The Oakland University Golden Grizzlies are going back to the Big Dance in 2011 for the second year in a row after downing Oral Roberts 90-76 on Tuesday night at the Sioux Falls Arena. Oakland's offense for much of the night looked like a high tempo machine that Oral Roberts (or any Summit League team) wasn't going to stop.
The Grizzlies (25-9) have won 18 of its last 19 games and will find out what team they will play and where on Sunday when the 68-team tournament field is announced. The famed ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi, current is predicting OU as a 13 seed matching up against 4 seed Wisconsin.Last year Oakland entered the NCAA Tournament at 26-8 and was selected as a 14th seed. They went on to lose to 3 seed Pitt, 89-66. Last year Oakland considered defense the trademark of the team. However in 2011, OU has returned with a high-powered offense that has many scoring options including NBA prospect Keith Benson, scoring guard Reggie Hamilton, 3 point specialist Travis Bader and a do-it all small forward Drew Valentine. Whichever school gets selected to play OU in the first round of the tourney should not sleep on the Grizzlies or they could find themselves going home early.
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