2013-14 Preseason Men's Basketball Prospectus
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2013-14 Preseason Men's Basketball Prospectus Pac-12 Men's Basketball Media Day Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013 Pac-12 Networks Studios San Francisco, Calif. Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament March 12-15, 2014 Grand Garden Arena, MGM Grand • Las Vegas, Nev. Jason Loveridge, Utah Spencer Dinwiddie, Colorado 2013-14 PAC-12 MEN'S HOOP PROSPECTUS Pac-12 Notebook ......................................................2 Arizona Wildcats .......................................................4 Arizona State Sun Devils ............................................6 California Golden Bears .............................................8 Colorado Buffaloes ..................................................10 Oregon Ducks .........................................................12 Oregon State Beavers ..............................................14 Stanford Cardinal ....................................................16 UCLA Bruins ...........................................................18 USC Trojans ............................................................20 Utah Utes ...............................................................22 Washington Huskies ................................................24 Washington State Cougars .......................................26 2012-13 Review/Statistics .......................................28 Postseason Recap ...................................................37 On the Cover: Jahii Carson, Arizona State and DaVonté Lacy, Washington State. Nick Johnson, Arizona PAC-12 MEN'S BASKETBALL MEDIA DAY PAC-12 NOTEBOOK Pac-12 Networks - San Francisco, Calif. Thursday, October 17, 2013 2013-14 SEASON PREVIEW Pull Out The World Map... Colorado's Spencer Dinwiddie was a member of Team USA at the World Returning All-Pac-12 Performers... Three first team University Games in Kazan, Russia where he averaged All-Pac-12 performers, and three second team selec- 7.9 ppg, and a team-leadinfg 5.5 assists per game... tion return in 2013-14. First team honorees include Stanford's Dwight Powell and Arizona State's Jordan ARIZONA STATE guard Jahii Carson, COLORADO Bachynski led the Canadian Development Men's guard Spencer Dinwiddie, and STANFORD forward National Team to victory over Dinwiddie and Team Dwight Powell. UCLA guard Kyle Anderson, CALIFOR- USA at the World University Games... Arizona fresh- NIA guard Justin Cobbs, and WASHINGTON guard man forward Aaron Gordon and Washington freshman C.J. Wilcox were second team picks. guard Nigel Williams-Goss were teammates for gold medal-winning Team USA at the FIBA U19 World Coach Speak... Excluding Washington coach Lorenzo Championships in Prague, Czech Republic. Gordon Romar's 118 wins in Pac-12 play, California coach Mike was selected MVP of the U19 World Championships Montgomery has more Pac-12 wins (272) than the 10 after averaging 12.6 ppg and 6.2 rpg... UCLA's Bryce other Pac-12 coaches combined (258). Alford, Arizona teammates Brandon Ashley and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Oregon's Damyean Dotson Champs - Regular Season/Tournament... UCLA won its were on the training roster at the U19 trials... Colorado 31st Pac-12 title and first since 2008. Meanwhile, the junior Beau Gamble and freshman Chris Jenkins are OREGON Ducks captured their third Pac-12 tourna- members of Athletes-in-Action that will tour Lithuania ment crown. Oregon was the fifth different school over in August...Stanford's Roscoe Allen earned a spot on the last six years to win the league's postseason trophy. Hungary's roster for the U20 European Championship It's the fifth consecutive year that the regular season in Pitesti, Romania, while Cardinal teammate Stefan champion did not capture the league's postseason title. Nastic represented the Serbian National Team at the Since the Pac-12 reinstated the league's postseason XVII Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey... Arizona tournament in 2002, only three teams won both the State will travel to China this summer as part of the regular season and tournament titles - Stanford (2004), Pac-12's Globalization Initiative. UCLA (2006) and UCLA (2008). Returning Starters.. Each Pac-12 team has at least two returning starters, with an average of 2.9 return- Home Sweet Home...League teams posted a 79-16 C.J. Wilcox, Washington (.831) record at home in non-conference action. ing starters per team. Here is the breakdown of the number of returning starters by team: Scheduling... The Pac-12 will continue to play an 18- Home Away From Home... Check the Pac-12 rosters game schedule. However, the league slate will include Arizona 2 and you'll find 25 student-athletes (six more than last a pair of "misses" at home and on the road for each Arizona State 3 season) who hail from 14 