Oregon Men’s Basketball: Ducks Move To 8th In Associated Press Poll
The Oregon Ducks Men’s Basketball team moved up one spot in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll to 8th.
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Following back to back road wins against UCLA and USC last week, the Oregon Ducks stepped up a spot to number 8 entering the Pac-12 Tournament this week in Las Vegas.
USC gave Oregon everything they had on Saturday including turning the lights out at the Galen Center on Dana Altman’s team just before halftime and getting close in the final five minutes, but Oregon picked up the win, their fifth Pac-12 road win of the year evening their Conference road record at 5-5 on the regular season. Oregon is again the highest ranked Pac-12 team in the AP Poll this week. Utah came in a 12th, followed by Arizona at 15 and Cal at 24.
March is not far away and Bracketolgy experts are high on Oregon. Joe Lunardi from ESPN has the Ducks pegged as a 3 seed. Jerry Palm from CBS has Oregon as a 2 seed. The Oregon Ducks may be in line for a #1 Seed, but they need to hold court in Las Vegas and win the Pac-12 Tournament this week to have a chance.
Of course, a higher team in the Associated Press poll losing early in their respective league tournament would also not hurt the Oregon Ducks chance at a top seed for the NCAA Tournament.
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The Pac-12 Tournament begins on Wednesday. Oregon will have a first round bye as the number one overall seed and face either 8 Seed Washington or 9 Seed Stanford on Thursday.