Headline got it right

"Nasty Finish For Ducks"

Not as if this is unusual today, with top teams filled with talented kids feeling entitled. Bad sportsmanship, rape culture, any number of atrocities begin here, and some coaches let players "do their thing" if talented enough. Not a lot of character in this atmosphere.

Ban sports scholarships. That will start a fix. And who has balls to do that? The trend is the other way and in a few years Harvard may be as corrupt as the rest. Very sad, esp if you remember what it used to be like.

Canzano:

Oregon stomped all over the cardinal rule of team sport --- it stopped being a team --- and left Milwaukee with an ingredient that every successful program needs at some point before the top: Total heartbreak.

Anyone who watched Oregon's 85-77 loss to Wisconsin (and that's what it was, a loss, rather than a Badgers' victory) knows that the more gifted, more athletic group of players did not advance to the Sweet 16. Oregon was robbed... by itself. Nobody in the Ducks locker room would say exactly that, but when the door opened, heads were down, faces were long, and it was everywhere.

Calliste was in the corner, fuming, "You guys stay away from me I'm not talking." Johnathan Loyd was across the locker room, face buried in his hands, searching for words. Richard Amardi was just shaking his head, staring off. At one point, Calliste pulled on a "CANADA" beanie cap and tried to leave the locker room but a Ducks support staffer told him, "Jason, you can't leave."

Clearly when Ducks recruit both bball and fball kids, "character" is irrelevant. That's a Nike bottom-line mentality.