BLUE BLOOD COLLEGE BASKETBALL WITH A TOUCH OF GREEN

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Who are college basketball blue bloods?

Google college basketball blue bloods and who shows up.

Teams wearing  blue.

Just follow the blue to the blue bloods.

Duke blue might be a stretch the past two years.

The Oregon Fighting Ducks took them out big in last year’s Sweet 16.

Beating the defending champion 82-68 wasn’t a fluke.

One of the big steps to a championship is beating a former champion.

Even The Greatest, Muhammad Ali, turned into a punching bag toward the end. Just ask Larry Holmes.

For two years straight Duke took an early powder and Oregon moved on.

Wearing blue helps blue blood status. So do past titles.

UCLA is a blue blood example of rolling the ball out and coming up flat.

Instead of riding to the promise land John Wooden visited regularly, the new Magic Johnson couldn’t get is team up, didn’t take over the game as expected.

Magic did it all the time.

Right after the loss to Kentucky, NBA news came from Lonzo Ball. He’s headed to the Man League where players know how to catch his sharp passes.

Not a real blue blood move, but one and done is fact of life. UCLA blue is done.

And here comes Big. Blue. Kansas.

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College basketball blue blood fans see green cream rising to the top of the NCAA blue barrel.

Oregon Duck basketball leads the PAC12 the furthest into March Madness? That’s got to be good for everybody.

As one of two teams west of the Rockies left, the other being Gonzaga from Spokane, there’s huge pressure to show growth.

Two straight runs to the Elite Eight sounds good in the history books. And it’s great

But a better story is moving forward season by season.

That’s what makes blue blood Kansas so blue.

Last year they lost to eventual champ Villanova in the same round Oklahoma took Oregon out.

This year the two teams meet to see who goes blue blood and who goes home.

It’s Oregon’s chance to shine brighter than ever during basketball season.

The Ducks played Kansas in this same game in 2002 and lost 86-104.

To help college basketball invite another member to Club Blue, Oregon needs to wring out a Jayhawk.

Make it happen Big Green. Win this day.

Kansas vs. Oregon: 8:49 p.m. ET.