Dana Altman and the Ducks host Nevada on New Year’s Eve before starting conference play this weekend. Photo Credit: Scott Olmos-USA TODAY Sports

1 New Year’s Eve hoops in the State of Oregon: Oregon State trying to bounce back from their loss to Towson host Texas-Pan American (7-8) while Oregon hosts Nevada (9-4). Both games can be seen on the Pac-12 Network starting at 2 pm with the Broncs versus Beavers followed by Wolfpack and Ducks.

2 Pac-12 play begins Wednesday when the Utes travel out to Tempe to take on the Sun Devils.

3 Thursday three conference games are on the docket with Colorado at Arizona (5 pm/ESPNU), Stanford at USC (7 pm/ESPNU) and Cal at UCLA (8 pm/FSN)

4 Arizona is still the only team in the conference ranked, they are third in both the AP and coaches polls. Colorado, Oregon and UCLA received votes this week.

5 On the eve of conference play 11 of the 12 teams in the Pac-12 have eight or more wins and only Southern Cal is under .500.

6 Arizona (12-0), Arizona State (11-2), Colorado (10-2), Oregon (10-2), UCLA (10-3), Oregon State (9-3), Stanford (9-4), Washington State (9-4), California (8-4), Utah (8-4), Washington (8-5), Southern California (5-8)

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Oregon Ducks forward Arsalan Kazemi is fifth nationally in steals for the 10-2 Oregon Ducks. Photo Credit: Scott Olmos-USA TODAY Sports

1 As mentioned on Christmas in Hawaii 3 Arizona will play for the tournament championship against 17 San Diego State (11-1) 6:30 pm on ESPNU.

2 The Wildcats are the only ranked team in the Pac-12 with Colorado and Oregon receiving votes in the polls.

3 With it being the last week of December here is the undefeated company Arizona is currently keeping. Cincinnati (12-0), Duke (11-0), Michigan (12-0) and Wyoming (12-0) are the lone unbeatens in division one basketball.

4 Colorado’s Andre Roberson is still in the top five nationally in rebounding at 11.9 per game. Arizona State’s Jordan Bachynski is third in blocks at 3.9. Oregon’s Arsalan Kazemi is fifth in steals at 3.1 per contest.

5 Speaking of the Ducks they are the highest scoring team in the conference at 79.2 a game which is 22^nd nationally.

6 Here are this week’s records – Arizona (11-0), Arizona State (10-2), Oregon (10-2), Colorado (9-2), Oregon State (9-2), UCLA (9-3), California (8-3), Stanford (8-4), Washington (8-4), Washington State (8-4), Utah (7-4) and Southern California (4-8)

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The Stanford Cardinal and forwards Josh Huestis (24) and Dwight Powell (33) remain on the road Friday night when they face Northwestern. Photo Credit: Rob Kinnan-USA TODAY Sports

1 Friday night the Stanford Cardinal (7-4) travel to Evanston taking on the Northwestern Wildcats (8-3). Cardinal 0-1 on the road, lost the other night at North Carolina State while the ‘Cats are just 5-3 at home. Catch this game on the Big Ten Network at 5 pm.

2 Also Friday is Cal State Northridge (8-3) heading to Salt Lake City against the Utah Utes (7-3) which can be seen on the Pac-12 Network at 7:30 pm.

3 Your football match-up that you want to see but played on the hardwood goes to Southern California (4-7) playing at Georgia (3-7), 10:30 am on ESPN3 for you die-hards.

4 Arizona State (9-2) is in Lubbock taking on Texas Tech (5-3) at 11 am, can the Sun Devils pick up their 10^th win of the season.

5 Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic at Honolulu is where the 4 Arizona Wildcats (9-0) will be and they start off facing East Tennessee State (2-7). You can watch this at 7:30 pm on ESPNU

6 Fun fact for Saturday is three teams with the name Huskies will be tangling with Houston Baptist (4-6) at Oregon (9-2) then in Seattle both schools have that nickname Northern Illiniois (2-8) at Washington (7-4)

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