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Morning links: a mixed bag for the Pac-12

A win tonight would send Arizona coach Sean Miller to his first Final Four. (Associated Press)
A win tonight would send Arizona coach Sean Miller to his first Final Four. (Associated Press)

If you're a Pac-12 basketball fan based in Arizona or Oregon than yesterday was probably pretty sweet.

Outside of the Beaver State and Cactusville, it was a more or less bleak day for a conference that appears headed toward its fourth down year since 2010.We have links to stories from the games after the jump.

-- Arizona blew Michigan out of the Great Lakes.

-- Arizona State had a comeback win over Pepperdine.

-- California squeaked past Princeton.

-- Colorado had little to fear from its northern rival.

-- Oregon picked up an impressive win over Illinois. But that barely registered when Marcus Mariota became the school's first Heisman Trophy Award winner.

-- Oregon State muscled past Mississippi State.

-- Stanford struggled to beat Denver.

-- Gonzaga beat up UCLA at home. Here's Jim Meehan's story.

-- Army conquered the Trojans.

-- Utah rallied to lose to Kansas by a respectable margin.



Jacob Thorpe
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