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Pac-12 basketball: Our picks for the all-conference teams, postseason award winners

The Pac-12 is expected to unveil the all-conference teams and postseason award winners later this morning or early in the afternoon.

Here are our selections, with one necessary explanation:

The conference likely will announce a 10-player first team and five-player second team — a format that was established years ago and, in our view, has too much of a participation trophy look and feel.

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The Hotline prefers the old school approach, with five-man teams.

The 10 players on our top-two teams are the equivalent of the official first-team selections.

Here we go …

Player of the Year: Oregon’s Payton Pritchard

The wire-to-wire winner after his stellar start against Gonzaga, North Carolina and Seton Hall.