different countries outside set of travel partners. Here's a look at which pair of California 4 the United States. Those countries are: Canada (6), games will be absent from the schedule: Australia (3), Serbia (3), Brazil (2), Germany (2), Cam- Colorado 4 Oregon 2 eroon, Denmark, Egypt, Hungary, Iran, Netherlands, Travel Partners Home Misses Road Misses Oregon State 3 Russia, Senegal, Sweden. ARIZ, ASU UCLA, USC WASH, WSU Stanford 5 CAL, STAN ORE, OSU COLO, UTAH UCLA 3 COLO, UTAH CAL, STAN ORE, OSU USC 2 ORE, OSU COLO, UTAH CAL, STAN Utah 2 UCLA, USC WASH, WSU ARIZ, ASU Washington 2 WASH, WSU ARIZ, ASU UCLA, USC Washington State 3 Get Your Picture Taken With David Stern... With Only In L.A.... Two coaching changes this year, UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad selected 14th overall in and both are in Los Angeles. UCLA welcomes Steve the NBA Draft, the Pac-12 now has now had a player Alford, while USC brings in Andy Enfield to lead the selected in the first round in the NBA Draft for the 25th Trojans. You have to go back to the 1921 when both consecutive year. The league has had 23 first-round UCLA and USC hired new basketball coaches in the picks over the last six years of the NBA Draft. Over the same year when USC tabbed Bill Hunter and UCLA last six NBA Drafts a total of 39 Pac-12 players have named Caddy Works to lead their respective programs. been selected representing 11 of the Conference's 12 Although, Henry Bibby finished up the 1995-96 season member institutions. as USC's interim head coach, then had the interim dropped before the 1996-97 season. That was the 2013 NBA DRAFT same season Steve Lavin was named UCLA's interim First Round head coach, before taking permanent status of the 14. Shabazz Muhammad, UCLA Utah position in 1997. 23. Solomon Hill, ARIZ Indiana 26. André Roberson, COLO Minnesota Bench Knowledge... Arizona hired former Wildcat Second Round point guard Damon Stoudamire as an assistant coach 31. Allen Crabbe, CAL Cleveland during the summer. He's not the only three-time All- 33. Carrick Felix, ASU Cleveland Conference guard sitting on a Pac-12 bench. UCLA's 40. Grant Jerrett, ARIZ Portland Director of Operations Tyus Edney also shared three- 54. Arsalan Kazemi, ORE Washington time All-Pac-10 honors with Stoudamire from 1993-95. Aaron Bright, Stanford 2 2013-14 Pac-12 Hoops Prospectus www.pac-12.com • @pac12 PAC-12 NOTEBOOK TEAM PRODUCTION CAREER LEADERS RETURNING IN 2013-14 RETURNING IN 2013-14 SCORING ASSISTS POINTS ASSISTS 1. Stanford ................ 96.7% 1. Stanford ................ 96.1% C.J. Wilcox (Sr.), WASH ................ 1,293 Justin Cobbs (Sr.), CAL ................... 327 2. Colorado ................ 72.9% 2. Washington State . 71.9% Devon Collier (Sr.), OSU ............... 1,086 Aaron Bright (Sr.), STAN.................. 300 3. Oregon State ............. 70.4% 3. Colorado ................ 70.4% Roberto Nelson (Sr.), OSU ............ 1,082 Johnathan Lloyd (Sr.), ORE ............. 278 4. UCLA .................. 66.5% 4. California . 68.4% Chasson Randle (Jr.), STAN ............ 976 Nick Johnson (Jr.), ARIZ ................. 197 5. California . 61.1% 5. Oregon State ............. 60.0% 6. Washington State . 57.0% 6. Arizona State............. 58.6% Dwight Powell (Sr.), STAN................ 960 Roberto Nelson (Sr.), OSU ............... 192 7. Arizona State............. 55.7% 7. Oregon ................. 53.5% Justin Cobbs (Sr.) CAL .................... 924 Jahii Carson (So.), ASU ................... 177 8. Washington . 54.4% 8. UCLA .................. 48.7% Aaron Bright (Sr.), STAN.................. 872 Chasson Randle (Jr.), STAN ............ 165 9. USC . 48.5% 9. Washington . 48.1% Spencer Dinwiddie (Jr.), COLO ........ 865 Spencer Dinwiddie (Jr.), COLO ........ 163 10. Utah ................... 43.5% 10. Arizona ................. 40.5% Askia Booker (Jr.), COLO ................. 727 Jonathan Gilling (Jr.), ASU .............. 149 11. Arizona ................. 40.0% 11. USC . 35.7% Nick Johnson (Jr.), ARIZ ................. 719 Devon Collier (Sr.), OSU .................. 136 12. Oregon ................. 39.5% 12. Utah ................... 34.6% REBOUNDS STEALS REBOUNDING STEALS 1. Stanford ................ 96.1% 1. Stanford ................ 92.5% Dwight Powell (Sr.), STAN................ 606 Johnathan Lloyd (Sr.), ORE ............. 111 2. UCLA .................. 75.9% 2. UCLA .................. 71.4% Eric Moreland (Jr.), OSU ................. 557 Nick Johnson (Jr.), ARIZ ................... 94 3. Oregon State ............. 74.9% 3. Washington State . 68.1% Josh Huestis (Sr.), STAN ................. 539 Devon Collier (Sr.), OSU .................... 91 4. California . 66.9% 4. Oregon State ............. 65.8% Devon Collier (Sr.), OSU .................. 511 Chasson Randle (Jr.), STAN .............. 80 5. Washington State . 61.6% 5. California . 62.0% Richard Solomon (Sr.), CAL