Kerry Eggers

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“Kyle has worked really hard the last year and a half to get us to try to catch up,” Tinkle says. “I have had a good relationship with him. You want to make sure the guys are getting the NIL money they are promised. You see stories about how some kids are getting (shortchanged or jilted) across the country. Our people are doing a good job of not overpromising. They want to be able to deliver. “But we can’t recruit at lower levels and expect to win at the level we did this year.

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“I think it is a good thing, because you can start looking at who is getting paid what for doing what,” he says. “You can’t have these outlandish numbers for a simple social media post. It will start the dominoes of putting arms around this thing and getting it into a box — somewhat — because right now, no box exists.”The settlement calls for Deloitte to serve as clearinghouse to ensure that any NIL deal worth more than $600 is assessed at fair market value to avoid straight “pay-for-play” deals.

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When I ask about his childhood in Corvallis, Botti is candid. “Not a lot to do in Corvallis,” he says with a chuckle. “That might have played into a good hand for me. I was super dedicated to music. I ended up going to a college town (Bloomington, Ind.) that is very much like Corvallis, with not a lot of stuff going on. A lot of kids who move to Berkeley or go to Juilliard (in New York City) get tugged away by their attention to the city, with the beat of what is going on.

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“That is hard to do,” Drexler said. “That was one of the greatest comebacks I have ever seen. You never see a Duke team fold like that. (The Blue Devils) were having trouble just in-bounding the ball at the end of the game. You rarely see that from a good college team.”Duke managed one field goal over the final 10 1/2 minutes of the game. After Cooper Flagg’s 3-pointer gave Duke a nine-point lead with 3:03 to play, the Blue Devils had a 95.5 percent win probability.

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“He said, ‘You good?’ ” Hutcheson said with a grin. “And I said, ‘Yeah. We’re going with me.’ ”Whitney made his Oregon State debut on Feb. 15 at Surprise, Ariz., shutting down UNLV on five hits for five scoreless innings. He then had a couple of rough starts against Oklahoma and Auburn but has been really good over his last five outings, allowing only five earned runs in 24 2/3 combined innings.