USC gets #4 seed in Pac-10

USC's Pac-10 tournament seed hangs in balance as UW and Wazzu head to overtime. If Washington wins, the Trojans will be the #3 seed, with a quarterfinal game against tonight's Arizona-Oregon winner and a likely semifinal against Stanford. If Wazzu wins, they'll be the #4 seed, with a quarterfinal game against Arizona State and a likely semifinal against UCLA.

All this because of USC's impressive win over Stanford earlier today, which gave them a shot at the #3 seed.

UPDATE: Despite multiple chances to win, the Huskies coug it, and Wazzu wins 76-73 in 2 OTs. So it'll be #4 USC vs. #5 ASU in the first round of the Pac-10 tourney, with the winner taking on either #1 UCLA, #8 Washington or #9 Cal in the semifinals.

Comments

[Andrew]

Given that USC, fUCLA, WSU, and Stanford are locks, I'd like to see ASU, Oregon, and Arizona make runs in the Pac-10 tournament such that the NCAA committee must take seven Pac-10 teams. Ideally things would unfold like this:

Cal/Washington over fUCLA
ASU over USC
Arizona over OSU and then over Stanford
Oregon over WSU

ASU over Cal/Washington
Oregon over Arizona

ASU over Oregon

Under that scenario, I simply don't see how the NCAA committee could snub Arizona, USC, or Oregon, while Stanford, fUCLA, and WSU have to be considered total locks.