La Pine wins, advances to semifinals

Think of what the Pac-10 Men’s Basketball Tournament would look like right now if they hadn’t lost over an NBA’s roster worth of talent to early entry in the past few years. Here’s what those players are doing now.

If they were all still around I’d call Arizona (Jordan Hill, Chase Budinger and Jerryd Bayless), UCLA (Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook and Jrue Holiday) and USC (OJ Mayo, DeMar DeRozan and Taj Gibson) as the favorites.

La Pine beat Cascade 65-54 to advance to the semifinals of the Class 4A state girls basketball tournament in Corvallis. The Bend girls lost to Crater 43-37 in the Class 5A state girls basketball tournament to move to the consolation semifinals in Eugene.

Find all the draws HERE.

5A basketball: Jefferson, Wilsonville enter as 1 and 2 in boys and girls

Four to the floor
Two boys teams and two girls teams from Central Oregon took very different routes to their respective state tournaments

Pac-10 basketball: Oregon’s apparent firing of Ernie Kent raises questions (notes, links)

Cougars reach state tourney
Mountain View holds off Corvallis behind 21 points from Seth Brent – By Beau Eastes/The Bulletin

A year after not having any teams in the quarterfinals, the Intermountain Conference has three teams. All of the teams in the final eight finished first or second in their league, except for Summit, which finished fourth in the IMC. Four of the eight teams have never reached the Class 5A tournament before (Pendleton, Silverton, Glencoe and Summit). Two-time defending state champion Jefferson has a 17-game winning streak.
• BRACKET

(teams are in order based upon where they are in the bracket, from top to bottom)
No. 12 (t) Pendleton – IMC #2
20-5
2009 – DNQ
2008 – DNQ
2007 – DNQ

No. 4 Silverton – Mid-Willamette#1
23-2
2009 – DNQ
2008 – DNQ
2007 – DNQ

No. 1 Jefferson – PIL #1
23-3
2009 – 1st
2008 – 1st
2007 – 6th

No. 2 Wilsonville – NW Oregon#1
24-2
2009 – 3rd
2008 – DNQ
2007 – DNQ

No. 5 Glencoe – NW Oregon #2
16-9
2009 – DNQ
2008 – DNQ
2007 – DNQ

No. 3 Mountain View – IMC #1
24-1
2009 – DNQ
2008 – Quarterfinals
2007 – 3rd

Summit – IMC #1
14-13
2009 – DNQ
2008 – DNQ
2007 – DNQ

No. 12 (t) Crescent Valley – Mid-Willamette #2
17-9
2009 – Quarterfinals
2008 – DNQ
2007 – DNQ

Dan Munson and the Summit boys basketball team just keep rolling on! The Storm won their second-straight road playoff game to reach the state’s eight-team championship tournament. Summit beat North Eugene in double overtime 57-56.

Mountain View beat Corvallis 67-62 @ Mountain View High School on Saturday night to advance to the eight-team Class 5A state tournament. Jesse Zapata came up big in the fourth quarter for the Cougars against a very physical Corvallis team.