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Wesley Center Fellowship Hall, 1236 Kincaid, (behind the Bookstore) Open to all current UO students, faculty and staff members. y Nominations for new Bookstore board members y Recommendations or proposals from membership * Drawings for Bookstore gift certificates Accepting Nominations for the Following Bookstore Board Positions: 2 Sophomore Positions each for a 2-year term 1 Freshman Position* for a 1 -year term ‘Fulfills the second half of a two year term. Person must currently be of SOPHOMORE standing at the University of Oregon 1 Faculty-at-Large Position for a 2-year term 1 Classified Staff or Officer of Administration Position for a 2-year term 1 Graduate Position for a 2-year term 1 Student-at-Large Position for a 2- year term ! UConn schools the Lady Vols By Chuck Schoffner j The Associated Press ' PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Con ' necticut had too much talent, too | much depth and too many quick hands. And now the Huskies have something else as well: a second national championship. With an impressive display of ball-hawking defense and effi cient, balanced offense — the foundation of UConn’s play all season — the Huskies over whelmed Tennessee 71-52 Sun day night to win the women’s NCAA title. The top-ranked Huskies (36-1) beat No. .2 Ten nessee for the second time in three meetings this season and did it in a way that left the Lady Vols (33-4) dazed and look ing helpless. “I thought if we could play 40 minutes of really solid basketball, we’d be all right,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. ‘‘We did. Our defense was just spectacular tonight.” Tennessee was in the Final Four for the 12th time and was seeking its seventh national champi onship. But the Lady Vols could offer little more than token oppo sition to the UConn machine, which completed an impressive run through the NCAA tourna ment. No one in the tournament came closer than 15 points to the Huskies, whose only loss was a 72-71 setback to Tennessee on Feb. 2. “Our guards were not strong enough to handle the pressure de fense they applied,” Tennessee coach Pat Summitt said. “Offen sively, they just schooled us ... even some of our veteran players.” Shea Ralph led the Huskies with 15 points on 7-of-8 shooting, and also had seven assists, six steals and one block. She was named the most valuable player in the Final Four. Svetlana Abrosimova had 14 points and Asjha Jones 12 for Con necticut. The Huskies also got a big Jift from Kelly Schumacher who had six points and had a Fi nal Four-record nine blocks. “Kelly Schumacher has really come up big the last part of the season,” Auriemma said. “She knew she had to be a physical presence in the lane and that’s where we won it, in the lane. ” Connecticut kept sending fresh waves of substitutes into the game, and that eventually wore out Tennessee. Tennessee had been averaging 80 points a game. It took the Lady Vols, who had four of their first five shots blocked, almost 13 min utes to even get 10 points in this one. National player of the year Tamika Catchings drew the brunt of Connecticut’s defense as first Swin Cash, then Jones and Ralph took turns guarding her. Catchings got only one shot in the first 11 minutes — and it was blocked. She finished with 16 points to lead the Lady Vols. It was 25-10 when Catchings gave Tennessee a brief spark. She got inside for a layup, then hit a 3 pointer to cut the lead to 25-15. Ralph answered by converting a three-point play on a shot she made while falling to the floor, and the Huskies led 32-19 at half time. When it was over, Auriemma joined his players as they piled on top of each other at center court in celebration. They hoisted him and carried him briefly across the floor. In the first title game matching the top two ranked teams since 1989, Connecticut asserted itself early by pushing the ball up the floor quickly and frustrating Ten nessee with its traps and double teams on the defensive end. The Huskies built a 15-point lead a little more than 12 minutes into the game, and Tennessee nev er found a way to get back in it. The championship came five years to the day after Connecticut won its first title. ■ And for Auriemma, the brash, smooth-talking coach, the cham pionship was all the more (( Offensively, they just schooled us... even some of our veteran players. Pat Summitt Tennessee coach thrilling because it came in his backyard. Auriemma moved to this country with his family from Italy when he was 7 years old and grew up in the Philadelphia sub urb of Norristown. “It’s just really special,” he said. “It really is.” Auriemma also guided Con necticut to its other title in 1995, when the Huskies beat Tennessee 70-64 in Minneapolis to finish 35 0. It’s the third straight year and the eighth time overall that the team finishing No. 1 in the rank- * ings has won the championship. The top-ranked team has never lost in the title game. Tennessee played without start ing guard Kristen Clement, an emotional leader and one of the team’s most experienced players. Clement sprained her right ankle during practice Sunday morning, and despite undergoing a full day of treatment, she wasn’t able to go. Her absence deprived one of the players that Summitt had planned to rotate on Connecticut point guard Sue Bird to slow the Huskies’ dynamic offense. Kyra Elzy, a strong defender, started in Clement’s place and scored eight points. Kara Lawson, the star of Ten nessee’s semifinal victory over Rutgers, was held to six points on 3-for-13 shooting. Varied teams share similar aspiration By Jim O’Connell The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—Michi gan State and Florida both started the season in the Top 10 and never dropped far below. Now they’re the only teams left. Similarities over. While the Spartans are most ef fective in a half court game, where they can crash the boards and be physical, the Gators prefer to play at warp speed, using a 10-man rotation and full-court pressure. Michigan State (31-7) was the only No. 1 seed to reach the Final Four and has lived up to the role in its bid for the national champi onship. The Spartans won every game in the NCAA tournament by at least 11 points, including Sat urday night’s 53-41 victory over Wisconsin. Florida, seeded fifth, got a first round scare from Butler before wearing down higher-seeded teams — Illinois, top-ranked Duke and Oklahoma State—with its hectic pace. The Gators (29-7) used the same style to end North Carolina’s surprising run with a 71-59 win Saturday night. “We like to run, too,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. “I think these guys want to run, too. ” The Spartans can get up and down the court, having scored more than 80 points nine times this season. In the tournament, however, they have averaged 68.2 with the five starters averaging be tween 27 and 35 minutes a game and only two reserves averaging more than 10. The 10 Gators who create all that havoc on the floor average be tween 13 and 31 minutes a game. Michigan State starts three sen iors, while Florida has one on the team and plays seven sophomores and freshmen in the rotation. “Our youthfulness has won us a lot of basketball games this year,” said Kenyan Weaks, Flori da’s lone member of the Class of 2000. “I don’t know if that’s going to be a big problem in this game. ” The Spartans were going to use an age-old method to prepare for Florida’s full-court press Monday night. “We always go against six or seven guys in practice and I’m sure we’ll have a bunch of players out there today,” Michigan State forward Andre Hutson said Sun day.
