Men’s hoops wins final tune-up game
■ Despite their 23 turnovers,
the Ducks defeat the Global
Sports traveling team by 20
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon men’s basketball team
served up a Happy Meal on Sunday to
Global Sports—Supersized.
The Ducks got offensive production
from their big men as they beat a traveling
team of former college players 85-65 at
McArthur Court in their second and final
exhibition game.
“The biggest thing from today’s game
was that Chris (Christoffersen) played a
lot better,” Oregon head coach Ernie
Kent said. “We’re a lot more comfortable
with our inside game. ”
Christoffersen scored 14 points and
grabbed eight rebounds, and was one of
five players to score in double digits and
one of eight players to play double-digit
p minutes. Sophomore guard Luke Rid
nour led all players with 16 points, on
the strength of his 12-12 performance
from the free-throw line.
“They challenged us with some good big
guys,” Christoffersen said. “It was good to
get a game like this under our belt. ”
The game was anything but pretty, as
the gritty Global Sports team forced Ore
gon into turnovers and fouled often. The
Ducks, who had talked about cutting
down on unforced turnovers after they
committed 23 in the exhibition opener,
again committed 23 against Global Sports.
“We just didn’t take care of the ball,”
Oregon guard Freddie Jones said.
Many of those turnovers came in the
first half, when mistakes on both sides
of the court kept the score close. The
score was 34-28 Oregon at the half. Glob
al Sports was also kept in the game by
the sharp shooting of former Iowa State
guard Michael Nurse. The guard went 3
for-4 from behind the three-point arc in
the first half, and ended 5-for-7 on the
night. Many of Nurse’s threes came from
NB A-range or longer.
But Nurse ended up hurting his team
in the second half. He received a techni
cal foul in the first frame for yelling at an
official during a time-out, then got eject
ed for strong words to the student sec
tion after drilling a long-range three
pointer in the second.
The Ducks’ fans were treated to a usual
array of Oregon fast-break trickery and
dunking, and the small crowd at Mac
Court got especially loud for a Jones dunk
on an alley-oop from Ridnour in the 17th
minute of the first half. The jam gave Ore
gon its first 10-point lead of the game.
“I was just trying to keep us going,”
Jones said.
The Ducks would widen their lead to
as many as 22 before winning by 20
points.
Peter Hockaday is a sports reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Adam Amato Emerald
Oregon center Chris Christoffersen is fouled by Courtney James (54) of
Global Sports. Christoffersen scored 14 points in the Ducks’ victory Sunday.
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Sports brief
NCAA snubs
Oregon soccer team
The Oregon soccer team will not
play again this season.
The NCAA Tournament bracket,
released Monday by the NCAA,
did not include Oregon, which
was one of five Pacific-10 Confer
ence teams to miss the postseason.
UCLA, a No. 3 seed, was the
highest-ranked Pac-10 team, fol
lowed by No. 5-seeded Stanford,
along with California, Washington
and Southern California. UCLA
and USC will both play in Los An
geles in the first rounds, Stanford
and Cal will both play in Palo
Alto, Calif., and Washington will
head to Portland.
Despite not receiving their first
tournament berth, the Ducks did
finish this season with eight wins,
the most since the program was
created in 1996.
Oregon finished its season in
Washington last weekend with a
tie against the 13th-ranked
Huskies, and a 4-0 victory against
the Cougars.
Oregon State, Washington State,
Arizona and Arizona State also
missed a berth to the NCAA Tour
nament.
— Peter Hockaday
Hockey
continued from page 10
in the series, while the Ducks
scored 16.
This weekend the Ducks head
to Washington to take on the
Huskies for the 1-5 Cup. The
cup, sponsored by Seattle-based
Athletic Awards, goes to the
winner of the Huskies-Ducks
regular season matchups. Last
year the Huskies won the cup by
taking all four regular season
games. Play for the cup starts
Friday and Saturday in Seattle.
Mindi Rice is a freelance reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald.
Tennis
continued from page 9
winning three each to lead Oregon.
Mendiburu, Nagle and Nyland
won two matches each.
“One of our goals is to be com
petitive in every match we play,”
Nyland said. “With everybody
winning, I think we accomplished
that this weekend.”
Alter withdrawing from an earli
er tournament in Los Angeles, Ore
gon only played in two tourna
ments during the fall. But Griffin
said he’s not worried about u lack
of experience.
“I think we can get enough expe
rience during our practices to
make up for the lost tournament,”
Griffin said. “We view these two
tournaments as measuring sticks.”
The team will alter its practice
schedule until after the upcoming
winter break. The coaches will
meet with the players individually
or in smaller groups to work on in
dividual problems.
“We will meet with the coaches
like an hour a day, two days a
week,” Nyland said. “The other
three days, we’ll meet as a team
and work on conditioning.”
The Ducks were able to gain
some of the respect that they’re
looking for this season by the way
they dominated in singles.
“Right now we can only worry
about ourselves and how we play,”
Nyland said. “I still think we’re go
ing to surprise a lot of people dur
ing the regular season.”
Peter Martini is a freelance reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald.