College basketball’s major conferences no longer have a monopoly on top teams, but when it comes to individual star power, it’s tough to beat the big-name programs. That situation makes for some awfully competitive battles for the distinction of the best player, or even the best at a given position, in any of those conferences.

In the Pac-12, for example, California’s Justin Cobbs is coming off a brilliant season for an NCAA tournament team, but even he has to take a back seat in the conference’s point guard hierarchy. Arizona State’s Jahii Carson is on the short list of the nation’s best rising sopho...

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