Dear Eric Roedl,

We, the elected leaders of Fraternity and Sorority life, support the ACFC and the ASUO in their efforts to negotiate a fair deal for students and Athletics when it comes to student football and basketball tickets. We firmly believe, given the increase in tuition costs next year, that students as a whole cannot afford to pay more money for the same number of football tickets that we received last year. We believe that the current allocation of football tickets is already too small and that you, as the Athletic Department, should be working to increase the number of students at our football games. It was disappointing to see that an increase in student football tickets was never on the table during your negotiations.

We wholeheartedly support all of our athletic teams and take great pride in our university programs. However, reducing the number of subsidized tickets hinders the participation of our members. We believe that every student should have the opportunity to attend games at their own university. Students and the Athletic Department both benefit by having a consistently large, boisterous student section at games. In fact, the environment created by students at Autzen Stadium is part of what makes our football program so great.

Currently, there are students on this campus that have failed to get a ticket to every single football game because of the limits you’ve placed on the number of tickets we are allocated. This is unacceptable and we demand change.

Please reconsider your stance and do not reduce the number of subsidized student football tickets for next year.

Sincerely,

PHC President | Rebecca Brennan | PHC President
PHC VP of Accountability | Allison Wieder (ACFC Vice-Chair)
PHC VP of Recruitment | Josie Roberts
PHC VP of Community Programming | Kelsey Fuson
PHC VP of Membership Development | Kayla Murphy
PHC VP of Internal Management | Rachel Weinfield

Chi Omega | President | Marita Maffit
Delta Gamma | President | Victoria Ganahl
Kappa Alpha Theta | President | Emma Silvers
Kappa Delta | President | Nicole Korkos
Kappa Kappa Gamma | President | Ali Northcutt
Pi Beta Phi | President | Alysia Kezerian
Sigma Mu Omega | President | Margaret Butler

Alpha Phi | PHC Delegate | Maddie Mendes
Chi Omega | PHC Delegate | Jessica Rogers
Delta Delta Delta | PHC Alternate | Lindsay Wiens
Delta Delta Delta | PHC Alternate | Jordan Deeter
Delta Gamma | PHC Alternate | Meg Meagher
Kappa Alpha Theta | PHC Delegate | Tess Griffo
Kappa Alpha Theta | PHC 2nd Delegate | Alexis Baun
Kappa Delta | PHC Delegate | Megan Codd
Kappa Kappa Gamma | PHC Delegate | Kara Orsolini
Pi Beta Phi | PHC Delegate | Brianna Tepper
Sigma Mu Omega | PHC Delegate | Bridget Lawson

IFC President | Max Lehman
IFC VP of Accountability | Francis Howitt
IFC VP of Recruitment | Cameron Parker
IFC VP of Risk Management | John Paul Muessle
IFC VP of Civic Engagement | Jason Selby
IFC VP of Community Programs | Andrew Weiss
IFC VP of Internal Management | Robert DeVleming

Alpha Epsilon Pi | President | Matthew London
Alpha Tau Omega | President | Gustavo Feria
Beta Theta Pi | President | Jack Chalabian
Chi Psi | President | Thomas McMillian
Delta Sigma Phi | President | Jon Workman
Delta Tau Delta | President | Sam Selbie
Delta Upsilon | President | Hayden Rahn
Kappa Sigma | President | Andrew Caraballo
Lambda Chi Alpha | President | Zan Schindler
Phi Delta Theta | President | Jon Gubler
Phi Gamma Delta | President | Michael Lyford
Phi Kappa Psi | President | Dexter Muller
Pi Kappa Phi | Archon | Chris Jones
Sigma Alpha Epsilon | President | Gabriel Schnitzer
Sigma Chi | President | J. T. Livingston Bullier
Sigma Nu | President | Patrick Poggi
Sigma Phi Epsilon | President | Casey Davis
Sigma Pi | President | Robert Mollusky
Theta Chi | President | Noah Daniels

To the Students of the University of Oregon,

What do you do when you’re about to lose a race? Easy. You try to get your opponent disqualified.

At least that is what Miles Sisk and the We Are Oregon slate have done. Helena Schlegel received more votes that Sisk during the first week of voting, and she looked poised to win again in the second week. Luckily for Sisk, his slate got a little “divine intervention” in the form of a senseless ASUO Constitution Court ruling against Schlegel.

