– The Oregon baseball team just got swept by Cal State Fullerton at home, and it dropped five spots in Monday’s Baseball America top 25 rankings to No. 14. The Ducks (8-3) also fell five spots to No. 12 in Perfect Game’s rankings. Fullerton (7-3), meanwhile, moved up one spot to No. 4 in Baseball America’s rankings, swapping places with Oregon State (9-3), the top-ranked team in the Pac-12 according to both web sites. The Titans remained at No. 3 in Perfect Game’s rankings. UCLA (7-4) is the only other Pac-12 team in either top 25. (UPDATE: Oregon fell two spots to No. 9 in the Monday’s USA Today Coaches’ Poll).
– The Register-Guard’s Austin Meek profiled baseball freshman Matt Krook, who has gotten off to a good start as one of Oregon’s best starting pitchers this season. Krook was drafted by the Miami Marlins with the 35th overall pick in last June’s MLB draft and was set to go pro until Miami lowered its offer to him. “Once they (the Marlins) made it about (money), it was great,” Krook’s father, Chris, said. “We were off to Eugene.”
– CBS Sports’ Jerry Palm unveiled his latest NCAA tournament projections over the weekend, and he has the Oregon men’s basketball team (20-8, 8-8 Pac-12) as a 10-seed playing VCU in the first round. The Ducks are one of seven Pac-12 teams Palm expects to make the tournament. That would be an all-time high number of Pac-12 teams to earn bids to the NCAA tournament.
– The Oregon women’s basketball team (15-14, 6-12 Pac-12) finished the regular season with a 90-78 win over Arizona on Sunday, and the seniors were the key reasons why. Guard Ariel Thomas played especially well, scoring 17 points and grabbing seven rebounds. Her eighth point of the game was her 1,000th of her career, making her the 26th player in Oregon history to reach that mark.
– Going into Sunday, the Oregon men’s tennis team had never beaten a top-15 team. That changed when the Ducks defeated No. 15 Boise State 5-2. This historic win came a day after the Ducks (11-1) beat Washington for the first time in 10 years.
– On Sunday night, Cleveland Indians reliever John Axford predicted 18 Academy Awards on Twitter before the show began. All 18 predictions came true. Axford nearly nailed his predictions the year before, too, hitting on 14 of 15 Oscar categories.
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