Big Ten MBB: Year 2 offers little hope for the West Coast quartet as losses and irrelevance mount

The sample size remains small but is no longer tiny. Not with two seasons, four teams, and 160 games as evidence. Not with all the miles traveled, the time zones crossed, and the dollars spent. Not with all the losses accrued.

Life in the Big Ten has been a grind for the Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington men’s basketball programs that joined the conference in 2024.

That’s not surprising given the adjustment and the logistics. Nor is it a means of casting judgment on their decisions to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten.