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Pac-10 at Halfway Point: Improving, Still Far From Great

Halfway through the Pac-10 season and it's fair and accurate to say that this is a better conference than last year's dismal downer of a campaign. Arizona and UCLA have done considerable work improving on last year's uncharacteristic win-loss records. There are players in this league -- such as Washington's Isaiah...

At Rebuilding UCLA, It's Patience Then Progress

Patience is not an easy thing. Not easy when you're a coach, and particularly not when you are UCLA's coach. Ben Howland spent almost three hours in the film room with his team earlier this week, going over the details of the Bruins' 89-85 loss to Virginia Commonwealth with the proverbial fine-toothed comb. "We were...

Pac-10 Basketball Preview: Huskies Lead League Back to Respectability

The Pac-10 is a proud basketball conference. But powerful? That's a different matter. After the worst year in memory, the Pac-10 is looking for a big bounce-back. But a medium-sized bounce might be more like it. This isn't yet a great conference again. Too much youth with only 17 seniors in the whole conference. Too many...

Summer Session: Pac-10 Slogan, 'It Has to Be Better'

It Has to Be Better. That probably isn't the slogan that Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott would want to attach to the men's basketball season, but it's the prevailing sentiment as the conference's 10 teams begin organized workouts on Sept. 15. A conference with history and pride and tradition barely got two teams in to...