Veterans lead UO to win in season opener
■ Oregon’s Bryan Braceyand Freddie Jones lead the charge, in
helping Oregon secure a season-opening win
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
With all the hype surrounding a
highly recruited, highly talented
freshman class, the veterans on the
Oregon men’s basketball team al
most got overlooked before the
2000-01 season.
Almost.
In Friday’s season opener against
Mississippi Valley State, veterans
Bryan Bracey, Freddie Jones and
Julius Hicks combined for 52
points to lead the Ducks to an 85-70
victory in front of 7,664 fans at
McArthur Court.
“They all stepped up and played
like veteran guys, like it was their
opportunity and their time,” head
coach Ernie Kent said.
Bracey had his first career dou
ble-double, finishing with 22
points and 12 rebounds on the
game. Bracey was an “automatic
score” in the post, according to
Kent.
“He’s done a great job of making
himself a better basketball player,
and now he needs to focus on mak
ing us a better basketball team,”
Kent said. “That’s where the re
bounds come in.”
Bracey had only two rebounds in
each of the Ducks’ two exhibition
games before Friday’s season opener.
“That’s my job, to crash the
boards, and just play hard to help
my team win,” Bracey said. “I’m an
offensive-minded player and I love
to score, and if that’s what my team
needs me to do than that’s what I’m
going to do.”
Bracey’s 22 points left him one
short of his career-high.
Jones also had an almost-best
performance Friday night, scoring
21 points in the third-highest show
ing of his career. But Jones con
tributed to the team in another way:
He brought back the flashy plays
that the Mac Court faithful used to
see from Alex Scales last season.
“People don’t realize it wasn’t just
Alex doing that last year,” Jones said.
The veterans made up for the
poor play of the freshmen. The trio
of older players scored 61 percent
of Oregon’s points, while the three
freshmen — Ridnour, Luke Jackson
and James Davis — scored a com
bined 14 points.
Wisdom over youth? Kent hopes
the two will combine at some
point.
“We’re going to get there,” Kent
said when asked if the freshmen
will learn from Friday’s game and
gel with the upperclassmen. “It’s
just going to take us some time.”
Heartbreak
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Both teams would score once
more in the second half for the fi
nal margin.
Obviously, an Oregon win
would have sent the Ducks (9-2
overall, 7-1 Pacific-10 Conference)
to their first Rose Bowl berth since
the 1994 season. Instead, the loss
has put them in bowl limbo.
The Ducks’ most likely possibili
ty is a trip to Hawaii for either the
Aloha or the O’ahu Bowls, but
they still could end up in San
Diego, Calif., for the Holiday Bowl
or back in El Paso, Texas for the
Sun Bowl.
Oregon State could have earned
its first Rose Bowl berth since 1964
with the win — but only if Wash
ington would have lost. Instead,
the Huskies learned of the Civil
War score, and then ran all over
Washington State, 51-3, in the Ap
ple Cup to reach the Rose Bowl.
The three Northwest schools are
all Pac-10 co-champions, but Wash
ington gets the nod because it con
trols the tie-breakers in the three
way tie. The first comparison is the
non-conference record, with Ore
gon’s 2-1 mark being cause for elim
ination.
Then, Oregon State and Wash
ington — who both finished 3-0 in
the preseason — get matched up
head-to-head, with the Huskies
coming out on top due to its 33-30
victory against the Beavers Oct. 7.
The Ducks will not learn its
bowl fate until Dec. 3, when the fi
nal Bowl Championship Series
rankings are released and the BCS
bowls selects its teams. The
Beavers are still in the running for
a BCS bid such as the Fiesta Bowl,
which would send the Ducks to
the Holiday Bowl. A USC victory
over Notre Dame next weekend
would help the Beavers’ cause.
“Man, I tell you what, I have
nothing against El Paso or any other
bowl games, but I’m not trying to go
back to El Paso,” senior wide receiv
er Marshaun Tucker said. “Hey,
Hawaii or Sun Bowl, whatever.”
Tucker admitted that even when
things looked bleak for Oregon, he
never stopped believing.
“We’ve been fighting from be
hind all year long. They could
have put up 30 points and it
wouldn’t have mattered to me, be
cause I know what kind of team
we got,” Tucker said. “Unfortu
nately, we couldn’t do the type of
things that we have in the past.
“But without a doubt you can
say it’s a great season.”
The Ducks will have the week off
to clear their heads and enjoy the
Thanksgiving break before getting
back together to prepare for a bowl
game and a chance for the first 10
win season in Oregon football histo
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