Oregon Geese turn into first faculty to win back-to-back Pac-12 Titles in soccer and basketball

Oregon Geese turn into first faculty to win back-to-back Pac-12 Titles in soccer and basketball initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Northwest

The West Coast runs by way of Eugene, OR, not less than on the subject of faculty athletics.

With the Geese’ 80-67 win over Oregon State, the College of Oregon turned the primary faculty in convention historical past to win back-to-back Pac-12 Championships in each soccer and males’s basketball. 

Credit score to SportsPac12 for locating the document. 

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It is the Geese males’s basketball program’s eighth convention common season championship and the fourth underneath Dana Altman in 11 seasons. In the meantime, the 2020 Pac-12 Championship was the Geese’ thirteenth convention title and second straight underneath Mario Cristobal in three seasons. 

Additionally, in each sports activities this educational 12 months, USC got here in second place. Actually, Trojans head basketball coach Andy Enfield went so far as to whine about Oregon not enjoying at UCLA regardless of the Trojans dropping its means to regulate its future after being swept by the mountain colleges on the highway. USC managed its future after defeating Oregon after which choked. 

In the meantime, the USC soccer program continues to recruit about “Taking Again the West” regardless of being winless towards Mario Cristobal each on the sector and within the last recruiting rankings. 

Oregon’s accomplishment comes one season after it turned the primary faculty to win the Pac-12 in soccer, males’s faculty basketball, and girls’s faculty basketball in the identical educational 12 months. All three of these championship groups have been undefeated in Eugene, OR too. 

Oregon stays successful and appears so as to add to the trophy case by successful the Pac-12 Event in Las Vegas.