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defense and quick guards,” Dion
said. “They have that one guard in
particular who is a senior, who’s
been there for four years, who’s
played for four years and really
knows their system. She’s their best
ball handler and shooter.”
California isn’t a strong post
team, and its woes down low con
tinue. Backup center Genevieve
Swedor probably won’t play today
and has missed the last two games.
“I don’t think their post players
can handle ours,” Dion said. “So I
think that’s where we’ll beat them. ”
The Ducks have won 14 straight
over the Golden Bears and lead the
series 25-10. In their last meeting,
forward Brianne Meharry scored 16
points, and Wolvert added 12
points en route to a 75-63 win.
Now, back to Stanford.
The Cardinal was the preseason
favorite of the coaches and media to
win the Pac-10 Championship. Ore
gon was picked second.
Wolvert says it’s time to prove the
polls wrong.
“I’m very much looking forward
to that,” she said before Tuesday’s
practice. “I’m still upset that they
got chosen over us in the preseason
polls. Look at the teams they played
in the preseason. I guess I’ve never
felt like Oregon gets much respect.
But Wolvert reiterates that despite
how tempting it is to look ahead to
ward Saturday, her focus, and the
team’s focus, is on the task at hand.
“We’re not trying to look ahead at
Stanford and set up our offenses
and defenses against them,”
Wolvert said. “We’re definitely try
ing to beat Cal first and stay focused
on one step at a time. We don’t want
to overlook somebody and have a
loss.”
Probable Starters
Oregon
Position
F
F
C
G
G
California
Position
F
F
C
G
G
Name
Lindsey Dion
Angelina Wolvert
Jenny Mowe
Jamie Craighead
Kourtney Shreve
Name
Lauren Ashbaugh
Becky Staubes
Ami Forney
Courtney Johnson
Kenya Corley
PPg
7.6
13.7
8.7
9.5
7.0
PPg
11.1
5.6
10.8
12.1
10.7
3.4
5.5
5.6
2.8
1.8
rpg
7.0
1.3
8.1
3.3
3.2
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Tom Patterson Emerald
Oregon is relying on its post players, including senior forward Angelina Wolvert, to dominate California down low in the post.
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Beginning Friday, the Oregon
club hockey team will find out
what it’s really made of.
In a Salt Lake City tournament
this weekend, the No. 9 Ducks (7
8 overall) will face top-ranked We
ber State and second-ranked Utah.
And the treacherous schedule
doesn’t stop there: Just five days
later, the Ducks host No. 4 South
ern California — a team Oregon
has never beaten — for a weekend
series.
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Toward the end of the month,
head coach Garreth MacDonald’s
club will also take on fifth-ranked
San Jose State, and sixth-ranked
Palmer West.
The Ducks are 7-0 when scoring
the first goal of the game; however,
they are 0-8 when their opponent
scores the initial point. “So,” ac
cording to the team’s Web site,
“the goal is simple ... score first
and win the Pacific-10 Champi
onships!”
Pitino insists he’s not
interested in UCLA job
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rick Piti
no called UCLA basketball coach
Steve Lavin on Wednesday to say
that he’s not interested in Lavin’s
job.
The call came a day after UCLA
athletic director Peter Dalis said he
has had two phone conversations
with Pitino in the past month,
which surprised Lavin.
Dalis said Tuesday that the con
versations, made at the request of a
mutual friend, were brief and
“none of them had anything to do
with the UCLA job in particular.”
Pitino, who resigned this week
as coach and president of the
Boston Celtics, did not immediate
ly return a telephone call from The
Associated Press seeking comment
Wednesday.
UCLA spokesman Marc Dellins
confirmed that Lavin and Pitino
spoke Wednesday.
“Steve told me they talked for a
while and he (Pitino) told him that
he’s not interested in the job,”
Dellins said.
A day earlier, Lavin called the
Pitino news “disheartening and
disappointing.’' '
“Pitino is an opportunist,” Lavin
said. “He’s trying to capitalize on a
tremendous opportunity.”
The news that Dalis and Pitino
have talked came as a surprise to
Lavin, who was informed of the
conversations by reporters after
practice Tuesday.
“This is all new knowledge. It’s
unfortunate,” Lavin said. “Obvi
ously, he’s my boss, so I’m going to
give him the benefit of the doubt
that there was some misunder
standing.”
Dalis said he didn’t tell Lavin be
cause the conversations were not
specifically about the UCLA bas
ketball job. He said he has assured
Lavin he is the Bruins’ coach.
However, Dalis didn’t seem to
rule out the possibility of changing
coaches.
“There are a lot of people that
feel the program ought to be at a
level that it isn’t right now,” he
said.
“That will always happen at any
institution, wherever it is. But you
never know who your next head
coach might be,” he said.