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    Pac-12 basketball is more than just hype this season

    by Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times Jan 02, 2020 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The slick hype video, a staple of Pac-12 basketball media day, served up the usual array of breathless boasts. It touted "an unprecedented balance of old and new" players, "one of the greatest recruiting hauls in conference history" and "a handful of triple threats and double-double machines" complemented by "sharpshooters and destructors, playmakers and ambassadors."

    Those claims might amount to more than puffery, even if James Naismith may have failed to comprehend the roles of destructors and ambassadors in his beloved game.

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