Monday
February 21,2000
Volume 101, Issue 101
Effigrald
Scoreboard
WASHINGTON (67)
Min FG FT R A P
Walcott 27 4-8 0-1 6 3 8
Green 28 6-10 4-5 8 4 16
Carey 37 3-8 0-0 7 2 7
Luton 28 3-10 2-7 4 3 10
Johnson 27 4-6 0-0 4 1 10
Perkins 24 .6-9 1-3 7 0 13
Clark 14 0-1 0-2 0 0 0
Brown 12 0-1 3-4 3 2 3
Coffee 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Shelton 1 0-0 0-0 10 0
Totals 200 26-53 10-2243*15 67
Shooting: 49.1 3-point: 5-14 (Walcott 0-1,
Green 0-1, Carey 1-3, Luton 2-5, Johnson 2-3,
Clark 0-1)
* includes three team rebounds
OREGON (58)
Min
Smith 33
Hartenstein 30
Wright
Jones
Scales
Jackson
Hicks
Lindquist
Norwood
Bracey
FG
2-9
4-9
2- 7
3- 8
4- 12
2-6
0-0
0-1
0-1
0-4
FT
4-8
4- 7
1-2
2- 5
3- 4
5- 6
0-0
0-0
0-0
2-2
P
8
12
5
8
13
10
0
0
0
2
Totals
200
17-57 21-3435*13 58
Shooting: 29.8 3-point: 3-15 (Smith 0-2,
Wright 0-3, Jones 0-3, Scales 2-4, Jackson 1-3)
‘includes four team rebounds
attendance: 9,087 (Oregon’s third sell-out
of season)
Player of the Game
Washing
ton’sjunior
forward suc
cessfully re
■
turned to
his home
state and
helped his
Huskies pull
off the huge
THALO GREEN
upset victory with a game
high 16 points, eight re
bounds and four assists.
Quotes of the Game
"/ love coming home. I’m
definitely a fan favorite,
and I say that with plenty *
of sarcasm. They say
plenty of stuff, but it’s all
in good fun. ”
Thalo Green,
UW forward and Salem native
“Certainly Washington
doesn’t think of themselves
as a lower-echelon team.
You have to respect their
talent.”
“I wanted this win so bad.
I’m definitely going to call
Terik tonight.”
Bryan Brown,
UW guard and brother of former
Oregon player Terik Brown
A.D. Smith,
UO forward
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Ducks win, close on Pac-10 title
Oregon wins its
27th straight
over Northwest
schools by
beating
Washington in
the game’s
final moments
Washington leaves the Ducks stunned
■ Washington puts a damper on
Oregon’s banner season, handing the
Ducks a 67-58 setback Saturday
Leaders
Scoring:
(UO) Scales
13
(UW) Green
16
Rebounds:
(UO) Smith
7
(UW) Green
8
Assists:
(UO) Smith
4
(UW) Green
4
Former prep stars match-up at Mac Court
■ Oregon’s A.D. Smith and Washington’s Thalo Green
traveled similar paths to get where they are today
Jeff
Smith
Women’s Notes
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
Cold, down by eight and
playing without starting
point guard Shaquala
Williams, it appeared that
Oregon’s hopes of repeating
as Pacific-10 Conference
champions were about to be
dealt a crushing blow.
Ironic, because the only
blow dealt was to Washing
ton.
Swinging the ball over her
head, sophomore Jamie
Craighead’s elbow connect
ed with Megan Franza’s
nose, stopping the game
Men's Notes
By Brett Williams
Oregon Daily Emerald
In a season marred by un
derachievement, Washing
ton found reason to smile
Saturday night.
In the Oregon camp, Sat
urday’s loss was hardly a
laughing matter.
The Ducks shot 18 per
cent from the field in the
second half, which includ
ed a ten minute scoring
drought. They allowed the
Huskies to pull out their
biggest win of the season,
67-58, and leave Oregon
(18-6 overall, 8-4 Pacific-10
Conference) in third place.
The Ducks’ lead over Ari
zona State is now just one
game.
Washington (9-16,4-9) j^
fused to fall prey to the row
dy crowd at The Pit, al
though it wasn’t the first
time this season the
Huskies played above ex
pectations away from Seat
tle.
You wouldn’t believe it
by last week’s 71-47
blowout loss to a below-av
erage Oregon State team,
but Washington’s record is
better on the road (6-7) than
at home (.3-9). The win
Turn to Basketball, page 12
The time was 9:33 p.m.
Within 100 feet of each other in
the basement of McArthur Court
were two warriors who have been
through many battles.
One was distraught — head
sunk in lap w'hile sitting in a cor
ner of a room waiting for his turn to
talk to the media about his team’s
devastating loss.
The other was elated — standing
tall and proud with a handful of
temporarily with about
three minutes left and send
ing the Huskies’ bloodied
junior to the locker room.
HSKETUU
Craig
head’s el
bow—ap
parently
uninten
tional —
also
knocked
loose the
invisible lid that had been
covering the Ducks’ basket
for much of the second half.
Oregon resumed play with a
decisive 7-0 run, capped by
Angelina Wolvert’s heroic
low-post shot with 11.3 sec
Kevin Calame Emerald
In a lackluster game against Washington, senior A.D. Smith manages to get past Thalo Green.
pepperoni pizzas waiting to be de
voured.
Oregon senior forward A.D.
Smith and Washington junior for
ward Thalo Green.
Two talented players who are
practically identical in every as
pect except hairstyle.
On this night, it was Green who
led his Huskies (9-16 overall, 4-9
Pacific-10 Conference) to the gut
check 67-58 upset victory over the
onds remaining.
“I had my girl pinned in
side, Jamie gave me a sweet
pass, and I was able to face up
and go baseline,” said
Wolvert, who finished with
13 points and five rebounds
in 28 minutes. “I stopped, and
I didn’t know if I should shoot
up. I pumped faked and she
flew, and I was like, ‘Oh, it’s
going in.’ But if she hadn’t
jumped at that, I don’t know.
“I’m sure whoever would
have gotten the ball was go
ing to step up and make the
shot, and I think we all were
just looking at each other
wondering who it was going
Turn to Women, page 13
Oregon
Leaders
Scoring:
Williams 20
Wofvert 13
Dion 9
Meharry 9
Rebounds:
Meharry 9
Williams 7
Wolvert 5
Assists:
Williams 3
Ducks (18-6,9-4).
And it was Smith who was held
to only eight points in front of a
disappointed sold-out Mac Court
crowd of 9,087. It was just the sec
ond time this season that Smith
was held to single digits.
“I shot the ball horribly from the
inside and outside,” said Smith,
who went two-for-nine from the
floor and was only four-for-eight at
the free throw line. “I think I got
our offense out of sync a couple of
times and that allowed them to get
Turn to Jeff Smit it, page 13