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SPORTS Rebounding hurts Ducks in loss By Robert Weber Emerald Sports Reporter The Oregon men's basketball team headed into this week's games with UCLA and CSC with dreams of the NCAA Tournament dancing in its head. Instead, the Ducks returned home with two straight losses, thinking an invite to the Na tional Invitational Tournament wouldn't be so bad after all In dropping an H4-71 deci sion to USC Saturday, the Ducks were once again out manned inside and fell to 7-7 in the Pacific-10 Conference and 12-12 overall. The Ducks and Trojans are tied with Oregon State for third in the Pac-10. but the loss end ed any realistic hopes of Ore gon qualifying for the NCAA Tournament, considering the Ducks close out the conference schedule with a home and home series against Arizona and Arizona State. The biggest problem fat ing the Ducks against USC was simple: rebounds, or lack ot Led by Yamen Sanders, liar old Miner and Ronnie Cole man. the Trojans (7-7, 10-8) dominated the battle of the boards 50-33 and. in the pro cess. set the tone early for the entire game. While Coleman was grabbing 10 missed shots, a couple above his average, Miner and Sanders were busy setting ca reer-highs in the rebounding Pac-10 Men Arizona UCLA Washington St Arizona St Oregon Oregon St use Stanford California Washington Conf Overall Gama* Wl Ml Behind 10 3 22 5 8 6 20 7 2"? 8 6 16 8 2*5 7 7 16 8 3 V? 7 7 12 12 3V» 7 7 13 11 3^ 7 7 16 8 3'.’ 7 8 14 11 4 7 9 1114 4 i 3-11 12 12 7 Vi department with Hi and M. re spectively. Nine of Sanders' re liouniis came on tfie offensive end. Oregon fell behind early he cause it couldn't find a wav to stop Coleman, who hit his first eight shots on his wav to scor ing 17 of his 114 points in the first half Terrell Hrandon missed his first three shots before explod ing for HI first-half points, hut it was too big of a load for him to carry all by himself His 70 points for the game left Brandon with 640 lor the season, one more than Stan Love’s school-record 0 HI in 1971 Brandon also broke his own single season record for steals when he pilfered three against US(L giving him all lor the year Oregon received a big si are when Brandon left the game in the final two minutes after in juring his left elbow, but the in jury isn't believed to be seri ous Brandon is expei ted to be ready when the Ducks host the Arizona schools next weekend For all of his hard work. Brandon earned the praises of I 'S<' ( ii.ii h (leorge Has elmg "Brandon, von i .m l tin a lot with that 1 ittIt* rascal Basel mi; said "I can't think of tins one ss ho shut him (loss n I is ish hr vs.is playing for us I'd lovr to trade for him We'd give up our Si liool of Kngineering Ku hard l.uies Oregon's n foot 7 senior center, tried to help Brandon hs scoring I'1 points and grabbing eight boards, but early foul trouble limited him at the defensive end of the < ourt The Dm ks fought hai k from a 1.1 point defic it in the first half to tie the game at M ti-4 on Brandon's short jumper svitli 7 i t left, but they were out scored 20-7 tfie rest of the vs as "Hell, we battled in the set ond half, but couldn't keep up with them." Oregon (!oai h Don Munson said "Tiles rebounded ssell today and I thought the tone was set i|ii ii k I y vs 11 li the phy sical play '' fie said OREGON im l yd#n 2 ’ 00 5 ?f» 00 4 Lu> 4) 8IJ '■ I 0o»>«1on 11 h’ .N M . 4 13 (V1 10 Jofdan 0 2 2 2 2 »4n d#f VNn I 1.00 2 Pa!t»r»c>> 0-1 00 0 Totals 2tMW II U ?1 USC (M) Co4#rn#n 112-4 3 3 24> ‘>4D>J#fS 1 7 00 h Coop«’ 2 ? 00 *c P* r 4 11 ■) I irt M • 7 15 6 9 24 Qiann 1 2 00 2 B*>, 1 0 0 1 2 I 0 2, 00 0, Claimant 3 00 \ Bfo*m 0 1 00 0 Kami# (VO, 00 0 Totals 2*72 21 23 64 OntQon 36 33 USC 4*> 39 64 3-Pom! goals Of agon 4 f.l Muon 2 f Brandon 1 4 t yd#n 1 ?) USC *> 15 (Mm#r 2 *> Copp#f 1 5 Pack 1 2 Chatman l 2 Glann o 1» Foul ad Out Non# H«t>oundS Or#gon 13 (Lucas 6) USC bO (Sand#<s 16> C)f •gon 17 (Brandon Lyd#n 4i USC 19 (Pa. * 6i Total fouls Qf#gof' 18 USC 16 A 1 H29 Wrestlers take third at conference meet By Ashley Conklin l meraid Spoils Editor Oregon's wrestling team plat oil third at tin’ i'ai ifn. Hi Conference meet completed Sunday night at Stanford with four Dinks qualifying for tin- N't A A Champion ships Mari h 1-4 t • j While Dan Vidlak. Scott Clmm. Dam'll C.ustafson and Curt Strahm all made il to NCAAs, thrni' other Ducks could tnakn it to the NCAA ini't't depending on wildi ard selei lions made by the I’ai 10 coaches The top three wrestlers in all three weight classes automatically qualify for the NCAA Champion ships fourth ranked Arizona State won the tournament for the seventh year in a row with 1 1.! points, wliile ( al State Hakersfield was second with 1 0 1 ' t points, iusI ahead of ( fregon s *12 1 t Oregon ( oat h Kon Finley was unityailahle lor com moot at press time Vidlak. a junior, won the 1 HI pound i lass for the set ond time in three seasons af ter finishing third a year ago Vidlak. undefeated this season, was the top seed 111 the 11H pound i lass and heat Cal State Bakersfield's I'.it I liga i> 0 Vicllak is nms lll-ll tills season I |iisl went liartl and the points started coming." Yidlak said I didn't mv«• him a i hit in e to get into the mati h I limited mv mis takes this time and wrestled a little smarter (I I e n n . iv h o rec ent I v dropped down from 141! pounds to t )4 pounds to have a better i ham e ill the \t AA meet lost a I 1 dec i sum in overtime to top seed Marco Sane.he/ ol Arizona State, who s i o r e d a takedow n of (ileiill with I VI remaining in overtime The surprise ol the tourna men! for the Dm ks had to he (lustafson. a junior at tall pounds (iustalson hat I led hai k through the consolation rounds after losing his open mg mate h in the cjuarterfi mils Saturdac, I rom there he won four mati lies to plac e third. Iw.it mg Hill (iru nil lor ol ( a I I’otv San I-iiIs t )!>ispo 2 1 in overtime in the semifinals In the third plac e finals, (lustalsnn tojiped (laI Slate Hakersfield s Brian Malavar I 1 III two overtimes Turn to WRESTLERS, Page 14 2 Day Sale February 26 & 27 50% OFF at Campus Connection on all U of O • sweatshirts • t-shirts • champion embroidered • hats • glassware • gifts Our 2nd annual END OF WINTER SALE You won’t want to miss! CAMPUS CONNECTION \ \' The Best Off Campus Prices! 720 E. 13th (Next to Dairy Queen)