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poise to the intense surroundings
he played in last year that are syn
onymous with Indiana prep bas
ketball.
“I really don’t think he feels
pressure,” said Olson, in his 17th
year as Arizona’s head coach. “In
Indiana, high school basketball is
a huge thing, and he’s been deal
ing with pressure ever since he
started playing.
“When he’s been at his best has
been in the final minutes, and he’s
been unbelievable. We knew he
would be very good, but no one
expected him to have the season
he is having as a freshman.”
Olson’s team needs to sweep
the rest of their games to make a
case at a top seed in the NCAA
Tournament, starting with a tough
homestand this week against the
slumping Los Angeles schools.
Some key injuries have hurt the
Trojans’ in worse ways then head
coach Henry Bibby could have
imagined. Bibby has been consis
tently been using a five-man rota
tion that has left his players
gassed near the conclusion of tight
games.
Against UCLA, the Trojans had
three starters play all 40 minutes,
the second time that has hap
pened this season. In an early Feb
ruary loss to California, USC was
caught in the same dilemma.
Bibby is quick to point out that
the game can seem even longer
when shots aren’t falling, which has
been a handicap of the Trojans as of
late.
“Guys get tired when they don’t
make shots,” Bibby told the Ari
zona Daily Star. “I can say that be
cause 1 played and I know what it
is like when you’re 0 for 10 and
when you’re 8 for 10. When
you’re 8 for 10 and play 40 min
utes, it’s 40 minutes. When you’re
0 for 10, 40 minutes felt like two
hours.”
Bring back the tourney?
Most Division I-A conferences
hold a tournament at the end of
the season to guarantee one team a
bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Stanford head coach Mike
Montgomery said the possibility
of adding a Pac-10 tournament is
more hype than anything else.
“It’s the press that likes it,”
Montgomery said. “If you are
looking at the student athlete get
ting the job done in school after 18
conference games, I’m just not for
it. Not as many people are for it as
people may think.”
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best of both teams, as the contest
was rained out.
Breaking out
Alina Wygonowska, the lone
senior on the women’s tennis
team, broke out of a recent
slump last Saturday with a hard
fought, three-set tie-breaker win
over Southern California’s Kara
Warketin. Wygonowska, the
team’s captain, was hampered
by a flu earlier this season.
“It has been frustrating for Ali
na these last few weeks,” head
coach Jack Griffin said. “This
[was] just what she needs to
jump right back in the fire.”
Wygonowska’s win on Satur
day was Oregon’s only singles win
against the 12th-ranked Trojans.
More extremes
The 2000 women’s tennis sea
son has been a roller coaster of a
ride. So far, the Ducks have
played either a team ranked in the
top-15, or an unranked non
league opponent. This schedule
has produced mixed results. The
Ducks are 2-4 after falling to four
Pacific-10 conference powerhous
es and defeating Big West confer
ence patsies Portland and Idaho.
The roller coaster ride will con
tinue as the Ducks finish out the
month against ranked opponents
Arizona State, Arizona and Wash
ington State, and unranked Mon
tana, St. Mary’s and Washington.
Club sports briefs
Hockey at Pac-8
Championships
All that stands between the
Oregon hockey team and a trip to
the Pacific-8 finals is UCLA and a
broken wrist.
The third-place Ducks (8-8-0)
must overcome the second-place
Bruins (17-0-0) starting Feb. 18 in
Los Angeles, and they must do so
without senior captain Chris
Geib, whose college career end
ed when he broke his wrist dur
ing Oregon’s 2-0 loss to Western
Washington last Friday.
On Thursday, the Ducks put an
end to the Vikings’ perfect sea
son, winning 4-3.
“We tried really, really hard be
cause it was our last homestand
of the season,” Geib said. “We
pulled out all the stops.”
Fourth-place Stanford takes on
first-place Southern California in
the other semifinal.
If the Ducks advance to the fi
nals, it will be their first trip to
the championship game since
1997 when they lost to Stanford.
Lacrosse splits
The Oregon club sports men’s
lacrosse team lost in overtime
against Pacific Lutheran on Sun
day after a blowing out Puget
Sound the day before.
The Ducks led 11-10 with 3 sec
onds to go, but the Lutes scored to
tie the game and force overtime.
The Ducks were very disap
pointed about the loss, but were
pleased with the play of Doug
Hamilton and Jeff Schmid.
Oregon blew away University
of Puget Sound 18-2 at the new
turf adjacent to the Recreation
Center on Saturday, for their first
win of the season.
“I was very happy of how we
played,” Oregon coach Josh Bar
bour said. “We made improve
ments in transition, but we still
need to work on defense. ”
The second half was played in
the rain, making it difficult for
the players to run the field. Mid
fielder Pat O’Donnell led the
Ducks in scoring with four goals.
Chris Vandyke, Jared Blanchette
and James Hall each had three.