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I used to always scoff when a B1G team would get a nice seed in "March Madness" despite a losing conference record. It makes sense now. One good thing about the B1G Conference Tournament is that none of the games will be played at MKA. Oregon & Michigan State are the only B1G teams to have not lost a neutral site or road game this season.

Johntay Cook, Washington part ways after transfer portal commitment WWW.ON3.COM . Cook signed with UW on Jan. 7, which was 10 days after he announced his commitment out of the portal. He was on campus for approx. 48 hours before the decision was made to part ways

That story made me think back to when Chicago Cubs fans turned on one of their own. Game 6, 2003, NL Championship series between the Florida Marlins and the Cubs. Cubs led 3-0 in the 8th, a Marlin batter hits a foul ball, Moise Alou is ready to catch it, but Cubs fan, Steve Bartman wants a souvenir and deflects the ball. The Cubs fell apart after that, lost that game and game 7, and Bartman was harassed by Cubs fan for months, to the point he needed police protection.

Absolutely Sankey comes off the worst. Finebaum's looparound logic in the article is the same stuff he's been spouting for months. The only credible SEC personality this season was Saban, who knew it was time to get out.

A big Yahoo for Skattebo! After the RB I was convinced that osu2 simply had better, bigger, faster players than did OBD. But then those bigger, faster osu2 players played Texas, and they didn't look bigger and faster. There's no way that the format did not have a huge part in the disparity between osu2 and the No.1 Oregon Ducks. For that game to used as a comparison, Oregon would not only be that far behind osu2, but Texas as well, and ASU almost beat, should have beat Texas, are they now to be thought of as better than Oregon? As FUBAR the format is going to be the same next year, and if one thing can be taken from it, it is that no B1G team should even want to play in the CCG, 3rd place is where you want to be.

Prime & Colorado, if he's still there next season have a schedule, the likes of which I've not seen before. They open with 7 games at home, then it's 5 in a row on the road, 2025 Colorado Football Schedule | FBSchedules.com FBSCHEDULES.COM View the 2025 Colorado Football Schedule at FBSchedules.com. The Buffaloes football schedule includes opponents, date, time...

It is, but Calipari is now the coach at Arkansas, and Sylla is definitely the kind of player he was used to getting at Kentucky. Go, Altman!

I have always thought that Jay Bilas was as good an analyst as there is in sports. Big Ten coach Mick Cronin gets blasted for comments following loss to Michigan WWW.SI.COM It's safe to say that UCLA head basketball coach Mick Cronin's postgame comments after losing to Michigan didn't go over well...

It's a battle between, Oregon, Arkansas & Georgia Tech. Mouhamed Sylla is set to annonce his decision on January 16, that's Thursday. Mouhamed Sylla set to pick between Oregon and two other programs for his future AUTZENZOO.COM Mouhamed Sylla, a top-15 prospect in the class of 2025, is reportedly set to make his commitment on Thursday, January 16.

Bo Nix reportedly played through fractured back during stretch of Broncos' season AUTZENZOO.COM Former Oregon quarterback Bo Nix was a star during his rookie season for the Denver Broncos. Now, it has been reported that he...

This makes Oregon fans feel better & worse simultaneously. We're left with the worse part and next season, the B1G Championship will be something none of the teams will want.

I'll say he is a great recruiter, and that's based on his great NFL career, and one of his best recruits was his son. We saw his coaching acumen two seasons ago against Lanning, and this season against Nebraska and BYU in the Alamo Bowl. He'll fit perfectly in Dallas.

Looking past the source, the info told us what we knew all season. Another team with a relatively easy schedule was Indiana. They only played one top-25 team (Ohio State). In fact, they only played two teams in the top-50 (the other was Michigan). Plus, they played 5 teams that were ranked below #100 (Florida International, Western Illinois, Charlotte, Northwestern, and Purdue). Again we see that Indiana and Iowa each only played one team ranked above them (both lost those games). The difference is that Indiana won all of their games against teams ranked below them while Iowa lost 3 of those games. Bad for Iowa, but those were the only W's for Indiana. Also, with this, for most of the season, every team Oregon played was ranked below them, every team Indiana played was pretty much ranked below every other team.

Great article, Darren. Of course, that year, Virginia lost to a 16 seed UMMBC by 20 points, OBD lost to 8 seed osu2 by 20.

