The Flash
Foster leaves Ducks
Oregon football linebacker coach
Bob Foster announced his retire
ment on Tuesday from the Ducks
and from coaching, head coach Mike
Bellotti said.
The 59-year-old former California,
Davis head coach joined the Ducks as
defensive coordinator in 1998, then
switched to linebacker coach last sea
son. His efforts have helped lift Ore
gon’s defense from 10th in the Pacif
ic-10 Conference in total defense and
ninth in scoring defense in 1997, to
sixth and fourth, respectively.
“i greatly appreciated the two years
that Bob Foster spent with us,” Bel
lotti said. “He’s been a positive influ
ence on all of us in terms of the way
he approaches the game of football
and the game of life.
“We are better for having him here in
this program and I hope, in some
small way, that he’s better for having
been with us.”
AP Women’s Basketball
Rankings
1. Connecticut (45), 14-0
2. Tennessee, 13-2
3. Louisiana Tech, 11-2
4. Penn State, 15-2
5. Notre Dame, 13-2
6. North Carolina State, 14-1
7. Georgia, 16-2
8. Iowa State, 12-2
9. Duke, 16-1
10. Auburn, 14-2
11. Rutgers, 11-3
12. UCLA, 9-4
13. Illinois, 14-5
14. LSU, 12-3
15. Texas Tech, 13-2
16. Arizona, 14-2
17. Santa Barbara, 13-3
18. Old Dominion, 11-3
19. Purdue, 10-5
!!£ 20. Boston College, 15-3
| 21.Tulane, 14-2
22. Mississippi State, 12-2
23. Kansas, 11-4
24. George Washington, 13-2
25. Oklahoma, 13-3
AP Men’s Basketball
Rankings
1. Cincinnati (61), 16-1
2. Arizona, 15-2
3. Stanford, 14-1
4. Auburn, 15-1
5. Duke, 13-2
6. Syracuse, 14-0
7. Kansas, 14-2
8. Connecticut, 12-3
9. Florida, 13-2
10. Michigan State, 12-4
11. Indiana, 13-2
12. Oklahoma State, 13-1
13. Ohio State, 11-3
14. Texas, 11-4
15. Tulsa, 16-1
16. Tennessee, 15-2
17. Oklahoma, 14-2
18. Kentucky, 11-5
19. St. Johns, 12-2
20. Vanderbilt, 12-2
21. North Carolina, 11-6
22. Utah, 13-3
23. Depaul, 12-4
24. Maryland, 11-5
25. UCU.10-4
Best Bet
College Basketball
NC State vs. Duke
4 p.m., ESPN
Wednesday
January 19,2000
Volume 101, Issue 78
Em£rakl
UO putting pieces together
Jeffrey Stockton Emerald
Seven-foot-two sophomore Chris Christoffersen scored four points in 11 productive minutes
against Stanford.
■ The Ducks are hoping to answer
some questions before heading to
Washington on Thursday
Men s Notes
By Brett Williams
Oregon Daily Emerald
A lot of things are still up
in the air the week after the
Oregon men's basketball
team split its home openers.
And the Ducks (11-3 overall,
2-1 Pacific-10 Conference)
will do their best to find so
lutions before they travel to
face their Northwest neme
sis in Seattle this weekend.
The Post Rotation
Oregon played relatively
well against Stanford’s interi
or game in their 85-71 loss to
the Cardinal last Saturday.
The Ducks entered the game
shorthanded after one of their
most consistent post players,
junior college transfer Julius
Hicks, was sidelined with a
back injury that he suffered
near the end of Oregon’s win
against California.
According to head coach
Ernie Kent, Hicks is practic
ing this week, but his avail
ability for Thursday’s game
at Washington, as well as
Saturday’s game at Washing
ton State, is still up in the air.
“Julius is still day-to-day,”
Kent said. “I don’t know if
he’ll be able to do too much
in practice this week. We’ll
see where he is at game time
Thursday. If he’s not ready
then, we’ll see if he’s ready
Saturday.”
Kent said there were mul
tiple reasons for keeping
Hicks out of the lineup
Turn to Basketball, page 12
Oregon
leaders
Scoring
, Smith 15.8
Scales 14.2
Wright 11.4
Rebounds
Smith 5.6
Scales 4.1
Hicks 4.0
Assists
Wright 4.9
Jones 3.3
Scales 2.3
Ducks: There’s no place like home
■ After a 10-game road swing, the
women’s basketball team returns home
for the first time since Dec. 4
/ can't ex
press in
words how
happy lam
to be a part
of this game,
finally, at
Mcarthur
Court
Jenny Mowe
center ^
Women s Notes
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
“Oh ... my... gosh,” said
junior center Jenny Mowe
after Tuesday’s practice. “I
can’t express in words how
happy I am to be a part of
this game, finally, at
McArthur Court.”
At last, they’re back.
After a grueling, school
record, 10-game, six-week
long road odyssey, the Ore
gon women’s basketball
team (11-4 overall, 2-1 Pa
cific-10 Conference) gets to
play a home game.
The Ducks’ guest Thurs
day evening is Washington
— whom they’ve beaten in
their last seven meetings.
Their objective, obviously,
is to beat them again.
Turn to Women, page 13
if f rey Stockton Emerald
Guard Jamie Craighead is shooting 39 percent from behind the arc, fifth best !i the Pac-10.