includes six team rebounds Friday March 5,1999 ©regonSKCmeralb OREGON (61) Min FG FT R A P Smah 28 2-5 0-0 3 1 5 Scales 28 6-17 1-2 6 2 13 Carson 32 4-6 0-0 4 2 8 Wright 36 5-12 0-1 5 7 11 Brown 23 1-8 0-0 4 1 2 HarVer 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Rosemond 23 5-12 0-0 3 2 14 Jones 12 2-4 0-0 3 1 5 ctHisfsen 5 0-1 o-o i o o Hartenstein 11 1-2 1-2 3 0 3 Totals 200 26-67 2-5 38*16 61 Shooting: 38.8 3-point: 7-29 (Smith 1-3, Scales 0-5, Wright 1-5, Brown 0-3, Rosemond 4-10, Jones 1-3) OREGON DI CKS VS. NO. 6 STANFORD CARDINAL Player of the Game Cardinal senior Arthur Lee was six for 13 from the field and a perfect eight for eight from the free-throw line to finish with a game-high 21 points in his final appearance at McArthur Court. Quote of the Game "Stanford is definitely the most physical team [we’ve faced this season!. It 's going to take a day or two to recover from this game. ” — Mike Carson, UO center No. 6 Stanford (73) Min FG FT R A P Sauer 21 3-5 2-4 3 0 10 Madsen 32 4-9 4-8 14 1 12 Young 33 5-10 2-3 14 3 12 Weems 29 0-5 2-2 4 0 2 Lee 34 6-13 8-8 2 2 21 McDonald 18 2-4 6-9 2 1 10 Moseley 19 1-4 0-0 0 1 2 Collins 8 1-6 0-0 2 0 2 Seaton 9 1-3 0-1 2 0 2 Totals 200 23-59 24-35 44’ 8 73 Shooting: 39-0 3-point: 3-11 (Sauer 2-3, Weems 0-1, Lee 1 -3, McDonald 0-1, Moseley 0-3) ' includes one team rebound Cardinal defense stifles UO tourney hones uregon is roe la scoreless during six minutes of the second half against Stanford By Rob Moseley Oregon Daily Emerald It started out so well. Darius Wright dished the ball inside to Terik Brown, who sank a short jumper to give Oregon a two-point lead just eight seconds into the Ducks’ matchup with No. 6 Stanford at sold-out McArthur Court on Thursday. It started out so well. Little did the Ducks know Brown would be scoreless for the final 39 min utes, 52 seconds and that would be Ore Stanford ..73 | Oregon ....61 gon s only lead ot the game. But it started out so well. nit; ^aruinai (26-4 overall, 15-2 Pacific-10 Conference) scored the next 11 points on its way to a 73-61 win over the Ducks that solidified Stanford’s bid for a No. 1 seed in the up coming NCAA Tournament. “That’s the kind of team Stanford is,” said Brown of the newest Pac-10 cham pions. “We knew they weren’t going to have a let down.” Even so, the Ducks (15-11, 7-10) threat ened late in the first half, pulling within one at 34-33 on an A.D. Smith layin with 2:25 left in the first half. Oregon got that close on the hot shoot ing of Yasir Rosemond, who had 14 first half points on four-for-seven three-point shooting. Outside of Rosemond’s five for-eight showing from the floor, the Ducks shot 33 percent as a team in the first half. “We took too many threes in the first half,” Oregon head coach Ernie Kent said of the Ducks’ 19 attempts. But while Oregon managed to hit six of those first-half threes, the Ducks were just one for 10 from behind the arc in the second half. The Ducks held the Pac-lO’s most well-rounded offense to just six points for six minutes midway through the sec Turn to MEN, Page 16 Nick Medtey/Emerald In addition to scoring a game-high 21 points, Stanford’s Arthur Lee looked to got his teammates involved. Lee resumes March form By Tim Pyle Oregon Daily Emerald Arthur Lee loves March. Last season, he celebrated the month by leading surprising Stanford all the way to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament, being named the Midwest Regional’s MVP in the process. Last week, Lee lit it up just in antici pation of March. After he torched Arizona State for 18 points and six assists in the Cardinal’s 87-77 overtime home win Feb. 25, the senior point guard sealed No. 6 Stan ford’s first Pacific-10 Conference title by burning Arizona and point guard Jason Terry, the favorite for Pac-10 player of the year, for 29 points and eight assists last Saturday. Lee was named Pac-10 player of the week for his performances. Thursday night at McArthur Court, “King Arthur” ruled the second half with 15 of his 21 total points to lead the Cardinal (25-5 overall, 15-2 Pac-10) to a convincing 73-61 victory over the Ore gon men’s basketball team. “He had to wait for his opening,” Stanford head coach Mike Montgomery said. “One thing is I had him play the [shooting guard] a lot more in the sec ond half, and 1 had Mike [McDonald] handle the ball, which freed him up to get involved a little bit more. “He made a couple baskets and start ed to feel it a little bit. Typically, when he feels that he does a pretty good job.” Is it mere coincidence that Lee is heat ing up again at do-or-die time? Stanford forward Mark Madsen does n’t think so. “Arthur Lee was the reason why we made it to the Final Four last year,” said Madsen, who produced 12 points and 14 rebounds to earn his eighth double Turn to LEE, Page 16 Oregon women no match for Stanford’s athleticism The Ducks first lost control on the boards, then lost the game By Allison Ross Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon women needed its big play ers to do the little things Thursday night — rebound and score inside. But it turned out to be more than a little job. In the end, that little job cost the Ducks, putting an end to their nine-game winning streak and most likely their hopes of play ing host to the first round of the NCAA Tournament. It seemed every time Stanford took a shot, another Cardinal, sometimes two or three, was waiting for the rebound. Usual ly it was freshman Bethany Donaphin who grabbed the rebound and put the ball in the hoop. When Oregon missed a shot, again it was Stanford that cor ralled the rebound. The Cardinal finished with 25 defensive boards and outrebounded Oregon by 10. At the start of the sec ond half, Stanford’s 12 rebounds to Oregon’s three helped the Car dinal go on a 12-4 run and extend its one point halftime lead to seven. Bfli Stanford forwards powered their way to the basket, and with 13 minutes remaining in the game, they had outscored Oregon 24 14 in the paint. Oregon forward Angelina Wolvert was the Ducks’ most successful in side scorer, converting nine of 13 shots, but Wolvert, Oregon’s leading rebounder, man aged just five rebounds. The Cardinal contained Oregon sopho mores Brianne Meharry and Jenny Mowe on the inside. Meharry finished the game three for eight from the field and watched several of her easy layins roll around the rim before they fell helplessly into the hands of a Cardinal defender. Mowe hit just one of seven shots but led the Ducks with seven rebounds. ..-Tum-te WOMEN, Page 13 _■r./i WOLVERT