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Oregon blocked nine Arizona shots Thursday night, including this Michael Wright attempt, in its 79-67 victory.
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had a great first half,” Bracey said.
Oregon expanded on its 32-25
halftime advantage and upped its
lead to 56-40 on a Bracey jumper
with 10:17 on the clock. Arizona
wouldn’t quit and had the Oregon
lead trimmed to only nine points
with just more than four minutes
to play.
Then came the nail in the coffin.
Oregon point guard Luke Rid
nour drove through the lane, drew
a foul on Ariazona center Loren
Woods and spun in a bank shot
that sent The Pit into a frenzy. The
three-point play at the 4:10 mark
proved to be the back-breaker, as
the game soon turned into an Ore
gon free-throw exhibition.
“Ridnour will be one of the pre
mier guards in the conference;
there’s no question about that,”
Arizona head coach Lute Olson
said. “He’s smart, he’s competitive,
he shoots the ball well.”
Ridnour’s 17 points were indeed
important, but so was the early
play of Oregon center Chris
Christoffersen. Christoffersen con
tinued his improvement with a
solid all-around offensive and de
fensive game.
“It was an unbelievable crowd
tonight and helped get my confi
dence going,” said Christoffersen,
who had five points and three
blocks with his parents from Den
mark in attendance.
The Oregon defense held Ari
zona, which came into the game
averaging 83 points per contest, to
a season-low 67. The Wildcats shot
just 35 percent from the field, as
the Ducks beat Arizona in consec
utive games for the first time in 17
years.
“We got beat every way we
could get beat,” Olson said.
But perhaps the most shocking
thing about the game wasn’t even
the win itself, but rather Oregon’s
reaction following it. The Ducks
didn’t act like a lower-tier Pac-10
team that had knocked off one of
the nation’s best. They presented
themselves as league contenders
who had just woken up from their
slumber.
“Our philosophy has always
been don’t get too up and don’t get
too down,” Kent said. “The season
is a grind and we have to push
through it. There are so many life
lessons that are learned in athlet
ics, and we learned a huge one.”
Oregon takes on Arizona State at
1 p.m. Sunday at Mac Court.
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continued from page 7
quest for a Pac-10 championship,
the Ducks made a leap forward in
their hopes to make it back to the
NCAA Tournament.
“It does a lot for our confidence
to finally get the big win,” Oregon
forward Bryan Bracey said.
The Ducks moved within two
games of fifth-placed Southern
California with the win. Oregon
moved a game ahead of seventh
placed Oregon State, which lost to
Arizona State 73-58 Thursday
night.
Almost more important than
their improved record was the im
proved performance of the Ducks
against the Wildcats. The Ducks
hit 42.9 percent of their shots,
while holding Arizona to just 35.2
percent. Oregon outblocked, out
shot and had more assists than the
Wildcats.
“This is a good team,” Woods
said after the Ducks held him to 11
points and four rebounds Thurs
day night.
Olson’s Wildcats have had an
up-and-down season.
Thursday night was another low
point for Arizona, and Olson had a
few parting thoughts about the loss
as he left Mac Court Thursday
night.
“If we’re going to be a really
good ball club, there are certain
things we need to work on,” Olson
said. “We’ve got to do things game
in and game out, not six games and
stop.”
That “stop,” it seems, usually
occurs when the Wildcats come to
Eugene.
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said. “We didn’t do that very well
tonight at all.”
Offense wasn’t much of a prob
lem for the Ducks. The green team
shot 49.2 percent from the floor, the
first time in three games when its
shot percentage was better than 30
percent.
Guard Jamie Craighead scored a
career-high 21 points on 7-of-16
shooting. All seven of her made
shots were three pointers, which
was also a career high.
Forward Angelina Wolvert
played her second game since
spraining the medial collateral liga
ment in her left knee. She scored 18
points and blocked two shots.
Forward Lindsey Dion scored 12
points and Mowe chipped in 10.
But stealing the show was the
Arizona tandem of Bristol and for
ward Elizabeth Pickney, who
scored 26 points apiece. Bristol ac
companied her point total with six
rebounds and Five assists.
The Wildcats aggressively tried to
take the ball inside all game, result
ing in 20 points from 25 free throw
attempts.
“When they made their run in the
second half, it was on the ffee-throw
line,” Runge said. “That’s not some
thing you can do on the road.
“You need to take some pride in
not letting people score on you.
Right now we’re not doing that.
We’re satisfied with putting a hand
on them in dribble penetration,
which is a foul, or letting them go by
us and foul them from behind, and
that’s not a good enough effort to let
that happen.”
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