Scoreboard
UCLA (72)
Min
23
39
17
36
Philman
Martin
Hubbard
Gomez
Kaczmarski26
Greco 14
Jackson 13
Funicello 12
Flannigan 20
FG
1- 5
17-22
2- 5
1- 4
3- 11
2- 2
0- 3
2-2
1- 3
FT
0-0
5-6
0-0
0-0
2-2
2-2
0-0
1-1
1-2
P
2
39
4
2
11
6
0
5
3
Totals
200
29-57 11-1330*21 72
Shooting: 50.9 3-point: 3-12 (Philman 0-1,
Gomez 0-2, Kaczmarski 3-5, Jackson 0-2, Flan
nigan 0-2) includes 0 team rebounds.
OREGON (89)
Min
Dion
Wolvert
Mowe
Williams
Strange
Shreve
Craighead 17
Fredrick 1
Unaka 3
Meharry 22
28
32
21
35
29
12
FG
8-10
3- 5
4- 5
8-21
3-6
1- 4
2- 6
0-0
0-1
3-6
FT
1-2
5-6
2- 3
4-4
3- 5
2-2
0-0
0-0
0-0
3-4
P
17
11
10
24
9
Totals
200
32-64 20-2636* 6 22
Shooting: 50 3-point: 5-18 (Dion 0-2,
Williams 4-10, Shreve 1-3, Craighead 0-3)
‘includes four team rebounds.
attendance: 7,465 (fifth largest in Oregon
women’s basketball history.)
Players of the Game
Even though
the sopho
more point
guard said she
prefers playing
in hostile
environments,
Shaq sparked
Oregon’s 10th
home win of
the season
with 24 points, four steals and
seven pretty assists.
Playing on an
injured left
knee, Dion, a
junior guard,
went 8 of 10
and finished
with a career
high 17 points,
to go with a
team-high seven rebounds.
LINDSEY DION
Quotes of the Game
“Oh, I don’t know if we
want to go calling it a
statement — but we did
we sweep [UCLA] this year,
home and away. ”
Lindsey Dion
junior forward
“It was 36-36, so pretty
much it was 0-0 and we
had 20 minutes to play,
and our guards just came
out and had an incredible
game tonight, hit a lot of
really big shots and just
took it away from UCLA. ”
Angeline Wolvert
junior forward
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February 25,2000
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Kapow! (JO runs UCLA out of Mac
Oregon’s
grasp on first
place gets a
little bit
tighter with
its third
straight
convincing
win against
UCLA
On Tap
What:
Women’s bas
ketball
Who: Oregon
vs. Southern
California
Where:
McArthur
Court
When: Satur
day, 7 p.m.
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
Oh, no. By no means is
this a declaration.
No way.
The Oregon women’s bas
ketball team’s overpowering
89-72 win against No. 22
UCLA — its third straight
against the higher-ranked Bru
ins—isn’t a
pronounce
ment of
anything
beside the
fact that tile
Ducks (20-6
overall, 11
3 Pacific-10
Conference) are taking every
one of its remaining Pac-10
games seriously — including
their next against Southern
California (11-12,6-7) at 7 p.m.
on Saturday.
That’s all, claim Oregon’s
players.
“I don’t know if we want to
go calling it a statement,” Ore
gon forward Lindsey Dion
said. “But we did sweep them
this year, home and away. We
did play really hard both
games and that’s a tribute to
the kind of team we are, the
type of personality we have.”
It’s a conference-leading
Turn to Basketball, page 9
Catharine Kendall Emerald
Lindsey Dion streaks to the hoop for one of her career-high 17 points in Thursday’s win.
Believe it:power shifted north
Scott
Pesznecker
To the dismay of 2,000 at
McArthur Court last March, ESPN
commentator Rebecca Lobo pro
claimed power had shifted south
in the Pacific-10 Conference.
South from Stanford to UCLA,
Much of that same crowd that
packed the Pit a year ago was among
the 7,465 who watched Oregon face
off with No. 22 UCLA Thursday.
And in the next 40 minutes, one
thing became certain. Assuming
the Ducks don’t crumble down the
backstretch of the season, it is very
possible that whoever calls this
season’s NCAA bracket selection
will repeat a familiar message:
The balance of power in the
Pac-10 has again shifted.
The question is, to where?
If history is an indication, then
the loyal Mac Court crowd may
again be disappointed. Oregon gets
no respect—Stanford does. A split
in the Pac-10 title between the
Ducks and Cardinal would likely
have the world of women’s basket
ball seeing red on the West Coast.
But settling all debate, one
thing is clear.
The power has shifted north.
The Ducks have won their last
three games with UCLA.. Last sea
son, Oregon embarrassed the Bruins
at Mac Court in a 106-79 win. Late
in January, Oregon won the battle at
Pauley Pavilion, 67-58. “Every time
they talking about Pac-10 women’s
basketball and they list Oregon, I al
ways think about” last season’s Mac
Court loss, senior Maylana Martin
said. “If we would have beat them
here, that would have made the dif
ference between being co-champs
and having it for ourselves. ”
The Ducks picked up where
they left off at home last season
Thursday, 89-72.
UCLA head coach Kathy Olivi
Turn to Pesznecker page 8
UO lacks spark, lets UCLA get in NCAA hunt
Oregon drops
to 3-38 all time
at UCLA’s
Pauley Pavilion
and loses two
straight for the
first time all
season
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
Ouch. This one hurt.
Oregon’s 75-69 loss to
UCLA Thursday night has
made the road to the NCAA
Tournament a lot more work
than it had to be.
But much more pertinent,
it left the Ducks (18-7 over
all, 9-5 Pacific-10 Confer
ence) fighting to just hold
onto third-place ahead of
surging Arizona State (8-5
Pac-10) and Southern Cali
fornia (7-6) — who knocked
off Oregon State Thursday.
And to make matters
worse, the major bump
along the way came in front
of 7,672 at Pauley Pavilion
— home of the heated rival
Bruins (14-11,5-8).
Oregon head coach Ernie
Kent took his time in the
locker room following the
game before finally emerg
ing to speak to the media.
“It’s frustrating, we’re a
team right now that is out of
sync,” Kent said. “We’re go
ing to have
easier We
need to
find answers and quickly. ”
The Ducks need to find is
their shooting touch. In a
surprisingly uninspired per
formance, Oregon shot just
25-of-60 from the field, a
measly 41.7 percent — but
still 12 points higher than its
29 percent showing against
Washington.
And because of the Bruins’
strong inside defense, Oregon
was often forced to step be
yond the arc. Of the 21 threes
attempted, only four went
down — 19 percent — the
same amount UCLA made off
14 fewer attempts.
“You’re not going to win
the ballgame playing that
poorly,” Kent said. “There are
some things we need to get
back to doing because what is
starting to happen is we’re get
ting to be very unstable as a
basketball team. And that’s
where I come in as a coach to
make some adjustments.”
The Ducks were playing
in a site where they hadn’t
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Leaders
Scoring:
(UO) Smith 23
(UCLA) Watson 22
Rebounds:
(UO) Smith 6
(UCLA) Watson 10
Assists:
(UO) Wright 3
(UCLA) Watson 5