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who went off for 31 points in last
season’s win at The Pit. “This is
different because they’re a half
game behind us. It has huge im
plications for the Pac-10 and the
tournament, so it’s a must-win —
but every game from now is.”
Twice in a row, Oregon has beat
en the higher-ranked Bruins by a
combined margin of: 36 points.
“We’ve beaten them twice,”
Jody Runge said. “That’s going to
be salt in their wounds, and this is
a difficult place to play for them.”
Which is why the Bruins have
spent this week’s practice work
ing on communication skills.
“Any time you go into Mac
Court you gotta be ready for an
unbelievable amount of noise,”
UCLA head coach Kathy Olivier
said. “We need to be good com
municators, something we
haven’t done a great job of this
year.”
Oregon is coming off a down
to-the-wire victory at Washington,
in which the Ducks found them
selves capable of formidable re
silience, coming back from an
eight-point deficit in the final
minutes for the 70-69 win. It was
an especially compelling come
back because it happened with
Shaq on the sidelines for the final
61/2 minutes after she fouled out
for the first time in her career.
“Of course we don’t want
[Williams] out of the game,” said
freshman point guard Kourtney
Shreve, who took over for Shaq.
“But if we’re in those kinds of sit
uations we can fight back and get
a good outcome out of it; it boosts
our confidence knowing that.”
UCLA is also fresh off a big win.
The Bruins beat Arizona 80-66 on
Saturday, knocking the Wildcats
out of first place.
Sophomore Michelle Greco
came through with an admirable
performance. The reserve guard
who — like Oregon’s Lindsey
Dion — has had to deal with con
cussion-like symptoms through
out the season, was 7 of 7 from the
field and finished with 22 points
and six steals.
“She has come in and provided
some excellent minutes,” Olivier
said. “I think she’s definitely the
best sixth player in the Pac-10.”
The Ducks, it should be noted,
have a outstanding sixth player
themselves.
Forward Brianne Meharry is
averaging 10.6 points and 6 re
bounds per game, compared to
Greco’s 10.5 and 3.3.
Dion, having recovered from
her concussion, is struggling with
a knee injury.
“She was in a lot of pain in the
Washington game,” Runge said,
“It is a distraction, she just isn’t as
productive a player as she is
when she’s not in pain.”
Nonetheless, Oregon is 15-3
with Dion in the starting lineup
and 4-3 without.
Bruins’ senior Marie Philman is
six points away from recording
her 1,000th career point.
Men
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the whole aura of playing at
UCLA is gone for most of us,” said
Smith, who leads the team in
scoring (15.6) and rebounding
(6.0) per game. “They have the op
portunity to play well against
great teams, and sometimes they
don’t play as well against teams
they should beat.
“We’re confident going in, and
we realize they are looking for
kind of a payback, because there
was a lot of emotion when we
played them here.”
UCLA’s loss at McArthur Court
on Jan. 29 was the beginning of
what might turn out to be the end
for the Bruins. Despite an early
lead, the then-No. 20 Bruins lost
their composure and were run out
of The Pit, 73-58.
“They put us in a hole, and we
were really fortunate to get our
running game going,” said Oregon
head coach Ernie Kent, who is 50
33 in three years as head coach.
“Then they became stagnant, and
we did some things defensively to
give them problems. And that was
the difference in the game.”
Since then, UCLA has fallen
hard. The Bruins have lost six of
their last seven games, and the
Los Angeles media blasted them
for their lack of effort in two em
barrassing losses to the Arizona
schools last weekend.
Despite their poor performanc
es of late, Oregon doesn’t expect
to face a UCLA team that is going
to roll over and die.
“When they lost to Arizona and
Arizona State, both those teams
took the fight to UCLA and took
some things out of them,” Kent
said. “UCLA showed up to play;
they just got neutralized in some
areas.
“It’s a fallacy to think that a
team with the tradition of UCLA,
with the athleticism they have,
and with the McDonald’s All
Americans on their roster, that the
team is not going to come out
ready to play hard and aggressive.
The key thing is how we respond
and neutralize some things. In no
way is that team going to just lie
down and quit.”
“I think they’re one of the most
talented teams in the league, and
we’ll have to play well to win
down there,” Smith said. “We’ve
played well down there the last
two years and had great opportu
nities to win. We’ll have to play
equally as well to give ourselves a
chance to win this time around.”
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