– Oregon men’s basketball is on the verge of ending the regular season on a five-game winning streak. The Ducks will face Oregon State tonight at 8 p.m. in Corvallis, Ore. and have already secured themselves a bye in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament. Picked to finished eighth in the preseason poll, the Ducks could become the two-seed with a win and a Utah loss, or two Utah losses.
– Oregon women’s basketball is coming off what Kelly Graves called a “signature win” on Sunday over then No. 19 Stanford. The Ducks are hoping to forward that momentum into the Pac-12 Tournament this Thursday, and Jillian Alleyne expects to be a powerful force.
– Alleyne was one of 15 players selected to the Pac-12 all-conference team on Tuesday. She was also named to the all-defensive team. Alleyne is averaging 15.2 rebounds per game, best in the Pac-12 and second nationally. She ranks third in the conference in scoring (18.4 points per game).
– Oregon will send a record-breaking 25 track and field athletes to Fayetville, Arkansas for the NCAA Championships, March 13-14. A year ago, both the men and women’s teams won the team titles. The Oregon women will be looking to win a record sixth-straight NCAA crown.
– Another former Duck is reconvening with former Oregon head coach Chip Kelly in the NFL. Kiko Alonso – a linebacker on the Ducks from 2008 to 2012– will be heading to Philadelphia. On Tuesday, it was announced that the Eagles will send Leasean Mccoy to Buffalo for the former NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year. The trade cannot be made official until the new league year begins Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET.
– Oregon men’s golf is prepared to compete in the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate this weekend. The Ducks are the highest-ranked team (No. 17) in the field.
– Former Oregon running back Ayele Forde is starring in his own television show on Duck TV. The show, titled “The Box,” explores the potential of the imagination and coincidence.
For Forde, a digital arts major, the concept came from people always telling him “you gotta think outside the box.” He thought, “what’s the thinking inside the box, nobody has ever thought about that.”
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