The Pac-12 basketball regular season is coming to an end, with just a few weeks remaining until the conference tournament in Las Vegas in mid-March.
On the whole it has been a disappointing season in the Pac-12, with only three teams establishing themselves as clear NCAA Tournament teams – Arizona, UCLA, and USC – while a handful of other teams, including Oregon and Washington State, are now on the outside looking in for spots on the bubble.
Still, that does not mean there haven’t been outstanding individual performances from some of the nation’s best college basketball players, many who reside right here on the west coast.
With only a few weeks to go until the end of the year awards are announced, we at Ducks Wire decided to put together a power ranking of the 10 players most likely to earn the conference’s most coveted award: the Player of the Year.
Factoring in statistical performance, individual impact on team success, and year-to-year growth, here is our rankings of the ten most likely candidates for the Player of the Year crown: