Scoreboard
AP Men’s Top 25
1. Cincinnati (31) 28-1
2. Duke 24-4
3. Stanford 25-2
4. Michigan St. 23-7
5. Ohio St. 22-5
6. Arizona 24-6
7. Temple 23-5
8. Tennessee 24-5
9. Iowa St. 26-4
10. Florida
11. LSU 25-4
12. Syracuse 24-4
13. Indiana 20-7
14. Oklahoma St. 23-5
15. Texas 22-7
16. Kentucky 22-8
17. Tulsa 27-3
18. Oklahoma 24-5
19. Maryland 22-8
20. St. Johns 21-7
21. Purdue 21-8
22. Connecticut 21-8
23. Auburn 21-8
24. Kansas 22-8
25. Oregon 21-7
AP Women’s Top 25
1. Connecticut (40) 28-1
2. Tennessee (3) 28-3
3. Louisiana Tech 25-2
4. Georgia 29-3
5. Notre Dame 25-3
6. Texas Tech 24-3
7. Penn St. 26-4
8. Rutgers 21-6
9. UC Santa Barbara
10. Iowa St. 22-5
11. Duke 25-5
12. Mississippi St. 23-7
13. Purdue 22-7
14. Old Dominion 24-4
15. LSU 22-6
16. Auburn 21-7
17. Boston College 25-7
18. Oklahoma 23-6
19. Virginia 23-8
20. N.C. State 20-8
21. Tulane 25-4
22. Arizona 22-6
23. George
Washington 25-4
24. Oregon 22-7
25. Michigan 22-7
Others receiving votes: Stan
ford 67, Xavier 43, North Car
olina 39, Marquette 28, Kent
23, Kansas 21, Vanderbilt 20,
St. Joseph’s 14, Illinois 10, SW
Missouri St. 7, UCLA 7
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Sports
Tuesday
March 7,2000
Volume 101, Issue 112
Emerald
The collegiate
career of Marie
Davis, one of
the great
female
distance
runners in
Oregon history,
will end at the
NCAA Indoor
Championships
this Saturday
Marie Davis has been
running all her life.
She ran in high
school and is a six
time Oregon prep track and cross
country champion.
She came to Tracktown to run for
Oregon, putting herself in a posi
tion that most runners only dream
about.
And last spring, to cap a fabu
lous four-year outdoor track and
cross-country career, Davis ran
her way into the NCAA track and
field championships in Boise,
Idaho.
But in her last outdoor race as a
Duck, something went wrong.
Perhaps it was the high eleva
tion. Maybe it was some undetect
ed illness. Whatever the cause,
Davis used every ounce of energy
to push herself the last 100 meters
of the 5,000-meter race, despite the
pleas from her coach, Tom
Heinonen, to step off the track.
Davis knew she wasn’t going out
with a bang — but she also knew
that never in her life had she not
finished a race.
She wasn’t about to quit right
then, either.
Even paced
Nine months have passed since
what happened in Boise, and all is
quiet at Hayward Field.
Well — almost everything.
The faintest sounds escape from
Davis as she runs seemingly effort
less cir
cles
around
the age
old loop. They’re not
sounds of heavy breaths, or
shoes falling hard onto the
track’s rubberized surface,
y Rather, what can be
heard are the light, quick,
rhythmic paces as she
runs by, accompanied by
the slightest sound of the
air parting in front of her.
Those who haven’t seen
her before wouldn’t know
this is the same Marie Davis
who nearly fell crossing the
finish line in Boise. Those
who know her may say the op
posite — that the athlete who
competed in Boise was not the
real Marie Davis.
Davis stops, talks with her
coach, and walks to the facilities
room on the south end of the track.
Heinonen watches her go. The
two have a solid bond between
them, the kind that Davis wanted
when she committed to Oregon
from Lincoln High School in Port
land.
“We have an amazing relation
ship,” Davis said. “He’s going to
continue coaching me and I think
that’s going to continue making me
a better runner.
“He can sit out there and say,
‘Marie, what’s wrong?’ And not
Turn to Davis, page 10
Emerald
Coaches should
show Shaq love
Shaq
Williams
29 games
34.6 mpg
17.9 ppg
4.3 apg
3.3 rpg
1.5spg
■ Shaquala Williams’ team is in first,
and her stats are among the
conference’s best — proof that she is
the Pac-10’s best player
Womens Notes
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
Shaquala Williams is the Pacific-10 Confer
ence’s player of the year.
No, not officially.
No announcement will be made until the
end of the season.
But Pac-10 coaches have already voted on
the honor; the deadline to do so was March 2,
immediately after the Oregon’s home loss to
Southern California and before Williams’ spec
tacular performances in Arizona.
So it’s difficult to say if Williams will get her
proper respect.
Oregon’s sensational sophomore — current
ly the player of the week for her work last
weekend — has never made a secret of want
TurntoShaq, page 8
‘Pit Crew'gets props
for energizing Ducks
■ Intense crowds at the Pit have provided Oregon
with one of the best home court advantages in the
Pacific-10 Conference and even the nation
Men’s Notes
By Brett Williams
Oregon Daily Emerald
January 5,1995.
A streaking UCLA team, featuring future
NBA players Tyus Edney, George Zidek and
Ed O’Bannon, comes to McArthur Court. Jim
Harrick’s squad will win the national champi
onship later that year, but they can’t handle
the crowd at the Pit.
The Bruins are visibly rattled and can’t es
cape the turnover bug in the Ducks’ 82-72 vic
tory.
February 20,1997.
Mike Bibby and Miles Simon lead the Wild
cats to the national championship this season,
but tonight the Pit is loud and the ‘Cats are
nervous, eventually suffering a 78-72 loss.
These are just two examples of Oregon’s ex
traordinary home court advantage. In the past,
Mac Court has made good Oregon teams great.
Turn to Pit Crew, page 9
Pac-10
capacity
crowds
1. Stanford
100 percent
2. Arizona
99.5 percent
3. California
91.3 percent
4. Oregon
90 percent
5. UCLA
73.1 percent