The start to the second half of conference play has gone as bad as possible. We are playing worse now than we were to start conference play and the last 3 teams to paste us have now swept the season series against us.
With Stanford and Cal coming to Mac Court this week, it will be interesting to see how much, or how little, this team cares about things anymore. Stanford shares the Pac-10 basement with us and is the "easiest" game left on our schedule. Lose that one and an 0-fer second half is a real possibility.
Tajuan did move into 2nd place on the Pac-10 career 3 point leaders list, for what it's worth. With him needing 18 more and probably only 7 games left, first place is becoming unlikely.
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Since there is nothing to talk about the rest of this season, except can a couple of the young guys show promise for next year and will TP jack enough 3s to break Salim's record, I was wondering your thoughts on P10 expansion.
ReplyDeleteI have to be honest and say that I don't really know how the B12, SEC, ACC and Big East do basketball scheduling. It seems as though rival schools still get home and home matchups. Assuming the future of Oregon basketball will once again be bright, does expansion perhaps put the Ducks in good position schedule wise?
I haven't thought too much about expansion yet, although the talk about it is picking up steam. I don't like it personally, for football more so than basketball, but it probably doesn't hurt us, record-wise, in either sport.
ReplyDeleteHow it could impact things like recruiting and exposure might be a concern, but strictly from an overall record standpoint it will likely mean more games for us against Northwest schools and fewer against the SoCal schools.
In both sports, that can only help our overall record, in the long run.
Also, we likely will be adding schools that are weaker than most Pac-10 schools. I think it waters down the league, but makes it easier to reach the upper division and bumps up the record of the upper division teams by a few games.