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The Pac-12 champion Oregon Ducks are headed back to the Rose Bowl for the third time in six seasons, to face defending national champion Florida State on Jan. 1 in one semifinal game of the inaugural College Football Playoff. The playoff’s selection committee gave Oregon a No. 2 seed into the semifinals, and the Seminoles are No. 3. Top-seeded Alabama was given the right to play closer to home at the other semifinal venue, the Sugar Bowl, where the Crimson Tide will take on No. 4 Ohio State.
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The Oregon volleyball team secured a spot in the sweet sixteen of the NCAA Tournament with a four-set win against LSU, Friday, 25-22, 21-25, 25-20, 25-20. The Ducks (23-9) surged to a sizeable lead midway through the first set, but had to fight off an LSU run which came as close as 21-19, before moving on to a 25-22 win. Oregon will play either UNC or USC, Friday, Dec. 12, at either 4 p.m. PT or 7 p.m. PT. That match will be live on ESPN3. Continuing one of the best seasons in program history, the Oregon State volleyball team (21-12) defeated the University of Arkansas – Little Rock in a 5-set comeback thriller, 25-15, 19-25, 22-25, 28-26, 19-17. The Beavers advance to the Sweet 16 in Ames, Iowa and will face the top-seeded Stanford Cardinal, Friday, Dec. 12 with a yet to be determined time. The match will air on ESPN3. Five Pac-12 teams are in the Round of 16.
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The Oregon women’s basketball team outscored Navy by 29 points in the second half and overcame a 23-point deficit to beat the Midshipmen, 72-64, on Saturday night at Matthew Knight Arena. Oregon returns to action next Saturday, Dec. 13, at 2 p.m. against Northern Arizona at Matthew Knight Arena.
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Ole Miss used an offensive burst late in the first half to propel themselves to the win Sunday afternoon at Matthew Knight Arena over the UO men’s basketball team, 79-73. The Rebels closed the half on a 24-9 run and never trailed for the rest of the game. Oregon will play No. 24 Illinois in Chicago on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 4 p.m. (PT). The game will be televised on the Big Ten Network.
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Victor Robbins scored a career-high 18 points and Gary Payton II registered his third consecutive double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds, as Oregon State took down Portland in overtime, 65-58, at the Chiles Center on Saturday night. Coming up, the Beavers are set to face off with Mississippi State next Saturday, Dec. 13 at 1:00 p.m. in a game televised on the Pac-12 Networks.
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The No. 17/18 Oregon State women’s basketball team erupted for the second-most points in school history on Saturday in a 109-61 rout of Sacramento State at Gill Coliseum. The Beavers are now idle until a Dec. 16 matchup at North Carolina, the first in a six-game road trip. Their next home game is Jan. 9, 2015, against Oregon.
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Senior 184-pounder Taylor Meeks placed second on Saturday at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. Meeks lost 5-2 to Blake Stauffer in the championship match to go 4-1 in the two-day event. He edged top-seeded Gabriel Dean of Cornell 4-3 in the semifinals earlier Saturday. The Beavers scored 56 team points and placed 10th at the 39-team event, one of the country’s premier tournaments. Minnesota won the tournament.