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The Elite 8 is set with Tennessee's 76-62 victory over Iowa State. Setting a Big Ten record, four Big Ten teams have advanced to the Elite 8. 🤑🤑🤑🤑 Saturday - Houston, Texas - Illinois vs Iowa - 6 PM/ 3 PM - TBS - One B1G Final 4 team, at least. San Jose, California - Purdue vs Arizona - 8:30 PM/ 5:30 PM TBS - Tough test for the Boilermakers as Arizona has played the best ball through the Sweet 16. Arizona is the last B12 team still standing. Sunday - Chicago, Illinois - Michigan vs Tennessee - 2 PM/ 11 AM - CBS - The Volunteers represent the SEC's final chance at a title. Michigan opens -8.5. Washington, DC - Duke vs UConn - 5 PM/ 2 PM - CBS - Both schools won close games to advance. Duke is the last ACC school still standing. UConn and Bobby Hurley will be a very tough out. The Final Four will be played in Indianapolis - Hopefully, 3 B1G teams will be playing for it all in Indianapolis. GO Illinois/Iowa - Michigan and Purdue!

It was a funny year for SEC basketball. There were a fair number of very good teams and no elite ones. The SEC's outcomes this year pretty much matched what the B1G usually does. I wouldn't bet too much, however, on the league staying down for long.

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Down 21-6, Michigan State fought back before losing to UConn 67-63. UConn plays Duke on Sunday to determine which team moves on to the Final 4. Looks like Michigan might have to defeat a second SEC team to reach the Final 4. Tennessee is up by ten points over Iowa State with nine minutes left in the game.

Ducks win 4-0 as Oregon's pitching depth was the difference. Once their ace left--we could go to work on offense. Gabe Miranda bunted down the 3rd baseline, and caught them sitting back to then beat the throw to first. Ryan Cooney hit a high infield bouncer that slowed down to allow him to get on base safely. Jax Gimenez sees everybody coming in close to defend the bunt, and hits if over the right fielder's glove and rolls to the wall. Miranda scores from second, and Cooney went from first to third. Such fast base-runners this year! The relief pitcher for Santa Barbara slipped as he was pitching, and it was called a balk...thus Cooney is scored, and Gimenez moves to third. Drew Smith is intentionally walked. Then the Ducks sucked the infielders into a pickle/hot box between first and second base with Smith...while Gimenez scores before the out to get the fourth run! Devin Bell finished it off with his curve drop-ball, and a 97 mph heater to mess up the batters. Even with that...Maddox Molony was backing up the 3rd baseman on a hit through the infield, and snagged the grounder, turned his body and made the long throw in time for the out! Hitting, pitching and fielding. Be proud of this team! The official game recap will be posted below 2-3 hours from now.

1-0 Ducks after eight innings. Oregon strands two on base... NOW we see Tanner Bradley, and in his 10 outings--nine of them he did not give up a single earned run. Damn his sideways action both away and toward the plate is tough. Catcher Burke-Lee Mabeus made a terrific play sprinting to a dribbler hit, and firing to first base to barely beat the runner. Whew!

Michigan moves on to the Elite 8 with a 90 - 77 victory over Alabama. Next up for Michigan will be the winner of the Tennessee-Iowa State game. Duke defeats St. John's and will meet the winner of UConn vs Michigan State. UConn is up early. With Iowa playing Illinois tomorrow, at least one B1G team will be in the Final 4, with Purdue having a shot tomorrow to advance to the Final 4, playing against a very tough opponent in Arizona. GO B1G!

1-0 Ducks after seven innings. With the Santa Barbara ace retired for the day, we saw Jack Brooks smash a solo HR over the CF wall! They brought in Luke Morgan to pitch again, as he must have his confidence now, and that of the Oregon coaches. His curve was deadly again!

0-0 after six innings. Oregon brought in Luke Morgan to replace Sanford, and not Tanner Bradley? Morgan is a sophomore from Grants Pass who has not been used that much in relief, but he is the first reliever this weekend? But he got two strikeouts, and kept them scoreless! A very nasty curve-drop-ball that looks like it plunges three and a half feet at the plate. Wow!

0-0 after five innings as the pitcher's duel continued, although both pitchers have very high pitch counts and I believe they are both done after this inning. Nothing again on offense, and this time Will Sanford got out of a jam with only two runners on base! He has over 100 pitches...

