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bigsugarduck wrote:

greenyellow wrote:Oregon is a 12 seed and will face 5 seed Wisconsin in San Jose on Friday.

Beautiful....

How lucky to be put in San Jose! Without investigating, that's got to be a best case scenario for travel...Ducks should be well-represented!

Wisconsin is largely the Ethan Happ show...an old school traditional big. No threes. Gotta like Oregon's chance of defending him with any combination of White-Wooten-Okoro.

So much better than the other 5's, Mississippi St, Marquette, Auburn, & then, either 4's, Kansas St. or UC Irvine instead of probably either Virginia Tech, FSU or Kansas.

Wisconsin's stats look really similar to Oregon's. A little better from long distance, and less turnovers. They seem older and more disciplined, and less athletic. Ducks actually shoot free throws better, which is surprising. Oregon also gets more steals. This Badgers teams seems not as good as past ones Oregon has faced. This all seems very encouraging, particularly given Oregon's improvement in the last month. The ducks need to learn how to beat teams like this. Our transition game and more balanced scoring will be an advantage. I think this is a decent draw.