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UCLA Should Win the Pac-12 This Season

The Bruins Nation staff has picked UCLA to win the Pac-12 this season.

NCAA Basketball: Pac-12 Conference Tournament-Arizona vs UCLA Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

Well, the Pac-12 Conference portion of the schedule kicked off last night and the results were certainly disappointing, to say the least.

Since conference play has started, we thought now we be a good time to share our predictions as to how things will play out throughout the conference schedule and offer our prognostications for what the Pac-12 standings will look like when the season is over.

But, before we get to the actual predictions, let me take a moment to discuss our methodology.

Frankly, it was quite simple. Each member of the Bruins Nation team predicted what place each team would finish in. Then, much like the Top 25 polls, points were assigned based on that rank. For instance, a 1st place vote was worth 12 points (since there are 12 conference teams). A second place vote was worth 11 points and so on all the way down to a 12th place vote which was worth just one point.

The points were tallied up and the team with the most points is our consensus pick to win the conference.

Not surprisingly, we have picked the Bruins to win the conference. Last night’s hiccup not withstanding, this team just has too much talent not to win the regular season title.

BN’s 2017 Consensus Pac-12 Standings Prediction

Predicted Rank Team Points
Predicted Rank Team Points
1 UCLA (7) 95
2 Oregon 85
3 Arizona (1) 83
4 Southern Cal 72
5 UC Berkeley 61
6 Colorado 60
7 Utah 47
8 Stanford 37
9 Washington 33
10 ASU 25
11 OSU 18
12 WSU 8
The number of first place votes a team received is in parantheses next to the team name.

Of course, part of the fun of making predictions like these is seeing who the better prognosticator is. For that reason, here is what each member of the Bruins Nation team predicted.

BN’s 2017 Individual Pac-12 Standings Predictions

DCBruins Bruinette88 Nirya Joe Piechowski Robert Bastron orlandobruin melissacastro AnteatersandBruins
DCBruins Bruinette88 Nirya Joe Piechowski Robert Bastron orlandobruin melissacastro AnteatersandBruins
UCLA Arizona UCLA UCLA UCLA UCLA UCLA UCLA
Oregon UCLA Oregon Oregon Arizona Oregon Oregon UA
Arizona Oregon Southern Cal Arizona Oregon Arizona Arizona Oregon
Southern Cal UC Berkeley Arizona Southern Cal Southern Cal Southern Cal Southern Cal USC
UC Berkeley Southern Cal UC Berkeley Colorado UC Berkeley Colorado Colorado Colorado
Colorado Colorado Colorado UC Berkeley Colorado UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Cal
Stanford Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah
Utah Washington Arizona State Stanford Stanford Stanford Stanford Washington
Arizona State Stanford Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Stanford
Washington Oregon State Stanford Oregon State Arizona State Arizona State Arizona State ASU
Oregon State Arizona State Oregon State Arizona State Oregon State Oregon State Oregon State OSU
Washington State Washington State Washington State Washington State Washington State Washington State Washington State Washington State

So, now, we’ll see who’s the best basketball prognosticator among the BN team, but one thing that’s clear is that we all expect UCLA to perform well in conference play.


Go Bruins!