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Oregon men jinxed by Cal, Stanford
By Stew Turcotte
The Bay Area jinx continues
to play havoc on the Oregon
men's basketball team.
The Bay Area schools —
Stanford and California — made
their season sweeps complete
over the Ducks over the week
end Stanford beat the Ducks
79-76 in overtime Friday, while
California had an easier time
defeating Oregon 70-60.
The California game on Sat
urday night was typical of the
Ducks' season this year.
The Ducks let the Bears go
ahead and then had to claw
their way back into the game at
the half. Then, the bottom fell
out for Oregon in the second
half, as California lifted its
record to 10-9 on the season
and 4-6 in Pac-10 play. The
Ducks fell to 3-8 in the confer
ence
In the first half, the Bears
rolled to an eight-point lead four
times. Then, with 4:12 left in the
half, California stretched its lead
to nine, 29-20, on two Butch
Hays free throws
But the Ducks hung tough.
Paul Bain connected on a
20-footer, Jerome Wiliams
nailed a shot off the glass, John
Greig scored on a fastbreak,
Barry Walker hit a 22-footer and
Williams put in an offensive
rebound basket
Just as quickly as Cal had
taken a nine-point lead, the
Ducks had a one-point lead of
their own at 30-29 with 1:47 left
in the half.
The story was different in the
second half, though, as Cal
broke away from a 54-54 dead
lock with 5:25 left in the game to
a 63-54 lead with 1:03 remain
ing. And that spurt sealed the
win for the Bears
“I felt like we were getting
what we wanted," Cal Coach
Dick Kuchen said “We are a
good shooting team We have
some great individual shooters
on this club, and we just got our
shots tonight."
How right he was The Bears
hit on a sizzling 25-of-41 from
the floor for 610 while the
Ducks sank 25-52 shots for
481
The big gun for Cal was
center Mark McNamara All the
6-10 Bear did was sink nine-of
nine from the floor, five-of
seven from the line and grab 11
rebounds to go with his 23
points All of this coming when
the Ducks were double-teaming
the potential all-American
"I had to make some adjust
ments in the second half
because of the defense they
were playing on me,'*
McNamara said "I was just
running baseline and they (John
Greig and Blair Rasmussen)
were fronting me. So in the
second half I started to veer my
cuts a little bit more It just
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opened up the holes.”
•'When they were playing
defense on Mac (McNamara)
like that, it s up to the other guys
to take the shots,” Kuchen said
“I think Darrell Haley (14 points)
played his best game of the
season "
With the Ducks sagging off of
Haley to cover McNamara.
Haley had open 15-foot jumpers
the entire game But it wasn’t
until the second half that he
found he could begin to hit
them
"I think they had planned to
leave me open," Haley said "I
was kind of happy to see that
situation "
Oregon Coach Jim Haney
saw the difference in the game
as a matter of the Ducks not
being able to hit the open shots
"Tonight it was simply a mat
ter of our getting tremendous
shots in the second half and
then missing them,” Haney
said. "You have to make those
shots to win. and we didn't make
them
“The difference in our shot
selection between halves was
dramatic We had perimeter
shots in the first half But we just
didn’t put the ball in the hoop."
The Ducks were led by Wil
Hams' 17 points, while Greig
added 13 Rasmussen contin
ues to show improvement on the
court, as he scored 10 points
and grabbed a team-high five
rebounds
McNamara's 23 led the Bears,
who outrebounded the Ducks,
24-20 for the game
Kuchen was pleased to start
his State of Oregon road trip
with a victory in The Pit
"We haven't won here since
1976, so it feels kind of nice,"
said the Bear mentor "We
created a lot of chances for
ourselves tonight We reacted
and responded well — that
shows a lot of guts and char
acter "
Friday night, the Stanford
Cardinals came calling and the
Ducks dropped their second
game of the season to the team
from Palo Alto
It was an overtime contest,
one which the Ducks almost
didn't get to lose in overtime
but in regulation Trailing by
three with 49 seconds left,
Oregon's Fred Cofield hit a
12-footer and was fouled on the
play by the Cards' Brian Welch
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the game went into the extra
session
Stanford jumped out quickly
in the overtime, scoring the first
four points But Oregon re
sponded with two Greig free
throws and a Cofield baseline
jumper
Stanford’s John Revelli made
it 76-74 on a bank shot and
Cofieid tied it back up with two
free throws With four seconds
left, the Ducks fouled Revelli,
who was wide open under the
basket He proceeded to sink
one of two and the Ducks still
had life
But an inbounds pass by Blair
Rasmussen to Cofieid fell astray
and Stanford walked away with
the victory
Greig led the Ducks with 28
points — including a 14-of-16
showing at the free throw line
Revelli led Stanford with 23
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