Scoreboard
Player of the Game
Junior forward Bryan Bracey
paces the Ducks with 15
points on five-of-six shooting
from the field, including a
barrage of spectacular
dunks such as the reverse
above. He also grabs eight
rebou nds i n 24 mi nutes of
play to help Oregon to the
easy win in its last noncon
ference game.
OREGON (94)
Min FG FT R A P
Smith 26 5-7 4-4 11 0 14
Scales 25 2-8 5-8 7 3 9
Hartenstem 13 1-3 1-1 2 0 3
Wright 27 3-5 2-2 1 5 10
Lindquist 19 2-4 3-4 4 2 8
Christensen 5 1-3 0-0 0 0 3
Jones 25 3-4 1-2 3 5 9
Hicks 5 1-2 2-2 1 0 4
Christoffersen 12 4-4 2-6 5 0 10
Norwood 19 2-5 5-6 5 1 9
Bracey 24 5-6 5-8 8 0 15
* Totals 200 29-51 30-4351* 16 94
Shooting: 56.9 3-point: 6-14 (Scales 0-4, Wright
2-3, Lindquist 1-2, Christensen 1-2, Jones 2-2,
Norwood 0-1)
* includes three team rebounds
St. Martin’s (52)
Min FG FT R A P
Evander 23 3-10 1-2 1 0 7
Eades 34 4-14 0-0 2 3 12
Figueroa 15 2-5 0-0 3 1 4
Hyppa 26 2-9 0-1 1 2 6
Ortiz 19 3-6 0-0 1 0 8
Remington 8 1-3 0-0 0 1 3
Pulsipher 9 0-0 0-0 2 1 0
Miller 16 0-3 1-2 2 1 1
Alexander 15 2-5 0-0 5 2 5
Brogden 18 1-6 0-0 2 0 2
II McDonnell 6 1-4 0-0 1 0 2
Gibbs 11 1-4 0-0 1 12
Totals 200 20-69 2-5 25* 12 52
Shooting: 29.0 3-point: 10-30 (Eades 4-11, Hyp
pa 2-6, Ortiz 2-4, Remington 1-2, Miller 0-1,
Alexander 1-2, Brogden 0-2, McDonnell 0-2)
‘includes four team rebounds
Quote of the Game
d My confidence has
raised a lot, and I feel good
out there on the floor.,.
You can scare some teams
by throwing one down in
theirface, and that's what
I plan on doing."
Bryan Bracey
Ducks forward
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January 5,2000
Volume 101, Issue 69
Emerald
Adios St. Martin’s, hello Pac-10
We still
have yet to
gel as a
basketball
team. But
I’m not
concerned
because
when the
stage is set,
this team
steps up,
and we’ll
do it again
this week
end.
Ernie Kent
Oregon
head
coach
■ Bryan Bracey leads four
Ducks in double digits as
Oregon blows out visiting
St. Martin’s
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
With many of its boisterous stu
dent contingent presumably at
home watching the national cham
pionship football game, the Oregon
men’s basketball team completed
its non-conference schedule with
a convincing win that sets the stage
for its own championship run in
the ensuing months.
The Ducks (9-2 overall) thor
oughly dominated the inferior St.
Martin’s Saints (2-9) on their way
to a 94-52 win in front of 6,494
fans at McArthur Court.
Although the margin of victory
was significant, Oregon knows
that Tuesday night’s game was
more about gearing up for the Pa
cific-10 Con
INSIDE ference season
Men, women that begins Sat
preparefor urday in Cor
pac-10 play with vallis.
full winter break “I was excit
schedules. ed to get back
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a game, but the
real test will come when the ad
versity hits in the Pac-10,” senior
forward A.D. Smith said. “Coach
scheduled these games as a tune
up and our focus was trying to im
prove our individual games.”
Smith, who was an all-tourna
ment selection for his play in the
Rainbow Classic at Hawaii, con
tinued his solid all-around play
by finishing with 14 points and a
game-high 11 rebounds.
Leading the Ducks in the scor
ing department was forward
Bryan Bracey, who went five for
six from the field for 15 points, in
cluding three crowd-pleasing
dunks.
Point guard Darius Wright and
center Chris Christofferson also
scored in double digits, finishing
with 10 points apiece.
St. Martin’s started the game
with a lot of energy and was only
down 9-7 with 14 minutes, 15
seconds to play in the first half be
fore Bracey helped ignite a 18-5
Oregon run by throwing down a
smooth two-hand reverse jam.
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Jeffrey Stockton Emerald
Guard Freddie Jones takes off for a thunderous jam during Oregon’s Tuesday night rout
The Duck run was capped four
minutes later when Bracey re
ceived a pass from point guard
Darius Wright and charged hard
toward to the hoop for a thunder
ous dunk.
“My confidence has raised a
lot, and I feel good out there on
the floor,” Bracey said. “You can
scare some teams by throwing
one down in their face, and that’s
what I plan on doing.”
St. Martin’s indeed seemed in
timidated the rest of the way as
Oregon finished the game with a
51-25 rebounding advantage and
shot nearly 27 percent better from
the field.
Despite the win and successful
record, head coach Ernie Kent
knows the real test has yet to
come.
“We still have yet to gel as a
basketball team,” Kent said. “But
I’m not concerned because when
the stage is set, this team steps up,
and we’ll do it again this week
end.”
Florida State completes perfect season
With Peter
Warrick’s three
touchdownsm
leading the way,
Florida State
slams Virginia
Tech to claim
college
football’s
national
championship
v
By Richard Rosenblatt
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — No. 1
¥t the start, No. 1 at the finish.
Florida State is the perfect
national champion.
Led by the sizzling Peter
Warrick and the steady
Chris Weinke, Florida State
held off Virginia Tech for a
46-29 victory Tuesday night
in the Sugar Bowl.
The Hokies’ freshman
quarterback, Michael Vick,
played an electrifying game
of catch-me-if-you-can, but
it wasn’t enough.
Warrick thrilled a Super
dome crowd with a record
20-point game. He caught
touchdown passes of 64 and
43 yards, returned a punt 59
yards for a score and
snagged a 2-point conver
sion pass from Weinke.
The 27-year-old Weinke,
playing perhaps the final
game of his college career,
completed 20 of 34 passes for
329 yards and four TDs. War
rick finished with six catches
for 163 yards in the highest
scoring Sugar Bowl in history.
“This is the national
championship. No one can
ever take this away from
me,” said Warrick, who was
voted the game’s most out
standing player.
Vick threw for 225 yards
and one TD and ran for 97
yards and a score.
Florida State (12-0) was
certain to become the first
team to go wire-to-wire in
The Associated Press’ poll
since the preseason ratings
began in 1950. The final AP
poll will be released early
Wednesday to confirm the
obvious.
Florida State was auto
matically crowned a nation
al champ in the USA Today
ESPN coaches’ poll under
the Bowl Championship Se
ries format.
“It’s a load off your shoul
der to win this one,” Bow
den said.
Sugar Bowl
BCS championship
Fla. State 46
Va.Tech 29
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