It’s been a month since Pac-12 play began, and a sense of clarity is finally beginning to rise.
Saturday’s matchup between the Stanford Cardinal and the Arizona Wildcats saw the conference’s two hottest teams take the same floor, giving fans a battle that lived all the way up to its anticipated hype.
After both teams came back from double-digit deficits, the game came down to the final minutes, where Arizona’s Rawle Alkins banked in a layup on the left baseline to put the Wildcats ahead by one with just 38 seconds remaining. Moments later, Stanford’s Dorian Pickens failed to get a shot off for the Cardinal at the buzzer, and the Wildcats, finally taking control of their preseason expectations, took sole possession at the top of the conference standings.