Colorado University Athletics
Oregon State, Men's Golf Tee Up Monday's Pac-12 Spotlight
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Oregon State Location: Corvallis, Ore. Colors: Orange and Black Chief Rival: Oregon |
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NCAA Championships: M Cross Country, 1961; Baseball, two 12 Top Student-Athletes: Terry Baker, football; Rich Brooks, football; Mel Counts, basketball; Jacoby Ellsbury, baseball; Dick Fosbury, track/field; Slats Gill, basketball; A.C. Green, basketball; Les Gutches, wrestling; Joseph Hansen, rowing; Joni Huntley, track/field; Steve Johnson, basketball; Gary Payton, basketball Other Famous Alumni: Politics GÇô Cecil Andrus,
former U.S. Secretary of the Interior; Douglas McKay, former Oregon
governor and U.S. Secretary of the Interior; Shining Moment: Oregon State can claim one Heisman Trophy winner GÇô quarterback Terry Baker in 1962 GÇô and Baker can lay claim to being the only person to have won the Heisman and played in a Final Four, also in that same academic year. A point guard in basketball, BakerGÇÖs dominant sport was football. In GÇÖ62, he passed for 3,476 yards and 23 touchdowns and ran for 1,503 yards and 15 TDs. In addition to winning the Heisman as an OSU senior, Baker won 14 player-of-the-year awards. He played three seasons for the Los Angeles Rams (he was their No. 1 draft choice) before ending his football career in the CFL (Edmonton). Quotable: GÇ£I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say 'We'll just have to see.GÇÖGÇ¥ GÇô Dick Fosbury Classic CU: Eric Bieniemy Rescues Buffs In 28-21 Win Over Oregon State in 1988. |
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Bet You DidnGÇÖt Know: The last 0-0 game in NCAA history was the 1983 Civil War game (Oregon vs. Oregon State) in OregonGÇÖs Autzen Stadium...Former OSU football coach/athletic director Dee AndrosGÇÖ nickname was GÇ£The Great PumpkinGÇ¥ because of his girth and the bright orange jacket he usually wore on the sidelines. His given name: Demosthenes Konstandies Andrecopoulos...Dick Fosbury, an OSU high jumper, revolutionized his event with his back-first approach to the bar GÇô the GÇ£Fosbury Flop.GÇ¥ He won the 1968 NCAA title...Dal Ward, the BuffsGÇÖ legendary football coach, CU Athletic Hall of Famer, and namesake of CUGÇÖs athletic center, graduated from Oregon State in 1927...OSUGÇÖs menGÇÖs basketball coach is Craig Robinson, brother-in-law of President Obama...The Beavers have made two Final Four menGÇÖs basketball appearances (1949, 1963)...The Civil War football rivalry against Oregon is among the longest-running in the country. The game in 2010 was the 114th between the schools... The Beavers love to hit the road: An estimated 38,000 OSU fans attended the 2001 Fiesta Bowl, which saw the Beavers rout Notre Dame 41-9 to cap an 11-1 season under former coach Dennis Erickson...OSUGÇÖs wrestling program has 18 NCAA top 10 finishes, including two seasons as the national runners-up. Buffs vs. Beavers/By The Numbers: Football: OSU leads 3-2; M Basketball: CU leads 6-2; W Basketball: CU leads 2-0; Teams have never met in volleyball, soccer or tennis. |
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Above: Highlights from Colorado's 83-57 men's basketball win over Oregon State from Dec. 4, 2011. Classic CU: Men's Golf Finishes tied for 11th at 1981 NCAA's, Three Buffs Named All-American |
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Colorado joins one of the nationGÇÖs most prestigious conferences in menGÇÖs golf, producing 14 NCAA team championships, the most recent coming from UCLA in 2008. Stanford leads the Pac-10 with eight NCAA team titles. Eleven different student-athletes have combined for 14 NCAA individual titles from the Pac-10. This group includes three-time individual champion Phil Mickelson who won in 1989, 1990, and 1992 for Arizona State. Tiger Woods of Stanford won the NCAA championship in 1996. USC won its league-best 19th Pac-10 championship this past spring. Arizona State is second with 12 Pac-10 team titles, and Stanford is third with seven. Washington, Pac-10 champions in 2009 and 2010, is fourth with six league crowns. This past season CU competed in various tournaments also attended by all Pac-12 teams except Washington State. The Buffs tied for fifth at the Wyoming Classic in Scottsdale, Ariz., finishing behind second-place Arizona and ahead of fellow Pac-12 schools Oregon State (ninth) and Utah (t-15th). The 2012 MenGÇÖs Pac-12 Golf Championship will be hosted by Oregon State and played at Trysting Tree Golf Course in Corvallis. |
CU In The Pac-12... M Golf Coach Roy EdwardsGÇÖ Take: GÇ£WeGÇÖre going into an exciting conference GÇô by far the best golf conference in the country. YouGÇÖve got schools that have produced Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Craig Stadler, Hale Irwin . . . the list goes on.
Our sport is dominated by good weather teams, and the vast majority of the Pac-12 has very good weather. For the past couple of years, nine of the 10 Pac-10 teams have made it to the NCAAs. The only team not to make it was Washington State, and if they didnGÇÖt have a bad conference event (tournament) this year all 10 teams would have been in. Arizona State is very good, UCLA is extremely good and USC always is extremely competitive. This year all of the teams in the conference were very young. One of our goals every year is to make the NCAAs...no matter the league, that should be a goal. I think with the guys coming back and our new guys, we should be competitive. ItGÇÖll be a challenge for us, but we expect to be in there and reach our goals.GÇ¥ Pac-12 Spotlight content provided by B.G. Brooks, CUBuffs.com Contributing Editor and the Colorado Sports Information Office. |
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