Bay Area prep star Aaron Gordon out of San Jose’s Archbishop Mitty High School will play his college ball at the University of Arizona, according to USA Today. The 6-foot-8 power forward, who was in Chicago for the week to play in the McDonald’s All-American game, made his announcement on Tuesday. He is considered among the most prized recruits in ... Read More »
After pulling off two upsets last weekend, the Oregon Ducks are now in the Sweet 16. Their challenges will not get any easier, as they’ll face the top-seeded Louisville Cardinals to see who will move on in the Midwest bracket. Despite getting a lower-than-expected seed on Selection Sunday and embracing the underdog role quite well, the Cardinals could possibly be ... Read More »
President Obama didn’t expect much from the Pac-12 conference when he made his choices for the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Instead of seeing all five teams lose in the second round, the Pac-12 came away with five victories in the first weekend of play. Regardless of their position after the first weekend of games, there is plenty to be said about ... Read More »
Even thought the East Coast bias tends to run rampant thus time of year, there is a national consensus of sorts that the Oregon Ducks were grossly under-seeded in the 2013 NCAA Tournament. It was the definition of madness. But the Ducks did themselves and the Pac-12 Conference a great service by making quick work of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, ... Read More »
Five teams from the Pac-12 Conference received good news on Selection Sunday and made it to the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Ready for March Madness? Enter the $100K NCAA Bracket Challenge today with Sports Out West! While Arizona State had a case for potentially making it to this year’s tournament, the top five teams from the conference deservedly made it to ... Read More »
The Oregon Ducks won the Pac-12 Championship, the proving ground for one of the nation’s top conferences, and the committee on Selection Sunday rewarded them by slapping them with a No. 12 seed. Ready for March Madness? Enter the $100K NCAA Bracket Challenge today with Sports Out West! That means that while they will play relatively close to home in ... Read More »
The UCLA Bruins couldn’t muster enough offense or late stops to overcome the efficiency of the Oregon Ducks as they fell in the Pac-12 Championship, 78-69, at MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night. Carlos Emory led the way for the Ducks, who won their first Pac-12 Championship since 2007, with 20 points on 6-of-14 shooting and 2-of-3 from the ... Read More »
Bill Walton is a Southern California basketball legend, and over the course of the 2013 Pac-12 tournament he’s morphed into one on the sidelines as a broadcaster. That’s because the San Diego, Calif. native and former UCLA star has brought a flair that only he can to the airwaves as the Pac-12 Network. On Thursday, he got loose during the ... Read More »
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