Oregon

Texas jumped seven spots to No. 4 in The Associated Press college football poll after beating Alabama, and the Pac-12 became just the second conference to place as many as eight teams in an AP Top 25.

Keeshawn Barthelemy and Jermaine Couisnard each scored 17 points and Oregon had a 19-point lead erased before closing on a 7-0 run to beat Washington State 75-70 in the Pac-12 Tournament.

Endyia Rogers scored 10 of her 28 points in the fourth quarter and ninth-seeded Oregon pulled out a 52-50 win over eighth-seeded Washington in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament.

For the first time in the 47-year history of The Associated Press women’s basketball poll no team from Texas is in the Top 25. That ends a 835-week run dating to the first poll in 1976.

No. 7 USC will be guaranteed a spot in the Pac-12 championship game with a win over 16th-ranked UCLA this weekend.

Jacob Young scored a season-high 23 points and Oregon edged No. 3 UCLA 84-81 in overtime to give coach Dana Altman his 700th career victory.

Oregon has introduced Dan Lanning as its new head football coach. The Ducks hired Lanning from Georgia, where he had been the defensive coordinator.

Mario Cristobal is leaving Oregon and headed home to Miami. The news comes on the same day that Manny Diaz was fired as the Hurricanes football coach.

Dan Fotu scored 16 points and Saint Mary's defeated Oregon 62-50 in a semifinal of the Maui Invitational.

The calendar has flipped to November, signifying the final stretch of college football’s regular season.