That was the day No. 21-ranked University of Oregon, a football school not known as much for its basketball prowess, traveled south to end the Bruins' 10-game winning streak, extending a seven-game victory streak of its own. A CBS nationally televised game early in the conference season tends to show off the early "Wait, who's that really good guy I don't know?" candidates.
By no coincidence, Jan. 19, 2013, was the day the casual college basketball fan met Arsalan Kazemi, the Oregon senior fresh off a transfer from Rice University in Houston, who would eventually become the first Iranian-born player to be drafted into the NBA when the Washington Wizards drafted him 54th overall in the 2013 draft.