Through of all this, I badly for Helena Schlegel and the UO Forward slate. They’ve working hard to try to win the election the good ‘ole fashioned way – talking with students, calling their friends, and reminding everyone to get on DuckWeb and vote by Friday. The ruling against them put crippling restrictions upon their ability to campaign throughout the rest of this week. It is clear that ASUO election rules need to change. It is our duty as students to exercise our right to VOTE for who we feel is the better suited candidate. Personally, I feel confident that Helena Schlegel is that individual.

Sincerely,
Aiden Long

As a UO student over for the past three years, I’ve come to expect childishness behavior from ASUO campaigns. This year is do different. This time, Miles Sisk and his We Are Oregon slate filed a complaint against his opponent, Helena Schlegel and the UO Forward slate for – get this – petitioning skyrocketing tuition rates.

Surely we can all agree that tuition rates need to be controlled. We Are Oregon, however, did not see the opportunity to unite for a shared cause. They saw this as an opportunity for a sleazy political maneuver in which they try to get their opponents removed the ballot.

It would have been nice to have a frank debate about the role of student government and how to spend our student fee money. Instead, we get childish complaints about petition circulating. Oh well… There’s always next year.

-Dakotah Schattler

Dear UO Friends,

The We Are Oregon slate must be pretty insecure about their prospects for winning the ASUO elections. Their strategy has been essentially this: Stand around campus with bright shirts and take pictures with cute animals, and if that fails, try to get your opponents removed from the ballot because winning based on merit and issue-based campaigning isn’t a possibility (which is not surprising if you’ve looked at We Are Oregon’s platform).

Think about that for a minute. Their slate’s strategy is to remove the choice from the students’ ballots. That doesn’t sound very democratic to me.

So, in spite of the attempt to limit my choices, I’m going to exercise my right to choose. I’m going to choose the UO Forward slate this week, the student leaders who are actually out there working on serious student issues like tuition affordability, not the high school politicians who only care about concerts and “going Global”, whatever that means. I hope you’ll join me.

-Shawn Stevenson

Fellow Ducks:

Change at the University of Oregon begins with student programs. Without these organizations, U of O’s rich culture would be nonexistent. It is now more imperative than ever that these groups receive the visibility and financial security they require to function, and Helena Schlegel and the UO Forward team, are committed to the advocacy for these organizations.

Throughout her history with ASUO, Schlegel has been focused on enriching multicultural experiences on campus through the allocation of funding diverse organizations that represent various identities on campus. The UO Forward platform is constructed on ensuring that student programs receive significant funding for self-expression, activism and engagement in the multitude of identities that make up the UO student body.

The UO Forward team comes from a variety of organizations on campus, including S.W.A.T., the Women’s Center, Minority Association of Pre Med Students, SafeRide and The Siren magazine. UO Forward’s dedication to diverse student programming is unparalleled; no other campaign so proficiently represents so many different sects of campus while unceasingly fighting for their presence at the University.

As student leaders of this campus we endorse the UO Forward campaign just as The Daily Emerald and the GTFF Executive Council has before us, not just because they are the right choice but because they are the only campaign actively working on the issues that we care about.

Signed,

Sophie Albanis, Siren Magazine, Editor in Chief

Gerald Jakabosky – Assistant Director of APASU and Mentor Resident Assistant

Roslyn Braun, Climate Justice League, Co-Director

Molly Zaninovich, UO Students for Choice, Co-Chair

Sima Anekonda, UO Students for Choice, Co-Chair

Kalie Solomon, LGBTESSP, Program Assistant

Martin Santoyo, MEChA, Budget Director, ASUO Programs Finance Committee Member At-Large

Jan Raether, CHIP Director and FIG Assistant

Andrew Lubash, ASUO Senator and Athletics and Contracts Finance Committee Chair

Megan Rice – Christian Campus Fellowship Community Group Leader and FIG Assistant

Megan Gleason, Climate Justice League Finance Coordinator and ASUO Athletics and Contracts Finance Committee Member

Jenna Boss, FIG Assistant

Kaylin Ivy, Club Sports, Water Polo

Ayasha Benninghoven, Student Alumni Association Director, Mentor Resident Assistant, SWAT Intern

Fellow Ducks:

You pay an incidental fee of over $600 each year to form an ASUO budget of over $15 million. This week on DuckWeb, you have the opportunity to vote for leaders with the power to control this budget. The ASUO budget is easily the most important thing that elected officials have to work on, and we want to be sure that it is in capable and experienced hands. Among other things, it funds free athletics tickets, bus passes, and over 140 programs.

