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97, ASU 73 Flo: Center scores career high * Continued from 11 physical. He got the ball and was determined to put that thing in the hole. He played tough and strong. You’ve got to give him credit.” Although the 16 points was en couraging, it was the little things that made Hartenstein's perfor mance so special. The Sun Devils feature just two regulars taller than 6-4, each of whom was dogged by foul trou ble. Bobby Lazor was forced to play tentative after receiving his fourth foul with more than eight minutes left, while athletic big man Mike Batiste fouled out with more than seven minutes to play. Batiste and Lazor have thus fat combined for almost 16 rebounds per game, but on Thursday could muster just seven against the overpowering Hartenstein. “Big Flo" also provided the en tertainment for the night, banking (( Every game I get more confident. Today gave us a lot. We just stepped it up and played tough on defense, small on offense. ^ Flo Hartenstein Duck's center in a free throw for the second time this season. But it was his play underneath the basket that impressed Oregon head coach Ernie Kent. “This was a game where we needed to establish the paint and go inside,” Kent said. “That was our game plan, to go right at ’em." Before Thursday, Hartenstein shared time with Jonathon Nelson at the post, usually going to the bench for long stretches due to foul trouble. But on this night, with Nelson in the game for just two minutes, Hartenstein stayed in control, tallying his fourth foul with just over five minutes re maining on the wav the best per formance of his young Oregon ca reer, “Every game I get more confi dent," Hartenstein said. "Today gave us a lot. We just stepped it up and played tough on defense, smart on offense.” Hartenstein was originally signed by former Oregon head coach Jerry Green in the spring of 1996. but sat out a year to improve his score on the Test of English as a Foreign Language. He was a member of three German junior national teams before transferring to Thurston before his senior year of high school. Ducks: UO players felt disrespected iKuonunuea iromn hard for a full 40 minutes and took us out of our game.” Particularly on defense. The Ducks limited confer ence scoring leader Jeremy Veal, averaging 20.5 points, to just four first-half points. Veal did get 22 to lead all scorers, but 10 of those points came in the fi nal six minutes with Oregon nursing a 20-point lead. “We did a good job of locking him up and taking away his shot,” Oregon head coach Ernie Kent said. “He’s a good player and he’s going to get his points, but he couldn’t have one of those big games on us, or one of those big halves. But we did a nice job of con trolling tempo from beginning to end.” Veal did become Arizona State’s all-time leading scorer, moving past Ron Riley with 1,853 points. As the case has been during the last six games, Ore gon had a balanced offensive attack with five players in double figures, including 13 points from A.D. Smith and 10 from Yasir Rosemond, both of whom came off the bench. As a team, Oregon shot 55.1 per cent from the field, including 67.6 percent in the sec ond half. Madden, it has been confirmed, is officially out of his midseason slump. The forward led the Ducks in scoring for the third straight game with 20 points and tied Smith with a game-high eight rebounds. The senior forward, who along with forward Jamar Curry, has only Saturday’s contest against Arizona left to played at Mac Court, and the two players wanted to put on a show. Asked what he did to control his emotions during the game, Madden replied with a grin: “1 don’t plan on keeping my emotions in check.” That became most obvious when Madden scored on back-to-back dunks, the latter being a 360-degree slam on a fast break that brought fans and teammates alike out of their seats. “1 wanted to give the crowd something to remem ber me by,” Madden said. Curry, who had a few dunks himself, including one that came off a nifty steal of a Sun Devil in bounds pass under the Oregon basket, finished with nine points. The margin of victory was particularly gratifying for the players, who felt as though they were disre spected in the game at Arizona State. “They were just talking junk and telling us we weren’t any good,” Curry said. The tone of the game was set early by Oregon, de spite being down by two midway through the first half. Offensively, the Ducks pushed the ball inside to Flo Hartenstein, Smith and Madden as well as they have all season. Subsequently, Arizona State’s interi or defenders, Bobby Lazor and Mike Batiste, got into early foul trouble and spent considerable time on the bench in both halves. “Our game plan was to attack them inside and get them in early foul trouble,” Kent said. “Once we did that, it opened up the entire floor and opened up the entire game for us.” Oregon outscored Arizona State 12-5 in the final 6:28 of the first half, capped by Terik Brown’s floater at the buzzer, to give itself the nine-point halftime lead. Ducks host No. 3 Arizona for senior night The 1997 national champs have won their last 16 games By Rob Moseley Sports Reporter It’s no time for Oregon to start celebrating. The Ducks face their sternest test of the season on Saturday, as No. 3 Arizona brings its 16-game winning streak into McArthur Court for the final home appear ance of Oregon seniors Jamar Cur ry and Henry Madden. “We are pumped up now," Ore gon’s Flo Hartenstein said after the Ducks’ 24-point victory over Ari zona State on Thursday. “We are going to play tough, so I think it’s going to be a good game. And it’s the last game for our seniors, so it’s going to be real emotional. We want to have a good game for them.” Arizona (23-3 overall, 13-0 Pa cific-10 Conference), escaped with On tap is WHAT Pac-10 Men’s Basketball H WHO: Oregon (12-11) vs. No. 3 Arizona (23-3) * WHERE: Mac Court ■ WHEN: 1:30 p.m. Saturday d victory | against Ore : gon State in Corvallis on Thursday, ■ 71-70. It was the second \ straight one point win for the Wild cats, who 1 beat Arizona State 83-82 | last week i end. The Wild i cats, defend ing national champions, rely heavily on the stellar perimeter play of guards Miles Simon and Mike Bibby and small forward Michael Dickerson. All three can be counted among the Pac-lO’s top-10 scor ers, with Dickerson fifth (18.7 points per game), Simon ninth (17.5) and Bibby 10th (17.4). Bibby, a sophomore who is ex pected to enter the NBA draft af ter this season, leads the confer ence in steals and is second in assists, two spots above Simon. All three players have been named as finalists for various player of the year awards. Bibby is in the running for the United States Basketball Writers’ award, the Naismith award and the Wooden award. Dickerson was recognized by the writers and for the Wooden award, and Simon for the Wooden and Naismith honors. 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