It's January!

Well it is late January now and as you can tell from the photo I have my hands full these days! Here I am holding my beautiful baby daughter Evangeline Rose who was born on 12/31/2006. She has already sat through 4 duck games with me and her viewing record is 3-1 with a last second loss to USC. Becuase I haven't been able to watch much hoops this year outside of Oregon I won't be doing a power poll for basketball, hopefuly I'll be back at it next season though and up on my game again. Well as anyone who knows me well knows I have been quite down on Ernie Kent for about 2 years now but I have to give him and more so the Oregon players credit for turning things around. Going in to the year I thought tthis team would be around a 20 win team with about 10 wins in the conference and borderline NCAA but from the performance so far the Ducks have to be judged as perhaps the nation's biggest suprise on the upside (could be the boys from Pullman too, no one saw that happening) in what tunred out to be a very strong league. Obviously there is a lot of basketball to be played but the Pac 10 should bag at least 5 bids to the NCAA's with another 2 teams on the bubble. For a league that usually gets 4 bids , 5 or even 6 bids is monumental. The league is tops in OOC RPI which is quite a feat. I expect more of the same everyone in the Top 8 beating eachother up with 4 schools gaining top 6 bids and two more in the 7-11 range.