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Click on Oregon Live for statewide college basketball coverage • Season preview, fan polls and more • Game schedules and rosters for men's and womens teams • Game day previews and photo coverage • Forums and live chats • News and archives from The Oregonian Plus check us out for: • Prep, college and pro sports • Concert, dining and movie guides • Build a free Web site for your team or group OregonZAe' w w w.o reg o n / /Ve.c o m Click on Sports at # # www.'oreqon/71/e.com ' ’H alliance with (Ot'CtitOniaU FIND THINGS IN ODE CLASSIFIEDS (ROOMMATES, TICKETS, STUFF YOU LOST, BICYCLES, CARS, JOBS, ON-CAMPUS OPPORTUNITIES) ’Cats have trouble with Washington By Bob Baum The Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Mugh to the shock of coach Lute Olson, No. 2 Arizona came out for Thursday night’s game against Washington State wearing white headbands. After his team struggled to an 80 75 victory, Olson promised the headbands would never be seen again. “The headbands compressed the brains,” Olson said. “The first time I saw them was when they came out to warm up. You won’t see the headbands again.” Loren Woods scored a career high 25 points and blocked a school-record 10 shots as Arizona barely survived, but Olson was angry about his team’s perform ance in its first game since beating then-No. 1 Stanford on the road last Saturday. “We were outsized and they had better athletes, but it comes down to heart,” Cougars forward Chris Crosby said. “It was gut check time, and we fought like crazy. We laid it all on the line.” Olson would not argue Cros by’s conclusion about which team played harder. Washington State, Olson said, “played extremely well. We played extremely stupidly. That’s what I’m concerned with. We played like we had no brains.” The Wildcats (14-2, 3-0 Pac-10) beat the Cougars for the 29th con secutive time, the longest current streak of any opponents in the same conference in major college basketball. But it was anything but easy for an Arizona team fa vored by 24 points. Washington State (5-7, 0-3) led 35-34 at halftime, fell behind by 13 in the second half, then cut Arizona’s lead to three on four oc casions over the-final 2:06. Arizona didn’t have a field goal over the last 8:53, but went 14-for 16 at the line the rest of the way. For the game, the Wildcats made 31 of 37 free throws, while WSU was 9-for-13. Michael Wright added 20 points for Arizona but grabbed only three rebounds, none in the first half, as the smaller Cougars outrebounded the Wildcats 36-25. Jason Gardner scored 12 points and Gilbert Are nas added 11 for Arizona. Mike Bush scored 18 points tor Washington State and Eddie Miller added 16 points and 14 re bounds. Crosby and Jan-Michael Thomas had 14 points each. Thomas, who had a McKale Center-record eight 3-pointers in his last trip to Tucson, was 4-for-6 from long range this time. “Our team can definitely use this game as a stepping stone,” first-year Washington State coach Paul Graham said. “We came into a hostile environment and played hard. I can’t say enough about our effort. That’s what I want to see every night.” Olson was most upset with his three freshmen starters — Gard ner, Arenas and Luke Walton — for their penchant to throw up long-range shots or take wild drives to the basket when the Wildcats had an obvious offen sive advantage inside. “I say more than anything else it’s time to grow up,” Olson said. “I’m more than disappointed. It’s so frustrating that we can go out and play like we did against Stan ford and then think all we have to do is just show up.” The 7-foot-l Woods shattered the old Arizona blocked shot record of seven. The record was set by Anthony Cook against UTEP in the first round of the 1987 NCAA tournament and already tied three times by Woods this sea son. “I am a shot-blocker,” said Woods, whose presence altered uncounted other Washington State shots. “They kept trying to shoot layups. You have to think they would get the hint after a while.” The Wildcats finally had what seemed to be a comfortable lead when Rick Anderson capped a 15-5 spurt with a 3-pointer that made it 66-53 with 8:53 to go. But a 14-4 run by Washington State cut the lead to 72-69 on Bush’s drive with 2:06 to play. Wright, Gardner and Justin Wes sel each made two free throws, but each time Washington State an swered with field goals — two by Miller, then one by Bush that cut it to 78-75 with 2.9 seconds left. Anderson finally clinched it with two free throws with two seconds to play. i JOIN US FOR THE 2000 JOHNSTON LECTURE Sponsored by the University of Oregon School of journalism and Communication "From Both Sides of the River: Writing on Race” I ] Alex kotlowitz AUTHOR AND WRITER FOR THE NEW YORKER FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 2000 GERLINGER LOUNGE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 7:30P.M. This lecture is made possible with an endowment gift from the RICHARD W. JOHNSTON MEMORIAL PROJECT. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL (541) 346-5738 AT THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND > COMMUNICATION. ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WILL BE PROVIDED IF ' ‘ ‘ f * • * * * t 'rS-qf/e^teltbA moniTaV,'January 13. * * ' • ‘ < * ■ ■' • ; ■
