Colorado Basketball Picked To Finish 10th In Pac-12, Obviously Ahead Of Utah
by Jon Woods on Oct 28, 2011 9:41 AM MDT
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PrintThe Pac-12 has released the preseason media poll in preparation for today's media day (which the Ralphie Report will be attending) and the Buffaloes have been selected to finish in tenth place, tied with Washington State and ahead of Utah. The poll has UCLA at the top with 14 first-place votes, followed by California in second with 13 and Arizona in third with 11.
The UCLA Bruins are picked to finish first in the 2011-12 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball race, according to a poll of media members who cover Pac-12 men's basketball.
UCLA, led by junior All-Conference forward Reeves Nelson (13.9 ppg/9.1 rpg), tallied 14 first-place votes and narrowly edges out California and Arizona. California, paced by senior All-Conference guard Jorge Gutierrez (14.6 ppg/4.5 apg) and senior forward Harper Kamp (14.2 ppg/5.6 rpg) picked up 13 first-place votes and is tabbed for second. Arizona, the reigning regular-season Conference champion, pulled in the remaining 11 first-place votes and are picked to finish third.
This isn't really a surprising development with the relative obscurity of the Buffaloes basketball program (for now) and the loss of Alec Burks and Cory Higgins. However, even in a rebuilding year, this team's ceiling is much, much higher than a finish near the bottom of the conference. Plenty more to come from media day today.
Full poll after the jump.
| Men's Basketball Media Poll | ||
|---|---|---|
| Team | Pts. | |
| 1 | UCLA (14) | 421 |
| 2 | California (13) | 405 |
| 3 | Arizona (11) | 404 |
| 4 | Washington | 355 |
| 5 | Oregon | 282 |
| 6 | Stanford | 255 |
| 7 | USC | 194 |
| 8 | Oregon State | 188 |
| 9 | Arizona State | 148 |
| 10 | Colorado | 119 |
| Washington State | 119 | |
| 12 | Utah | 74 |
| First place votes in parentheses | ||
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Go ahead and underestimate us, Pac-12
You’ll be sorry later
Well folks, I'm here, plugged in and all ready to go!
CU is the only school with their BBall Information Guide and Record Book in CD format.
We won’t start for another 40 minutes, so ask any last minute questions here!
I’m going to see if I can’t scrounge up some coffee…
DAG
Email: David.Gerhardt@gmail.com
by DavidAGerhardt on Oct 28, 2011 10:17 AM MDT reply actions
Is that good or bad?
Having our items on CD? Are other schools using digital/MP3s or just paper? Just wondering
Everyone else here was giving out thick paper packets
Just another effort by CU to be green in Athletics. I’d say it’s a positive. It’s like the new Practice Facility achieving LEEDS Platinum rating and the efforts to make Folsom a zero waste facility.
So yes, I’d say it’s good.
Though the Pac-12 Conference had their stuff on jump-drives…so they kind of one-upped us
DAG
Email: David.Gerhardt@gmail.com
by DavidAGerhardt on Oct 28, 2011 2:21 PM MDT up reply actions
We're picked behind Oregon State!?!
I know we lost a lot but we creamed them last year.
Shoulder to Shoulder
I blame the performance of all of our Fall teams
They’ve all performed pretty poorly this season, so they’re going to pick us lower than they ordinarily would.
Plus the whole ’losing nearly 80% of our Offensive production" thing…
DAG
Email: David.Gerhardt@gmail.com
by DavidAGerhardt on Oct 28, 2011 10:39 AM MDT up reply actions
Well, I don't want to curse the Buffs, like I did with the football program predicting 9 wins
But I will say that I think we are vastly underrated for the PAC-12, UCLA and U of A are obvious powers, but we should be able to compete with most everyone in the PAC-12 this season, and looking at our recruiting class coming in next year, this team should be battling for a PAC-12 title in two seasons.
Oregon stinks
OSU also stinks
Cal always falls apart
ASU generally gets one good team every five years and then has scandle pull it apart
USC stinks
UW always seems to have a decent team, so I can’t argue that
Stanford generally is a strong team, but have been somewhat down lately
And I have no idea why Utah is so low, they generally have a pretty strong program
But I am excited to see what Tad comes up with this season, I think we should be better than most people think, even with the loses from last seasons team.
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Alright, folks, after Utah (who is up right now)
we get a short break and then it’s Tad Boyle and Austin Dufault. I’m hoping to get some interview time with them after they go up, but I’ll try to dominate open-question time as well!
DAG
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by DavidAGerhardt on Oct 28, 2011 12:17 PM MDT reply actions
Good News!
Sweet, just talked to CU BBall SID and I’m going to get a little one-on-one time with Austin Dufalt after he and Boyle hit the podium
DAG
Email: David.Gerhardt@gmail.com
by DavidAGerhardt on Oct 28, 2011 12:38 PM MDT reply actions
Got one-on-one interviews with both Boyle and Dufault
This is fun!
DAG
Email: David.Gerhardt@gmail.com
Great stuff from all of the Coaches
I’m not sure I need more time w/ Boyle and Dufault, so I might just write my stuff up and head out. I’ll try to catch them again just to say thank you.
DAG
Email: David.Gerhardt@gmail.com
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