Packed standings, Apple Cup and Civil War headline this week in Pac-12 Men's Basketball

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#PAC12HOOPS STARTING FIVE:

.454 - Pac-12 road teams went 8-4 last week and are 30-36 (.454) through 66 league games.

• The Conference’s best single-season win percentage for road teams under the 18-game format came in 2007-08 at 42-48 (.467).

+3.0 - WASHINGTON’s current 3.0-game lead in the Pac-12 standings is tied as the largest league lead in the nation (Southland).

• Two games separate nine teams between second and 10th place in the Pac-12 standings, which marks the most teams separated by the fewest games of any conference in the country.

3 & 1 - A Pac-12 student-athlete and team combined for four national weekly awards stemming from last week’s performances: 

• Robert Franks, WASHINGTON STATE - NCAA.com, Naismith Trophy & USBWA Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week.
• UTAH - NABC Division I Team of the Week

4 - Four Pac-12 standouts were named final 10 candidates for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Starting 5:

• Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year: Jaylen Nowell, WASHINGTON
• Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year: Tres Tinkle, OREGON STATE; KZ Okpala, STANFORD
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year: Moses Brown, UCLA

12.3 - Through 66 league games as of Feb. 10, the average scoring margin is 12.3 points.

• 26 games have been decided by single digits
• 7 games have been decided by one possession (3 pts. or less)
• 4 overtime games (4 total OT periods)
• 1 game decided on teams final possession (P. Van Dyke - UTAH at UCLA)

PAC-12 TIPOFF:

ROAD SWEEPS: They’ve been difficult to come by - just 51 in total - since the Pac-12 expanded prior to the 2011-12 season. There have been eight road sweeps accomplished in the Pac-12 so far this season, two shy of the record of 10 set in 2016-17:

• ARIZ at CAL/STAN
• COLO at UCLA/USC
• OSU at COLO/UTAH
• UTAH at CAL/STAN & UCLA/USC
• WASH at ORE/OSU & COLO/UTAH
• WSU at ARIZ/ASU

UTAH and WASHINGTON are now seeking to join Arizona in 2014-15 and 2016-17, and UCLA in 2016-17 to post three road sweeps in a Pac-12 season. 

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

• ARIZ - 13
• ORE - 9
• UTAH - 7
• CAL - 6
• UCLA, WASH - 4
• USC - 3
• COLO - 2
• OSU, STAN, WSU - 1
• ASU - 0

NATIONAL DPOY?: WASHINGTON’s Matisse Thybulle and OREGON STATE’s Kylor Kelley are among 15 players on the Naismith Trophy Defensive Player of the Year watch list.

• Thybulle is the only NCAA Division I player ranked in the top 25 nationally in both steals and blocks (3.29 spg - 1st, 2.21 bpg - T-25th) and one of only two in the top 100 (Zion Williamson, Duke).
• Kelley ranks second in NCAA D-I with 3.48 blocks per game.

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. 284 - MATISSE THYBULLE, WASH, 2016-PRES