When you are the top Class 5A boys basketball team in the state and you have the best player in the state (one of the best in the country in fact), what do you need to add? How about a former player who is also one of the best in the country! Terrence Ross is attending Jefferson high school and may soon be playing alongside Terrence Jones!

Track Focus is a new website that is as you may have guessed, focused on track. Check it out!

The Intermountain Conference district wrestling championships is in Madras this next weekend. Here’s a look at some of the the weight classes to watchl All rankings can be found on The Oregon Wrestling Forum.

One of the weight classes to watch is 215, where numerous IMC grapplers are ranked among the state’s best:
3 Cody Roan Sr Crook County
4 Travis Williams So Madras
5 David Liebe Sr Hermiston
12 Liam Brown Sr Bend
14 Kameron Garver Jr The Dalles-Wahtonka

At 189, the IMC has the top-three ranked individuals:
1 Curtis Berger Jr Hermiston
2 Jacob Abrams Sr The Dalles-Wahtonka
3 Trevor Barrett Sr Madras
10 Colton RedCloud Sr The Dalles-Wahtonka
13 Rhett Smith So Crook County
15 Kenny Dailey Sr Bend

5A TEAM RANKINGS
1 Hermiston 260
6 Crook County 88
9 Pendleton 75
11 The Dalles-Wahtonka 65
13 Madras 62

Redmond scored 135.5 points on day one to finish in fourth place at the Central Valley Conference district wrestling tournament. The CVC is incredibly deep, the toughest 6A league in the state! Day 1 scores: Sprague 174.5, McNary 156.5, West Salem 140.5, Redmond 135.5, McKay 80, South Salem 74 and North Salem 41.

Bend (4-6) @ THE DALLES-WAHTONKA (7-3) 7:00pm – Bend is fighting for it’s playoff life, TDW wants to bounce back from a loss to MV
Crook County (0-9) @ PENDLETON (5-4) 7:00pm – Pendleton should improve to 6-4.
Summit (5-4) @ HERMISTON (3-6) 7:00pm – Every game is big from here on out… and this one is huge! Summit needs a sweep of Hermiston, but that’s easier said than done. Always a hard place to play.
Mountain View (9-1) @ MADRAS (5-5) 7:00pm – The two hottest teams in the IMC square off. The Cougars have won 5 games in a row, while the White Buffaloes have won 4 games in a row. A Madras win could put them in a tie for third. A Madras loss three-way tie for fifth.

Did Brandon Roy want to be on the Olympic team? The last we heard from him, he did! So why wasn’t he named to the 27 player roster?

Roy, Ellis, Horford not among 27 players Team USA invites to camp – Covers.com

Team USA announced their 27-man roster for the Olympics… and Brandon Roy isn’t on the list! LaMarcus Aldridge was named to the 27 man list that’ll be whittled down to 12.

TEAM ROSTER

Mountain View beat The Dalles-Wahtonka 62-57 @ TDW Tuesday night to improve to 19-1, the best record in all of 5A. Class 6A Jesuit, Class 4A Central and CLass 1A Nixyaawii all have one loss each.

Class 2A Central Linn is the only undefeated team in the state of Oregon.

Jesuit’s lone loss came to one of the top teams in America, Westchester, California.

No Pac-10 basketball team is ranked in the top 25 right now. But how different would that be if the Pac-10 Conference hadn’t lost the players it has to early entry in the NBA draft? Here’s a look at what Pac-10 teams would look like had those players stayed:

Player, grade they would be, what they are averaging in the NBA, NBA team
Arizona
Jordan Hill, Sr – 4.1 ppg, 2.7 rpg, Knicks
Chase Budinger, Sr – 8.2 ppg, 2.7 rpg, Rockets
Jerryd Bayless, Jr – 9.4 ppg, 2.4 apg, Blazers

Arizona State
James Harden, Jr – 9.7 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 2.1 apg, Thunder

UCLA
Jrue Holiday, So – 5.2 ppg, 2.5 apg, 2.1 rpg, 76ers
Russell Westbrook, Sr – 16.1 ppg, 7.4 apg, 4.9 rpg, Thunder
Kevin Love, Jr – 15.4 ppg, 11.8 rpg, 2.6 apg, Timberwolves

USC
Taj Gibson, Sr – 8.2 ppg, 6.4 rpg, Bulls
DeMar DeRozan, So – 8.2 ppg, 2.9 rpg, Raptors
OJ Mayo, Jr – 17.8 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 3.1 apg, Grizzlies

Stanford
Brook Lopez, Sr – 18.9 ppg, 9.1 rpg, 2.2 apg, Nets
Robin Lopez, Sr – 7.1 ppg, 3.9 rpg, Suns

Washington
Spencer Hawes, Sr – 10.8 ppg, 5.9 rpg, Kings