UW ready for Arizona challenge
Center Jelan i McCoy
and forward Kris
Johnson return to
the Bruins' lineup
By Rob Moseley
Sports Reporter
The national champion Wild
cats should be 3-0 entering this
matchup with the Huskies, who
are one of those teams that could
beat almost anybody “on any giv
en night,” as coaches like to say.
The guard-oriented Wildcats,
led by preseason All-Americans
Mike Bibby and Miles Simon,
should face a stiff challenge in
Seattle, where the offense runs
through 7-footer Todd MaeCul
loch.
MacCulloch, the NCAA leader
in field-goal percentage last sea
son, should be familiar to Duck
fans, as it was he who tapped in
the winner with four seconds left
to beat Oregon in Seattle last sea
son.
The game is on Fox Sports
Northwest at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Back to full strength
UCLA is back at full strength af
ter tile return of forward Kris John
son and center Jelani McCoy from
suspension. Johnson made his
first appearance of the season on
Dec. 13, scoring 15 points in 15
minutes against Cal-State Fuller
r
ton, and McCoy returned Dec. 30
with a seven-point effort in 14
minutes against Illinois. Johnson,
a senior, and McCoy, a junior,
were suspended Sept. 29 for viola
tion of department policies and
team rules.
Award favorites
Arizona's guard tandem of se
nior Miles Simon and sophomore
Mike Bibby appears on the list of
finalists for two national player of
the year awards. Each is named on
the list of 10 finalists for the Nai
smith Award and among the 30
candidates for the Wooden Award.
Respect anyone?
In its annual college hoops pre
view, The Sporting News ranks the
Pacific-10 Conference seventh na
tionally, below the Atlantic Coast
Conference, the Big 10, the South
eastern Conference, the Western
Athletic Conference, the Atlantic
10 and the Big 12. The Big 10
boasts nothing beyond No. 5 Pur
due, and the Big 12 is another one
hit wonder with Kansas. Arizona
won the national championship
last season after finishing fifth in
conference play and was the sec
ond NCAA champ in three years
from the Pac-10, as well as one of
four Pac-10 teams in last season’s
Sweet Sixteen.
Injury talk
Stanford’s sophomore forward
Mark Madsen, who had started the
first 11 games of the season, suf
fered a stress fracture in his right
foot during a practice in December.
Madsen, who entered the weekend
as the Cardinal’s second-leading
scorer and rebounder, was origi
nally expected to miss 10 to 14
days but is now expected to miss at
least a month.
Two-sport star
Redshirt freshman Ortege Jenk
ins, a 6-foot-2 guard, joined the
Arizona roster recently after com
pleting his duties as the starting
quarterback for the Wildcat foot
ball team. Jenkins began the year
third on the depth chart, but in
juries forced him into the starting
role in the Wildcats’ fifth game of
the season. The Long Beach, Calif.,
native threw for 1,669 yards and 19
touchdowns, the most ever for a
freshman in the Pac-10.
A major loss
The loss of Rodrigo de la Fuente
to the Spanish professional league
should mean increased pressure
on Washington State’s Carlos
Daniel, the lone member of the
Cougars’ top four scorers from last
season still in Pullman. Daniel
ranks third in the Pac-10 in re
bounding this season, as well as
12th in scoring and seventh in
blocks, de la Fuente was among
the top 10 in scoring, rebounding,
steals and field goal-percentage
before leaving school on Sunday.
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Undefeated Huskies off to
best start in eight seasons
The Beavers will
return to Gill Coliseum
for their first home
game i>i over a month
By Alex Pond
Sports Reporter
The Washington Huskies are
slowly but surely opening eyes
of basketball fans not only in
the Pacific-10 Conference, but
across the nation.
With a perfect 10-0 record
following their 73-58 win at
Washington State last Satur
day, the Huskies are off to their
best start since going 11-1 to
start the 1989-90 season.
The Huskies, unranked at
the beginning of the season,
have shot to No. 7 in this
week’s Associated Press Top
25, their highest ranking since
that same 1989-90 season
when they finished No. 3 with
a 28-3 record.
Washington hasn’t exactly
been beating up on patsies, ei
ther, dealing No. 6 Vanderbilt
and No. 17 North Carolina
State their only losses of the
season. The Huskies beat Van
derbilt (11 -1) 82-71 on Dec. 6 to
avenge a loss to the Com
modores in the first round of
last season's NCAA Tourna
ment.
They took care of the Wolf
Pack (12-1) 95-88 in the Seattle
Times Classic on Dec. 21.
Washington has been led by
the dynamic duo of guard
Jamie Redd and forward Am
ber Hall. Redd is second in the
conference in scoring at 22.1
points per game, while Hall
leads the Pac-10 in rebounding
with an average of 11.8. For
ward/center Gena Pelz is sec
ond in the conference with 9.2
rebounds per contest.
Can't shoot straight? No problem
Perhaps shooting a high per
centage from the field really is
n’t that big of a deal.
At least it’s not for the
Huskies. They have gotten off
to their undefeated start de
spite shooting a horrific 38.3
percent from the field.
Suffice it to say, that ranks
dead last among Pac-10 teams.
With so many bricks being
thrown up, that must mean
there are a bundle of rebounds
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