Two Months From Tip Off, Who is Oregon Basketball’s Starting Five?

Even though the highly touted and talked about Oregon Football team is less than a quarter of the way into their season, I just have to write about basketball, of which, I and only I, think is the better college sport (don’t impale me with your pitchforks yet). I’ve got an itch, a very sore itch, and it needs to be attended to: the basketball itch. Argh, it’s so terrible, so foul, so horrendous. How has it only been three months since the NBA Finals? It feels like a decade. And still, regular season NBA games don’t start up for another 34 days; and college games for another 21 after that. Too long. Too much waiting. So, I figure, in the painstaking dead period before basketball picks back up, I’ll bang out a classic fan site post that only everyone in the media writes in September: Let’s Predict My Team’s Starting Five. Alas, as not to further keep you from one of the great blogging jewels off the college basketball offseason, here’s who Dana should/could/might never go with to start the opening game:

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