Women: Ducks return to Tennessee
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Illini finished the season 22-7
overall and 12-4 in the Big Ten,
which tied it with Michigan State
and Purdue for first place in the
conference.
Jean Lenti Ponsetto, the chair of
the Division I Women’s Basket
ball Committee, said Illinois’ first
place finish played a factor in the
committee’s decision to grant the
Illini a home berth.
“We really felt one of the tri
champions of the Big Ten de
served the right to host...,” Lenti
Ponsetto said. "They had a very
good regular season in their con
ference and a very good non-con
ference record. I think when we
looked at Oregon we probably felt
that Illinois deserved to be a top
16 before we thought Oregon
did.”
Runge said the Illini had a good
season, but compared their two
late-season losses to the Ducks’
finish of winning eight of their
last nine.
“Illinois has had a very good
year this year, but they got beat re
cently,” she said. “They got beat
by Iowa in the tournament, they
got beat by Purdue recently.
“My concern with that is that
we don’t have a [conference] tour
nament. And as far as our tourna
ment is concerned, if you look at
the second half of our Pac-10 sea
son as a tournament, our only loss
is [by] three [points] to Stanford.”
Illinois lost to Purdue in its fi
nal Big Ten game, then fell to
Iowa in the championship of the
conference tournament.
The Ducks’ trip to Tennessee is
their second in as many years.
Last season, Oregon was a No.
11 seed in the NCAA Tournament
and traveled to Nashville where
they lost to Wisconsin in the first
round.
Men: Oregon faces WAC co-champ Hawaii
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thing from traveling, scouting and what would be
best for our basketball team. It is important for us to
be ready to play.”
Green did say that he was surprised that Oregon
didn’t get a first-round home game.
“I was surprised simply because we had been
drawing so well at home,” he said. “But we’ve been
told where we are going to play, so why question de
cisions that have already been made? I don’t worry
about it. I just know that we are going to play in
Hawaii at 7:30 on Wednesday night, and we are go
ing to do the best we can to get our group over there
and get them ready to play.”
Hawaii is 20-6 overall and co-champion of the
Western Athletic Conference’s Pacific Division, tied
at 12-4 with Fresno State. The Rainbows were one of
a handful of teams on the NCAA Tournament bub
ble coming into Sunday afternoon.
Hawaii is led by a potent back court that consists
of All-American candidate Anthony Carter and All
WAC candidate Alika Smith. Carter is the team’s
leading scorer and assist man at 19.2 and 6.5 per
game respectively. He is also the conference leader
in assists and steals.
Smith averages 17.3 points per game and is fourth
on Hawaii’s career three-point’s made list and is
shooting 42 percent from beyond the arc this season.
Green admits he knows very little about Hawaii
and is expecting to start reviewing film as soon as he
can get it.
“1 know as about as much about them right now as
you do,” Green told the media. “The problem that
comes is you just don’t see those people as much so
aren’t as familiar with them. But on the other hand
they aren’t as familiar with us.
“Playing on the road in college basketball is never
easy, but I know our kids will respond.”
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Painter
Betty LaDuke
Professor emerita
Southern Oregon State College, Ashland
in a slide lecture entitled
“An Artist's Journey:
From the Bronx to Timbuktu”
Wednesday, March 12, 1997
7:00 p.m. 150 Columbia Hall
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