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Here are the full interview sessions with Dana Altman, Jermaine Couisnard and N'Faly Dante from yesterday's Pac-12 men's basketball media day in Las Vegas. Included is the entire main stage Q&A with all three plus breakout sessions with Altman and the two players where the dive deeper into the upcoming season.

Just heard Dorlus didn’t practice today. Anyone know anything about that? Would be a big blow if he is out.

Really good team spokesman.


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A look across the country here:

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Oregon is picked to finish fourth in the Pac-12 preseason media poll this morning. The Ducks finish just behind UCLA in the preseason rankings.

I sure like his approach and play calling. He has changed up his offensive play calling each game based on team matchups. He is quick to change the game plan if it's not working. It's nice having a coach that's not stubborn. We are lucky to have Bo and I believe coach Stein's learning curve will be much quicker with such a reliable, mature quarterback.

The jury is still out on Ty Thompson. I am so impressive with his willingness to stay the course and improve. BUT, this team and coaching staff are going to attract some major portal talent and he better be ready, because if not, there will some studs looking to take his job.

"I wasn't really expecting to do this, but I just want to let everybody know I didn't just tear my ACL," Rising told ESPN 700. "I tore my meniscus, MPFL, and MCL. It was a big surgery and it's not an easy comeback. I've been working my tail off."

This is a great interview with coach Lanning.

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If granted, the motion would pave the way for Washington to file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which neither the school nor the nine other departing Pac-12 universities -- Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Oregon, UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, Utah and Stanford -- currently has the authority to do while not a party to the lawsuit. UW acted on behalf of the 10 universities primarily for jurisdictional reasons, as the original complaint was filed in Washington.

Pac-12 Media Day is tomorrow in Las Vegas. Matt will be there for us. Today, they announced the preseason teams:

2023-24 Pac-12 Men's Basketball Preseason Media All-Conference Team

First Team

Oumar Ballo, Arizona

Adem Bona, UCLA

Keion Brooks Jr., Washington

Branden Carlson, Utah

Isaiah Collier, USC

N’Faly Dante, Oregon

Tristan da Silva, Colorado

Boogie Ellis, USC

Spencer Jones, Stanford

KJ Simpson, Colorado

Second Team

Fardaws Aimaq, California

Kylan Boswell, Arizona

Kobe Johnson, USC

Caleb Love, Arizona

Jordan Pope, Oregon State

Honorable Mention (votes from 5-or-more members of media)

Kwame Evans Jr., Oregon

Pelle Larsson, Arizona

Aday Mara, UCLA

Cody Williams, Colorado

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Are people interested in a watch party for the game Saturday? I am up for it... probably make my neighbors happy to not have to hear me, LOL

Ahead of his weekend decision:

It's easy to envy their WR and QB recruiting, but once a team gets branded like this...let's just say it wont help recruiting.
And some interesting tidbits re coaching fails.


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The four-star defensive end doesn't want to talk much about his de-commitment especially with him being from Tucson. Here's a comment about where his recruitment stands now:

"As you could imagine, this is a very rough time for the U of A fan base. Rather than fan the flames with more words, I am just going to remain silent until we get everything figured out."

Tosh Lupoi was at his game Friday night.

Intriguing prospect.

We ain't goin quietly.

Oregon is 2nd in their new conference. Of course, the wild card is the portal.

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Tosh Lupoi is down in Tucson tonight where Elijah Rushing is playing. Ducks not giving up on the elite pass rusher.