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‘Go in there with confidence’: Oregon men’s basketball takes on No. 6 Arizona in Tucson
Three games remain on the schedule for the Oregon men’s basketball team and while the ultimate goal is finding a way to make the NCAA Tournament later this month, there is a more pressing plan for the Ducks.
The Pac-12 Tournament begins March 13 in Las Vegas. Oregon would prefer to not start play until the next day.
In order to get that first-round bye, the Ducks (19-9, 11-6 Pac-12) need a top-four finish in the regular-season standings. They’re currently in third place — behind Arizona (13-4) and Washington State (13-5), and ahead of Colorado (10-7) — but staying there isn’t going to be easy.
Oregon has a game against the No. 6 Wildcats at 11 a.m. Saturday in Tucson, then play the Buffaloes and Utah at home to end the season next Thursday and Saturday.
The Ducks are 0-3 against those teams this season.
“We’ve got three really tough games but as I told the team, those are three great opportunities,” Oregon coach Dana Altman said Wednesday after Oregon defeated Oregon State at Matthew Knight Arena. “You play for this late in the season, to finish in the top four to try to get a bye, try to make something happen in these three games then try to make something happen in the tournament.”
Tough task awaits Oregon in Tucson
After winning seven straight against the Wildcats from 2018-2021, the Ducks have lost three of the last four matchups, including on Jan. 27 in Matthew Knight Arena when Arizona recorded an opening-tip-to-final-buzzer victory, 87-78.
Oregon had no defense for Arizona guard Caleb Love that afternoon, as the senior guard scored a season-high 36 on 12-of-18 shooting from the field, 5-for-8 from 3-point range, and 7-for-8 from the free-throw line.
The Wildcats shot 49% as a team and outrebounded the Ducks by one — 34-33.
“They’ve got great size so we’re really going to have to rebound the ball,” Altman said. “We let Love just get going here and they got off to a fast start and we never did catch them. They scored too many points and we gave up too many easy ones.”
The Wildcats lead the conference with an average attendance of 12,008 and were undefeated at McKale Center through the first 13 home games of this season until losing to Washington State on Feb. 22.
However, under Altman, the Ducks are 6-6 in Tucson.
“It’s always a challenge down there but we’ve had a little success down there,” Altman said. “But you can’t let the crowd get into it. You can’t give up 80, 90 points — and they’re scoring like crazy at home because they get the crowd going and they start running up and down and we don’t necessarily want to do that.”
Arizona has won eight of its last nine and are averaging 90.1 points during that stretch. The one loss came when Washington State held the Wildcats to 71.
“Like coach always says, ‘Swing away,’” Oregon forward Kwame Evans Jr. said. “So we have to go in there with the mindset to swing away. We have to knock them off first. We just have to go in there with confidence, not worry about the crowd, play our game, execute offense, get stops on defense.”
Oregon (19-9, 11-6 Pac-12) vs. No. 6 Arizona (22-6, 13-4)
Time/date: 11 a.m., Saturday
Site: McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz.
TV: ESPN. Radio: KUJZ-FM (95.3).
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PAGE, AZ (AZFamily) — A person accused of making terroristic threats toward a northern Arizona medical facility was arrested Friday morning.
Just after 10:30 p.m., police received a report of a person calling the facility and threatening to kill staff and Native Americans, according to the Page Police Department.
Authorities said staff placed the facility on lockdown until officers identified the suspect and arrested them outside their home.
The suspect was booked on charges of disorderly conduct, threatening and intimidating, and making terroristic threats. Police have not publicly identified the person.
“The Page Police Department is grateful for and supports the medical staff’s decision to put the medical facility into lockdown until the suspect was arrested and the situation was rendered safe,” the department said in a Facebook post.
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In these four-round projections, the Arizona Cardinals don’t get a tackle until the fourth round.
We are just days away from the 2026 NFL draft, and that means some final mock drafts. What direction will the draft take the Arizona Cardinals?
Draft Wire’s Curt Popejoy put together a four-round mock draft for the Cardinals. They go defense early but rebuild the offense for 2026 and moving forward, including landing their potential franchise quarterback.
Cardinals 4-round mock draft
Here are the players in the first four rounds Popejoy projects for Arizona.
- Round 1: Ohio State EDGE/LB Arvell Reese
- Round 2: Alabama QB Ty Simpson
- Round 3: Clemson WR Antonio Williams
- Round 4: Florida OT Austin Barber
What we think of the picks
The Cardinals want to trade out of the third pick and draft a tackle, so not getting a tackle until Round 4 seems unlikely, although they did meet with Barber. They do have options at right tackle for 2026 already on the roster.
Reese would be a great pick if they don’t trade back, as they badly need pass-rushing help off the edge.
Drafting Simpson seems inevitable at this point, so it has to be in a mock draft, although the feeling is they will need to go up into Round 1 again to get him.
Williams has speed and is almost six feet tall, but he does have short arms.
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Due to significant injuries to the CB position last year which includes a shoulder surgery for Terrion Arnold, the Lions CB position scored a 6/10 need on my Lions Defensive Draft Need Rankings. Thus, an early-round selection of a young, healthy prospect like Keith Abney would not come as a surprise. He enters the draft with very low medical concern level.
Here is the excerpt from my medical report on Keith Abney:
(Ages in parentheses are at start of 2026 season and are factored into the concern level. Injury info and ages based on available public information are unverified and subject to update. Games played data courtesy of sports-reference.com.)
Keith Abney, CB (21) – Arizona State
Projected round 2-3. #43 on Jeff Risdon board Feb 19.
Concern level 0/10
There is an isolated report of a hand injury but no corroborating information. Even if the hand injury is true, that’s of minimal to no long-term concern.
His availability in his final two seasons has been perfect. Overall, Abney appears to be medically clean and is at an excellent age.
He finished college with 6 INT and 21 PBU.
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