Oregon

Yes (and they deserve it)

Yes (but they shouldn't)

No (one of Oregon/ASU won't make it)

Cheerleader of the Day

 

Thanks to our friends over at Icon Sports Media, we now have access to thousands of great college basketball photos to use on the site.  Each day, along with our Picture of the Day, we'll be featuring a Cheerleader of the Day. We'll be mixing up the schools & cheerleader so check back daily!

Okay, this may now become a curse…I have written this column two times now and each time I’ve written about a savior (team), that team, or teams, seems to flop the following week. This past week’s victims are the teams from New Jersey, specifically Seton Hall and Rutgers who were both 0-fer for the week in the Big East. It was an especially bad week for the Hall as the Pirates had won a nice stretch of games to put themselves in position for an NCAA Tournament bid and are now, at best, back on the bubble.

Games of the Night

 

A companion to our daily Three Stars of the Day, we present the top three Games of the Night.

 

Kentucky (5-5, 206 RPI)

Maryland (6-6, 172 RPI)

Oregon (8-3, losses to Nebraska, Oakland , SMC)

Southern Illinois (5-5, losses to Charlotte, SLU, WMU)

Other (L'Ville, Mississippi State, NC State, etc.. explain below)

EUGENE, Ore. — Five high school players rated among the best at their positions nationally have signed National Letters of Intent with Oregon, head coach Ernie Kent announced Wednesday.

Oregon’s recruiting class has been ranked No. 7 nationally by Hoop Scoop, run by Clark Francis, and 11th nationally by both Rivals.com and Scout.com (Dave Telep).

Three of the signees are from Chicago: Josh Crittle, Michael Dunigan and Matthew Humphrey. The other two are Drew Wiley of Springfield, Ore., and Teondre Williams of Norcross, Ga.

Here are sketch bios on each player:

UCLA PICKED TO DEFEND PAC-10 TITLE IN 2007-08

Oregon Ducks

 

Overall Rank: #34

NORMAL, Ill. – Illinois State head coach Tim Jankovich added an explosive scorer to his backcourt Wednesday with the announcement that 6-foot-5 guard Chamberlain Oguchi will transfer to ISU from Oregon. Oguchi was a fixture in the Ducks lineup the past three years, and helped them reach the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament last season. He will sit out this year due to NCAA transfer rules, but will have one season of eligibility with the Redbirds beginning in the 2008-09 campaign.

20 of the nation's top basketball players 19 years old and younger (born on or after Jan. 1, 1988) have accepted invitations to participate in the June 28-30 USA Basketball Men's U19 World Championship Team Trials that will be held at the Dallas Mavericks' practice facility. The Trials will be used to select the finalists for the USA Basketball U19 World Championship Team that will look to return home with gold from the 2007 FIBA U19 World Championship that is being held in July 12-22 in Novi Sad, Serbia.