Washington earns first road win beating Stanford, 78-61

Well, it took almost a year, but the Washington men’s basketball team finally pulled out a road win. They had lost their previous seven road games this season in what has certainly been a disappointing one for the Huskies.

Men’s Basketball Eases By Stanford, 78-61 – University of Washington Official Athletics Site.

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 Could Oregon State basketball be looking for a new head coach soon?

Reports are floating around that Oregon State basketball head coach Craig Robinson has shown interest in the recently vacant DePaul University basketball coaching job. DePaul University is located in Chicago where Robinson is from.

Dan McGrath writes:

A representative of Craig Robinson, above, head basketball coach at Oregon State University and Michelle Obama’s brother, has approached DePaul about the opening created by the firing of Jerry Wainright last month, according to a high-level person in DePaul’s athletic department not authorized to talk on the record.

Read McGrath’s story here.

Mike Tokito of the Oregonian had this to say back in January:

Last week, DePaul fired Jerry Wainwright as coach, and Robinson’s name quickly came up as a potential replacement, attributable to his Chicago roots. And this came in January, when jobs rarely come open.

Read Tokito’s story here.

Craig Robinson came to Oregon State after the Beavers after the 2007-08 season — as season which saw the Beavers go winless in conference play and get only six wins overall. In his first season as head coach with the Beavs Robinson took the team to an CBI berth and ultimately winning that tournament by upsetting UTEP.

This season he has the Beavs on the brink of a .500 season.

If Robinson does leave for DePaul, or any other school for that matter, it would certainly be a tough loss for the Beavs.

(thanks to Bruce for correcting me — Beavs won the CBI and not the NIT. doh!!)

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 USC student manager Stan Holt fired for technical foul

First the Oregon Ducks’ student section known as the Pit Crew fired him, and then he was actually fired from the USC basketball team.

USC basketball student manager Stan Holt got himself in to some hot water Saturday night as the Oregon Ducks hosted the USC Trojans in what was a close game. With the Trojans down by two points and just over four minutes to play one of the referees rushed to the scorers table to called a technical foul — on Holt.

Weird, right? Yeah, I know.

Holt apparently had been on the referee’s case and some obscenities were said. Soon after the technical foul Holt was nowhere to be found on the team’s bench.

The Pit Crew began chanting, “you’re fired.” And they were right.

USC was very much in the game at the point of the technical, but then the Ducks went on a 10-0 run and the game was in hand for Oregon as they went on to win 67-57.

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 Washington Huskies start 1-3 in Pac-10 play

The Washington Huskies are 1-3 through the first four Pac-10 games after going 9-2 in non-conference play.

They’ve lost their last three straight by double digits: Oregon by 11, at Arizona State by 17, and at Arizona by 17.

The one Pac-10 team they have beaten so far is the Oregon State Beavers — and they beat them by six points. Let’s not forget it was the Beavers who just lost by 51 to Seattle. That’s right, Seattle.

Washington needs to figure out what has changed from non-conference play to conference play. And they need to do t quickly. Because they’re not looking good right now.

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 UCLA commits 23 turnovers in loss to Stanford

This is definitely not the year for UCLA men’s basketball. The Bruins are used to being near the top of the Pac-10 — not hovering somewhere in the middle hoping to make it out alive come season’s end.

There are various reasons why UCLA just doesn’t look like they should; or used to. But committing 23 turnovers is just nuts.

Twenty-three turnovers feels like something you might see from a girl’s high school basketball game. Not the historied UCLA Bruins.

C’mon Bruins. You’re better than 23 turnovers… aren’t you?

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