Scoreboard
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Arizona State (74)
Min FG FT R
Storey
31 2-7 4-8
Redhage
9 1-2 0-0
Prewitt
25 3-8 6-9
Mason
33 4-9 6-7
House
40 6-24 2-2
Knight
7 0-1 0-0 0 0
Dodd
8 2-3 0-0 0 0
Smith
14 5-6 0-0
Shell
26 1-3 1-3
Allen
6 2-3 0-1
Heap
1 0-0 0-0
A
0
0
1
4
10 4 15
0
4
1 10
Totals
200 26-6619-30 37* 11 74
Shooting: 39.4% 3-point: 3-11
(Mason 0-1, House 1-5, Shell 1-3,
Allen 1-2)
includes two team rebounds
Oregon (76)
Min FG FT
Scales
37 11-193-4
Bracey
30 3-6 7-9
Hartenstein
20 1-2 2-3
Wright
39 2-8 0-0 1
Jones
33 3-9 7-8
Jackson
1 0-0 0-0
Hicks
13 1-1 2-2
Lindquist
1 0-0 0-0
Christoffersen
10 0-1 0-0
Norwood
16 2-2 0-0
P
31
13
4
6
13
0 0
0 4
Totals
200 23-4821-26 31* 16 76
Shooting: 47.9% 3-point: 9-16
(Scales 6-10, Wright 2-4, Jones 0-1,
Norwood 1-1)
includes one team rebound
attendance: 9,045
Player of the Game
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SCALES
The senior guard was
clutch all game long,
including hitting the
three-pointer that set up
Darius Wright’s game
winning bomb in the
final second. Scales
scored a career-high 31
points on 11 of 19 shoot
ing, including 6 of 10
from behind the arc.
Quote of the Game
“That's the stuff of
storybooks, one of the
great games in Mac
Court history."
Phil Knight
Nike CEO
, Best Bet
NCAA Women’s Hoops
Stanford vs. UCLA
7:30 pm., FoxSports Net
Sports
Friday
March 3,2000
Volume 101, Issue 110
Emerald
Oregon's prayer is answered
Kevin Calame Emeralc
Shooting guard Alex Scales sets up for the biggest three-pointer of the game, a catch-and-shoot from
Ben Lindquist that cut the Oregon deficit to 74-73 with just five seconds remaining.
■ Darius Wright’s three-pointer caps one
of the greatest — and most important —
wins in Duck history
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
It was a storybook ending for
a team whose final chapter is
far from finished.
Alex Scales told Darius
Wright that his three-pointer,
which floundered precarious
ly through the air and into the
net as the buzzer sounded, was
“the stuff dreams are made of.”
Nike CEO Phil Knight was
warned to leave his courtside
seat in front of the students,
but he wouldn’t be moved. In
stead he guided the ball with
his body language, and for his
efforts he got thoroughly tram
pled on.
But as he said with a glow
ing smile afterward, “It was
well worth it. That was one of
the great games in Mac Court
history. Absolutely fabulous.”
Head coach Ernie Kent de
cided not to watch the closing
seconds.
“I didn’t even see the last
shot go up because sometimes
you just gotta believe and let it
fly,” Kent said.
Yes the ball did fly, but the
instant that Wright’s despera
tion three capped an amazing
Turn to Men, page 12
." ... .
On Tap
What; Men’s
basketball
Who: No. 3
Arizona vs.
Oregon
When; 3:05
P-m.
Where:
McArthur
Court
House pales in relation as Scales nails 31
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Brett
Williams
When Alex Scales’
parents decided to
come to McArthur
Court all the way from
Racine, Wis. for Thursday’s
game against Arizona State,
they were hoping to see a
solid performance by their
Jeffery and Alice Scales
would have settled for silver,
but Alex wouldn’t be denied
gold.
In the 76-74 victory, Scales
dazzled his parents, the row
dy crowd at McArthur Court
and NBA scouts from the
Chicago, Golden State and
Sacramento with a 31-point
game that makes a major case
that he’s the best shooting
guard on the West Coast.
The NBA scouts were in
attendance to watch Arizona
State’s Eddie House as well.
House, the Pacific-10 Con
ference’s leading scorer, had
vowed all week to get re
venge against the Ducks,
who held him to 15 points in
their win on Feb. 5.
After promising revenge
all week, House put his foot
in his mouth, refusing inter
views following the game.
He scored 11 first-half points
but was held to just one field
goal in the second half.
Oregon’s Darius Wright
said a solid team effort
slowed one of the premier
players in the country.
“We played him the same
Turn to Williams, page 9
It's just a
matter of
stepping up. ”
yy
Alex Scales
senior guard
Women come together, finish off Sun Devils
The Ducks
secure at least
a split in the
desert and
now prepare
for Saturday's
showdown
with Arizona
— a game
with
conceivable
Pac-10 title
implications
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
In a near replay of their
game in Eugene on Feb. 6, the
second-place Oregon women’s
basketball (21-7, 12-4) team
waited until the second half to
come together and again shut
down Arizona State by 11, 67
56, in front of 1, 544 at Wells
Fargo Arena in Tempe.
Characteristically, Shaquala
Williams, the Pac-lO’s leading
scorer, led the way for the
Ducks with 19 points — all
coming in the second half.
Playing significant minutes
of the latter half at shooting
guard, Williams was free to ac
cept numerous feeds from her
fellow point guards Karen
Piers and Kourtney Shreve, in
addition creating and convert
ing several of her own shots.
“Karen Piers did a great job
at the point tonight, being ex
actly where she needed to be
to get things done,” head coach
Jody Runge said during the
post game show on KWVA.
“She had a great performance
while she was in there.
[Williams] did a good job of
not trying to force things, let
ting it come to her.”
Lindsey Dion played a major
role in keeping Oregon in the
game until the Ducks pulled
away behind Williams’s scor
ing barrage.
The junior with what Runge
termed a “make-it-happen
mentality” was a perfect 7 of 7,
scoring 12 of her 14 points in
the first 30 minutes, collecting
five steals in 20 minutes and
doing it despite being far from
perfect health wise, playing on
an aggravated meniscus in her
right knee.
“It hurts the most while I
play — but not all the time. It
just depends on what I have to
do,” Dion said on the
postgame show. “It’s not great,
but it’ll be better.”
Freshman Courtney Moore
took Dion’s place on the court
for much of the second half.
“Lindsey [was] in a lot of
pain, [and] Courtney Moore
did a tremendous job of mak
ing things happen and really
playing pressure defense out of
the zone,” Runge said. “She
did some very positive things
as far as knocking the ball
loose, gettin’ after some loose
balls and gettin’ on the floor.
Courtney knows that we really
needed someone at [small for
ward] to do some things be
cause Lindsey’s hurt.”
Turn to Women, page 9
It was just
a matter of
us coming to
gether and
saying 'We're
not letting go
here.'
Lindsey Dion
junior forward