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Women take tourney
hopes to California
By Scott Simonson
| hi- Ait;- ti;<) loss*" will
t o«mt tin-. '•* ki'tuJ but for the
(begun Aomen's hasketbai
team appearoii* <"> mu v !"
as important
Whim tin- Dili ks tr.ivi’l
Sou!tu rn California for games
against I SC .ii 7 t(t p.m. Thurs
<1,1% .1111! against I'( I.A at l p m
Saturday the NCAA tourn 1
rmint 1 ommitti'f will lie wot< fl
ing ['his weekend, it may not
be whether Oregon wins or
loses that matters but how it
play s the games
I think one-ami-one is fine I
think two .;iiOii shows as far as
bring 1 i..sr hiilgames is Inn
•a ith os (begun head < oai h
)od y H' 1 n> '■ salt! Wr do11 t
want two I'ssi's. wr don’t want
one and onr U r w ant to go out
on a positive note
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under determination Pairings
,imi silt", for tin! two opening
rounds of pim art' announced
Solid.is morning lilt'
unnoum I'lni'iits are carried .111•
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Oregon. IJ 1 in the f’.n ifu 111
Conference and 1H-7 overall,
ret eived the 7th most votes in
tins week s Associated Press
poll, down slightly from lust
week The Due ks are in third
place in the conference, one
game behind Stanford and two
games behind USD
Oregon has an outside shot at
winning the Pat.-10 and receiv
ing the i (inference's automatic
bid to the NCAA tournament,
but the odds of the Ducks get
ting on nutomotii tournament
hid are mils slightly better than
the chain es of Oregon's men's
basketball team getting one
Oregon could win the i outer
ent e it it sweeps tiie Southern
California s< bools and if Stan
ford, the league's hottest team
and winners of nine consei u
live games, loses to Washington
and Washington Slate at home
Stanford loses at home about
hold their tirealh 1 he i1 ■ i<
would do very well to uphold
us end of the bargain and sweep
the Iroinns and Bruins
Hrith teams enter the w* • tend
with considerably more at -.take
than the Ducks No 'list 1*
ill the I'a< It) and tit overall,
is trying to hold off Stanford
and win the conforent <■ title
I ( I A. 10 r> and r> ft), is still
being touted as a candidate tor
\( A A tournament plav >1 u can
play two impressive games this
weekend However the Hrtlins
have not won a game since ins
mg their star plover and the
i onfereni e s leading si nrer and
rebounder. Natalie Williams, to
a season ending knee ininrv
Hoth teams played intense
bald-fought games with Or* eon
in their first meetings 1 l I.A
lust b\ liv*■ and t S< beat the
1 hi! ks by two
i jregon is irv11«k u' 1 " > >
itsfll after its fill loss to Si,ni
lord last Saturday With llif
f »t t‘ptmu ol rebounding. < lo
gon did the things it needed to
do to win mid simply was out
played ,0111 outhustled down
tlir streti h by tin1 (.tirdinal
I think all ol our hearts wore
roallv hurt ovi-r not hav mg In- it
i'!i them and not tun mg a < hat >*
to win tin' I’at 10 championship,
but I don't think that changes
things for us," Runge said
Kungn said the Stanford game
showed Oregon belongs in tin*
tournament.
"I think the main thing at this
point is that we're very con
cerned about getting in the tour
nament and about showing
people we're capable of playing
a tournament (caliber) game,"
she said "I think the Stanford
game was a good example tfial
we re ready for tournament
play."
Oregon prepares tor the post
season with at least two players
as serious candidates for a 11 -
conference honors Senior for
ward Debbie Spon ich ranks
ninth on the Rac-10 s list of all
time leading rebounders with
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Oregon's Debbie Spore Ich needs 20 points In two games this weekend to become the fifth-leading scorer
In Oregon history
852 rebounds
With 23 rebounds in her final
two games. Sporei(h. who is
averaging 9.7 rebounds per
game in league ploy, could
move into seventh on the all
time list
Sport.ii h is sixth in the < on
forent.e m storing with a 18.6
points per game average 20
points in her last two game
would make Sport.ii h the fifth
leading scorer in Oregon histo
ry She is currently fourth in
school history in rebounding
Senior guard Missy Croshaw
will finish her career with more
three-point field-goal attempts
than any player f’ai -10 history
She is in first place and has 461
total attempts after last weekend
and is sixth in the nation in
three point accuracy, at 4S.6
percent
Croshaw stands second all
time in three-pointers made
Croshaw is 11 three-point field
goals away from the all-time
mark and is averaging 2A three
pointers per game
Individual performances
aside, Oregon's biggest asset has
l>een its defense The Ducks are
tied for second in the confer
Campus Dairy Queen • 7()6 E. 13th
ence in scoring defensive and
liave quietly taken their place
alongside the conferences
finest defensive teams just one
season after having one of the
conference's worst defenses.
Whether or not Oregon
achieves one of its preseason
goals and finishes with a 20-win
season, the Ducks have already
made the biggest one-year turn
around in Pac-10 history. After
finish ninth last year. Oregon is
assured of at least fourth place
this season No other team has
pimped more than four places
in the conference in one year
Croshaw
gets award
for shooting
Oregon guard Missy Croshuw
won AT&T's Long Distance
Award for the three-point field
goal percentage per game in
NCAA women's Division 1 bas
ketball in February
The award recognizes the
players making the most three
pointers per game and the high
est three-point field-goal
percentage each month.
Croshaw connected on lf> of
25, or f>4 percent, of her three
point attempts last month She
will receive an ingraved plaque
from AT&T Croshaw is shoot
ing 4fi.2 percent from behind
the three-point arc this season,
tops in the Pacific-10 Confer
ence