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When most folks are hitting the couch after another day of the 9-to-5 grind Thursday evening, Jenna Prandini will be just getting to work. And what a workload it will be. The NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships begin Wednesday in Eugene with a new format. With the exception of the multis and 10,000 meters, men’s preliminaries will be held Wednesday with finals Friday, while the women hold their preliminary rounds Thursday before wrapping up the meet with finals Saturday. Traditionally the men’s and women’s competitions each have been stretched across all four days of the meet. Under the new format, an athlete like UO women’s standout Prandini, who could compete in as many as five events, will be extremely busy at times. Prandini’s meet could open with the preliminary round of the 4×100-meter relay on Thursday at 4 p.m. The tempo really picks up about an hour later; the long jump finals and 100 prelims begin almost simultaneously around 5:15 p.m., with the 200 prelims an hour later, around the time finals begin for the long jump. The 4×400 relay, a race Prandini could run if the team title is on the line, will close each day of the meet. “We’re under an extremely tight window as far as moving from event to event to event,” UO head coach Robert Johnson said. Prandini’s finals Saturday, potentially in the 4×100, 100, 200 and 4×400, all would be separated by about 45 minutes each. It’s a hectic schedule – though not too dramatically different from a Friday night last year that packed three finals into about 90 minutes.
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It will be a Civil War battle at Gill Coliseum to open the 2015-16 Pac-12 schedule for Wayne Tinkle and the Oregon State men’s basketball team, the Pac-12 Conference announced this week. The Beavers will open the conference slate with three home games — Oregon, Stanford and California — before hitting the road to play Utah in Salt Lake City and Colorado in Boulder. UCLA, USC, Washington State and Washington will also visit Gill Coliseum during the 2015-16 season. Oregon State is coming off a season in which it set a school record for its best start at Gill Coliseum (14-0) and the most home wins in a single season (15). The Beavers defeated No. 7 Arizona for their first win over a top-10 team in 15 years, and knocked off Arizona, UCLA and Washington in the same season for the first time since 1990.
