Ducks defeat Golden Bears
Oregon’s 71-69 win
Saturday is an auspicious
beginning for the team's
regular season
By Rob Moseley
Oregon Daily Emerald
Two members of the nation’s
best college basketball conference
lived up to that billing Saturday
in front of 9,879 fans at the New
Arena in Oakland, Calif.
Freddie Jones’ tip-in with 0.8
seconds remaining in overtime
gave Oregon a 71-69 victory over
California in the regular season
opener for both members of the
Pacific-10 Conference, which was
recently named the nation’s best
by The Sporting News.
After Thomas Kilgore tied the
game with 38 seconds left in the
extra period, Oregon’s Darius
Wright lost control of the ball af
ter crossing halfcourt hut man
aged to call timeout as he fell and
regained possession. That was the
first of three officiating controver
sies that would cause the last 24
seconds of game time to take at
least 10 minutes to play.
Following the timeout, Wright
waited as 15 seconds elapsed on
the clock after receiving the in
bounds from Alex Scales, then
passed to A.D. Smith, who took a
leaning 6-foot jump shot from the
baseline that missed off the front
of the rim.
Scales and Jones both were in
position for the rebound, witli
Jones getting the tip for the Ore
gon lead.
Mayhem ensued as Cal head
coach Ben Braun argued first that
Smith's shot had come after the
shot clock had expired, and then
that offensive goaltending should
have been called on the tip-in. Of
ficials checked the replay to veri
fy that the shot clock buzzer
sounded while Smith’s shot was
in the air, and then ruled that the
ball was outside
the cylinder for
the tip.
Cal’s Geno
Carlisle missed a
desperation
three as time ex
pired to end the
second loss of
the season tor the Golden Bears
(9-2 overall, 0-1 Pac-10), who
knocked off No. 9 North Carolina
78-71 at home Tuesday.
"When they beat North Caroli
na, they were playing like a top
10 team,” Oregon head coach
Ernie Kent said on KUGN.
“For us to play as well as we
did in the first 12 minutes of the
game ... that’s huge for this team
to go through that.”
Oregon (9-1, 1-0) led just 32-31
at halftime after jumping out to an
early 17-8 lead, due in large part
to Scales, who scored 10 of the
Ducks' first 15 points on his way
to leading all scorers with 21 for
the game.
Both teams shot markedly bet
ter in the second half, with Ore
gon improving from 41.4 to 52.2
percent and Cal from 40.7 to 57.9
percent, but the Golden Bears
outscored the Ducks 34-33.
Carlisle had the ball and a chance
to win with 11 seconds left in reg
ulation, but Flo Hartenstein, play
ing with four fouls, stepped in
front of Cal's leading scorer and
drew the charge.
“We knew they were going to
Geno Carlisle and we wanted to
trap him, and Flo just made a
great play,” Kent said. "We didn’t
miss a beat defensively, especial
ly in that second half.”
Or in the overtime, in which
Cal managed just five shots, only
one of those successful.
Jones was the only other Duck
to break double figures in scoring,
with 10 points. Smith had eight
points and 14 rebounds, while
Terik Brown had nine points on
four-of-11 shooting, including
one of five from three-point range.
Scales hit three of his nine three
pointers on his way to shooting
seven of 22 from the floor and
added seven rebounds.
Kilgore’s 17 points led four
scorers in double figures for Cal.
Carlisle had 15 points on four-of
14 shooting, and Sean Lampley
barely missed his sixth double
double of the season with 14
points and a team-leading eight
rebounds. Francisco Elson added
11 points and seven rebounds.
Jaguars beat Patriots in playoff
By Eddie Pells
The Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mark
Brunell was limping and frustrat
ed. Jacksonville’s lead was slip
ping away.
So Jimmy Smith stepped in and
bought his quarterback another
week to get better.
Smith beat fellow Pro Bowler
Ty Law for a momentum-shifting
touchdown Sunday, leading the
Jaguars to a 25-10 victory over the
New England Patriots in the wild
card playoffs.
Returning from a sprained ankle
he sustained five weeks ago, Brunell
never really got into a groove, finish
ing 14-for-34 for 161 yards.
But Fred Taylor ran for 162
yards and a touchdown and
Brunell threw a great pass in the
fourth quarter to Smith, who sim
ply outran Law on a sideline pat
tern for a 37-yard touchdown after
the Patriots cut a 12-point halftime
deficit to 12-10.
"Ty Law was on Jimmy every
play on the field today and for a
good part of the time, he did a
good job,” said Jaguars coach Tom
Coughlin. “But it was something
Jimmy does so well — him and
Mark on the fade. They’ve done it
consistently over and over for the
last four years and they hooked up
again.”
Meanwhile, Taylor easily won
the matchup against fellow 1,000
yard rookie Robert Edwards. He
finished with 162 yards — 115 in
the first half— while Edwards fin
ished with just 28.
“There were rumors coming out
of New England that we were a fi
nesse team,” Taylor said. "When
you think of finesse, you think of
divers and all that swimming-type
stuff. That was an insult.”
New England's up-and-down
season ended at 9-8 and with a
rash of injuries, placing doubt
whether Pete Carroll will return
fora third season.
Carroll was not only missing
quarterback Drew Bledsoe, but re
ceiver Terry Glenn and middle
linebacker Ted Johnson, who
were placed on injured reserve
last month.
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