	No. 20	5
UCLA	No. 3	No. 5	No. 10	No. 6	6
USC	No. 15	No. 21	No. 14	No. 18	3
Utah	-	No. 29	No. 35	No. 39	6
Washington	No. 23	No. 33	No. 43	No. 40	5
Washington State	-	-	No. 136	No. 145	1

Preseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.

	Wooden^[6]	Naismith^[7]	Robertson^[8]	Cousy^[9]	West^[10]	Erving^[11]	Malone^[12]	Abdul-Jabbar^[13]	Olson^[14]	Tisdale^[15]

Preseason polls

Arizona									No. 16			No. 25
	AP^[16]	Athlon Sports^[17]	Bleacher Report^[18]	Blue Ribbon Yearbook^[19]	CBS Sports^[20]	Coaches^[21]	ESPN^[22]	KenPom^[23]	Lindy's Sports^[24]	NBC Sports^[25]	SBNation^[26]	Sporting News^[27]	Street & Smith's^[28]	Sports Illustrated^[29]	USBWA^[30]
Arizona State
California
Colorado
Oregon		No. 18		No. 9	No. 17				No. 13	No. 18	No. 16	No. 15
Oregon State
Stanford
UCLA		No. 14		No. 14	No. 18				No. 22	No. 16	No. 14	No. 14
USC											No. 35
Utah
Washington		No. 21								No. 29	No. 33
Washington State

Pac-12 Media days

Source:^[31]

Men’s Basketball Media Preseason Poll
Place	Team	Points	First place votes
1.	Oregon	288 pts	16
2.	UCLA	264 pts	6
3.	Washington	249 pts	2
4.	Arizona	205 pts	1
5.	USC	203 pts	--
6.	Arizona State	165 pts	--
7.	Colorado	161 pts	--
8.	Utah	122 pts	--
9.	Stanford	109 pts	--
10.	Oregon State	102 pts	--
11.	California	45 pts	--
12.	Washington State	35 pts	--
(first place votes)

October 11–12, 2018 – Pac-12 Men's Basketball Media Day, Pac-12 Networks Studios, San Francisco, Calif.

Early season tournaments

Team	Tournament	Finish
Arizona	Maui Invitational
Arizona State	MGM Resorts Main Event
California	Legends Classic
Colorado	Diamond Head Classic
Oregon	2K Sports Classic
Oregon State	Paradise Jam
Stanford	Battle 4 Atlantis
UCLA	Las Vegas Invitational
USC	CBE Hall of Fame Classic
Utah	Wooden Legacy
Washington	Vancouver Showcase
Washington State	Las Vegas Classic

Midseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable midseason watch lists.

Regular season

The Schedule will be released in late September. Before the season, it was announced that for the sixth consecutive season, all regular season conference games and conference tournament games would be broadcast nationally by CBS Sports, FOX Sports, ESPN Inc. family of networks including ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, and the Pac-12 Network.

Records against other conferences

2018-19 records against non-conference foes as of (Oct. 11, 2018):^[32]

Regular Season

Power 5 Conferences	Record
ACC	0–0
Big Ten	0–0
Big 12	0–0
SEC	0–0
Power 5 Total	0–0

Other NCAA Division 1 Conferences	Record
American	0–0
American East	0–0
A-10	0–0
ASUN	0–0
Big East	0–0
Big Sky	0–0
Big South	0–0
Big West	0–0
CAA	0–0
C-USA	0–0
Horizon	0–0
Ivy League	0–0
MAAC	0–0
MAC	0–0
MEAC	0–0
MVC	0–0
Mountain West	0–0
OVC	0–0
Patriot League	0–0
SoCon	0–0
Southland	0–0
SWAC	0–0
The Summit	0–0
Sun Belt	0–0
WAC	0–0
WCC	0–0
Other Division I Total	0–0
Division II Total	0–0
NCAA Division I Total	0–0

Record against ranked non-conference opponents

This is a list of games against ranked opponents only (Rankings from the AP Poll):^[33]

Team rankings are reflective of AP Poll when the came was played, not current or final ranking

Conference schedule

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.^[34]

	Arizona	Arizona St	California	Colorado	Oregon	Oregon St	Stanford	UCLA	USC	Utah	Washington	Washington St
vs. Arizona	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Arizona State	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. California	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Colorado	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Oregon	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Oregon State	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Stanford	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. UCLA	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. USC	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Utah	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0
vs. Washington	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0
vs. Washington State	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–
Total	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0

Points scored

Team	For	Against	Difference
Arizona	-	-	-
Arizona State	-	-	-
California	-	-	-
Colorado	-	-	-
Oregon	-	-	-
Oregon State	-	-	-
Stanford	-	-	-
UCLA	-	-	-
USC	-	-	-
Utah	-	-	-
Washington	-	-	-
Washington State	-	-	-

Through October 11, 2018^[35]

Rankings

The rankings have yet to come out in the preseason Coaches' Poll & AP Poll.

