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Victory: Wilkins’ jump shots clinch it
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ing forced to sit after he picked up
his second foul.
Arizona responded with a run
of its own, coming within one
point midway through the half.
The rest of the half was all Oregon
as the Ducks went on a 10-0 run
and then a 9-5 run to take a 12
point lead into the locker room.
Both teams were off and run
ning again in the second half. The
Wildcats took the first two turns,
first scoring 12 points to the
Ducks’ five in the first five min
utes, then going on a 9-1 run to tie
the game at 58. Mike Bibby hit all
four of his three-pointers in the
second half to help the Wildcats
cut Oregon’s lead. With 3:23 to go
in the game, Miles Simon hit a
three of his own to give Arizona
the 72-70 lead.
But unlike so many other times
this season, the Ducks did not sit
still and watch the game slip
away. Thanks to two jump shots
from Wilkins and a steal on the
other end of the floor by the point
guard, Oregon was up by two
with a minute to go.
It was 41 seconds later that
Madden was fouled by Bennett
Davison. It was not suppose to be
Madden at the line, but an Ari
zona double-team kept him from
passing the ball.
“I wanted to just beat the press
and get it to Jamal Lawrence on
the right hand side because he’s
[been] shooting great at the free
throw line all year,” Madden said.
"I knew if he had the ball in his
possession he would be ice water
at the free-throw line.”
Lawrence, who admits he has
been struggling in the past couple
of weeks, rediscovered the shoot
ers’ touch against Arizona, scor
ing 20 points. The Ducks also got
good games from the other two
players who, along with
Lawrence, Green says are the key
to winning ballgames. Wilkins
had 15 points, including six of
Oregon’s last eight, and Kyle
Milling scored a double-double
with 15 points and 11 rebounds.
Although Oregon was unable to
contain Bibby, who scored 22
points, and Simon, who threw in
19, Davison and Michael Dicker
son combined for only 20 points.
In addition, Arizona's bench only
contributed seven points, while
the Ducks got 21 points from their
non-starters.
Oregon looks to make it a win
ning streak as it takes on Arizona
State on Saturday night.
Green: Controversy inspires team, crowd
■ Continued from Page 9
to act out of character, but all of our fans were out cel
ebrating, and they have just took the blunt of the
blow [this week], and I truly believe that they are spe
cial kids. So I just kind of joined them just to show
them how much they mean to us and how much they
mean to McArthur Court.”
Not to be lost in all the celebrating, though, is how
much the win means to the Oregon team.
"This is something I’ve wanted to do ever since I
came here,” Lawrence said. “Ever since I’ve been
here we have never beaten Arizona. This is just a
great feeling.”
“This is great,” Kenya Wilkins agreed. “It was a
goal coming into the season: beat Arizona. It came
when we needed a win and recognition across the
nation. They are highly ranked and people didn’t be
lieve that we could beat them.”
After last weekend’s disastrous trip to the Bay Area
that included lackadaisical losses to Stanford and
California, Oregon didn't look like it could beat any
body, let alone the Pac-10's highest nationally ranked
team. But after a week of emotional incidents, in
cluding a practice scuffle between players and the
ASUO’s decision to withhold student tickets in reac
tion to alleged racial and homophobic taunts at past
men’s basketball games, it all seemed to inspire the
crowd — and the team.
“Tonight we came out and played hard and
played together and made a lot of unselfish plays,”
Henry Madden said.
In the end, though, the night belonged to Green.
“They do a great job,” Green said of the crowd.
“When I went up stairs at the 12-minute mark [before
the game], the place looked like a morgue. It has just
been a miserable two days. We’ve spent quite a bit of
time on this, trying to explain to people that we are
the good guys.”
And on Thursday night, they were winners also.
UO softball plays
at UNLV Classic
The Oregon softball team will
head to Las Vegas this weekend to
take another shot at the UNLV Soft
ball Classic. The Ducks have an even
13-13 record at the tournament over
the last five years that they have
competed and go into play this week
with a 3-3 record in non-league
match-ups.
The Ducks will face Loyola Mary
mountto open the 16-team tourna
ment. Last season, the Ducks split
with the Lions in their season series,
losing the first meeting 1 -5 and win
ning the second 5-1. Loyola Mary- '
mount is 7-9 on the season after
dropping its first five games. The Li
ons played second-ranked UCLA
tough earlier in the season, losing 0
1.
Oregon’s second match-up will
be against Bowling Green, also on
Friday. The Falcons haven’t played a
game yet this year, so their first
SPORTS NEWS
tournament game will be their open
er. The last time they faced the
Ducks, in 1990, Oregon won 6-3.
U0 track and field
preps for outdoors
Returning to action for the first
time in three weeks, the Oregon
men's and women’s track and field
teams travel to Reno, Nev., this
weekend for the Mountain Pacific
Championships.
The meet, which runs today and
Saturday, is the Ducks’final prepa
ration for the outdoor season, which
begins next month.
'Tm looking forward to seeing
some competitive performances
from everybody after a winter of
training,” men's head coach Bill
Dellinger said. "It’ll be nice to break
up the monotony a little. I'm not ex
pecting any miracles, just that they
compete well.”
UO women’s tennis
faces New Mexico
The Oregon women’s tennis team
will try to bounce back from last
weekend’s Pacific-10 Conference
loss to Stanford with two matches
in Albuquerque, N.M.
Oregon head coach Jack Griffin
will return to his old stomping
ground today to face New Mexico.
Griffin was an assistant coach at
New Mexico for three years and in
1995 helped guide the Lobos to
their first ever NCAA Tournament.
The Ducks (2-1 overall, 1-1 in
Pac-10) will match up against the
Ohio State Buckeyes Sunday.
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