Portland @ OSU
5:35
Go Beavs
Beavs Chances in the Pac-12 Tournament
Curious to hear opinions on how far the Beavs will go. I think they will beat CO, then the Oregon game is tough but winnable. IMO the Beavs have the easiest path of any lower seed. The right side of the bracket kind of sucks. Utah and Oregon are both way overrated.
Here’s the bracket.
I think UCLA or ASU can upset Arizona, too, which could make this thing wide open. I’m cautiously optimistic they can make this interesting. I’m going bold here and saying they beat CO and Oregon. As soon as people buy in to the Cinderella story (and thus puts pressure on them), they lose to Utah/Stanford.
Gary Andersen, Not Happy
Says they look like a team day 1 not day 3. Rips on the guys for not being mentally strong, pre-snap awareness, etc.
Rips Mamma Machado and her softball question “who won the day today” with “were you at practice?”. Great stuff.
It’s going to be hard to shake the Riley out of these players. Poor Nebraska.
Andersen looks dis-heartened already. Click here.
Fresno State @ Oregon State
5:35pm. There’s a live stream for all four games on the main site.
Good test for the Beavs (Fresno 7-5 and historically good), who ran up their stats vs Grambling St and Portland. We’ll see if that was them bullying on poor talent, or if they have a legitimate lineup this year. This is Fresno’s first visit to Corvallis since 1952, which is pretty amazing, and only their 6th meeting since 1991.
This series has me a bit worried. Baseball is the king of “regressions toward the mean” — and we know hitting at a .400 clip is unsustainable. Does this mean they hit .200? No. Just that fewer runs and a lower average is probable.
The pitching is starting to get into a groove, but again, vs weak opponents. A 3.83 team ERA is respectable and workable if the offense is truly this dynamic. I’d place the over/under at 2.5, and expect 3 with sound play (D has been shaky), and 2 if they don’t tighten things up.
Go Beavs.
Interesting Wilner Article / Spring Camp Day 2
I’m not in the business of being an aggregator or re-posting content (leave that up to the BeaverBytes of the world), but I ran across this on twitter and found it interesting.
For those of us so excited OSU ran into a 22mil windfall (and I do think they and WSU benefited most in the Pac-12), the conference as a whole is still well behind the SEC and BIG 10.
I don’t agree with Wilner’s conclusions that it will preclude the Pac from hiring great coaches — every team in the conference has a good to great coach, so we know it’s false so far. And he also fails to mention the Pac is doing better than the ACC and Big 12. But still, interesting and slightly thought provoking piece.
Also, feel free to discuss spring camp day 2 in this thread.