The Pac-12 did not meet expectations in men’s basketball this past season, and the NBA draft outlook for the conference flows from that larger reality.
The Pac-12 didn’t put a single team in the Elite Eight, let alone the Final Four. Only UCLA and Arizona reached the Sweet 16. Oregon failed to make the NCAA Tournament. It was a down year for the conference, so it’s no surprise the coming NBA draft will probably be a disappointment for the Pac-12. The conference is in real danger of falling short of its expected goals, as Jon Wilner of the Wilner Hotline points out:
With the stay-or-go deadline having come and gone, the Hotline examined the latest draft projections.
What we saw was eye-opening.
Only one Pac-12 player, Arizona wing Bennedict Mathurin, is considered a lock for the first round.
Granted, mock drafts are inherently flawed (for both the NBA and NFL). But they aren’t always wrong about every player.
From here, it appears that Arizona’s Dalen Terry and Christian Koloko have the best chance of joining Mathurin in the first round — far better than, say, UCLA’s Johnny Juzang or USC’s Isaiah Mobley.
But there’s no reason to view Terry or Koloko as a lock.
If June 23 comes and goes with Mathurin standing alone, it would mark the first time since 2010 that the Pac-12 produced a single first-round pick.
Back then, it was Washington’s Quincy Pondexter.
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