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The Emerald sports staff previews
and forecasts the 1994 Pac-10
Men's Basketball season
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PREVIEW 1994
The Emerald cuammes the
Pac-10 women's basketball
season in o two part senes
TUESDAY A look at
Washington^ WSU. USC
UCLA ond Oregon State
TODAY: A look at
Stanford, California,
Arizona, Arizona Slate and
Oregon
By Scotl Simonson
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Never bet against Stanford
Picking Stanford's women's
basketball team to win in the Fac
to fins gotten to be n no-brainer
The Cardinal has won or tied for
the Pacific 10 Conference title
each of the Inst five seasons. In
the seven-year history of Par -10
women's basketball, it has an
.817 conference winning per
centage that inr hides an 82-10
record since 1989.
It should come as no surprise,
then, that Stanford is once again
one of the favorites to win the
conference i hampionship. The
1 lth-ranked Cardinal, l-l in the
conference and 8-3 overall, has
only the fourth-liest rv< ord in the
conference, but all of its losses
have come at the hands of nation
ally ranked opponents. The most
rei ent was a 78-61 drubbing at
the hands of No. 16 Washington
last Thursday.
The ( jirdmal program isn't the
powerhouse it was a few years
ago, but it still puts plenty of
points on the board Stanford
leads the conference and is
ranked among national leaders in
scoring offense, with an 818
points per game average
Stanford returns only two
starters from last season's NCAA
tournament team, but the team's
strength is balance: The confer
ence's highest-scoring team
doesn't have any players averag
ing more than 15 points per
game. Stanford’s roster lacks a
star like the Vnl Whitings and
Jennifer Azzis of seasons (Mist, fait
it has good players and plenty of
them.
(California, on the other hand,
boasts a tradition of mediocrity
The Bears have finished fourth
or fifth in the conference in five
of seven years of conference play.
This year's Golden [tear team.
0-2 in the Pat:-10 and 6-6 overall,
will do well to finish that high
Cal is 0-5 on the road this season
and is allowing more points per
game (78.9) than any other team
in the conference.
The Golden Boars do know
how to play some offense and
have two of the top 10 scorers in
the conference in center Ingrid
Dixson and guard Jackie Lear.
However, with Arizona and the
Oregon schools improving. Gal
will be hard-pressed to place in
the upper half of the conference.
The Golden Bears would do well
to write this season off as a
rebuilding your
No team mav be harder to fig
ure out than Arizona The Wild
cats are 1 -0 in the conference and
7-2 overall, including a two-point
loss at home to No 1-ranked Ten
nessee at home in December. The
Wildc ats are also the same team
that finished in eighth place in
the conference last season with a
7-11 record
The Wildcats are trying to
make it to postseason play for the
first time ever Arizona has eight
seniors and four returning
starters Included in that group is
guard Shown Coder, who aver
ages 15.4 points per game and is
shooting 47.4 percent from the
three-[Killit range; and center Kim
Conway, who lends the confer
ence in field-goal percentage and
is eighth in rebounding.
But are the Wildcats for real '’
It may take time to tell. The Wild
cats protmblv aren't tough enough
in challenge for the conference
crown, hut they have a legitimate
shot of making it to postseason
play. After traveling to Stanford
and California this weekend, then
hosting USC. and UCLA next
weekend. Arizona will have a
pretty clear idea of whether it's a
pretender or a contender
If Arizona State isn't the worst
team in the conference right now,
it should lie by the end of the sea
son The Sun Devils. 0-1 and 2-7
in the Pnc-10. lost to the likes of
Appalachian State and Southern
Illinois in the preseason.
On paper. the Sun Devils don’t
appear much more threatening.
Arizona State ranks last in seven
major statistical categories,
including scoring offense,
rebounding and field goal per
centage.
Bright spots for Arizona State
include forward/center Melani
Francis, who's ninth in the con
ference in scoring, with a 16.0
average; and forward Nikki
Thompson, whose; average of 4.9
steals per game places her eighth
in the nation.
Last, but not least, is Oregon.
The Ducks are essentially the
same squad that went 3-15 in the
Pac-10 last year to finish in a tie
for last place. However, first-year
head coach Jody Runge has
brought a change in attitude and
an emphasis on defense.
Oregon. 1-1 and 7-4. looked
impressive in its opening week
end of conference play. McArthur
Court is always a tough place to
play; it remains to be seen
whether Oregon will be able to
get wins away from home.
If forward-Debbie Sporcich and
center Sara Wilson stay healthy.
Oregon's inside game will he
good enough to challenge any
one. If the Ducks play solid
defense and get consistent
perimeter offense from forward
Jessica Schutt and guard Missy
Croshaw. Oregon is capable of
winning just about anywhere.
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