Can the Oregon Ducks Make the NCAA Tournament?
“,”body”:” At 15-10 overall and 6-7 in the Pac-10, the Oregon Ducks have some serious work to do if they want to make the NCAA Basketball Tournament. While the Selection Committee evaluates teams and not conferences, the importance of the conference standings cannot be overstated. Why? Because it is awfully hard for the Committee to justify taking a seventh place team over a fifth place team from the same conference when the emphasis is on a team’s entire body of work. With that in mind the Pac-10 race takes on a great deal of importance as five teams, all within a half game of each other, battle for fourth through eighth place. And that’s not to mention the higher you place the better your seed will be for the conference tournament. Although seeding is not as significant as the final standings it is not like there are going to be any easy games in the conference tournament besides Oregon State. Beaver-bashing aside, the Ducks have five games left and in only one game will they be a si