$15 million is a lot of money and could be getting you a lot more than it currently is. We Are Oregon is the only campaign that has acknowledged this through its key platform point of fiscal responsibility. They plan to spend your money more efficiently and provide better support for groups throughout the budget process.

Out of the three presidential candidates, Miles Sisk has the most experience dealing with the ASUO budget. After briefly serving on the Department Finance Committee, Sisk served for two years on the EMU Board of Directors, Senate, and is currently the Senate Vice-President. During that time, he has already created efficient spending habits.

To give just three examples: (1) He authored the senate rule that enabled Safe Ride and Designated Driver Shuttle to rollover funds through the next year so they can meet fluctuating gas prices and maintenance costs. (2) He got the EMU administration to pick up the administrative parts of the EMU budget, which reduces their impact on your fees. (3) He has put endless effort into receiving grants for EMU solar panels, which will save money and energy.

For those reasons, we respectfully and strongly disagree with Emerald’s endorsement for this election.  We endorse Miles Sisk and the We Are Oregon slate for the 2015-16 ASUO elections.

Yelin Oh
Senate Seat 1
Programs Finance Committee, Chair

Quinn Haaga
Senate Seat 2
Programs Finance Committee, Vice-Chair

Kate Klosno
Senate Seat 3
Programs Finance Committee

Robin Lilley
Senate Seat 5
EMU Board

Ronnie Grenier-Hemphill
Senate Seat 8
Athletics Contract Finance Committee

Megan Williams
Emeritus Senate Seat 9
Emeritus Departments Finance Committee Chair

Samantha Cohen
Senate Seat 13
Senate Ombudsperson
Literature, Family, and Educational Studies

Connor Lasken
Senate Seat 14
Pre-Business and Allied Arts

Hao Tan
Senate Seat 16
Life Sciences

Dylan Haupt
Senate Seat 18
Mathematics and Economics

Zachary Rentschler
Departments Finance Committee, Vice Chair

Jesse Lefferts
Departments Finance Committee

Evan Roth
Departments Finance Committee

Jake Derman
Departments Finance Committee

Amy Laube
Athletics and Contracts Finance Committee

Taylor Allison
EMU Board Budget Chair

Kaitlyn Fallon
EMU Board House Chair

Jasmine Asadi
EMU Board

Zan Schindler
EMU Board

We all know we need to do something about global warming before it’s too late. In order to protect Oregon’s beautiful environment for the future, we need to get more of our energy from the sun and less from dirty sources like coal.

Oregon currently only gets .02% of its energy from solar energy, but with current technology, we could get up to 10% of our energy from solar by 2025.

Cloudier places like Massachusetts and Germany already get over 400 times more solar than us, through policies like allowing community solar arrays, and paying businesses and residents when their solar panels generate surplus solar electricity back to the grid. And other states have been able to enact policies like these because their Governor’s established strong solar goals.

The Governor pays a lot of attention to what the UO does, so if the student body asks her to make a strong commitment to addressing global warming, she will listen.

That’s why students are voting on our ballot measure this week- to say they support asking the Governor to commit Oregon to 10% solar by 2025!

In the next few weeks we will meet with the Governor and lobby her on this issue, and we want to bring a message of support with us from the student body. Students should sign on and vote yes on the solar ballot measure in the ASUO elections.

Voting in the ASUO elections is happening online now on DuckWeb. Global warming is the issue of our generation…take action today!

Signed,
Climate Justice League
OSPIRG
Beatriz Gutierrez, ASUO President
Miles Sisk, ASUO Senator, EMU Board, We are Oregon
Helena Schlegel, UO Board of Trustees, UO Forward
Joaquin Ramos, ASUO State Affairs, MEChA, Ducks F.R.S.T.
Will Iversen, ASUO Senator, Senate Treasurer, Gosh Darn Independent
Andrew Lubash, ASUO Senator, ACFC
Elle Mallon, LBTQA, Theta Pi Sigma, Ducks F.R.S.T.
Brian McBeth, Non-Traditional Student Union
Casey Edwards, UO Forward

Dear students of University of Oregon,

It’s come to my attention that on-campus turnout for the meningitis B vaccine has been underwhelming thus far.

