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Man sentenced for shooting cat with arrow ... Our View: Adjusting for unintended consequences ... DEA seeks to seize homes in pot trafficking operation ... Man sentenced for shooting cat with arrow ... Our View: Adjusting for unintended consequences ... COLLEGE BASKETBALL Ducks back in position for a tourney berth Comment By Steve Mims Eugene Register-Guard MailTribune.com By Steve Mims Eugene Register-Guard Posted Feb. 24, 2015 at 7:42 PM By Steve Mims Eugene Register-Guard Posted Feb. 24, 2015 at 7:42 PM » Social News EUGENE — Oregon’s win over ninth-ranked Utah on Sunday moved the Ducks into most NCAA Tournament projections. The Ducks were the last team in the bracket forecasted by ESPN’s Joe Lunardi as a No. 12 seed on Monday, while Jerry Palm of CBSSports.com has Oregon as a No. 10 seed. Oregon (20-8) still needs to win a few more games to get the call on Selection Sunday in less than three weeks, but few expected the Ducks to be in the mix for a third straight trip to the NCAA Tournament this late in the season. After an offseason when three players were kicked off the team and two others transferred to leave the Ducks with three returning players, coach Dana Altman acknowledged he didn’t know if Oregon would be around for March Madness. “You like to be optimistic, but I’m a realist,” Altman said after Sunday’s 69-58 win over the Utes. “When you have only three guys back and two that really played, other than talent, experience is the next most important thing so I was really worried just about our experience level. I think that showed early, but I have been really, really pleased with the way guys stuck together and stuck with me.” Altman said he has been tough on his team in recent weeks as they won seven of nine games to move into third place in the Pac-12 Conference at 10-5. “It hurts a coach when you give up easy baskets, so I probably got on them more the last month,” he said. “I call it encouragement, they call it getting on them, because I knew it was there. I knew it was in them.” Oregon senior guard Joseph Young said he also knew the Ducks could have a successful season even after they were picked to finish eighth in a preseason Pac-12 media poll. “Going back to where they had us in the conference, we used that as confidence,” Young said. “What they thought we’d be because of our lack of size, we put that to the side and came together as one team. We fight adversity all around us, all the people criticizing us, and keep getting better.” With Oregon on the outside of the NCAA bubble last week, Young made a bold proclamation, telling reporters, “We are going to the tournament.” Young downplayed the importance of those remarks after the win over Utah. “That’s just the confidence I have in this team,” Young said. “We put a lot of work in and day in and day out we have to go 100 percent so we can keep that statement. We’re not really worried about it, that’s why I put the statement out there early.” Oregon jumped up 12 spots to No. 44 in the RPI rankings following the upset of the Utes. Oregon is on the road for the rest of the regular season beginning with a trip south this week to play at California on Wednesday and Stanford on Sunday. “Where this team has come from the beginning to now and all the work we put in, but it’s still not done,” Young said. Young was Oregon’s only returning starter entering the season. After scoring 18.9 points per game last season, he has boosted his average to 19.8 points per game. He’s also improved on last year’s totals with 4.5 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game. 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