Top half of Pac-12 Men's Basketball standings to meet this week

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2 - Two Pac-12 student-athletes are among the 15 players named to the Naismith Trophy Defensive Player of the Year watch list announced Jan. 22: 

• Kylor Kelley, OREGON STATE - NCAA Division I-leading 3.94 blocks per game.
• Matisse Thybulle, WASHINGTON - 2.72 steals per game (8th in NCAA Division I), 2.33 blocks per game (T21st), only Division I player ranked in top 25 in both categories, one of two in top 100 (Zion Williamson, DUKE).

5-0 - WASHINGTON is the only remaining Pac-12 team to make it through the opening three weeks of Conference play unscathed at 5-0:

• WASHINGTON is 5-0 for the first time since 1983-84 when it opened Pac-10 play 6-0. UW last started league play 7-0 in 1952-53, when it began PCC play 14-0 en route to a Final Four appearance.
• It marks UW’s first five-game league win streak since 2011-12, and a pair of victories this week would mark the Huskies’ longest Conference streak since an eight-game stretch in 2004-05. 

9, 6 - The fourth- and fifth-longest series win streaks in the Pac-12 will be on the line this week as COLORADO visits STANFORD on Saturday and OREGON hosts WASHINGTON on Thursday.

•  18 - ARIZONA vs. STANFORD (dating to 2009); 13 - ARIZONA vs. WASHINGTON STATE (2010); 10 - UTAH vs. WASHINGTON STATE (2014); 9 - COLORADO vs. STANFORD (2012); 6 - OREGON vs. WASHINGTON (2015) & CALIFORNIA vs. OREGON STATE (2016).

13.1 - Through 32 league games as of Jan. 21, the average scoring margin is 13.1 points.

• 11 games have been decided by single digits
• 3 games have been decided by one possession (3 pts. or less)
• 3 overtime games (3 total OT periods)

305, 303, 297, 295  - Four of the five most played rivalries in NCAA Division I college basketball take place this week. The Civil War series between Oregon and Oregon State is the nation’s most played at 351 games:

• 2. 305th meeting - OREGON vs. WASHINGTON (UW leads 189-115)
• 3. 303rd meeting - OREGON STATE vs. WASHINGTON (UW leads 160-142)
• 4. 297th meeting - OREGON STATE vs. WASHINGTON STATE (OSU leads 172-124)
• 5. 295th meeting - OREGON vs. WASHINGTON STATE (UO leads 169-125)

PAC-12 TIPOFF:

ROAD SWEEPS: They’ve been difficult to come by - just 45 in total - since the Pac-12 expanded prior to the 2011-12 season. Below is the number of road sweeps through each region and the most recent team to accomplish the feat:

• ARIZ/ASU - 4 times, most recently by UCLA in 2016-17.
• ORE/OSU - 5 times, most recently by USC in 2017-18.
• COLO/UTAH - 6 times, most recently by Washington in 2018- 19.
• UCLA/USC - 7 times, most recently by Arizona in 2016-17.
• CAL/STAN - 8 times, most recently by Arizona in 2018-19.
• WASH/WSU - 15 times, most recently by Utah in 2017-18.

A school-by-school total of road sweeps in the Pac-12 era:

• ARIZONA - 13 
• OREGON - 9
• CALIFORNIA - 6
• UTAH - 5
• UCLA - 4
• USC, WASHINGTON - 3
• COLORADO, STANFORD - 1
• ASU, OSU, WSU - 0

PAC-12 RECORDS WATCH: 
Career Steals List (Min. 2 seasons)

• 1. 321 - Gary Payton, OSU, 1986-90
• 2. 298 - Brevin Knight, STAN, 1994-97
• 3. 258 - Eddie House, ASU, 1997-2000
• 4. 254 - MATISSE THYBULLE, WASH, 2016-PRES.
• 5. 246 - Stevin Smith, ASU, 1990-94