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Upset loss gets Ducks rolling
■ After losing to Cal State-Northridge on Dec. 11, Oregon
wins five of its next six during the winter break
By Tim Pyle
Oregon Daily Emerald
On Dec. 11, the Oregon men’s
basketball team got a wakeup call.
Cal State-Northridge, with for
mer Duck player Andre Larry and
coach Bobby Braswell leading the
way, shocked Oregon 79-77 at
McArthur Court to hand the
lethargic Ducks their first loss.
Larry’s rebound basket with
nine seconds left gave the Mata
dors a 78-77 lead. Oregon quickly
inbounded to point guard Darius
Wright, who drove the length of
the court but missed a layup at
tempt.
Cal State-Northridge rebound
ed and added a free throw to seal
the upset and drop the Ducks to
3-1. Larry, who played at Oregon
for two seasons before transfer
ring prior to the 1997-98 season,
scored 23 points on nine-of-12
shooting and added eight re
bounds to pace the Matadors. Se
nior forward Alex Scales led the
Ducks with 23 points, including
five three-pointers.
Oregon looked like a different
team in routing Denver 101-53 at
McArthur Court. The Ducks shot
a season-high 60 percent and
were topped by sophomore guard
Anthony Norwood, a junior-col
lege transfer
who scored 19.
In the Port
land Jam on
Dec. 18 at Port
land’s Rose
Garden, Oregon
played its best
game of the young season in de
feating previously unbeaten Min
nesota 82-75. Senior forward A.D.
Smith led seven Ducks in double
figures with 14 points.
Junior-college transfers Julius
Hicks and Bryan Bracey steadied
the Duck inside game with 11 and
10 points, respectively.
Sophomore guard Ben
Lindquist, another junior-college
transfer, contributed 13 points
and four assists and was named
the game’s MVP,
After trouncing severely out
matched Northern Arizona 91-54
on Dec. 22 at McArthur Court, the
Ducks headed to Hawaii for the
Rainbow Classic from Dec. 28-30.
Oregon met then-No. 19 Wake
Forest. Scales came through
against the Ducks’ first nationally
ranked opponent with a season
and career-high-tying 26 points,
including an off-balance jump
shot with 4.7 seconds left that
gave Oregon a 67-66 upset win.
The Ducks recorded a second
straight impressive performance a
night later by defeating Gonzaga,
which advanced to the NCAA
Tournament’s Elite Eight last sea
son, 70-64 behind Smith’s 22
points and seven rebounds.
But Oregon was denied the
tournament championship and a
possible national ranking when it
fell to host Hawaii 66-63 on Dec.
30. The Ducks shot a season-low
39 percent in falling to 8-2.
Tough road takes toll on UO women
■ Oregon drops to No. 24 from No. 9 after losing three
times during a road trip that doesn’t end until Jan. 20
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
What doesn’t kill them should
only make them stronger — or so
hope the road warriors on the
Oregon women’s basketball team.
When the holiday break started
Dec. 9, the Ducks were ranked No.
9, having cracked the the top 10
for the first time since the 1981-82
season. After demolishing Col
orado in a 90-58 win at McArthur
Court, they were undefeated and
seemingly primed for the brutal
10-game road trip ahead.
Oregon, now 9-3, has traveled
from Missouri to Illinois and Cali
fornia. It’s dropped from No. 9 to
No. 24 in the polls. And it won’t
be home until Jan. 20, when
Washington comes to town.
The excursion began with a 79
69 win against Kansas State on
Dec. 10 in the first game of the
Women’s Sports Foundation
Classic in Springfield, Mo.
But Oregon suffered its first set
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back ot the season the next day,
with a 70-69 loss against South
west Missouri State.
Oregon still could have won as
time expired, despite the Lady
Bears’ Jackie Stiles’ 38 points.
Forward Brianne Meharry
managed to draw a foul while
converting a lay-in as the buzzer
sounded. With no time left,
Meharry had a chance to send the
game into overtime.
But she missed, and the Ducks
went on to face then-No, 23 Santa
Barbara on Dec. 13 with a blem
ished record and at less than full
strength, as three Oregon starters
suffered injuries in the Southwest
Missouri State loss, though none
extraordinarily serious.
Center Jenny Mowe was
thought to have a broken nose,
guard Lindsey Dion tore cartilage
in her right knee and Angelina
Wolvert stretched her patella ten
don, head coach Jody Runge said.
The Ducks couldn’t hang with
the athletic Guachos, losing de
spite an overwhelming defensive
performance by Mowe, who
blocked five shots in eight min
utes. The 74-61 defeat dropped
the Ducks to 6-2.
Five days later, Oregon took the
floor at the Rose Garden in Port
land, for its part in the Portland
Jam. Although
then-No. 15
Oregon beat the
Vikings by 37
points, 79-42,
the Ducks
weren’t pleased.
“We won by
40, but we still have a lot to work
on,” sophomore point guard
Shaquala Williams said. “[This
was] flat out lack of effort.”
Then-No. 19 Oregon headed to
Chicago, and beat Depaul 86-82
on Dec. 22, as Williams matched
her career high with 31 points.
Then the Ducks hung on to beat
Santa Clara 66-60 on Dec. 30.
The three-game win streak was
halted on Jan. 2 against San Fran
cisco, as then-No. 22 Oregon suf
fered its third loss, 66-60.
EOT