bedupivi wrote:

On the ESPN website Joe Lunardi has a very complimentary take on the Ducks.  This is what he said.
When the Big Ten expanded its footprint to the West Coast for L.A. staples UCLA and USC, who could have predicted that its most impactful addition would come a year later with an invitation to...Oregon?
All the Ducks have managed in their first year of Big Ten competition is an undefeated football season, the top seed in the college football playoff and -- wait for it --- the best record (12-1) in the expanded Big Ten basketball conference.
The Ducks were picked to finish sixth in the preseason conference poll, yet they have quietly crept into the top 10 of the national polls, claimed a # 2 seed in our latest bracketology and boast a 6-1 record against Q1/Q2 opponents (tied for 2nd best in the nation).  In fact, Oregon basketball's only defeat came at the hands of fellow Big Ten newcomer UCLA.  The Ducks are otherwise a tidy 25-0 in the two major sports since their alledged "step up" in class.  Maybe we all had it backward.  Maybe the Big Ten needed Oregon more than the other way around.

The Ducks next game is Thursday, January 2nd in Eugene.  They play # 22 Fighting Illini at at 7:00 pm on the FS1 network.  The Ducks are currently ranked # 9.  Go Ducks!
 

Thanks for the updates and the basketball team. I'm going to try to watch the Illinois game tonight. I have an Illinois fan I'm hoping to prove wrong. After football he said just wait until we play you in basketball. I was trying to tell him that the team might actually be decent this year. Illinois I believe has some really good talent, but are young so this could be a fun game.