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fcitAftp M». • ii»d v •.-<aaf After a late-season run, the Oregon women were elated with their No 6 seeding In this year s NCAA tournament The Ducks will he making their second straight appearance In the field of 64. Dicks Get This Shot Mark McTyre Onu/on Daily fmei.uk! For the first time ever in Ore gon historv. froth the men's and women's basketball teams will be in the NCAA tournament While the men are shining up their dancing shoes for tlieir short jaunt to Salt Lake City, the women are preparing to wear down the tread on their Nikes as the team's first round matchup is in Athens. Ga. The women will Ire making their second consecutive trip to the tournament, and their fifth appe.trniu e in t .i years, is the No tr seed in tlie Midwest bracket Oregon's opening round fen’s will be the 11th seeded Louisville Cardinals on March 17. To get into the tournament, the Ducks had to complete an almost impassible mission With six games left on the schedule. Ore gon needed to pick up five vie • tones in its remaining games against the likes of Arizona Stale. Arizona, Stanford and Southern California — teams the Ducks had previously lost to earlier in the season. The Ducks started their run for a Irerth to the tournament during the last weekend of February, with revenge blowouts of the Ari zona schools. Oregon's combined margin of victory against the vis iting schools was an outstanding 57 (joints while holding its oppo sition under a 50-point average per game (49.5). When the Due ks wont on the root! the following weekend, they ran into « road block when fac ing Stanford, after total mg Cali forma two nights before. 89-73 The fifth-ranked ('ordinal gave Oregon a taste of its own medi cine when they oulscored the Ducks 97-55, making the two remaining games must-win sit nations Oregon, a team that was thought to he m the midst of a rebuilding year, gave the home town crowd exactly what they all came to see — another blowout. The Ducks wasted no tune in their second to last game of the season against 23rd-ranked CSC as they jumped ahead early and never looked back «n route to a 76-50 victory "I think the way to term this year is we didn’t rebuild, we just reloaded." Oregon forward Betty Ann Boeving said. With their final game of season pairing them against lowly UC1-A. the Ducks knew this game was nig a must-win situation, but instead a don’t-lose one. In the first 10 minutes of play. Oregon was only able to muster eight points while trailing by two to Turn to TEAMWORK. Page 18A .... MAM# M(. f iM| ♦ f*. >lenty of Oregon faithful gathered at McArthur Court on Sunday to cel ebrate yet another highlight to Oregon's amazing year in sports M.iK'h I \ I‘WS V illume '#», H\ue 11 I Duck Notes Ricketts, Strait suspended Damoron Ricketts and often. Sivc lineman Kyle Strict have been suspended indefinitely from the Ducks football team tor a repeated failure to fui'ui fe.tm obligations, head ccucrt Mi»i! Itt'i.u!' .|i in) Betiotti added that the sanctions would include the suspension from a minimum of (me game ne«t lad orn o the player;; are able to com piete requirements to t>o restored on the team i I - . ,*■ J, - , if if ,, v * „ \* , > |t { *f\ Culver City. Catif. started If games a year ago catching 41? passes lor S U yards Strait a rodshirf freshman from Ash arid, lettered a si season m a reserve role at center William* cotlects AB-Pac-fO hon ors lor second straight year f or the second year in a row Oregon guard Orlando W arm was named to the Altd’ac-10 team In a vote ot conference coaches. UCL A forward Cd O'Hannon and Afi/ona guard Damon Suxidamire were named co players of the year in the Hat 10 California forward Tremaine I owtkos codec tod freshman of the year horiorr, and UCLA head coach Jim i ian.i i. gathered coach of '.naf ’ i >! H IfS Kenya Wstkins received honorable mention for fhe Ducks Ail P»e-10 i tv.-.-' tw, nrq uoh state_ Ci frifi-* Krvpfii, $JMif QftQ__ HdPfUven UCLA__ F Ray Afff/QtiA Q Orlando Wtlli.ms, OflEGON Crowe, Fegent represent women on all Pac-10 list Australians Sally Crowe and Renat.• fegent were named to Sfie Ah Pac -10 w*v t" *. squad tii' 1994 1995 Oregon's Ananne Boyer received honorable mention Oregon State s Tania kofitic was named the women's player of trio year. Ancona s Adia Barnes grabbed the freshman award and Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer was named the coach of the year woman s Aii-f'ac-io 0 Sally Craw*, OftEOON C flenait Fafant, OREGON •»CM if QRyjiA r&td SIU*Off) AASHIHGTON IGONSTAIE
