Scoreboard
use (69)
Min FG FT R A
Carter
24 3-5 4-6 5 2
Washington
23 0-5 3-6 11 1
Golay
36 7-12 5-9 8 1 19
Elmore
24 2-4 2-3 1
Mashia
21 2-6 0-0 3
Norwood
19 1-6 5-6 1
Woods
17 3-3 0-0 3
Krause
4 0-0 0-0 0 1
Smith-Hans
16 3-4 0-0 1 1
Young
16 2-3 0-0 1 2
Totals
200 23-4819-30 38* 14 69
Shooting: 47.9 3-point: 4-8
(Carter 0-1, Elmore 0-1, Mashia 1-1,
Norwood 1-3, Smith-Hans 2-2)
‘includes four team rebounds
Oregon (63)
Min FG FT R
Dion
15 0-1 0-0 0
Wolvert
22 5-7 0-0 7
Mowe
27 4-8 0-2 9
Williams
37 7-17 7-8 2
Strange
31 3-8 0-0 0
Shreve
11 0-2 4-4 0
Craighead
14 0-2 0-0 0
Fredrick
5 0-0 0-2 0
Moore
12 2-3 2-2 0 0
Unaka
4 0-0 0-0 0
Meharry
22 2-6 3-4 6
1 22
3 6
4
0
0
6
0 0
Totals
200 23-5416-22 26* 9 63
Shooting: 42.6 3-point: 1-7 (Dion
0-1, Williams 1-3, Shreve 0-1, Craig
head 0-1, Moore 0-1)
‘includes five team rebounds
Attendance: 6,037
Player of the Game
mu * m
DANIELLE GOLAY
senior forward
paced the Women of
Troy with 19 points on
7-of-12 shooting. She
aiso had a block, an as
sist and four steals.
Quote of the Game
USCs “pressure was
great It really took
us out of our
offense. That was the
problem, if you can’t
score, you can’t win
a basketball game.
Frustrating. ”
Shaquala Williams,
sophomore point guard
Sports
^^*Februa^2872^)
Volume 101, Issue 106
Emerald
Ducks capture win amid adversity
Behind a
career-high 30
points by Alex
Scales, Oregon
ends its two
game losing
streak and
solidifies third
place
r
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
Yes, on Saturday night there
was a basketball game played.
And yes, in that game, Ore
gon (19-7 overall, 10-5 Pacific
10 Conference) defeated South
ern California (14-12, 7-7),
80-77, in a game that featured
21 lead changes and ended Ore
gon’s two-game losing skid.
But to Oregon head coach
Ernie Kent, it was much more
than just a game.
The victory capped a tumul
tuous 48-hour period in which
the Ducks lost to UCLA on
Thursday, had a deep-hearted
team meeting Friday and then
fought back through adversity
on Saturday to pull out the
biggest win of the season in
their last road game.
The win gives the Ducks
their 19th win, the first time
since 1977 that they’ve posted
back-to-back 19-win seasons. It
also gives Oregon a little breath
ing room at third-place in the
conference standings, as they’re
now 1 1/2 games ahead of Ari
zona State and 2 1/2 ahead of
the Trojans.
“I am very proud,” Kent said
on KUGN. “This was a life les
son that took place on this trip.
This is something that these
guys are going to carry with
them for the rest of their lives.”
Adversity struck early for the
Ducks in front of the 4,355 at
Sports Arena.
Barely four minutes had gone
by and Oregon’s leading scorer
was on the floor withering in
pain. Oregon senior forward
A.D. Smith went up to defend a
shot, was spun around by
USC’s Brian Scalabrine and re
ceived an inadvertent elbow to
Turn to Men's hoops, page 9
Leaders
Scoring
(UO) Scales, 30
(USC) Scaiabrine, 29
Rebounds
(UO) Jones, 8
(USC) Scaiabrine, 10
(USC) Blutherfthal,
10
Assists
(UO) Jones, 7
(USC) Granville, 6
Kerplunk! UO women can’t handle USC
■ An out-of-sync Oregon team cracks
under USCs pressure and slips back into
a tie for second in the Pac-10
Leaders
Scoring
(UO) Williams,
22
(USQGolay, 19
Assists
(UO) Strange, 3
(USQ Nor
wood, 4
Rebounds
(UO) Mowe, 9
(USC) Washing
ton, 11
By iviirjam swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
More than once this season,
Southern California head coach
Chris Gobrecht has commented
on her team’s “good-twin, evil
twin” tendencies. She’d won
dered about
how the
Women of
Troy, one of
the most ath
letic, explo
sive collec
tion of players
in the Pacific
10 Conference, can be world
beaters some games and then
turn around and stink the next.
On Saturday at McArthur
Court, it was Oregon (20-7, 11
4) who caught the infamous
Jekyl-and-Hyde bug.
USC (12-12, 7-7) came ready
to play. Gobrecht’s crew —
whose average home crowd is
652 — was clicking, especially
defensively, and it had a great
time shutting down a disjoint
ed Oregon team, 69-63, in front
of 6,037 loud fans.
Despite the support, the
Ducks weren’t having a good
time. Coming off Thursday’s
emotion' i win against No. 22
UCLA, they got flustered by
Turn to Basketball, page 9
Azle Malinao-Alvrez Emerald
Angelina Wolvert, who went 5 of 7 on the night, tosses up a hook shot in Saturday’s loss.
Ducks make noise at Pac-10 championships
Doug Lee led the Ducks at the Pacific-10 Conference Championships.
Emerald
■ Doug Lee, Eugene Harris and Brian
Watson head to nationals with a strong
showing at the Pac-10 championships
By Matt O’Neill
Oregon Daily Emerald
The cream definitely rose to
the top.
Most of the favorites proved
why they were favored, while
some surprises showed up and
made some noise at the two-day
Pacific-10 Conference wrestling
championships in Davis, Calif.
Doug Lee and Brian Watson
lead the way for Oregon into the
finals of the Pac-10 champi
onships. Lee eventually repeat
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