As someone who nearly died of meningitis B and now lives without parts of all four limbs because of it, allow me to warn you that you’re putting yourself at risk for an “I’ve-Made-a-Huge-Mistake” moment that will not have comedic implications worthy of Arrested Development.

I was in college once (when Facebook was just a glimmer in Zuckerberg’s eye — chew on that), so I’ll bet I can anticipate and dismantle all of your excuses for not getting vaccinated:

Excuse 1: I don’t have time.

Dismantling: With all due respect, that’s a load of crap (you’re allowed to say anything if you preface it with “with all due respect”). Yes, you’re busy, I understand. You’re not getting enough sleep and you barely have time to grab a bite to eat. That’s all the more reason to get vaccinated. Your immune system is run down, which leaves you vulnerable. So take some time between classes and pop in for a quick shot. And then Tweet about it. If you’re late for your next class, tell your professor to email me.

Excuse 2: Vaccines cause autism.

Dismantling: No they don’t. For your sake I hope you’re not majoring in the sciences.

Excuse 3: I won’t get meningitis B.

Dismantling: It is a rare disease, but it’s become much less rare where you live. The bacteria is clearly on your campus so the only way to be sure you won’t come into contact with it is to avoid interacting with other people, including kissing and, ahem, other “social activities.” Is that a precaution you’re willing to make or would a shot maybe be easier?

Excuse 4: It’s a personal decision that only affects me.

Dismantling: Wrong. There are probably people at your school who cannot get vaccinated because they are immuno-compromised or have allergies. They’re relying on the rest of you to drive vaccination rates high enough to achieve herd immunity and protect everyone. If you’re not going to do it for yourself, do it for them.

Excuse 5: Shots hurt.

Dismantling: Not compared to having dead flesh scraped and sliced off your arms and legs until you bleed and not compared to the post-surgical pain of amputations. Trust me on this.

Bottom line: Get the shot. Make the time. Those of us who have waited years for this vaccine are eyeing your campus enviously. You have a unique opportunity to both protect yourselves against meningitis B and prove you’re just as smart about taking advantage of free preventative medicine as the students at Princeton University, where vaccination rates were reportedly high.

Andy Marso is a journalist and author of Worth the Pain: How Meningitis Nearly Killed Me — Then Changed My Life for the Better.

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Several students surrounded three anti-abortion activists at the intersection of 13th Avenue and University Street on Tuesday before attempting to destroy a graphic poster one of the men was holding in protest.

University of Oregon Young Americans for Liberty President Thomas Tullis and Vice President Brandon Clements recorded the incident, where the activists displayed graphic depictions of aborted fetuses as they denounced abortion.

Only one of the activists had his materials tampered with. He could not be identified prior to publishing.

History major Allison Rutledge was the first to damage the anti-abortion activist’s poster. She stood on it and claimed that the activist didn’t have a right to display the graphic imagery. The video doesn’t make it clear when the anti-abortion activist’s sign ends up on the ground (it cuts before the action happens).

“This is my property,” the activist said as Rutledge stood on his sign. “Just leave us alone.”

The video cuts after a while, but Rutledge is later seen leading a chant in order to get the anti-abortion activist to leave University of Oregon property.

“All I’d like to say about why I decided to actually take the sign from him is I realized it was his property, but it was a piece of paper. I considered the sign obscene and offensive and intending to anger and start a scene,” Rutledge said when contacted for comment. “I didn’t want to look at that obscenity.”

She called the incident a tussle before saying that she felt emotionally threatened by the anti-abortion activist’s sign.

“There’s a limit to what people should be forced to look at,” Rutledge said. “We didn’t like it and we actually made him put his sign away. We had no problem with his opinion, but it was his sign. You can’t just show whatever you want.”

The Oregon Supreme Court in 1984 ruled that any censorship of material considered obscene is unconstitutional.

After Rutledge’s back-and-forth with the activist, other protesters began to call for his dismissal from campus.

“This is our campus and we don’t want it — we don’t want you and your ugliness,” another unidentified woman said in the video.

“This is so violent. This is obscene,” the woman told the anti-abortion activist. “This is not part of your First Amendment rights. This is unbelievable.”

