PDX Index: UO Athletics

By Teresa Mahoney

$60

Price of a four-day general admission ticket to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championship, held at Hayward Field (June 9–12)

17

Number of NCAA team championships—including eight in track—the Ducks have won

80

Percentage of the Jaqua Academic Center’s exterior that’s made of glass

11

Number of UO basketball records held by former women’s basketball coach Bev Smith

6

Number of UO football players charged with crimes since the football season ended

1947

Year Disney agreed to allow UO to use Donald Duck as the school mascot

3.89

Grade point average of Galen Rupp, the 2009 ESPN magazine Academic All-American of the Year for men’s track and field/cross-country

$227

Estimated cost, in millions, of the Matthew Knight Arena, expected to open in late December 2010

309

Years of UO in-state tuition that former athletic director Michael Bellotti’s $2.3 million severance package would fund