Emerald Quick Hits: Marcus Mariota, Steve Prefontaine featured on Pac-12 Network’s Mount Rushmore

Daily Emerald, Recaps, University of Oregon

This article was written by Joseph Hoyt, but contains reference to one of my pieces.

– In honor of today being President’s Day, the Pac-12 Networks asked its followers which student-athletes should be on the conference’s Mount Rushmore. The final results revealed two Oregon greats.

Oregon’s Marcus Mariota and Steve Prefontaine join Arizona State’s Pat Tillman and UCLA’s Jackie Robinson on the hypothetical mountain.

 

– The Emerald releases its “GameDay” basketball issue issue today. The cover story from sports reporter Josh Schlichter: Oregon men’s basketball attempts to break the bracket.

– Sports reporter Anne Yilmaz wraps on Oregon club hockey’s season in this post.

– The Oregon women’s basketball team fell to visiting No. 12 Arizona State last night, 72-52. Junior Jillian Alleyne recorded 19 points and 10 rebounds in the loss to the Sun Devils.

– The Oregon women’s tennis team beat Iowa on Sunday at home.

– Oregon baseball fell to Hawaii 10-1 on Sunday. The final game of the series is set for 3:05 PM (PT) today in the Aloha state.

 Edward Cheserek and Brittany Mann broke Oregon track and field records this weekend at the Husky classic.

– Oregon women’s golf came away with a victory down at Stanford in the Peg Barnard Invitational.

 Oregon women’s lacrosse won 9-8 over High Point on a late goal from Hayley Milner.

Follow Joseph Hoyt on Twitter @JoeJHoyt

[This article was originally published by the Daily Emerald here on Feb 15, 2015]

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