Oregon daily emerald., January 25, 2000, Image 7

Tuesday
January25,2000
Volume 101, Issue 82
Effiefald
Ducks on move
Oregon stays positive, even
though yet another huge road
trip looms for the road-weary
I team this week. PAGE 8A
Scoreboard
ESPN/USA Today
Women’s Top 25
1. Connecticut 17-0
2. LaTech 13-2
3. Georgia 19-2
4. Tennessee 14-3
5. Notre Dame 15-2
6. Iowa State 14-2
7. Penn State 16-3
8. M. Carolina State 15-3
9. Duke 16-2
10. Texas Tech 15-2
11. Auburn 15-3 1
12. Rutgers 12-4
13. LSU 14-3
14. UCLA 11-4
15. Arizona 15-3
16. Santa Barbara 14-3
17. Old Dominion 13-3
18. Illinois 15-7
19. Purdue 12-5
20. Tu lane 16-2
21. Mississippi State 15-2
22. Boston College 16-3
23. Kansas 12-5
24. Virginia 13-4
25. Stanford 11-4
ESPN/USA Today
Men’s Top 25
1. Cincinnati 17-1
2. Stanford 15-1
3. Duke 15-2
4. Arizona 16-3
5. Syracuse 15-0
6. Connecticut 13-3
7. Auburn 16-2
8. Michigan State 13-5
9. Florida 14-3
10. Ohio State 13-3
11. Kansas 15-3
12. Indiana 14-3
13. Tennessee 16-2
14. Texas 12-5
15. Tulsa 18-1
16. Oklahoma State 14-2
17. Oklahoma 15-3
18. Kentucky 13-5
19. Utah 14-3
20. UCLA 11-5
21. Maryland 13-5
22. Vanderbilt 12-3
23. St. Johns 12-4
24. Temple 12-4
25. N. Carolina State 13-3
Ferreira hopes to elevate Ducks
uregon s new
head volleyball
coach is
optimistic that,
in time, the
Ducks will
shake their
losing ways
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Oregon Daily Emerald
When Carl Ferreira con
sidered whether he wanted
the task of being Oregon’s
head volleyball coach, he
looked beyond the Ducks’
win-loss record.
He looked beyond Ore
gon’s 10-year run of sub
.500 finishes in the Pacific
10 Conference and the
possibility that he could
wind up enduring his first
losing season.
Ferreira looked beyond
the volleyball team and fo
cused on the Oregon Athlet
ic Department.
i was looKing ior any
thing dynamic or charismat
ic about Oregon to stimulate
recruits,” Ferreira said. “I
walked away thinking to
myself,
‘Wow, why
can’t [the
Ducks] be
success
ful?’ This is
such a pos
itive time of
growth for Oregon athletics.”
Of course, he looked at
the facilities. Oregon has
much to offer to potential
recruits, such as the rep
utable McArthur Court and
tne taciiities at tne Len
Casanova Center.
But what really caught
Ferreira’s attention is the
legacy that Duck teams have
of improving.
For example, since com
ing to the University in
1993, Jody Runge turned the
women’s basketball team
into an annual NCAA Tour
nament team.
Now, Ferreira wants to re
vive Oregon volleyball.
“There are upteen posi
tives that outweigh where
this program has been,” Fer
reira said. “Volleyball is not
Turn to Volleyball, page 9A
My job is
to change the
culture of
Oregon vol
leyball.
Carl Ferreira
volleyball
bead coach yy
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■ Oregon hopes to
learn from the
overtime wins it was
fortunate to get
Oregon Notes
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
Everybody knows that
when teams from Washing
ton and Oregon tangle — re
gardless of the sport or gen
der — it’s going to be a
tough, hard-fought battle.
But, man, over the last
two years, the men’s basket
ball programs from Wash
ington have taken that to an
extreme in games against
the Ducks.
Oregon returned from a
two-game road swing up
north in which it perse
vered for a 76-74 overtime
win against the Huskies on
Thursday, before holding
off the pesky Cougars for an
81-80 overtime win two
days later.
A year ago on the same
road trip, the Ducks lost to
Washington in overtime
and went three overtime pe
riods in Pullman to get the
victory.
“Anytime you go on the
road, it’s tough,” said senior
forward A.D. Smith, whose
20 points against the
Cougars marked the 15th
time in 16 games that he
scored in double digits. “It’s
always been close with
those schools, and we know
that we were fortunate to
get those two wins.
“But hey, it’s free basket
ball. People get to watch
more, and we get to play
more, so we don’t hate
that.”
Turn to Basketball, page 9A