Oregon Daily Emerald Sports
Losing wears
on Duck coach
By Dave Chartoonneau
Emerald Sports Editor___
Monday afternoon, Oregon mens basket trail
coach ferrv Green missed his first practice in 25
years of coaching due to a bad case of the flu.
As the losses pile up for the Oregon men's bas
ketball team, the first-year coach is caught in one
of the most dreadful seasons of his coaching
career, and it's beginning to take a toll on the man.
"It wears on me everyday." Green said. "It's the
first thought that goes through my head when I
wake up in the morning, and it's the last thought
that goes through my head when I go to bed."
The Ducks ore in last place, with a 0-9 record, in
the Pacific-10 Conference, and Green, his players
and Oregon fans are beginning to wonder if the
team will win another game this season.
After a 7-5 start in the pre-season, it looked as
if Green's style of up-tempo basketball was sitting
well with a team that went (i-21 the year before
under coach Don Monson Hut now, Oregon is on
pace to finish worse than last year's team, which
went 2-lfi in the Pac-tO.
Green knew of the Ducks' laughable reputation
in recent years, and ho knew it was unrealistic to
expect an NGAA or even a NI T berth in his first
season at the helm of Oregon. But he didn’t expect
his team to be the worst team in the Pac-10.
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Oregon men's basketball coach Jerry Green has
watched a season ot expectation crumble Into a sea
son of contemplation.
Green's pain is magnified by the fai l that the
team lie left as an assistant — Kansas — is cur
rently ranked in the Top 10, and even spent a cou
ple of weeks at No. 1
Turn to GREEN, Page 8
Pac-10 in logjam at halfway mark
By Steve Mims
Emerald Sports Reporter
1993 was supposed to tie a
rebuilding year for the Pacific
10 Conference, but with eight
teams still alive for post-season
play, the conference is making a
comeback.
Arizona went 9-0 in the first
half of the conference season
and is the overwhelming
favorite to win the conference
title, but the next sever) teams in
.the standings are only two
games apart. The parity within
the conference will most likely
result in fewer teams being
* invited to the NCAA tournament
than in past years.
"The consensus is that the
league is down compared to past
years." Arizona State heud
coach Bill Frieder said. "There
is no doubt about that. I think
we have to have some teams
emerge from the crowd and cre
ate a gap if the conference is to
gut many teams in the tourna
ment."
Arizona State was picked to
finish last in the Pac-10 in most
pre-season predictions, but the
Sun Devils have responded by
winning six of their first nine
conference games and are tied
for second place.
'Our team has played hard
and intense.” Friedur said. "We
are small and don't look like a
basketball team, but we play
unselfish and as a result we
have been getting wins."
Oregon State recovered from a
4-5 pre-season to begin the Pac
10 season with five consecutive
wins, but has lost three of their
last four games to fall into a sec
ond-place tie at 6-3. Beaver
point guard Brent Barry is
expei ted to come track from an
injury this weekend and his
return has sparked optimism in
Corvallis.
Washington State has recov
ered from an 0-3 conference
start and is currently on a six
gamu winning streak that has
them alongside Oregon State
and Arizona Slate at 6-3.
Washington is alone in fifth
place at 5-4. followed by UCLA,
USC and California at 4-5. Cali
fornia shocked the conference
on Monday when h fired head
coach Lou Campanelli midway
through the season. Campanul
li’s fellow coaches expressed
shock and outrage at his dis
missal
"Lou's firing totally shocked
me." Arizona head coach Lute
Olson said "I wonder what is
going on when a coach is in the
I loginning of a five-year contract,
takes his team to the NCAA
tournament for the first time in
more than 20 vears and has. I'm
Turn to PAC-10. Page 8
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