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Cardinal men drop Ducks
By Rob Moseley
Oregon Daily Emerald
Monday night’s action for
both Oregon basketball
teams spoke volumes about
the progressions taken by
the Stanford men’s and
women’s teams over the past
few seasons.
One group of Cardinal
has risen from Pacific-10
Conference retread to be the
West Coast’s most dominant
power. The other has fallen
from a two-time national
champion to being un
ranked and below .500.
Unfortunately for the Ore
gon men, the Cardinal women
no longer dominate the
NCAA, and it is the No. 4
Stanford men who are wreak
ing havoc: across the nation.
Just minutes after the
Duck women defeated
perennial national power
Stanford 63-59 at McArthur
Court, the Oregon men fell to
the Cardinal 77-59 in front of
7,391 fans at Maples Pavil
ion in Palo Alto, Calif.
The Ducks never led after
Alex Scales’ two free throws
put them ahead 2-0 just mo
ments into the game. Stan
ford (12-2 overall, 2-0 Pac
10) responded with a 12-0
run and eventually pushed
the lead to 22-6 later in the
first half. Finally down 30
12, Oregon scored eight of
the last 12 points of the half
and went into the break
down by 14.
“We said at halftime,
‘Hey, we got punched in the
jaw and knocked down, let’s
go out and respond,’” Ore
gon head coach Ernie Kent
said on KUGN radio.
The Ducks’ response
closed the gap to 10 at 40-30,
as Cardinal center Tim
BASKETBALL
Young
scored 12
of his
game-high
23 points
in the sec
ond half.
Young,
who hit
eight ofhis 11 shots from the
field, also pulled down 12
rebounds. Mark Madsen
added 17 point on six-of
nine shooting as the five
Stanford starters accounted
for all the Cardinal’s points.
Arthur Lee had 15 points
and Peter Sauer and Kris
Weems each scored 11 as the
starters averaged 34.6 min
utes apiece.
Alex Scales paced the
Ducks with 16 points, de
spiteshooting just four of 14,
including two of seven from
three-point range. Darius
Wright and Freddie Jones
each added 12 points for
Oregon (9-2,1-1).
Oregon shot just 38 per
cent for the game, including
25 percent in the first half.
Stanford hit 51 percent of its
shots, but just 18.2 from
three-point range.
The Ducks will have to
wait for their final game of
the season, on March 6, to
seek redemption against the
Cardinal in Eugene.
Kent said Oregon fans
may be pleasantly surprised
with the Ducks’ showing in
the rematch. While Stan
ford’s starting five has been
together for three years, just
two of Oregon’s starters on
Monday were on the team
last season.
That leaves more room for
improvement for Oregon in
the next two months, Kent
said.
I don t know how much
better Stanford’s going to
get,” said Kent, who was a
Cardinal assistant coach
from 1990-91. “We’re going
to get better.”
That improvement
process, according to Kent,
began on Monday.
Freshman center Chris
Christoffersen was given
valuable playing time
against Young, one of the na
tion’s most dominant cen
ters, and Jones continued to
see more playing time in his
first season.
“We learned a lot of things
from this game, and we can
take a lot of things back to
the Pit and defend our home
turf,” Kent said.
Women
Continued from Page 7
half with the attitude ‘We’re
not going to let them win.’”
The Ducks trailed 33-30
at the half, but they began
the second half by cutting
the Cardinal lead to two
points after the first minute
and then just one point with
18:54 to play. Oregon took
just its second lead of the
game when Natasha
O’Brien connected on one
of two free throws to put the
Ducks up 42-41 with 13:39
remaining.
Oregon widened its lead
to three points on the next
possession when forward
Angelina Wolvert stripped
the ball from Stanford guard
Regan Freuen and passed
ahead to a streaking Brianne
Meharry. Leading all Ore
gon bench scorers with
eight points, Meharry panes
the Ducks in scoring at 12.8
points per game.
“The thing I’m most
pleased with was that it
wasn’t any one person,
everyone stepped up their
game,” Runge said. “Confi
dence-wise, this is a real
shot in the arm for all our
young players.”
The Cardinal outre
bounded Oregon 38-33, but
the Ducks still widened
their lead to 61-56 with just
more than three minutes re
maining. As freshman
guard Shaquala Williams
brought the ball up court on
the Ducks’ ensuing posses
sion, she was stripped of the
ball at mid court by Stan
ford guard Milan Flores
who dove at Williams’ feet.
As the two players fought
for the ball on the court,
Williams was called for a
foul and Oregon’s players
and coaches jumped to their
feet.
As his clipboard slid to
the floor, Litzenberger was
called for a technical foul
with the Ducks holding a
slim five-point lead. Flores
hit three of four free throws
to close the Cardinal to
within two points of the
lead, but Dion sank two free
throws with four seconds
remaining to seal the victo
ry.
“I’d say the nerves lasted
about the entire first half,”
Williams said. “[Stanford]
is not the dominant team it
was a couple of years ago,
but they’re still a really good
team. This is a huge accom
plishment for this team.”
Strange
Continued from Page 7
na Wolvert knocked the
ball away from Stanford's
Regan Freuen and quickly
dished it to Strange, who
found Brianne Meharry un
der the basket to give the
Ducks the lead by three —
their largest to that point.
"Nicole has worked hard
in our program for a long
time,” head coach Jody
Runge said. “She has been
waiting for this for a long
time and I’m proud of her
for stepping up. She made
some big shots for us. ”
Stanford would eventually
narrow Oregon's lead to one
point with just over four min
utes remaining in the game.
Strange powered a layup in
on a pass from Shaquala
Williams to again give Ore
gon a three-point lead.
The rest of the game
would come down to which
team got the ball off the
boards.
That was what Runge
said Oregon needed to do to
win.
Again Strange complied.
With just 38 seconds re
maining, Strange grabbed a
clutch rebound and Stan
ford never scored again.
“Those are really big
shoes that Nicole had to
fill,” Oregon forward Lind
sey Dion said. “But when
she starts hitting her jump
shots she doesn’t miss.
She’s money.”
Strange wasn’t concerned
with filling shoes; she just
wanted to do her part.
“Its not just one person,”
Strange said. “Our whole
team rose to the next level,
both emotionally and phys
ically.”
There is no doubt that
this monumental win was a
team effort, but there was
definitely concern over the
loss of Bowyer. Strange said
she wasn’t nervous about
taking over, that she was
ready to finally get this win.
“It’s a different game
when Lisa’s not in,” Strange
said. “It’s an added bonus to
have her on the floor and
we’re all anxious for her to
comeback.”
Strange may feel like she
is dreaming, but reality rang
out loud and clear in
McArthur Court, as she and
the rest of the Ducks
stormed the floor after the
game. That reality for
Strange was that she took
care of the task at hand.