While the pundits kick dirt on Pac-12 basketball and prognosticate a postseason demise of historic proportions, Mike Hopkins’ resolve is unshakeable.
After a little hemming and hawing, the Washington men’s basketball coach begrudgingly admitted the league woefully underperformed during the nonconference season.
“Could we have done a little better as a league? Yeah, of course,” he said before Saturday’s Pac-12 opener against Washington State. “Before you’re pulling for everybody in your league and now, you’re a little more selfish and zoning in on your team.
“It’s cliché, but we can only control what we can control.