At the beginning of the year I felt that McNamara was the best pure shooter around, but at this point I would have to say that Redick is the best PURE shooter and Salim is second with McNamara a distant third. At the college level if I needed one shot to win the game at this point I would choose Redick, but of the three Salim has the best shot at actually doing something in the NBA.
As far as how many teams get in from the PAC 10, I would have to say that as long as UCLA doesnt really stumble they should get in they have an outstanding RPI and their strength of schedule is top 25.The Bruins should close out the season with at least a 3-1 run to insure their spot. Stanford is a different story, while their RPI as a whole is decent their record is misleading as over 60% of their wins have come against teams ranked below 100 in the RPI poll. Also, their non-conf strength of schedule as a whole ranks 136th which is in the bottom 20% of all basketball. If Stanford gets swept this week on the Oreg turn of their schedule then they are going to have to win both home games the following week against the Washington schools, if they go 1-3 the rest of the way they will ahve to make it to league title game or they will be NIT bound. ASU has a brutal RPI and will more than likely have to win the league tourny to get into the dance. The rest of the legue teams need miracles to get in at this point. At this point I have UCLA and Stanford as number nine seeds so they are borderline at this point.