Emerald
Forward Angelina Wolvert earns All-Pac-10 honors for the first time in her career
for her consistent post play throughout the season.
Women’s recap
continued from page 2B
Blazer head coach Lynn Dustin
and Runge are “definitely friends;
we just don’t have time to stay in
touch,” Runge said. “It will be fun
to show her what Oregon is really
like.”
Despite the postseason and the
Pac-10 title, the 2000 basketball
season wasn’t peaches and cream.
There were plenty of moments
Oregon could have down without,
like when Southern California
guard Tiffany Elmore — who beat
California with a buzzer-beater on
Saturday—overturned the Ducks
with a possibly late shot as time
expired.
Or in the preseason, when Bri
anne Meharry missed a free throw
with no time left that could have
tied the game against Southwest
Missouri. Or when then-No. 22
Oregon lost to unranked San Fran
cisco. “I would rather not have
had the losses, but things happen
for a reason,” Runge said earlier
this season.
Perhaps the darkest moment
was in Palo Alto, Calif., when
Stanford roared back from a 26
point deficit and won by 16 on na
tional television. The Ducks’ dis
belief with their loss was apparent
in Williams’ on-line diary.
“I feel like the worst point guard
in the country,” the Pac-10 Player
of the.Year said. “How did I let my
team lose a 26-point lead?”
But a few sentences later,
Williams summarizes in a nut
shell what was yet to come for her
team: “You live and learn, I guar
antee you that I will never lose
again like I did at Stanford. ”
Williams was right on the mon
ey.
The Ducks did lose three more
times—to Arizona and twice to the
Trojans — but nothing like what
happened at Maples Pavilion.
Oregon returned the Cardinal’s
favor by beating them in a pivotal
game at Mac Court in February,
putting the two teams in a tie for
the conference lead.
Wins that kept Oregon within
striking distance of first place
throughout the season would not
have been possible without the
depth of the bench. Kourtney
Shreve, Alyssa Fredrick, Ndidi
Unaka and Courtney Moore all
contributed breakout games at
what seemed to be just the right
moments.
For example: Shreve scored 10
points in the Ducks’ 20-5 scoring
run against Arizona State, includ
ing the three-pointer that put Ore
gon up 46-44 with eight minutes,
four seconds to play.
And then there were moments
when, the Ducks came through
with the entire season hanging in
the balance.
The Ducks trailed Washington
on the road, 67-58, with 4:19 to
play. A loss at that point would
have meant no title, no NCAA
home berth and a broken streak of
beating Northwest teams 26 times.
It was a game that the Huskies
were on their way to winning until
Jamie Craighead made something
happen, albeit inadvertently.
Catching the ball outside the
three-point line, the sophomore
guard/forward swung the ball
high above her head, connecting
with and breaking Washington’s
Megan Franza’s nose with her el
bow. Not only did the elbow take
Franza out of the game, but it got
Oregon back into it. They
outscored the Dawgs down the
stretch and won, 70-69, on an An
gelina Wolvert layin.
Again, with everything on the
line against Arizona in Tucson,
Oregon staged a heroic comeback
from a 22-point deficit early in the
second half, winning 75-71.
“They’ve worked tremendous
ly hard and have been through a
lot of very difficult things,” Runge
said. “The thing that’s possibly
most special about this team is
how close they stay together.
“Sometimes when you go
through hard struggles you have
one choice or the other, which is
come together or be selfish and not
come together. I think this team
has no tough things to handle, and
they did a great job of putting it to
gether.”
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