Ragland on a roll
as Oregon State
eyes tournament
■ OSU s Felicia Ragland has
brought her team to the brink
of an at-large NCAA berth
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
When Oregon State comes to
McArthur Court Saturday, the Ore
gon women’s basketball team’s
much-improved guards will face a
superior test of skill.
Beaver guard Felicia Ragland
will enter the game as the Pacific
10 Conference Women’s Basketball
Player of the Week.
Ragland, from Tulare, Calif., av
eraged 22
points and 8.5
rebounds last
weekend as
Oregon State
swept the Ari
zona schools,
a feat shared
by the Ducks.
However,
no one Duck
can lay claim to the same mon
strous numbers that Ragland col
lected against Arizona State: a ca
reer-high 32 points, a game-high
nine rebounds — including her
500th career board — and 6-for-7
shooting from behind the three
point line.
“We were really excited to play
the No. 1 team in the Pac-10,”
Ragland told the Associated Press
after Saturday’s ASU game. “It was
our time to show that we are the
No. 1 team in the pack, and we
came out and did that.”
This is Ragland’s first Player of
the Week honor, and that’s almost
hard to believe.
The junior guard leads the Pac
10 in scoring with 19.8 points per
game, and is averaging 21.8 points
per outing in conference play. Her
Beavers have won five straight
games.
Beaver head coach Judy Spoel
stra credits much of Oregon State’s
success to Ragland.
“We’ve been able to prove that
were just not all about relicia
Ragland, but this is where Felicia
has taken this team,” Spoelstra
said. “It’s just taken time for our
other players to emulate her work,
her mental toughness.
“I think the NCAA is a definite
possibility. I don’t know how the
committee can’t look at Oregon
State. We’re the hottest team in the
conference right now.”
Oregon forward Angelina
Wolvert was nominated for Player
of the Week honors.
Third is better than sixth
Not long ago, it seemed that Ore
gon was buried in the conference
standings with almost no chance
of making the NCAA Tournament.
Amazing how so soon, things
can change.
While an NCAA berth remains
at a distance, Oregon can finish as
high as third place in the Pacific
10 Conference when the season
ends this weekend.
A third-place finish is somewhat
unlikely, but it would happen if
the Ducks beat the Beavers and
Stanford drops a pair of games in
the desert to the Arizona schools.
Such a finish would leave the
Ducks and Cardinal tied for third.
Better for Oregon would be if
Arizona lost to California, which
would prevent a three-way tie for
third between Oregon, Stanford
and the Wildcats. Arizona and Cal
are currently tied for fifth.
But Duck players said they are
less focused on the standings and
more focused on the upcoming
Civil War.
“We think of all the different
scenarios that could happen, but
we really have nothing to lose,”
senior forward Brianne Meharry
said after Oregon’s win against Ari
zona Saturday. “[Oregon State] is
our last game, we want to enjoy
playing basketball, enjoy being at
Mac Court for the first time. I think
that’s what we’ll focus on.”
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