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California’s Jerome Randle won Pac-10 Player of the Year today, and by all means earned the distinction.

Washington’s Quincy Pondexter was the runner-up and could just as easily have won the award.

Whether you believe the selection committee got it right with Randle, or should have instead gone with Pondexter, there is always the concrete evidence to support each side.

And that’s what we’re bringing you today.

The following is a statistical comparison between Pondexter and Randle. Pondexter’s figures will be on the left, Randle’s on the right. Each individual played in all 30 of his team’s regular season games this year. Categories where Randle had better figures are marked with an asterisk(*).

Points per game: 20.2 (Pondexter)/18.7 (Randle)

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Don’t laugh.

Stranger things have happened.

Carl Lewis once sang the national anthem.

John Daly had his stomach stapled.

Shakespeare in Love won an Oscar for Best Picture.

So to think that the Washington men’s basketball couldn’t run off nine straight victories and win an NCAA title is not entirely implausible. Just semi-unlikely. But why focus on the negative?

There are hundreds of reasons why the Dawgs can’t win the NCAA Tournament. The odds, the competition, Joe Lunardi, East Coast bias. That’s only four. You can think up dozens more, I’m sure.

But I’d rather tell you why they can. Because it’s Monday. And you need something positive in your life today.

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