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
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| 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.
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i cats, defend
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(17.5) and Bibby 10th (17.4).
Bibby, a sophomore who is ex
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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
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