		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25
NV		No votes received

		Pre	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	! Wk 14	Wk 15	Wk 16	Wk 17	Wk 18	Wk 19	Final
Arizona	AP
Arizona	C
Arizona State	AP
Arizona State	C
California	AP
California	C
Colorado	AP
Colorado	C
Oregon	AP
Oregon	C
Oregon State	AP
Oregon State	C
Stanford	AP
Stanford	C
UCLA	AP
UCLA	C
USC	AP
USC	C
Utah	AP
Utah	C
Washington	AP
Washington	C
Washington State	AP
Washington State	C

Head coaches

Coaches

Note: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Overall and Pac-12 records are from time at current school.^[36]

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Seasons at school	Overall record	Pac-12 record	Pac-12 titles	NCAA Tournaments
Arizona	Sean Miller	Xavier	10th	247–73 (.772)	121–40 (.752)	5	10
Arizona State	Bobby Hurley	Buffalo	4th	50–47 (.515)	20–34 (.370)	0	0
California	Wyking Jones	California (assistant)	2nd	8–24 (.250)	2–16 (.111)	0	0
Colorado	Tad Boyle	Northern Colorado	9th	166–110 (.601)	72-70 (.507)	0	3
Oregon	Dana Altman	Creighton	9th	209–83 (.716)	94–49 (.657)	2	5
Oregon State	Wayne Tinkle	Montana	5th	57–70 (.449)	25–47 (.347)	0	4
Stanford	Jerod Haase	UAB	3rd	33–33 (.500)	17–19 (.472)	0	0
UCLA	Steve Alford	New Mexico	6th	117–57 (.672)	55–35 (.611)	0	3
USC	Andy Enfield	Florida Gulf Coast	6th	94–76 (.553)	36–54 (.400)	0	2
Utah	Larry Krystkowiak	New Jersey Nets (assistant)	8th	137–97 (.585)	63–61 (.508)	0	4
Washington	Mike Hopkins	Syracuse (assistant)	2nd	21–13 (.618)	10–8 (.556)	0	0
Washington State	Ernie Kent	Oregon	5th	47–77 (.379)	18–54 (.250)	0	6

Notes:

Overall and Pac-12 records, conference titles, etc. are from time at current school and are through the end the 2018–19 season.
NCAA Tournament appearances are from time at current school only.
NCAA Final Fours and Championship include time at other schools

Post season

Pac-12 Tournament

The conference tournament is scheduled for Wednesday–Saturday March 13–16, 2019 at the T-Mobile Arena, Paradise, NV. The top four teams had a bye on the first day, March 13, 2019. Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.

NCAA Tournament

None of the teams from the conference were selected to participate:

National Invitation Tournament

None of the teams from the conference were selected to participate:

Awards and honors

Players of the Week

Throughout the conference regular season, the Pac-12 offices named one or two players of the week each Monday.

Conference awards

Voting was by conference coaches.

Home game attendance

^[35]

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Arizona	McKale Center	14,644
Arizona State	Wells Fargo Arena	14,100
California	Haas Pavilion	11,858
Colorado	Coors Events Center	11,064
Oregon	Matthew Knight Arena	12,364
Oregon State	Gill Coliseum	9,604
Stanford	Maples Pavilion	7,233
UCLA	Pauley Pavilion	13,800
USC	Galen Center	10,258
Utah	Jon M. Huntsman Center	15,000
Washington	Alaska Airlines Arena	10,000
Washington State	Beasley Coliseum	11,671
Total		11,800

Bold – At or Exceed capacity
†Season High

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External links

Pac-12 website

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2018–19 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Arizona	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Arizona State	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
California	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Colorado	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Oregon	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Oregon State	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Stanford	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
UCLA	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
USC	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Utah	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Washington	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Washington State	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–

† 2019 Pac-12 Tournament winner As of April 9, 2018; Rankings from AP Poll