OREGON DUCKS VS. WASHINGTON HUSKIES
Thursday’s Star
Washington center Todd
MacCulloch scored 31 points
and pulled down 15 rebounds.
Play of the Game
After a Washington timeout with
the Ducks up 63-56, the Huskies
exploded for 11 unanswered
points to take a 4-point lead.
Up Next
The Ducks take on 9th place
Washington State at 3:05 p.m. in
Mac Court Saturday.
Quote of the Day
"We just didn't respond in the last
six minutes the way I hoped we
would have.”
— Ernie Kent
OREGON (71)
Min FG FT R A P
Smith .22 2-6 0-0 5 2 4
Madden.30 9-17 3-4 3 2 25
Nelson.10 0-2 04 0 0 0
Curry.31 7-13 0-0 3 1 16
MeShane.,,22 0-2 04 1 3 0
Rosemond . .12 0-2 0-0 0 2 0
Quinin.10 2-3 0-0 0 0 4
Brown.34 8-16 2-2 5 5 22
Hartenstein. ,29 0-0 0-2 2 0 0.
Totals .200 28-61 5-8 21* 15 71
Shooting: 45.9. 3-point: 10-24 (Smith 0-2,
Madden 4-9, Curry 2-2, McShane 0-1, Rose
mond 0-1, Brown 4-9) *two team rebounds
WASHINGTON (81)
Min FG FT R A P
Femerlino.. .36 3-5 2-4 7 3 8
Watts.35 6-15 12-19 5 2 25
MaoCulouch 35 14-15 3-4 15 1 31
Luton. 38 2-5 1-1 1 4 C
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Dickau.5 1-1 0-0 0 1 2
Thompson ..13 0-1 0-0 0 0 0
Johnson .7 0-1 0-0 0 1 0
Walcott..6 04) 0-0 0 0 0
Grew...3 1-1 04) 0 0 2
Totals.200 29-50 20-30 36 15 81
Shooting: 58.0.3-point: 3-10 (Watts 1-6, Luton
1-2, Woolen 1-2)
Oregon loses another late lead
CHAD PATTESON/Emerald
Flo Hartenstein and Henry Madden battle Washington’s Todd MacCulloch on the floor for a loose ball.
The Ducks dropped their fourth straight
Pac-10 game, and just five Oregon players
managed to score in Washington’s win
By Chris Hansen
Assistant Spoils Editor
How much more of this can
Oregon take?
For the third game in a row the
Oregon men’s basketball team
lost a lead late in the second
quarter to lose to a Pacific-10
Conference opponent.
On Thursday night, it was
Washington playing the role of
spoiler. Down by seven with six
minutes, 37 seconds remaining,
the Huskies went on a 25-8 run
to close out the game and defeat
the Ducks in front of 7,699 fans
at McArthur Court, 81-71.
Washington center Todd Mac
Culloch scored 31 points on 14
of-15 shooting and grabbed 15
rebounds. Forward Donald
Watts, who was taunted by the
crowd for most of the second
half with the chant, "air ball,”
scored 14 of the Huskies' final 25
points while converting 10-of-l 1
free-throw attempts.
Henry Madden (25 points),
Terik Brown (22) and Jamar Cur
ry (16) scored all but eight of
Oregon’s 71 points. The only
other two players to score for the
Ducks were Donte Quinine and
A.D. Smith with fourapiece.
The loss is Oregon’s fourth in
a row, putting it two games un
der .500 at 6-8,1-4 in the Pac-10.
Washington stays on pace with
UCLA for second place in the
conference with 3-1 league
record, 10-3 overall.
“The team is learning how to
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Big man comes through
By Rob Moseley
Sports Reporter
Inconsistent.
The label has haunted Washington’s
Todd MacCulloch all season and has mani
fested itself in all three of the Huskies’ loss
es. While the 7-footer averages almost 19
points per game, including 33 against Port
land and 30 against Arizona State, it is his
play in Washington’s losses that sheds true
light on his importance to the team’s suc
cess. MacCulloch managed just 11 points in
a loss to Oklahoma State, 12 against South
Alabama and only four points in last week’s
110-91 loss to No. 5 Arizona, a team that
boasts no significant inside presence.
But the Winnipeg, Manitoba native re
bounded in a big way Thursday against Ore
gon, scoring 31 points on 14-of-15 shooting
and pulling down 15 boards.
There were no tricks to his game, no fancy
pump fakes or spin moves. The 280
pounder just wrestled his way to the basket
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Washington
center Todd
MacCulloch
scores 31 and
pulls down 15
rebounds to
lead the
Huskies to
victory
Ducks upset 13th-ranked Washington on the road, 76-59
Freshman
Angelina
Wolvert missed
just two shots
all game to
lead Oregon
with 14 points
By Ryan Frank
Sports Editor
The Washington Huskies continued their
recent funk Thursday night, and the Oregon
women were more than happy to be there to
reap the rewards.
Aided by a 25-8 second-half run, the Ore
gon women’s basketball ran away with a 76
59 win over No. 13 Washington in front of
3,067 at Hec Edmundson Pavilion.
“This is a huge win for us against a ranked
opponent on the road in the Pac-10, ’ Oregon
head coach Jody Runge said. “I'm really ex
cited about die way we played tonight.”
It is the first time the Ducks have beaten a
ranked opponent since defeating Oregon
State to close out the 1995-96 season.
The win pushes the Ducks’ overall record
over the .500-mark at 7-6 and 3-2 in Pacific
10 Conference play. It also gives them their
fifth win following a loss
BASKETBALL
this season.
After winning its first 10
games of the season, Wash
ington lost its third straight,
including both games in
Arizona last week, for the
first time since the end of
the 1995-96 season.
“Every time somebody makes a run, we
don’t seem to have the backbone to stay
within the system,” said Washington head
coach June Daugherty, whose team dropped
to 10-3 overall and 1-3 in the Pac-10.
All five Oregon starters hit double figures
in points. Freshmen Angelina Wolvert and
Brianne Meharry continued to play well.
Wolvert had a team-high 14 points on a five
for-six performance from the field, and
Meharry finished with 13. Nicole Strange
had 11, hitting seven of eight free-throw at
tempts.
Point guard Natalie Hughes, who had only
two three-pointers in Oregon’s last eight
games, hit threes on two consecutive posses
sions midway through the second half that
put Oregon up by 10, its largest lead of the
game to that point, with exactly 10 minutes
to play.
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WOLVERT