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The Scoreboard Final ESPN/USA Today poll RANK TEAM RECORD PTS 1. Florida St (59) 2. Nebraska 3. Virginia Tech 4. Wisconsin 5. Michigan 6. Kansas St. 7. Michigan St. 8. Alabama 9. Tennessee 10. Marshall 11. Penn St. 12. Mississippi St. 13. So Mississippi 14. Florida 15. Miami Fla 16. Georgia 17. Minnesota 18. OREGON 19. Arkansas 20. Texas A&M 21. Georgia Tech 22. Mississippi 23. Texas 24. Stanford 25. Illinois SOURCE: ESPN.com 12-0 12-1 11-1 10-2 10-2 11-1 10-2 10-3 9- 3 13-0 10- 3 10-2 9-3 9-4 9-4 8-4 8- 4 9- 3 8-4 8-4 8-4 8- 4 9- 5 8-4 8-4 RANK 1. Florida St. (70) 2. Virginia Tech 3. Nebraska 4. Wisconsin 5. Michigan 6. Kansas St. 7. Michigan St. 8. Alabama 9. Tennessee 10. Marshall 11. Penn St. 12. Florida 13. Mississippi St. 14. So Mississippi 15. Miami Fla 16. Georgia 17. Arkansas 18. Minnesota 19. OREGON 20. Georgia Tech 21. Texas 22. Mississippi 23. Texas A&M 24. Illinois 25. Purdue SOURCE: ESPN.com 1,475 1,390 1,366 1,283 1,189 1,188 1,117 1,042 985 956 840 810 763 713 605 505 395 375 357 344 337 231 173 155 139 Final AP poll TEAM RECORD PTS 12-0 11-1 12-1 10-2 10-2 11-1 10-2 10-3 9- 3 13-0 10- 3 9- 4 10- 2 9-3 9-4 8-4 8-4 8- 4 9- 3 8- 4 9- 5 8-4 8-4 8-4 7-5 1,750 1,647 1,634 1,519 1,406 1,402 1,357 1,236 1,168 1,136 1,038 941 923 788 678 640 575 452 358 345 340 281 272 201 198 Warriors 92 76ers113 Pistons 120 Hawks 108 Grizzlies 96 Magic 116 Hornets 96 Jazz 118 Around the.NBA izaras Wizards 66 Bulls 77 SuperSonics99 Spurs 96 Clippers 101 Lakers 118 SOURCE: NBA.com Best Bet College Hoops Arizona State vs. Stanford 7:30 p.m., Fox Sports Northwest Sports Thursday January 6,2000 Volume 101, Issue 70 H ,1 Oregon Daily f "■ Emerald Runge wants change in attitude Head coach Jody Runge wants more aggressive play, like Angelina Wolvert taking it strong to the hole. ■ Head coach Jody Runge believes her team has been too nice during the first 12 games of the season By Mirjam Swanson Oregon Daily Emerald It’s a good group. A genuinely nice collec tion of young women. So nice, in fact, that after the Oregon women’s basket ball team’s win against San ta Clara on Dec. 30, Bronco head coach Caren Horstmeyer paused to com pliment Jody Runge about the pleasant disposition of her team. “When we were at Santa Clara, the [Bronco] coach said, ‘We really enjoyed playing with you, because [your] girls are not dirty and they play hard.’ “Well,” said Runge in all earnestness, “sometimes, when it comes right down to the grit, you might have to do what you have to do — and that may not be nice. That’s the lesson that they have to learn right now: Are we going to do what it takes to win? Or are we going to be nice and say, ‘Oh well, they beat us.’ ” Certainly, this team, 9-3 and ranked No. 24 in the na tion, is not OK with being beaten. And just as surely, Runge said, along with other devel oping factions of their col lective game, this relatively young Oregon team is still working on finding a mean streak, a wiji-at-al 1-costs mentality. The type of mind Turn to UO women page 9A Noncon ference Results OREGON 66, Western Ken tucky 59 OREGON 77, Howard 42 OREGON 73, Virginia Tech 53 Oregon 68, PORTLAND 57 OREGON 90, Colorado 58 OREGON 79, Kansas State 69 SOUTHWEST MISSOURI STATE 70, Ore gon 69 SANTA BAR BARA 74, Ore gon 61 OREGON 79, Portland State 42 Oregon 86, DE PAUL 82 Oregon 66, SANTA CLARA 60 SAN FRANCIS CO 66, Oregon 60 * Home team in CAPS Hawaii success bodes well tor Oregon Men’s Results Oregon 65, ILU NOIS-CHICAGO 58 OREGON 74, Port land 62 Oregon 91, PORT IAND STATE 87 CSU-Northridge 79, OREGON 77 OREGON 101, Den ver 53 OREGON 82, Min nesota 75 OREGON 91, North ern Arizona 54 Oregon 67, Wake Forest 66 Oregon 70, Gonza ga64 Hawaii 66, Oregon 63 OREGON 94, St. Martin’s 52 * Home team in CAPS ■ The Ducks gained confidence from play at the Rainbow Classic By Tim Pyle Oregon Daily Emerald Make no mistake about it, the Oregon men’s basketball team didn’t get much out of Tuesday night’s trampling of Division-II St. Martin’s at McArthur Court. The Ducks (9-2 overall) looked like they were sleep walking at times during the game, and they still beat the Saints by 42 points, 94-52, in their final tuneup for the Pacific-10 Conference sea son, which begins Saturday night at Oregon State. “Our whole focus was just to get through this game and then really start our prep work,” said head coach Ernie Kent, admitting his own and his team’s fatigue from the just completed trip to Hawaii. But on that trip to the Dec. 28-30 Rainbow Classic, Ore gon did find out a lot about itself — mainly, that it’s pretty good. “I think it was real benefi cial,” junior forward Bryan Bracey said of the tourna ment experience. Feeding off the momen tum gained by beating pre viously unbeaten Minneso ta in the Portland Jam on Dec. 18 and routing North ern Arizona at home on Dec. 22, the Ducks blazed into their first-round matchup with No. 19 Wake Forest. Oregon knew it could make a big early-season statement and significantly help its NCAA Tournament quest with a good showing against the Demon Deacons, which had already defeated Temple and Arkansas. And represent them selves well the Ducks did, using senior forward Alex Scales’ leaning jump shot with 4.7 seconds left and his Turn to UO men, page 8A Jeffrey Stockton i Forward A.D. Smith was named iv die '! tournament team for his contributions at the Rain; ow Classic on Dec. 2 ).