Juwan Howard disappointed in his team's defense in Michigan's 77-63 loss to Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio on March 1, 2020. Detroit Free Press
Last season the Pac-12 was awful.
The league ranked last of seven power conferences in the NCAA's NET metric and had a historically bad non-league winning percentage (62%) that was worse than several mid-major conferences. Washington was a No. 9 seed, Arizona State was a No. 11 seed and Oregon was a No. 12 seed in the NCAA tournament. The year prior wasn't much better. The league failed to advance a team to the second round of the 2018 tournament — the first time since 1997 a power conference failed to do so.