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Calvin Haynes scored 19 points, including the go-ahead basket with 1:08 remaining, and Oregon State held on to defeat Colorado 74-69 Friday night.

Add, Black Friday: Mindful that OSU freshman Jared Cunningham has already launched a shot on the White House basketball court , here's a preview of Saturday night's game against George Washington.

Junior guard Lathen Wallace goes up for a dunk during an exhibition game against Southern Oregon earilier this year.

Today Northern Arizona at Arizona, 2 p.m. Colorado State at Oregon, 3:30 p.m. Oregon State at Texas Tech, 1 p.m. Cal Poly at Stanford, 7 p.m. Portland State at No.

Quite a few shifts after the preseason rankings and only one team didn't move. Washington took over the top spot, Arizona State made the biggest jump and Oregon State, the only conference school with two losses, tumbled hard.

LUBBOCK, Texas -- As Joe Burton posted up with 7.2 seconds to play, an opposing arm wrapped itself around his shot.

David Tairu scored a game0high 19 points as the Texas Tech Red Raiders registered a 64-60 win over the Oregon State Beavers as part of the Duel in the Desert at United Spirit Arena.

Teondre Williams, pictured here in a game last season, scored a career-high 18 points for Oregon on Friday.

Jared Cunningham knew when he signed on to play basketball at Oregon State he would need to bring his alarm clock.

THE DAILY BAROMETER Senior center Roeland Schaftenaar goes up for an outside shot during an exhibition game at Gill Coliseum.

SUNDAY .. waiting near Gate 25 at the Oakland airport, where you need to take out a home equity line of credit for a bloody mary .

Roeland Schaftenaar and Oregon State are hoping to rise to the occasion this season.

We're halfway through the interviews and here's a quick summary of what's happened so far.

Last season, even after his Oregon State team piled up a few early Pacific-10 Conference wins, Craig Robinson would not allow talk of an NCAA Tournament berth, saying it was not a realistic goal.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: Craig Robinson's first recruiting class was a winner, a five-man group that Scout.com rated as the 25th-best in the nation.

At one point during the 2007-08 season, Josh Tarver says it got so bad that he thought about going elsewhere.

WEDNESDAY , at the Valley Center for men's basketball Media Day, which gave us quotes from Calvin Haynes , Josh Tarver , and coach Craig Robinson .

MONDAY , a few observations from Oregon State's basketball practice ... I was anxious to see OSU coach Craig Robinson Monday, because I was at Safeway last night in bullet-riddled southeast and I saw this god-awful tabloid cover that claimed his sister, Michelle Obama, was in some sort of feud with Oprah.

Coach: Craig Robinson . Last season's record: 18-18 overall, 7-11 in Pac-10 . Postseason: Won CBI by beating UTEP.

James Rodgers took a big hit, went down and got up limping. The junior receiver walked off the limp -- OSU SID Steven Fenk guessed that Rodgers just "tweaked" his knee -- then spent a good 10 minutes trying to put his contact back in.