Percy Allen recaps the Selection Sunday experience of Washington’s men’s basketball team, who endured a tough loss Saturday night to the Oregon Ducks in the conference championship game:
“We had a feeling going in and people were talking and saying we’re going to make it, but to hear your name get called and see your name up there on the bracket is amazing,” [Matisse] Thybulle said. “I’ve never had this experience, and I know Husky fans have been waiting a long time, and it’s a dream come true.”
As the gap between the reputations of the Pac-12 and the nation’s strongest basketball conferences such as the ACC has grown ever wider in recent years, Matt Calkins elaborates on how the so-called Conference of Champions can use this year’s NCAA tournament as a springboard to launch itself back into national relevance:
It wasn’t long ago where other teams feared Pac-12 programs and the rest of the country respected them.