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shared a tie for first place since Jan.
17. While the calendar on Saturday
said it was only Feb. 2, both teams
knew that the winner of this game
would have the edge in the race to
stand alone atop the league stand
ings in March.
So the pregame motivation was
there, and the game didn’t disap
point. Unlike Oregon’s 29-point rout
over UCLA on Thursday, this game
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wasn’t filled with highlight-worthy
alley-oop dunks and breakaway one
hand jams. In fact, for the first time in
recent memory, Freddie Jones scored
all of his points without a dunk.
Instead, the fans were treated to a
physical, bruising slugfest, where
the lead changed 13 times, taking
the momentum with it each time.
And it was the emotion-filled se
quences during the game that should
be remembered for some time, not
the incident of one Oregon fan charg
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dents for their personal attacks.
This game was filled with classic,
much more worthwhile moments.
With 12:47 to play in the first
half, there was Jones being pick
pocketed by USC’s Errick Craven,
who was on his way to an apparent
fast-break bucket. But out of
nowhere, Jones hustled back, leapt
up, extended his right arm toward
Craven’s left and just took the ball
right from him.
“I’ve never seen plays like that,”
Kent said. “That was just awesome. ”
With 10 seconds left in the first
half, Luke Ridnour had the ball and
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ly fouled by his defender. With the
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and flung it through the basket at
the buzzer to give the Ducks the 43
40 halftime lead.
With 5:54 to play in the game,
USC’s future NBA player, Sam
Clancy, buried two free throws to
give the Trojans the 63-57 lead and
hushed the nervous crowd. But
then Jones promptly banged home
a three that prompted Kent to turn
toward the fans, raise his arms, and
yell, “Come on!”
On the next play down the court,
Ridnour dashed through the lane and
got clobbered by Brandon Granville,
who got charged with an intentional
foul that sent the Pit into a frenzy.
And then, with less than a
minute remaining, Clancy knocked
home the final two of his game
high 25 points to give the Trojans
the 69-68 advantage. Luke Jackson,
who had just missed a key free
throw, drove through the lane and
scored, while getting fouled.
Jackson pumped his fist,
bumped chests with Ridnour, and,
after two timeouts, knocked home
the free throw for the three-point
play to put Oregon on top for good.
“The fans are behind us the whole
game,” said Jackson, who was the
last Duck to escape the postgame
barrage of students on the floor. “I
just love it. I love being a part of it. ”
There was one person who wasn’t
a part of it Saturday. With the Ducks
starting to make a splash on the na
tional radar, Sports Illustrated sent a
reporter to cover the game, but...
“Sports Illustrated missed their
flight, had to get turned around in
air and didn’t make it here,” Kent
said. “They came to do a story and
had to watch it on TV and missed
an awesome environment.”
It was an awesome environment
that helped cap a magical weekend
where the Ducks took sole possession
of first place and put themselves in a
position to gain more national atten
tion as the season winds down.
One can only hope now that as
time goes on, the memories taken
from Saturday will be those from
the game itself and not the tension
afterwards.
E-mail assistant sports editor Jeff Smith
at jeffsmith@dailyemerald.com.
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in the half. The Ducks grabbed 25
offensive boards in the game, com
pared to Arizona’s 19.
“Their post play was more aggres
sive,” Kraayeveld said. “They at
tacked the boards, but we just
weren’t there defensively. We just
weren’t able to stop them.”
Down by nine at the half, Oregon
came out flat again in the second
and saw Arizona’s lead balloon to as
much as 22.
But three-pointers by Williams
and junior Alyssa Edwards pulled
the Ducks closer. Kraayeveld, on her
to way to earning her fourth double
double of her career, also played
strong underneath during Oregon’s
comeback.
With 3:28 left in the second stan
za, the Ducks were down by nine, a
minuscule amount considering
their position early on.
But that was more of a confi
dence builder for the Ducks, as
Arizona went on to sink 17 free
throws from that point on. The
Wildcats finished the night 33-of
43 from the line.
“We went to the free throw line so
many times, and that was a key to
our winning the game,” Arizona
senior LaKeisha Taylor said.
E-mail sports reporter Hank Hager
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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