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Best Bet NCAA Women’s Basketball: West Regional final Georgia vs. Rutgers 9 p.mM ESPN Monday March 27,2000 Volume 101, Issue 117 Effierald ■ Men FT 0-0 0-0 Oregon (71) Min FG A.D. Smith 31 6-13 4-4 Freddie Jones 32 2-11 3-3 Flo Hartenstein 29 2-7 Darius Wright 43 2-7 Alex Seales 41 6-16 1-2 Julius Hicks 9 1-1 0-0 Anthony Norwood 19 4-5 0-0 Bryan Bracey 21 4-7 2-3 Totals 225 27-67 10-12 41* 18 71 Shooting: 40.3 3-point: 7-20 (Smith 1-2, Jones 1-4, Wright 1-5, Scales 3-8, Norwood 1-1) ‘includes six team rebounds Seton Hall (72) Min FG FT Morton 30 1-3 0-0 35 5-18 1-3 Dalembert 40 3-4 0-0 Kaukenas 35 6-12 1-2 Holloway 42 11-17 2-2 23 2-10 0-0 7 0-2 0-0 Manga 3 0-0 0-0 Wilkins 10 2-5 0-0 Totals 225 30-71 4-7 14 n 39* 72 Shooting: 42.3 3-point: 8-14 (Lane 3-8, Kauke nas 1 -1, Hoiloway 3-3, Shine 1-2) ‘includes six team rebounds attendance: Women FT UAB(80) Min FG D. Jackson 45 12-23 7-12 10 1 Holland 3-4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 35 2-9 Smith 19 2-4 L. Jackson 38 2-11 2-2 35 6-10 4-6 Stallings 27 2-3 Rhodes 24 3-4 2 0-0 Totals 225 29-64 16-25 39* 11 80 Shooting: 45.3 3-point: 6-17 (D. Jackson 1 -5, Holland 1-5, L. Jackson 0-2, Thrash 3-3. Stal ings 1-2) 'includes six team rebounds Oregon<7® . > Min FG FT Angelina Wolvert 40 4-11 4-5 Jenny Mowe 19 2-3 1-2 Shaquala Williams „ 43 615 3-3 Jamie Craighead 39 611 0-0 Nicole Strange 40 4-7 2-2 Karen Piers 1 0-1 0-0 Kourtney Shreve 8 1-2 0-0 Alyssa Fredrick 3 63 0-0 Courtney Moore 6 0-1 60 Ndidi Unaka ? .„ t _ 60 60 Brianne Meharry 24 8-13 3-5 225 3667 13-17 36* 15 79 Shooting: 44.8 3-point: 6-15 (Wolvert 61, Williams2-5, Craighead 3-6, Shreve 1-2, Moore 61) 'includes three team rebounds attendance: 7,672 If you went to Washington State, you wouldn’t even have been disappointed. If your men’s and women’s basketball teams had gone a combined 10-46, then your St. Patrick’s Day would’ve been free of heartache. But you all are Ducks. And as such, you had double the reason to drown your sorrows in a pitch er of green beer. Because you had your hopes up. And how couldn’t you, after all of this season’s thrills? After March 4, when the women all but clinched the Pacific-10 confer ence title, and the men knocked off the nation’s No. 3 team by pulling out 22-point and 17-point comebacks, respectively. Then when you learned of the NCAA pairings you hoped that fate was in the fold—because your men and your women had their work cut out for them early. But if the men could get past Se ton Hall, then, what the heck? Bring on Temple in round two. John Chaney’s methodical, bang it-in, East Coast defensive Owls vs. Ernie Kent’s vivacious, run ning, gunning, wild-wild west Ducks. Woulda been a classic. You may or may not have known what UAB stood for at first, but you knew that once the women got past the Lady Blazers in round one at Mac Court, Ore gon had a chance to earn itself and the Pac-10 some respect by beating Mississippi State, the runner-up in the SEC. And then, because the West Re gionals are in Portland, they had a fighting chance to keep going... You couldn’t wait. It was tourna ment time, when anything can hap pen. And anything did. Twice. Scott Barnett for the Emerald Newark Star Ledger (above) The women sit shocked after UAB’s Shaquetta Rhodes puts in the go-head iayin with three seconds to go. (right) Samuel Dalembert and Temple rise up over Alex Scales, Freddie Jones and the Ducks. ■ In the biggest loss in program history, Sweet-lb bound UAB gets the best of Oregon in overtime 80-79 By Mirjam Swanson Oregon Daily Emerald Unbelievable. Eerily unbelievable. Like, this-can’breally-have happened, only-in-March, why us unbelievable. First the sev en-seeded Ore gon men’s bas ketball team (22-8), stationed across the nation in Buffalo, NY, played an exhil arating overtime game against No. 10-seed Seton Hall. The guys ap peared to have a second-round berth wrapped up on two clutch free throws by Oregon’s Freddie Jones with about seven seconds left. But six seconds later the Ducks were unable to do much but watch helplessly as Shaheen Hol loway’s game-winning layin skimmed off the glass and through the net with 1.7 to go. Darius Wright wasn’t close on a length-of-the-court bomb, and the Oregon men’s jig was up. One. And done. Only the Oregon women (23 8) were left in the Big Dance. Twelve hours later, at home in Turn to Women, pagel4A ■ Oregon's memorable season concludes with a heartbreaking overtime defeat in the first round By Jeff Smith Oregon Daily Emerald BUFFALO, N.Y. — It all hap pened so fast, and as a result, Ore gon’s postseason play — and “banner season" — ended just as quickly. One moment, Freddie Jones was the hero. But then, just like that, the hero’s title be _ longed instead to a man simply known as Sha heen. Seton Hall’s speedy senior guard Shaheen Holloway stole the show in the Pirates’ 72-71 overtime thriller against Oregon in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at HSBC Arena on March 17. Moments after Jones calmly stroked home two free throws for the 71-70 lead, the ball was in the hands of Holloway, who with eight seconds left in overtime, had one thing on his mind: scor ing. “Coach told me to run with it, and I told my team that there’s no way I’m giving it up,” said Hol loway, who scored a game-high 27 points in 42 minutes of play. Holloway zig-zagged down the court without picking up his drib-' Turn to Men’s loss, page 10A
