Why this Tournament is becoming a showcase of West Coast basketball

I am biased for the West Coast. I was raised in the Pacific time zone, where Saturday Night is (pre-recorded) Live and Stuart Scott was already flipping his own pillow before he could give holla backs to guys on my squads.

By Andrew Pridgen

I didn’t learn much growing up in California. But I know never to fly out of Ontario. I know ketchup is not salsa. And I know basketball is better here.

Oregon’s senior guard Joseph Young is more annoying for opposing defenders than a pay wall. UCLA’s Bryce Alford seems to have Klay Thompson’s stroke on loan. Arizona super seniors Mark Lyons and Solomon Hill make for the most formidable front court in the round of 32. And Utah’s freshman 7-footer Jakob Poeltl has positioning like Detroit-era Rodman and the automatic touch of a Chipotle girl.

That the Pac 12 could well comprise a quarter of the…