The 2024 Pac-12 basketball preseason media poll came out on Wednesday morning. The USC Trojans were not picked to win the conference championship in the Pac-12’s last season of college basketball.
The Arizona Wildcats were picked to win the league. This might be upsetting for USC basketball fans, but this also gives the Trojans fresh motivation for the upcoming season. A little bit of doubt from the outside world will hopefully fire up the Trojans and get them extra focused for the Kansas State season opener on November 6.
This is one of the most anticipated and important seasons in USC basketball history, if only because these kinds of seasons don’t come around very often. USC very rarely enters a season with a top-20 ranking. The Trojans will be a top-20 team when the USA TODAY Poll and the Associated Press Poll come out. USC rarely has a legitimate chance to win its conference title in college basketball, but this is a year when the Men of Troy really could pull it off. Letting Arizona wear the target on its back could be a very good thing for USC, but frankly, all that matters is that the Trojans put it together on the court.
Here is the full preseason media poll for Pac-12 men’s basketball, heading into the 2023-2024 campaign: