Oregon hoops what can I say . . . I thought they had a gutty effort against Vandy and they lost on a heart breaking shot, I can accept that . . . then they laid an egg to an agressive and big Georgetwon team ending a 37 game home winning streak against non Pac 10 foes, they seemed to show no life in that game and obviuosly were hungover from the Vandy loss but we have seen that often with Kent teams, losing streaks after heart breaking L's . . . facing Illinois on Saturday is pretty much a make or break game for the Ducks as for the NCAA's, I don't really see a lot of differnce from last year but maybe I can be convinced otherwise . . . How bad is the Pac 10 in basketball . . . I am talking about you Stanford . . . lose by 19 to Montana and then lose to UC Davis . . . do your self a favor and check out Bob Clark's article in the guard today . . . by the way UC Davis lost to Cal State Stanislaus . . . no suprise to me that Oregon lost out on the BCS . . . when LSU and then Va Tech lost I know that OSU and NDU were locked in to the 4th and 6th places leaving the Fiesta Bowl no choice in taking the 5th place BCS team . . . I think OSU, UO and Notre Dame all have good arguments someone was gonna bet hosed and luckily for John Junker the rules took his desicion out of the mix . . . the Pac 10 has definitely been more hurt by the BCS than any other conference in terms of payouts though I think the worst exclusion ever was probably K State in 1998 . . . Note to the Ducks, you better beat a very much improved Oklahoma team in San Diego or all the wining from fans is meaningless, the coaches and players though have handled the whole thing with pride and class and I give them kudos for that . . . the two biggest BCS shafts (ie not getting a bid, not the no championship game garbabe that screwed Oregon and USC) in the past were probably K State and Cal and both lost pretty badly in there lower tier bowl games . . . I see the Ducks showing up but Oklahoma should be not underestimated . . . expect to see Alliotti sell out to the run and hope Petersen can be stopped . . . I see a whole lotta Ngata in his future . . . well looking forward to going the Pape Jam on Saturday, hope the Ducks decide to show up to . . . speaking of hoops does the Pac 10 even get 4 bids this year? Right now I'd say no based on RPI numbers but they will probably change as the year goes on . . .