So the Pac-12 regular-season title won’t be on the line Saturday as anticipated when UCLA hosts Arizona at Pauley Pavilion. That’s OK. From NCAA Tournament seeding, to Azuolas Tubelis vs. Jaime Jaquez Jr. for the Pac-12 Player of the Year…
Bruce Pascoe LOS ANGELES — So the Pac-12 regular-season title won’t be on the line Saturday as anticipated when UCLA hosts Arizona at Pauley Pavilion.When the Wildcats and Bruins wrap up their regular seasons at Pauley Pavilion before an ESPN audience Saturday, there will be significant NCAA Tournament implications for both teams. The final audition for Player of the Year for both UCLA’s Jaime Jaquez and Arizona’s Azuolas Tubelis.
“It doesn't matter if it was when they had Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook and they were dominating the league, and we were struggling. Or when they've hit some hard times, like in Steve Lavin’s last game when they really wanted to beat us and they beat us in overtime. I've never been part of an Arizona UCLA game where both teams aren’t laying it all out.”
While the Bruins are expected to open NCAA Tournament play in Sacramento no matter what, getting the No. 1 seed in the West would ensure they will face no higher than a No. 8 seed over their first two games — and allow them the chance to play Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games in Las Vegas, at the same familiar T-Mobile Arena site where the Pac-12 Tournament will be held next week.
“I’m not getting into it,” he said after UCLA beat ASU 79-61 on Thursday. “I’d like to be in the West and I’d like for my team to be treated the way they deserve to be treated. That’s all I’ll say on that.” Tubelis also has a chance to erase the memory of Arizona's 75-59 loss at UCLA last season, when he was limited by a significant ankle sprain he suffered five days earlier at Stanford.
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