Pitino brings new winning attitude to Louisville
■ Oregon will face the Cardinals
—and their new coach
Rick Pitino—at the Pape Jam
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
Last season, the Oregon men’s
basketball team traveled to Ken
tucky and beat up the Louisville
Cardinals, 88-65.
This year, though, it’s a whole
new ball game.
Rick Pitino, the legendary college
coach with a national title and five Fi
nal Four appearances under his belt,
is now roaming the
Louisville sideline,
and his coaching
style could turn
around a formerly
tepid Cardinals’
team. Pitino will
lead the Cardinals
into the Pape Jam
on Saturday at the
Rose Garden in Portland, where Ore
gon and Louisville will square off at
7:30 p.m.
Whether Pitino has made an im
pact on the Louisville players will
be clear after Saturday’s game.
“(The players) don’t know how to
win yet, but they want to win,” Piti
no said of his young crew. “They’re
not heralded high-school All-Ameri
cans. They’re just all nice, good guys
and I enjoy working with them. ”
If Pitino is going to turn the pro
gram around at Louisville just as he
Louisville Media Services
ESPN’s Dick Vitale (left) interviews first-year Louisville coach Rick Pitino, who has won
one national championship and been to four Final Fours as a college coach.
turned around the college programs
at Boston University, Providence and
Kentucky, it will turn when the play
ers tune into his rigid coaching style.
Pitino is noted for his physically fit,
run-and-gun teams that use a pressing
defense to key an up-tempo offense.
Oregon head coach Ernie Kent
said that he can see the change in
Louisville even after one game. The
Cardinals beat South Alabama 92
38 on Saturday.
“There’s no question that there’s a
big difference in that team this
year,” Kent said. “Their energy and
chemistry are a lot higher, and
they’re in attack mode.”
Still, the Oregon players say they
will not be awed by playing Pitino.
“We’re facing Louisville, not Rick
Pitino,” Oregon forward Robert
Johnson said. “We’re playing a team,
and that team can make mistakes. ”
The Ducks will match guards
Luke Ridnour, Freddie Jones and
Luke Jackson against Louisville’s
Reece Gaines, who scored a game
high 18 points against South Alaba
ma, and Erik Brown, who added 15
points. Pitino said the game will be
“exciting” to watch because of the
promise of a fast-paced contest.
Oregon’s players said they are
confident in facing Pitino’s full
court press, even after losing at
UCLA last year when the Bruins’
press fatigued the Ducks and caused
23 turnovers. Key second-half
turnovers by Oregon allowed UCLA
come back to win that game.
“We have a year of experience un
der our belts now,” Jackson said.
“We’re not going to be as excited,
and we’re going to be more confi
dent that we can break the press.
“(Pitino’s) aggressive style plays
right into our hands. ”
The best a guard can get
Pitino had nothing but admira
tion for Ridnour, Oregon’s point
guard. He called the sophomore “as
good a point guard as you’ll find in
all of college basketball.”
“He makes a coach smile,” Pitino
said.
Ridnour was one of the stars of
the Ducks’ own America’s Youth
Classic last weekend, averaging
13.3 points and 5.3 assists over the
weekend, and he also went 17-for
18 from the free throw line.
Resting those legs
Oregon took Sunday and Mon
day off after playing three straight
games last weekend. The Ducks
will practice through the week,
though, in preparation for Satur
day’s game.
“We just played for the first time
Thursday,” Kent said when asked if
playing three games would give the
Ducks an advantage over the Cardi
nals. “You can look at it as almost
playing too much basketball. ”
Kent said the Ducks took one positive
from the tournament, that they now
have “a pretty good rhythm going. ”
Lovin’ Louisville
Pitino said he has enjoyed his re
turn to Kentucky since joining the
Louisville staff last March. The
coach returned to college ball after
accumulating a 102-146 record with
the NBA’s Boston Celtics in three sea
sons.
Pitino began his college coaching
career at Boston University, where he
made it to the NCAA Tournament in
his fifth season. He then led Provi
dence to the Final Four before spend
ing eight seasons as head coach of the
Kentucky Wildcats. He won a na
tional title with the Wildcats, and
went to three Final Fours.
Peter Hockaday is a sports reporterfor
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
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I’m never going to forget this game. ”
“But then practice picks up for the
next game and I forget all about the ear
lier games as they all just blur togeth
er,” Schmid said. “It’s amazing not
necessarily how quickly you forget,
but ju$t how quickly the focus shifts.
People ask me to recall a favorite mo
ment and it’s just overload. You can’t
really remember everything that’s hap
pened since it’s been a half a decade.”
Certainly it hasn’t just been this class
that has made the difference between
wins and losses over the years. The
older players from previous years and
the younger players this season have
all done their share in putting the Ore
gon football team on the national map.
But this 2001 class has been there
for it all, making the transition from
young players eager to learn to ma
ture veterans willing to teach.
“We’ve tried to set the example
with our work ethic and if you look
at us seniors, we’re not all superstars,
but we all play and accept our parts, ”
Peelle said. “Everybody in this class
doesn’t care about themselves. They
care about the team and what they
can do to help out. ”
One aspect that these Ducks have
helped out comes in the area of recruit
ing. As the winning seasons pass and
the program gets more exposure in bowl
games, a growing number of talented re
emits make their way to Eugene.
“The guys coming in are physical
ly closer to playing than usual,”
Schmid said. “There’s so much tal
ent. Sometimes I feel like the only
reason I’m playing is because I know
some wily old tricks. ”
Of course, there’s more to success
than just being talented. The Oregon
seniors have formed a tight bond
through the years. They remember
hanging out with each other as fresh
men and looking up at the older play
ers and wondering if they’ll ever be
like them someday.
“Boy, was I intimidated,” Peelle said.
But soon, they played.
And soon, they won. And won,
and won.
“Always striving for excellence,”
senior comerback Steve Smith said.
“It feels good to know that I was a part
of the class that sort of laid the foun
dation of the new Oregon Ducks. We
helped hype the Ducks up. ”
Oh there was hype all right. Har
rington graced the side of a building
in New York last summer, as well as
the covers of Sports Illustrated and
ESPN: The Magazine. Bauman could
be seen on a billboard along the Bay
Bridge entering San Francisco and
senior tailback Maurice Morris had
his own billboard that was placed
along Interstate-405 in Los Angeles.
Now, the hype has subsided and
the football, and the wins, have done
most of the talking. There are still two
more victories, though, that these sen
iors desperately want. Last season’s
Civil War loss that knocked them out
of the Rose Bowl is a painful memory
that won’t escape their minds.
Clearly, to beat the Beavers this sea
son will help a great deal Not only will it
exorcise some of those demons from
that November 2000 afternoon in Cor
vallis, but it will give the seniors one last
memorable victory to cherish in front of
an Autzen Stadium crowd that has
cherished watching them.
“It’s going to be really hard walking
off this field on Dec. 1,” Peelle said.
Jeff Smith is the assistant sports editorfor
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
atjeffsmith@dailyemerald.com.
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