Jon Wilner's Pac-12 Hotline is brought to The Seattle Times through a partnership with the Bay Area News Group. Wilner has been covering college athletics for decades and is a voter in the basketball and football AP polls, as well as the Heisman trophy. He shares his expert analysis and opinions on the conference for the Pac-12 Hotline.
The Pac-12 got it right with the 20-game conference basketball schedule (starting in 2020-21), but that cannot be the only move.
The addition of two conference games in late November/early December will generate more attention for Pac-12 basketball during a slow stretch — the weekend of the Heisman Trophy, for instance, is one of the lightest of the year in college sports.