If it plays out the way Altman's teams usually do; get better & better and peak in Feb and March, starting at 15-2, Final 4 is very possible. The exhilarating and at the same time, frustrating is how much better this team can be. Shelstad is bringing it every game now, Bittle is consistent. But, Angel, Bamba, are at around 40% of what we've seen them capable of doing. Key is a spark, don't want to lose that from him. The defense is good, but could get even better, which is what usually happens with Altman's teams improving. The Ducks are very good in close games, only the UCLA game got away from them. But the Penn State game should not have come down to the wire.

Prime wants Shedeur to go with him, which would be easier in Las Vegas, but they could trade Prescott, who might not mind going somewhere else. The Cowboys are the epitome of "Playing for clicks".

What's the line on Mendoza?

The NET ranking makes no sense! Oregon is 7-1 in Quad 1 wins, 15-2 overall, and 21 in NET. Michigan is 2-2 in Quad 1, 13-3 overall, and is 11 in NET. NET apparently is weighed heavily in seeding for "March Madness".

Ennis is one of my all time favorite Ducks, definite glue and I don't remember a clutch missed FT or shot, he hardly ever turned the ball over, made a silly foul...

Finebaum might have to study up on Hoops, the SEC is a basketball conference now! Of course, Oregon beat Alabama

But they still have "I win, google me", COY! 5 seems about right, I'd prefer 8th or 9th.

If you believe that, Notre Dame Football: 5 Reasons Why the Fighting Irish Will Beat Ohio State in the National Championship - Athlon Sports

The last time the Ducks went to the Final Four was 2016-17. Right now, I'd give that team the edge, but this year's team hasn't reached their ceiling yet. Oregon Ducks Basketball, Jackson Shelstad Protect Perfect Road Record vs. Penn State WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks men’s basketball team capped off their road trip with an 82-81 over the Penn State Nittany Lions. Oregon is still...

Penn State's coach is angry about the foul that Wasn't called: Penn State men's basketball coach Mike Rhoades, hoarse and frustrated after the Nittany Lions' 82-81 loss to the 15th-ranked Oregon Ducks on Sunday, said he was looking for his team to commit an intentional foul and force free throws with 2 seconds left in regulation. But the foul went uncalled, and Penn State lost its second straight Big Ten game to a ranked team. Afterward, Rhoades explained the finish through a raspy voice. He said he even alerted the officials before Oregon inbounded the ball that his team essentially planned to foul. "We're a pressing team, we deny the ball," Rhoades told reporters in State College after the game. "I told the referees, we're going to be physical before they throw it in, so if they call a foul, they call a foul. I told them." Penn State's Zach Hicks made a 3-pointer with 2 seconds to pull the Nittany Lions within one. Rhoades called a timeout to set up the play to defend Oregon's inbound. On the play, Rhoades thought Puff Johnson had two hands on Oregon's Nate Bittle, who tipped the ball to teammate Jackson Shelstad. The plan was intentional, Rhoades said. He had a play set for the situation, which relied on Oregon shooting free throws. But Penn State didn't get a chance to run it, as Oregon ran out the 2 seconds with possession and no called foul. It was a Hail Mary, but Rhoades was upset at the uncalled foul. "When you put two hands on a player when he catches the ball, I thought in the rules that’s a foul, especially when you know we’re fouling," Rhoades said. "So it should have been a foul. Two hands on the guy with the ball is an automatic foul in college basketball. Period. ... Wasn't called. That's disappointing, but that's life. Life ain't fair." "We choked down the stretch," Rhoades said. "... We hung in there, got a steal, we did things the right way when Zach hit that three, but not good enough." Asked later about the "We choked" comment, Rhoades both clarified and went into further detail. "I love my team, I love these guys, I love how hard they play," Rhoades said. "That’s on me. I take pride in how we finish games, close games especially. That's a 60-minute game. I need to help our guys more. I choked. We choked as a team. You’ve got to win those games, man. You’ve got to find a way to win. But as proud as I am of my guys today, that was an awesome college basketball game, I’m just really pissed that we lost. I didn't come here to lose. And you've got to go through this stuff to get where you want to go, and this hurts. This is a game we could have had. Just how it goes. I’m not going to sugarcoat it. That's a game we could have won, we should have won, we didn't win."