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Men’s Basketball AP Poll
Team Record Previous
1. Stanford 11-0 1
2. Connecticut 9-1 2
3. Cincinnati 12-1 3
4. Auburn 12-1 4
5. Arizona 11-2 5
6. Florida 11-1 6
7. Syracuse 9-0 7
8. Duke 9-2 9
9. Kansas 10-2 10
10. Indiana 10-1 12
11. Michigan State 9-4 8
12. Maryland 11-2 14
13. Ohio State 8-2 15
14. North Carolina 9-4 13
15. Tennessee 12-1 16
16. Oklahoma State 10-1 11
17. Texas 8-3 18
18. Utah 11-2 21
19. Illinois 8-3 20
20. Oklahoma 11-1 22
21. LSU 12-0 NR
22. Tulsa 13-1 25
23. DePaul 10-3 24
24. UCLA 8-2 23
25. Kentucky 8-4 NR
Women’s Basketball AP Poll
Team Record . Previous
1. Connecticut
2. Tennessee
3. North Carolina St.
4. Louisiana Tech
5. Auburn
6. Penn State
7. Georgia
8. Notre Dame
9. North Carolina
10. Iowa State
11. Rutgers
12. Purdue
13. Texas Tech
14. Duke
15. Illinois
16. LSU
17. UCLA
18. Arizona
19. Tulane
20. Mississippi State
21. Old Diminion
22. Santa Barbara
23. Kansas
24. OREGON
25. Arkansas State
25 Boston College
Best Bet
NBA Hoops
San Antonio vs.
Phoenix
7:30 p.m., TNT
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9- 1
11-0
10- 2
11-1
10-2
14-2
9-2
9-2
9-2
8-2
9- 2
10- 1
12-1
11-4
10-2
6- 4
11-1
11-0
10-0
7- 2
9-3
9-3
9-3
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11-3
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14
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Friday
January 7,2000
Volume 101, Issue 71
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Oregon set for battle with Beavs
Jeffrey Stockton Emerald
Junior forward Bryan Bracey aims to continue providing the Ducks with inside scoring punch
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■ Pac-10 play begins
for the 9-2 Ducks with
a trip to Corvallis to
meet 8-3 Oregon State
By Tim Pyle
Oregon Daily Emerald
A.D. Smith remembers
Jan. 30,1999, well.
But the Oregon men’s bas
ketball team’s leading scorer
doesn’t recall it fondly.
That night, the Ducks lost
their fourth straight Pacific
10 Conference game on their
way to a 2-7 mark in the first
half of the conference sea
son.
Worse, the 48-45 defeat
came at Gill Coliseum in
Corvallis, at the hands of
Oregon State and a rowdy,
predominately orange-and
black-laden crowd of 10,400.
As Oregon (9-2 overall)
prepares to face the Beavers
(8-3) in the Pac-10 opener for
both teams at 7:05 p.m. Sat
urday night in Gill Colise
um, Smith and the Ducks
have one thing in mind.
Payback.
“They’re tough at home,”
said Smith, a senior forward
who is a team co-captain
along with fellow seniors
Darius Wright and Alex
Scales. “And it was the first
year in a while they beat us
there, so we feel like we
have a little payback to give
to them.
“And we feel like we have
one of the better teams in the
Pac-10 and should finish
high up there and should
Turn to Basketball, page 12A
On tap
What: Men’s
basetball
Who: Oregon
(9-2) vs. Oregon
State (8-3)
When: Satur
day, 7:05p.m.
Where: Gill
Coliseum in
Corvallis
TV: FoxSports
Northwest
It was
thefirst
year in a
while they
beat us
there, so
we feel like
we have a
little pay
back to
give to
them, yy
A.D.Smith
Oregon
forward
Ducks ready to start Pac-10 play with a bang
On tap
What: Women’s
basketball
Who: Oregon (9-3
overall) vs. Oregon
State (4-8)
When: Saturday, 1
p.m.
Where: Gill Colise
um in Corvallis
TV: FoxSports
Northwest
■ Oregon intends to
take advantage of its
fan support against
Otegon State Saturday
By Mil-jam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
The people at Gill Colise
um have developed a spe
cial, one-time deal for Ore
gon State fans in honor of
Saturday’s Civil War dou
ble header, which is the Pa
cific-10 Conference opener
for all four teams involved.
Purchasing a reserved
ticket to the men’s game at
7:05 p.m. secures a spot in
a reserved seat for the
women’s contest earlier at 1
p.m. — for free.
In other words, the
Beavers (4-8 overall) don’t
want what happened last
season to happen Saturday.
Last February, at least 4,000
of the 5,034 who attended
the last Civil War of the sea
son where decked out in
green and yellow, whoop
ing and hollering for their
Ducks and thus drowning
out any Beaver support in
helping Oregon to a 60-52
win.
It was, more or less,
McArthur Court on the
road.
“We’re excited to be
home even though we’re
playing at Beaverland,”
Oregon head coach Jody
Runge said. “We’re excited
to get back in front of our
crowd.”
Because the road weary
Ducks — heading into their
eighth of ten straight away
games — can’t be at home,
Corvallis is the next best
place. And because Oregon
(9-3) is searching for a way
to add some attitude to
their game, then there is no
spot better than Gill to find
the necessary inspiration to
be a little thuggish.
“This is a definite state
ment game,” point guard
Shaquala Williams said.
“One, it’s our first Pac-10
game. Two, we’ve been
struggling so we need a big
game. Three, it’s a rival
game. We don’t just want to
win, we want to destroy
them. We want to crush
them. And they’re in the
Turn to Women, page 12A
junior center Jenny Mowe and
in their Pac-10 opener Saturday.
Jeffrey Stockton Emerald
Ducks look to get physical