The Pac-12 basketball season got underway last week, with every conference team playing two league games before a few more non-conference matchups to finish out the month.
Tommy Lloyd and the Arizona Wildcats remain the top team in the conference, despite suffering a loss to upstart Utah to begin conference play. Behind Azuolas Tubelis and Oumar Ballo, Arizona’s frontcourt is going to be nearly impossible to stop this season as they look to once again earn a No. 1 overall seed in March.
UCLA is on a nice winning streak after losing two straight in Portland, and Arizona State is sitting pretty with a 9-1 record and wins over Michigan and SMU.
Oregon is getting healthy, securing a win over Washington State and comfortably defeating a solid Nevada squad. If they can find some consistency early in 2023 they could easily contend for a top-5 spot in the conference and an NCAA Tournament berth.
Here is a look at the Pac-12 power rankings just over one month into the 2022-23 season: