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Huskies back into
tourney consideration
Head coaches in the Pa
cific-10 Conference
may not agree on
much. But one thing
they do agree on is that the
NCAA selection committee will
definitely select four Pac-10
teams for the tournament in two
weeks.
But can a fifth team sneak in?
Washington appears to be the
only Pac-10 team still on the bub
ble for an NCAA Tournament
berth. The case for the Huskies is
a pretty strong one, especially af
ter beating Pac-10 frontrunner
UCLA in Seattle last weekend.
Washington is now 10-7 in the
conference and 14-12 overall,
which is probably good enough
to get them into the Big Dance.
The announcement won’t offi
cially be made until Sunday, but
here are some things that are
working in Washington’s favor:
The Huskies faced the fifth
toughest schedule in the confer
ence and 23rd toughest national
ly.
The Pac-10 was to have had
five teams in the NCAA Tourna
ment in each of the last two sea
sons. The real key is finishing the
conference schedule with a win
ning record. Washington
wrapped that up last weekend
with its victory over the Bruins.
The four Pac-10 teams already
locked into this year’s tourna
ment are Arizona (16-9 overall,
11-5 in the Pac-10), Stanford (16
11,12-4), UCLA (21-7,13-3) and
Oregon (23-4,14-2). The Ducks
need to win their two remaining
games to capture the first Pac-10
title in school history.
Redd rover, Redd rover...
A new name was added this
week to the list of players vying
for the Pac-10 player of the year
honor at the end of the season.
Washington senior Jaime Redd,
who became the Huskies’ all
time leader in points scored ear
lier this season, was named the
conference’s player of the week
on Monday.
Redd averaged just more than
22 points, seven rebounds and
four steals a game in Washing
ton’s home sweep over Southern
California and No. 12 UCLA last
weekend.
The Pac-lO’s third-leading
scorer (15.8 points per game) and
seventh leading rebounder (6.8
rpg), Redd now has six double
doubles this season. She ranks
eighth on the Pac-10 career scor
ing charts and needs just 36
points to become the seventh
player in Pac-10 history to hit the
2,000-point plateau.
March Madness
The announcement of the 64
team NCAA Division 1-A
Women’s Basketball NCAA
Tournament field will be made
Sunday. The selection show can
be seen on ESPN from 2:15 to 3
p.m. Selections for the 32-team
Women’s National Invitational
Tournament
- will also be
Women’s made Sun
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announces
its selec
tions.
In prepa
ration for its
sixth con
secutive
Joel NCAA
Hood Tournament
_ appearance
under head
coach Jody Runge, Oregon will
play host to its own selection
show party Sunday at 1 p.m. at
McArthur Court. Admission is
free and the show will be broad
cast live on a big-screen televi
sion.
To determine the Pac-lO’s au
tomatic qualifier into the NCAA
Tournament should Oregon and
UCLA tie for the championship,
the first tie breaker is head-to
head competition. In that case,
the then-No. 7 Bruins beat Ore
gon 76-72 at Pauley Pavilion on
Jan. 10. And an unranked Ducks
beat then-No. 8 UCLA 106-79 at
McArthur Court six weeks later.
The second tie breaker is each
team’s record against the next
highest place team in the confer
ence, which is why Oregon’s
game against Stanford on Thurs
day is so important. UCLA split
with the Cardinal this season,
and a victory by the Ducks would
give them their first sweep of
Stanford in school history.
Baker shows all-star form
By Rob Gloster
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Vin
Baker, stuck in the biggest
slump of his career, sat in his
hotel room and kept telling him
self he was ready to break out of
it. A few hours later, he was get
ting hugged as a hero by team
mates.
The sense of relief was clear on
the face of Baker, a four-time all
star whose poor shooting left him
in tears last week.
“This was definitely my best
game of the year,” Baker said af
ter going 15-for-19 from the field
and scoring 31 points in the Seat
tle SuperSonics’ 105-102 win
Monday night over the Sacra
mento Kings. “This was impor
tant to me.”
It also was important to the
Sonics, who have been stumbling
recently after starting the season
with six straight wins.
“He’s been coming along,”
Seattle coach Paul Westphal
said. “It was inevitable he was
going to have a game like this in
which he broke out, and we
needed every point of his
tonight.”
Baker, who has averaged 18.5
points per game in a career that
included four seasons in Mil
waukee and last year in Seattle,
was averaging just 11.3 points a
game this season heading into
the contest against the Kings.
He sat alone in his hotel room
Monday afternoon and tried to
bolster his confidence by saying,
“This has got to be the game for
— quit thinking about it and
just go out and play.” Then he
did just that.
The Kings focused on point
guard Gary Payton, who drew at
tention inside by trying to post
up. That gave Payton the chance
to swing the ball outside to Bak
er, a 6-foot-ll forward.
“It was obvious they weren’t
going to rotate to me. After a
while you would think they
might adjust, but they didn’t,”
Baker said. “I’ve prayed and
worked more than anybody in
the league. I’m just glad it is start
ing to pay off.”
Now Baker just has to hope
that carries over to the foul line,
where he continues to struggle.