0-0 after four innings. The Gaucho pitcher threw a 99 mph pitch? Whew! That's why we got nothing this inning. Oregon's Will Sanford is going to challenge my blood pressure, as he got into another bases-loaded jam...and then struck out the next two!

Two Too Many Ducks on this List - (and counting 🤬) On3NCAA Transfer Portal: Top 10 college basketball players c...The NCAA Transfer Portal doesn't open for another two weeks, but players across the country are making their intentions to enter known.

Costing too Dam much Pac-10 money to kick this loser to the curb. I sure hope Barnes' hiring of another football coach with no head coaching experience will work out. 🤪

0-0 after three innings. So isn't this lovely? It was stated that the Gaucho pitcher, Jackson Flora, was named the No. 2 Prospect for the MLB Draft! No wonder we are having trouble with him! But Oregon's Ryan Cooney got a double, and Jax Gimenez walked...and we left them stranded. Meanwhile Will Sanford got into a bases-loaded jam, and you could see him mentally lock-in and strike out the next two batters. Whew! P.S. When you doing intermittent fasting as I and the eating window comes open? I'm cooking dinner-baby! So next innings will be late reporting...

Using the rankings, here's a hypothetical field for a B1G vs SEC Football Challenge - First, IMO, 11 SEC teams in the Top 25 is Same SEC, Different Day. Again, we see the middle of the SEC ranked higher than the middle of the Big Ten. This has not played out on the field for the last two seasons. This 'stuff' is why a hypothetical second Big Ten loss by Oregon last season could supposedly have kept Oregon out of the Playoff. The Ducks went 2-1, including shutting out the B12 champion in Miami. B1G No. 17 Northwestern would play B1G 18 Purdue. Games involving at least one Top 25 team. 1 Ohio State vs 4 Georgia 2 Oregon vs 6 Texas 5 Indiana vs 9 Texas A&M 13 USC vs 10 LSU 14 Michigan vs 11 Alabama 17 Penn State vs 12 Oklahoma 21 UW vs 15 Tennessee 22 Iowa vs 16 Ole Miss 33 Illinois vs 19 Florida 37 Nebraska vs 20 Missouri 45 Minnesota vs 24 South Carolina Matchups without a Top 25 team: 46 UCLA vs 26 Auburn/ 49 Northwestern vs 31 Vanderbilt/ 55 Maryland vs 47 Arkansas/ 61 Wisconsin vs 52 Mississippi State/ 62 Rutgers vs 53 Kentucky Regardless of my complaints about the rankings, this out-of-conference inventory would be media gold.

You can see the rankings 1-138 on the SP+ ranking topic I posted earlier today.

0-0 after two innings. The Ducks have a hard time hitting the Santa Barbara pitcher, but got some gifts in a walk, and getting plinked...but stranded them. Will Sanford brushed away the opposing batters, 1-2-3.

0-0 after one inning. I guessed correctly on the Gaucho starter, and man...he has nasty sideways action, and hasn't given up a run in over a dozen innings? Good test for our hitters. Meanwhile Oregon's Will Sanford gave up a walk and a plinked batter, but generated three fly balls.

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This game is in sunny California, although it looks like it would have been fine today at PK Park. We owed them a series at their house when a prior one scheduled was terminated due to flooding on the eve of the series in the past. Santa Barbara....home of FishDuck.com writer Alex Heining, and one of my favorite '90s band, Toad-the-Wet-Sprocket. The pitcher for Santa Barbara Gauchos has not been announced, but I assume it will be Jackson Flora, who has an incredible ERA of 0.94 and will go up against Oregon's Will Sanford. (1.44 ERA) The other Gaucho starters also look really good in Nathan Aceves, (3.77) and Kellen Montgomery. (3.86) In terms of hitting--Oregon has the edge with more homers, and six starters hitting over .300 while Santa Barbara has four. Looks like another low-scoring scrappy game! Will Sanford

Yep, looks like it is.

Rushed and secretive coaching searches followed by the boss leaving…yikes.

Well, that is if you are and Oregon State fan. For the rest of us, too bad it happened. Scott Barnes retiring as Oregon State athletic director - ESPN