For the last year the Pac-10 has had to sit back and suffer the ignoble insults of a nation that has mocked the conferences wherewithal on the hard court.

Sports talking heads, whose jobs depend on assessing hoops talent, smile smugly, look straight into the camera and say things like, "The Pac-10 is the worst major conference in college basketball."

In preseason polls for the 2010 season, only the Washington Huskies were given any love by these pundits, marking the second year in row that the conference round ball prowess was besmirched in the "open court" of the press.

And in that time, many fans of the conference, particularly those of...

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