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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.
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