Women’s
continued from page 5
Against Arizona, USC was with
out its top-two scorers, Ebony
Hoffman (who was suspended for
fighting) and Aisha Hollans (sus
pended for breaking team rules),
and their inability to step on the
court hurt the Trojans (9-9, 5-4).
Against Arizona State, Hoffman
had 13 points and 12 rebounds,
while Hollans posted 16 points.
Arizona State saw its four-game
winning streak come to an end
against USC.
Golden Bears
breakout of the cellar
Apathy comes to mind when
thinking of a game between two of
the conference’s worst. Just that
happened Saturday in Pullman,
Wash. And when both squads have
been shut out in conference play,
someone had to come out on top.
California (6t11, 1-7) was the
lucky team, and earned its first Pac,
10 win with a 62-50 win over Wash
ington State (2-17,0-9). The Cougars
finished the first half of conference
play without a win.
“We were all fired up about the
last two games and how (poor) we
were playing,” California freshman
Kristin Iwanaga said. “We came out
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Pac-10 Women's
Basketball Standings
Conference Overall
1. Stanford
2. Arizona State
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Oregon State
5. Oregon
Washington
Arizona
8. UCLA
9. California
10. Washington St.
8-0 18-1
6-3 15-5
6-3 10-8
6-3 10-9
5-4 10-8
5-4 10-8
5-4 9-9
2-7 5-12
1-7 6-11
0-9 2-17
mad and came out ready to play in
the second half. Our defense really
picked it up. We started to get stops
and rebounds, and our transition
scoring was good.”
California’s Ami Forney, the team
leader with 13.5 points per game,
scored only three against the
Cougars, but saw the Golden Bear
offense pick up its play.
California has won just two games
in the last two months, having lost 11
of 13 games. Washington State has
lost a school-record 14 straight.
So where do they go now? Cal
stays at home against Arizona and
Arizona State, two teams with a
combined record of 11-7 in confer
ence play. Ouch.
Ragland earns honors
Ragland earned the second Pac
10 Player of the Week nod of her ca
reer after she led the Beavers to their
first win in Eugene since 1993.
The Tulare, Calif., native averaged
26 points in two games last week, in
cluding Oregon State’s 79-73 loss to
UC-Santa Barbara. She also had 8.5 re
bounds per game and made eight
three-pointers for the week, and is
now tied for ninth in the conference
with a shooting percentage of .377
from beyond the three-point arc.
Ragland is the only Oregon State
player to earn the honor this season.
E-mail reporterHankHagerat
hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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for first, and into a possible berth
in the NCAA Tournament.
“He’s our leader,” forward
Robert Johnson said. “We
follow him.”
In the past, Jones has been criti
cized for inconsistent play. For ex
ample, there was the weekend in
the desert last March where he
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scored a career-high 36 points
against Arizona State, but then fol
lowed that performance with just
four points in a loss, at Arizona.
Oregon has always needed
Jones’s consistency, and this sea
son he has shown just that. Jones
has scored in double figures in 12
straight games, including reaching
15 or more nine times in that span.
“He doesn’t have to put up 30 a
night for us to win,” Ridnour said.
“We can have everyone score 10
and still win. It takes a lot of pres
sure off everyone.”
The point production from the
post has also helped balance out
“I knew I didn’t have to
carry this team. I mean, I
got great players—not just
good players—all around
me.”
Freddie Jones
senior
Oregon guard
the Ducks’ scoring. Senior Chris
Christoffersen has blossomed this
season, averaging 9.1 points, and
Johnson is beginning to show off
the versatility in his game.
In Oregon’s 63-51 victory against
Oregon State on Saturday, Johnson
recorded his third double-double
of the year with 12 points, 11 re
bounds and a career-high three
blocks. Johnson' helped set the
tone for the Ducks, scoring six of
Oregon’s first 10 points, including
two long jumpers.
“I was being told to score more
and be more aggressive on of
fense,” Johnson said.
According to Jones, the transfer
forward from San Francisco has a
lot more offensive moves that have
yet to be showcased.
“Y’all haven’t even seen Robert’s
game yet,” Jones said. “He has a lot
of game that he’s just been sacrific
ing right now for the good of the
team. So once it’s his time, y’all are
going to be really surprised.”
So what exactly is
Johnson hiding?
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Pac-10 Men’s
Basketball Standings
1.USC
Oregon
3. Arizona
4. UCLA
5. California
Stanford;
Arizona State
8. Oregon State
9. Washington
10. Washington St.
Conference
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6-1
6-3
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4-2
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Jill
1-6
1-7
0-8
Overall
14-3
14-4
13-4
13-4
13-3
11-4
10-7
8-9
7-11
4-12
“I’m not going to give away all of
his moves,” Jones said. “But y’all
will see something, I just know,
later on in the year.”
So-Cal vs. Nor-Cal
The key Pac-10 games for the
Ducks to keep track of this weekend
involve the Bay Area teams visiting
the Los Angeles schools. All four
teams are among the top six spots
in the conference standings, which
makes the results of these games
that much more important.
UCLA will be trying to bounce
back from blowing a 20-point lead
in a loss at Arizona when it faces
Stanford at 7:30 p.m. Thursday on
Fox Sports Net. The Cardinal is
coming off an easy weekend sweep
in Washington and Casey Jacobsen
believes the experience of endur
ing the road atmosphere of
McArthur Court has toughened up
his team.
“We are learning to play in hos
tile environments after playing at
Mac Court,” Jacobsen told
ESPN.com. “I don’t know what it
is about that place, because the
Oregon students hate me. It’s just
as bad at Cal.”
Bracketology
In this week’s “Bracketology” on
ESPN.com, where Joe Lunardi
projects the. field of the NCXA
Tournament, the Ducks remain a
fifth-seed. But they’ve moved from
Chicago to Albuquerque, N.M., to
face 12th-seed Southern Illinois on
March 14.
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at jeffsmith@dailyemerald.com.
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