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Kitchen, ASU start off hot
■ Arizona State is the Pac
10’s biggest surpise so far,
beating both Stanford and
California last weekend
Women’s Notes
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
It’s nothing short of a case study
in college basketball parity.
Especially now that Stanford, al
most untouchable for the past
decade, has tumbled back to Earth
— with some help, of course, from
Pacific-10 Conference counterparts.
Any of the Pac-10 teams can
beat one another on any given
night, given the correct variables.
Witness Arizona State, which was
picked to finish no higher than
fifth in preseason polls, surpris
ingly off to its best start ever. The
Sun Devils (9-3 overall, 2-0 Pac
10) began Pac-10 play by beating
California and also, for the first
time in 14 meetings, the Cardinal
— for which head coach Charlie
Turner Thorne once played.
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Arizona State is healthy, confi
dent, and basically, hot, just like
their senior guard Kitch Kitchen.
She was named the conference’s
player of the week after averaging
13 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists
and 2.5 steals in last weekend’s
wins.
It’s all to the delight of its third
year head coach.
“Being able to get over the
hump against Stanford was a huge
boost, for not only our program,
but for our kids individually,”
Thorne said. “We had the sense
that we could beat anybody we
play, but we hadn’t really gotten
over the hump. It was a big week
end for us and hopefully we can
continue to change history a little
bit — we haven’t played real well
in Seattle the past three years. ”
It won’t be a surprise if the Sun
Devils find themselves 4-0 on Sun
day morning, after playing against
Washington and Washington State.
It’s plausible because the
Cougars are bad. Possible because
the Huskies are inexperienced
and struggling.
Still, there’s no presuming any
thing.
Ready, set, draw
The Washington schools cer
tainly did their part to help esca
late the hype—or attempt at hype
— that’s preceding the Southern
Califomia-UCLA rivalry match up
this weekend at Pauley Pavilion.
After beating up on the Wash
ington schools, the Women of
Troy and the Bruins are both 2-0
in conference play.
UCLA beat the Cougars by 27
and the Huskies by 36.
And despite the Women of
Troy’s shortage of post players,
coach Chris Gobrecht won’t allow
6-foot-4 freshman Portia Mitchell
to play until she can run 1 1/2
miles in 11 minutes, “Every player
in the last 20 years has been able to
do that,” Gobrecht told the Los
Angeles Times, “I’m not going to
compromise on that requirement
now” — they beat Washington
State by 10 and Washington by 11.
In honor of the occasion, the Bru
ins’ marketing people are making a
push to set a Pac-10 single-game at
tendance record, according to
UCLA head coach Kathy Olivier.
The Bruins currently rank third
in conference attendance, draw
ing 3,441 fans per game. Oregon is
first, averaging 4,720, and Stan
*
ford is second, at 3,768.
Undoubtedly, drawing big crowds
to watch women’s college hoops is
harder in an international hotbed of
entertainment like L.A. than it is in
smaller cities like Eugene.
“UCLA and USC have the most
difficult jobs in the conference as far
as attracting fan support,” Gobrecht
said. “The things we have to deal
with are entirely different than
what Oregon has to deal with.
“ [We] have to make sure you win.
ii UCLA and USC have
the most difficult jobs in
the conference as far as
attracting fan support.
Chris Gobrecht
coach, UCLA
We’ve got to play attractive sched
ules, we have to be highly competi
tive and exciting teams and then we
have to get the media to really be
lieve that this is good stuff. And if
you can do it in L.A.”
Well, UCLA is supposedly go
ing to give it a shot.
“We’re excited about having
two good L.A. teams playing each
other,” Olivier said. “Hopefully,
we’ll set a Pac-10 record, like
we’re trying to do. ”
Among the ongoing promotions
Olivier mentioned was an event
called “Going to college,” which
is targeted at local high school stu
dents who are invited to attend a
pregame discussion featuring
UCLA athletes talking about fu
ture career opportunities.
However, the Bruins’ ticket of
fice is in the dark about the afore
mentioned activities,
Not messing around anymore
Ignorant, like the Bruins’ point
guard Erica Gomez claimed her
teammates were about UCLA’s
playbook.
In an effort to get a rise out of her
teammates, fire them up and make
them mad, she blasted her team
mates in the L.A. Times a week
ago — “This team, so far at least,
doesn’t have a clue. ”
Their response?
“They know Erica better than
anyone,” Olivier said. “So if you
know Erica, you know that’s how
she is. They handled it maturely,
put it in perspective ... took it as,
OK, time to stop messing around.”
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