Pac-12 not represented in AP Top 25 for first time since 2011-12

It has been a rough season for the Conference of Champions

Every Pac-12 school has at least one thing in common — none of their men’s basketball teams are ranked.

For the first time since 2011-12, zero Pac-12 schools find themselves inside the AP Top 25. The Arizona State Sun Devils, who were ranked 17th last week, were upset at home by Princeton and subsequently fell out of the polls.

Did a little digging and this is the first time since 2011-12 no Pac-12 teams are ranked in the AP Top 25. Cal dropped out from No. 24 in 2011 and no other Pac-12 teams were ranked the rest of the season. Arizona was in the preseason poll the next year

— John Marshall (@jmarshallap) December 31, 2018

Perhaps even more shuddering is that ASU is the only Pac-12 school to have even received votes this week, as it garnered 116, the most among non-ranked teams.

The Pac-12 ranks as the sixth-best conference in the country by KenPom, the worst among the major conferences. The so-called Conference of Champions has a losing record against the West Coast Conference this year.

Some embarrassing results for the Pac-12 this week included UCLA losing at home to Liberty by 15 points (then firing Steve Alford), Washington State falling to Santa Clara in Spokane, and Cal losing at home to Seattle, the Redhawks’ second win over a Pac-12 school.

As of Dec. 27, ESPN projected that two Pac-12 teams will make the NCAA Tournament this season — ASU and Oregon. However, that was before the Sun Devils lost to Princeton.

KenPom rates the Ducks as the conference’s best team ... all the way down at No. 39. Them and ASU are the only Pac-12 teams rated inside KenPom’s Top 50. One-third of the conference — Stanford, Utah, Washington State and Cal — ranks outside the Top 100. Cal ranks outside the Top 200.

Every Pac-12 team has at least three losses heading into conference play, which mercifully begins this week.

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