Although Rutledge and the other protesters didn’t violate the activist’s First Amendment rights — that’s only a claim that can be used when the government attempts to suppress speech — Student Press Law Center Executive Director Frank Lomonte said that liability for theft or battery comes into play when personal property is involved.

“It’s never a good idea to use violence to silence a person whose speech you find upsetting,” Lomonte said.

UOPD officer John Loos responded to the scene before the students attempted to destroy the poster, incorrectly citing ASUO policy as university policy and saying that the activist had to stop the “Hitler stuff,” otherwise he would be asked to leave the property.

“I don’t see where you’re showing how I’m actually violating the law,” the activist said as Loos asked him to put away the poster. “There would be no need to protect freedom of speech if everybody agreed.”

Loos said that the activist wouldn’t be arrested. He just had to put the sign away or leave.

“You are breaking the rules of this institution. You are not breaking any laws in my opinion,” Loos said. “This is a privately owned institution, even though it’s a public school. If it’s considered to be demeaning or anything like that, it’s not allowed.”

Loos is a first-year police line officer for the UOPD. He was hired in October 2013, graduated from the police academy in February 2014, and completed field training with Eugene Police in summer 2014.

Loos went on to call the activist the instigator of the heated back-and-forth, further saying that the anti-abortion activist was violating student government rules.

“I want you to calm down first,” Loos said. “You’re breaking an ASUO rule — I don’t know the rule off the top of my head.”

Loos said that the graphic didn’t violate the First Amendment, although its vulgarity warranted a request for the anti-abortion activist to either put it away or leave campus. Loos said that his primary concern was to help the protestors and activists avoid any physical confrontation.

“I’m not picking sides here,” Loos tells the anti-abortion activist. “What I’m trying to do is work a compromise so that these two groups could be doing this all day without having a fight.”

After a moment, the responding sergeant, Frank Sorrentino, showed up and corrected Loos. The two UOPD officials discussed the graphic for a moment and concluded that the activist could stay.

“If you’re cool with it, I’m cool with it and we can let this gentleman do his thing,” Loos said.

Sorrentino agreed and said that he was okay with the activist’s demonstration as long as there was no physical violence.

UO Police Chief Carolyn McDermed submitted a statement to The Emerald:

“As free speech is a cornerstone of a public university, we expect our officers to understand the relevant laws and police, and do their professional best to protect the speech rights of everyone on campus, while ensuring safe access to our facilities and public rights of way. All UOPD officers will be reminded of the relevant laws and policies, and their role in protecting the safe practice of free speech on our campus.”

“Everybody has a right to their opinion,” the activist said.

You can check out the full video below:

Alex Cremer, Eder Campuzano and Gordon Friedman reported for this story.

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This Tuesday, our campus was visited by a campus preacher who chose to express his views against abortion.

In what was likely an attempt to draw large crowds, he held large graphic posters. One depicted an unborn fetus. While we don’t necessarily agree with this man’s viewpoint or his controversial medium for expressing it, what was more abhorrent was the students’ childish reaction to this man’s display and the blatant disregard for free speech. Atrociously, many students chose to be loud, veracious individuals with complete disregard for common decency and respect. Some students thought it was necessary to call the police in order to silence this man.

For some reason, the UOPD officer who showed up seemed to be professionally clueless about free speech rights. The officer threatened to kick the man off campus, ambiguously citing an ASUO rule, while not even knowing what the ASUO is.

He also told students that “the conversation back and forth needs to stop” and that “f­bombs” were not allowed. He told the campus preacher that talking about Hitler was not allowed on campus and that he did not have a right to hold his sign.

“This is a private business” the officer told the campus preacher. “On campus we have other rules other than just freedom of speech, ok? […] It’s just as if you were to walk into Winco and they have a no hat, no shoes, no service sign or whatever the heck it is.”

Despite the fact that many of us have been in Winco many times without a hat, the officer is clearly clueless about the university’s actual policy in support of free speech as a cornerstone of education. Later, the police sergeant showed up and corrected his officer, allowing the man to express his views.

The students chose to make fools of themselves instead of trying to engage in an intellectual conversation. Quickly, students started shouting that he had no right to be there sharing his opinion. At one point a student claiming to have just come out of a first amendment law class stated incorrectly that the constitution does not protect offensive language. All the while abusing him with a deluge of cursing and criticism that would make any hardened sailor cringe; the student’s, by their own logic, committed hateful, offensive speech with their childish insults.

