ON THE TUBE
Saturday, Women's College B-ball
Oregon vs. Arizona State,
KVAL (8), 6p.m.
Oregon women move into third place with 85-81 win
■ REVIEW: The
Ducks hold on to
win after blowing
a 22-point lead
in the second half
By Ryan Frank
Sports Reporter
It was not pretty, but the Ducks will take it.
After opening up a 22-point lead in the second
half, three of Oregon’s key players fouled out as the
Arizona Wildcats clawed to within two points with
just 18 seconds remaining.
But that was as close as they would get.
Guard Cindie Edamura hit two free throws with
less than six seconds left to give Oregon an 85-81
win in Tucson.
The win allows the Ducks (17-6 overall, 10-4 Pa
cific-10 Conference) to leap-frog past Arizona (19-5,
9-4) into sole possession of third place in the Pac
10, and gives them a chance to finish in second
place if they win their final four
games, including a date with sec
ond-place Southern California at
McArthur Court next Thursday.
While Oregon was able to break
the Wildcats' press for easy bas
kets in the first half, the second
half was a different story.
The Ducks opened the second half with a 9-0 run
and went up by 22 points on a layup by Renae Fe
gent with 14:56 left in the game. Then the Wildcats
began chipping away at Oregon’s lead.
Arizona cut Oregon’s lead to 12 points with less
than five minutes left when the Ducks started to
drop like flies.
With 4:44 remaining, Fegent fouled out with a
team-high 19 points on 8-of-12 shooting. One
minute, 30 seconds later, Arianne Boyer fouled out
with 16 points. Forty-five seconds after Boyer
fouled out, Jenny Mowe was gone.
During that span, Arizona went on an 8-0 run,
and eventually pulled within two points, 83-81, be
fore Edamura hit the two free throws to put Oregon
up by four.
Ducks win, Jerry celebrates
■ VICTORY: Kenya Wilkins scored six
of Oregon’s final eight points to help
beat No. 13 Arizona
By Andrea DeYoung
Assistant Sports Editor
It all came down to free throws.
With 19 seconds to go, Henry Madden
went to the line to shoot one-and-one. Two
swishes, and the Oregon men’s basketball
team was up by four points. Ten seconds
later, Kenya Wilkins
Men’s
Basketball
■ LEADING
SCORERS:
UA Bibby 22,
UO Lawrence 20
■ LEADING
REBOUNDERS:
UABramlett11,
UO Milling 11
■ ASSIST
LEADERS:
UA Terry 6,
UO Ramaker 5,
Wilkins 5
hit two to put the
I Ducks up by six. And
that would be the
i game.
Final score: Oregon
! 78, Arizona 72.
For the first time
| since Dec. 7 against
| Fresno State, the
i Ducks (15-8 overall,
| 6-8 in the Pacific-10
| Conference) beat a
i ranked opponent,
j The Wildcats came
j into the game ranked
j No. 13 in the nation.
| But instead of con
I centrating on how to
I beat Arizona, Oregon
i looked at itself.
“In the pre-game,
i we watched some of
the Fresno State
game,” Wilkins said. “Instead of focusing on
Arizona, we focused on us. Coach [Jerry
Green] showed us how we were, the mind
set we were in and the defense we were
playing. I think that was the difference
tonight. We saw that and remembered. We
could see the difference clearly. So we just
went out and tried to play like that team we
saw on film.”
A newly inspired Oregon team took to the
court running in the first half, going up 18-4
in the first six minutes. Terik Brown hit
three consecutive three-pointers before be
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Oregon fans carry head coach Jerry Green around McArthur Court following his team’s 78-72 win.
■ GREEN: Oregon overcame
a week full of distractions to
finally beat Arizona
By Chris Hansen
Sports Reporter
On a night that started out
with Oregon head coach Jerry
Green addressing a crowd that
was sombered by a week’s worth
of accusations, innuendos and
punishment, it was only fitting
that it ended with Green being
paraded on the same crowd’s
shoulders in joyous celebration.
In a statement given six min
utes before tip-off. Green pleaded
with the fans, particularly the
students, to not be short of en
thusiasm in light of the chunk of
student section seating that had
been roped off by the ASUO.
“This is a very special place,
and you are a very special group
of fans,” Green said in his ad
dress. “We need you, we’re with
you, and if our team was as good
as you are, we would be unde
feated and nobody would even
be close to us.”
The importance of having the
crowd into the game couldn’t be
overstated, particularly since
Oregon was playing 13th-ranked
Arizona, a team that the Ducks
had failed to beat in 12 straight
games. In fact, Arizona was the
one Pacific-10 Conference team
that Green had never beat.
But when all was said and
done, the Ducks squeaked out a
78-72 win, and the students re
sponded by rushing the floor cor
ralling Green at mid-court and
hoisting him up on to their
shoulders.
“I’m just proud of our fans,”
Green said after the game. “I hate
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Oregon Club hockey team to battle for Pacific-8 supremacy
■ TOURNAMENT: Oregon faces
California in the first round of
conference playoffs in L.A.
By Alex Pond
Freelance Sports Reporter
The Oregon Club hockey team travels to
Anaheim, Calif., this weekend for the Pa
cific-8 Hockey Conference Tournament
with one thing in mind: winning the
whole thing.
“We absolutely want to win it,” head
coach Nick Ham said. “Getting there is
only part of the battle. I’m real proud of the
team and all of the guys that got us there,
but winning is what my intent is when I go
down there.”
The quest for the conference champi
onship begins Saturday at Disney Ice in
Anaheim. The Ducks (17-6-1 overall, 7-5-1
Pac-8) are paired against California (7-6-2
Pac-8) in a first-round game.
The Ducks and the Golden Bears have
met one other time this season on Nov. 16
in Oakland with California coming out on
top by a score of 8-6.
Oregon feels it was robbed of a victory
by the referees in that game and is ecstatic
to be matched up against California in the
tournament.
“I m real happy we get
to play Cal again this
year,” Ham said. "We are
definitely going to exact
some revenge on [Califor
nia]... With fair referee
ing, we’ll beat [Califor
ma). I’m very confident in that.”
Ham said that the key to victory against
the Golden Bears is to stick to the basics
and be mentally prepared.
“The first thing it’ll take is that we walk
onto the ice ready to play hockey,” he said.
“I know that the players are going to be
pumped — they’re going to be excited, and
the first few minutes orthe game are going
to be a settling down time.
“We’ve got to calm down and play smart
hockey, heads-up hockey, and that’s all it’s
going to take to beat [California].”
If the Ducks do get by the Golden Bears,
they will face either Stanford or USC on
Sunday for the championship. If Oregon
loses, it will play for third-place on Sun
day.