Pac-12 MBB power rankings: Can the rebuilt conference overtake the Big East for non-Power Four supremacy?

Welcome to the latest installment of the Hotline’s Pac-12 men’s basketball power rankings, our weekly assessment of a conference that doesn’t exist (yet) using results, analytics and a dash of common sense. The power rankings will be published each Monday through the end of the regular season. Here is last week’s edition.

The lines have been drawn even though the competition is nine months away: Will the new Pac-12 overtake the Big East next season as the “best of the rest” — the toughest league outside the ACC...