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We are firmly on the bubble right now. Keep winning!

I feel another "Altman" coming on.

Enter the tourney as a 12-seed when we are playing like a 2 or 3 seed at the end of the year, then completely trash some poor, unsuspecting 5 seed in the first round.

Gotta love it.

northbeachsf wrote:I feel another "Altman" coming on.

Enter the tourney as a 12-seed when we are playing like a 2 or 3 seed at the end of the year, then completely trash some poor, unsuspecting 5 seed in the first round.

Gotta love it.

I can't remember which year this happened, but according to some announcers at the time, there were complaints about Oregon's improper seeding.

DuckNV wrote:

northbeachsf wrote:I feel another "Altman" coming on.

Enter the tourney as a 12-seed when we are playing like a 2 or 3 seed at the end of the year, then completely trash some poor, unsuspecting 5 seed in the first round.

Gotta love it.

I can't remember which year this happened, but according to some announcers at the time, there were complaints about Oregon's improper seeding.

I think after 2015 or so every team we've faced thinks we're improperly seeded regardless of the outcome.

Oregon has been mis-seeded a few times, including the last two tournaments, but the year you are probably thinking of is 2013, when the Ducks made it to the Sweet 16 as a 12-seed. The 5-seed (Okie State) and the 4-seed (St. Louis) both complained that they got a raw deal having to play Oregon, and Louisville (the eventual champion) also came away from the game saying the seeding was clearly wrong.

If Oregon actually has turned the corner this year and starts winning, they won't be a 12-seed again. Beating UCLA and USC on the road in the same weekend put our boys on the map, and further winning will move them up the ladder.

Phalanx wrote:Oregon has been mis-seeded a few times, including the last two tournaments, but the year you are probably thinking of is 2013, when the Ducks made it to the Sweet 16 as a 12-seed. The 5-seed (Okie State) and the 4-seed (St. Louis) both complained that they got a raw deal having to play Oregon, and Louisville (the eventual champion) also came away from the game saying the seeding was clearly wrong.

If Oregon actually has turned the corner this year and starts winning, they won't be a 12-seed again. Beating UCLA and USC on the road in the same weekend put our boys on the map, and further winning will move them up the ladder.

If memory serves Oregon played Louisville closest that year as well. In another part of the bracket they might have gone way further.

As for seeding, Oregon has never been over seeded and is consistently under seeded. Someone did an analyses showing Oregon was one of the teams that overperforms their seed most in recent decades. I’ll be shocked if Oregon does not finish at least 2nd in conference, or does not win pac tournament.