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