More than one student came up the this man and ripped the sign out of his hands and attempted to destroy it. “Go ahead, call the police” said Allison Rutledge while standing on the man’s sign and trying to destroy it.

This act of aggression and defacement should’ve been stopped by the UOPD officers who complacently witnessed the scene. Quickly the mob mentality of this incident turned into a competition amongst the angry tudents to see who would be most adamant about their disapproval.

Their acts demonstrate no understanding of the UO Free Speech Policy which reads “The University supports free speech with vigor, including the right of presenters to offer opinion, the right of the audience to hear what is presented, and the right of protesters to engage with speakers in order to challenge ideas, so long as the protest does not disrupt or stifle the free exchange of ideas.

It is the responsibility of speakers, listeners and all members of our community to respect others and to promote a culture of mutual inquiry throughout the University community.”

This Tuesday was a dark day on campus, and we are embarrassed to be apart of this campus community. While we were disappointed that this man was choosing such a graphic medium for sharing views that vilify a group and marginalize their rights, we were far more disappointed in the student body, and their inability to calmly and logically engage in discourse with the diverse viewpoints that find their way on to campus.

In the words of enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”

Signed, Thomas Tullis, President of UO Young Americans for Liberty

Brandon Clements, VP of UO Young Americans for Liberty

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The Factors:

• Effective field goal percentage (eFG): Regular field goal percentage with additional weight given to three-pointers
• Turnover rate (TOV): Measurement of ball security
• Rebounding percentage (Reb): Percentage of the possible rebounds an offense or defense collects
• Free throw rate (FTR): Rate at which a team gets to the foul line or fouls the opposing team

Oregon men’s basketball finds itself in a must-win situation against Colorado as the chase for the NCAA tournament is officially in the home stretch.

Following their loss to UCLA on Saturday, the Ducks (18-8, 8-5) need to avoid bad losses and rack up at least one more quality win to have a chance at an at large bid to the tournament. Colorado (11-12, 4-7) is a team that Oregon should beat and will likely be the final opponent the Ducks will be favored against.

The Buffaloes were the latest victims to Cal’s buzzer-beater streak and have now lost seven of their last nine games. Although the bulk of Colorado’s team is relatively lackluster, Askia Booker, Xavier Johnson and Josh Scott are a tough matchup for any Pac-12 team.

Colorado has a fairly mediocre offense. The Buffs are in the bottom half of the Pac-12 in effective field goal percentage and turnover rate, but rebound well on the offensive glass and draw a good amount of fouls.

Most of the Colorado offense is generated by Booker, who is used on a whopping 32.5 percent of Colorado’s possessions. Booker has averaged 17.3 points, 3.1 rebounds and 3.3 per game this season and has really carried the Buffs through a rough season.

Xavier Johnson is Colorado’s next-biggest statistical contributor. Johnson (11.4 ppg, 5.4 rpg) has made his biggest impact down low this year, although he has the skill set to attack from the perimeter as well.

Scott, on the other hand, has missed eight Pac-12 games this season because of injuries, and just returned to the lineup for the team’s past two games. Scott (13.8 ppg, 7.3 rpg) almost never commits turnovers, rebounds extremely well and has a decent amount of skill on the block to score with.

Oregon’s offense continues to exploit its shooting totals. With an effective field goal percentage of 53.5 percent in Pac-12 play, the Ducks have the second-best offense in the conference by that metric.

Colorado owns several advantages on the defensive end. The Buffs have a middle-of-the-pack defense in terms of effective field goal percentage, but force turnovers and rebounds noticeably better than Oregon does. Colorado avoids sending teams to the free throw line better than most teams in the conference as well.

The Ducks have the worst interior defense in the Pac-12 as they allow a 53.1 percent shooting mark on two point shots and 32.6 percent of potential offensive rebounds to conference opponents.

Those two statistics will be key factors in this game, especially with Scott back in the Colorado lineup.

As the Buffs transition back into an interior team for the final portion of the season, Oregon must prevent the points-in-the-paint total and lock down the Colorado forwards to have success in this game.

Although advanced metrics say this should be an easy game for Oregon, the presence of Josh Scott is enough to make this game interesting. The Ducks should win, but it will be tough sledding against a decent Colorado defense.

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