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Men lack inside presence in win The Ducks relied heavily on their outside game against California By Joel Hood Spoils Reporter Oregon coaches must have wondered prior to Saturday’s tipoff if the Ducks, a team which ranked ninth in the Pacific-10 Conference in points per game, could find ways to score against one of the conference’s stingiest defenses. The answer came on Oregon’s first score of the game. Henry Madden’s soft, high arching three-pointer ended the Ducks’ 2-minute, 34-second scor ing drought to open the game and gave them their first lead. That lead ballooned to six points fol lowing Terik Brown’s three pointer at 14:54, then eight points after a Mike McShane three at 9:19, then 12 points when Yasir Rosemond sank a 22 foot rainbow at 6:32, to the grand finale, McShane’s 25-foot bomb as the clock expired at the end of the first half. Oregon sank a season-high sev en three-pointers in the first half of its Pac-10 opener at McArthur Court. More amazing was that the Ducks’ 58.3 percentage from be hind the arc in the first half came against a California team that ranked first in the conference in defending the three-pointer. The familiar three-point splash was back with a vengeance, but it may have exposed a greater weakness that could spell doom for the Ducks in the Pac-10 schedule. Without Mike Carson at center, Oregon featured a smaller lineup that was content to pass the ball around the perimeter and look for shots outside the paint. BROWN ine uucks committed three turnovers in the low post in the game’s opening minutes — Donte Quinine was called for charging on a move toward tne basket, then Oregon was twice called for traveling in the key — and seemed hesitant to throw the ball inside for the rest of the game. So Oregon, led by Brown’s 18 points and four-for-seven shoot ing from three-point range, went with what has been a Duck trade mark since Orlando Williams be gan his career in 1991 — shoot ing the lights out from behind the arc. However, Oregon’s three-point prowess has nearly always come at the expense of its play under the basket, and Saturday’s matchup was no different. The Ducks were as equally ineffective at getting the ball inside as they were effective from three-point range. But head coach Ernie Kent and his players chose to emphasize the latter. "I was very pleased,” Kent said. “But I thought that we maybe could have got a little bit more done inside. We passed up on a few things inside that we are going to have to take advantage of on Monday.” Monday’s game will provide a daunting task against one the Pac-10's best teams in the paint, No. 7 Stanford. “Our offense is tough to stop when we’re all gelling,” Brown said. “Kent’s philosophy is just to play good team basketball and to knock down your shots. We weren't real effective on the in side tonight so we relied more heavily on the three-pointer, but that could change.” Perhaps, but Saturday Ore gon’s inside presence consisted of Henry Madden, who had only six points in the paint, Jonathan Nelson, who had just four points and three rebounds, and A.D. Smith, who finished with four points and a career-high eight re bounds in 19 minutes of work. California’s second-year head coach Ben Braun knows how dif ficult is it to win games when a team lives and dies by the three point shot. “If Oregon is shooting well then they can create real matchup problems for teams in the Pac-10,” Braun said. “But if the shots are a little off the mark, the team could be in for a long night, both scoring inside and re bounding.” Men: Pac-10 win important for young, inexperienced team ■ Continued from Page 13 into the second half." California picked away at Oregon’s lead in the second half when the Ducks’ shooting touch went cold and used a 7 0 run to pull within seven, 46 39, with 8:32 remaining. Jones. But Jonathan Nelson (6 9, 225), Smith (6-8, 233), Mad den (6-7, 211) and Flo Harten stein (6-9, 255) coml)ined to limit Marks and Jones to 10 points and nine rebounds and forced both players into foul trouble early in the game. But Mad den led Ore gon back, scoring sev en points in a 10-3 run that was capped by the for ward’s sec ond three pointer of the game to put the Ducks up hy 14 with 5:25 on the clock. (( For a group of guys with expectations not so high, I can t tell you how proud I am. They played their hearts out. A game like this builds their confidence even more. Ernie Kent UO men's head coach “That was our main objec tive going in — block out their big guys,” Mad den said. It was an important win for Ore gon, one of t h e youngest and most inexperi enced teams in the con "In the Pac-10," Madden said, ‘‘if you let your guard down, boom, they’re right back in the game. But we did a tremendous job answering their runs.” At the start of the game, Oregon appeared to be at a se rious size disadvantage. Cali fornia started two centers, 6 11, 250-pound Sean Marks and 6-10, 270-pound Kenyon ference, in terms of starting the Pac-10 season off on a winning note and maybe, just as important, being able to win at home. "For a group of guys with expectations not so high, I can’t tell you how proud I am,” Kent said. "They played their hearts out. A game like this builds their confidence even more.” MOVIES * DINING * BOOKS * BEVIEWS COMING FRIDAY IN THE EMERALD Emerald CLASSIFIEDS Call 346-4343 or stop by Suite 300 EMU to place your ad today 095 PERSONALS CONGRATULATIONS! jflnne Jlmador and Jo/n ’yC/efsen Anne, a Journalism major from Eugene and Tom, the Head Groundskeeper with the Eugene Emeralds, will marry on Mar. 14, 1998. The wedding will be in Eugene at prst' iris*' in Church. -Mace your FREE WEDDING/ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT in the Bridal Guide. Wednesday, January 14. Call 346-4343 for more info. Deadline; January 12, 1p.m. bon’t H ave A Cow! 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