Sports Editor:
Adam Jude
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Assistant Sports Editor:
Jeff Smith
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Monday, February 18,2002
Oregon’s Freddie Jones completes the play of the game when he snares a James Davis alley-oop pass and slams it home
during the Ducks’ 91-62 blowout victory over Oregon State on Saturday. Jones scored a game-high 23 points.
throughout the afternoon as Arizona
State upset UCLA on the road, Southern
California dropped Arizona from its
first-place perch and
Washington pulled
out a 15-point shock
er over California.
Then, given the
chance to play a game
themselves, the
Ducks ran all over the
Beavers (10-14, 3-11)
and jumped into a three-way tie for first
with USC and Stanford. The Wildcats
are a half-game back, while the Bears and
Bruins are each a full game out of first.
“After watching the other teams in
the conference, it was important for us
to give Oregon State our best effort,’’
said head coach Ernie Kent, who was a
junior playing for the Ducks in 1975-76
when Oregon last reached a 10-4 con
ference record.
Oregon’s win also continued its dom
inance over the rival Beavers by win
ning its seventh straight Civil War and
the 17th in the last 18 meetings. The 29
| Ducks bounce Beavers,
move back into first
I Oregon 91
| Oregon State 62__
I ■ Jones, Ridnourand Jackson
score a combined 62 points
as the Ducks beat the Beavers
for the seventh straight time
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
During the day, they watched — and
watched.
At night, they played — and played
well.
Knowing what was at stake, the Ore
gon men’s basketball team thumped
Oregon State, 91-62, Saturday night at
■ McArthur Court.
The 17th-ranked Ducks (18-7, 10-4)
had been glued to the television
Pac~10 Men’s Basketball
Oregon
Stanford
use
Arizona
California
UCLA
ASU
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Washington
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Pac-10
10-4
10-4
10-4
10-5
9-5
9-5
7-8
3-11
3-12
1-14
Overall
18-7
17- 6
18- 6
17- 8
18- 6
17-8
14-10
10-14
9-16
5-18
point win tied a 42-13 win in 1921 as
the highest margin of victory by Oregon
in a Civil War.
Averages held form Saturday night as
the Pacific-10 Conference’s highest scor
ing offense broke free from the league’s
lowest one. The Ducks scored about five
points more than their 86.3 points-per
game average while the Beavers scored
two less than their 64.1 average.
Doing most of the scoring for the
Ducks was senior Freddie Jones with a
game-high 23, Luke Ridnour with 20
and Luke Jackson with 19.
“When us three score like that, it’s
tough for people to defend,’’ Ridnour said.
“We played our style of basketball for
the whole 40 minutes,” Jackson said.
“We’re just out there having fun,”
Jones said.
Jones was certainly having fun in one
stretch with less than three minutes to
play in the first half. First, he skied up
for a one-handed offensive rebound and
rolled it back in the hoop.
On the next trip down the court,
James Davis lofted an alley-oop pass
that Jones hauled in with his right hand
and emphatically threw down.
The back-to-back athletic efforts
came amid a 17-2 Oregon run to close
out the first half and give the Ducks a
45-27 lead at the break.
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Curry’s game-winner sinks Oregon State
■ Senior guard Edniesha Curry banks
in a 10-footer with 1.8 seconds left to give
the Ducks an 84-83 win over the Beavers
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
CORVALLIS — Suddenly, the bank opened.
With the game knotted at 74, Oregon State guard Felicia
Ragland’s desperation heave bounced off the backboard and
off the rim as time ran out in regulation, sending the Ducks
and Beavers into overtime.
After five minutes of bonus action, Oregon guard Edniesha
Curry, with her team trailing by one and the clock dwindling,
also tried the bank shot on the other end of
the court. A pump fake got the defending
Ragland off her feet, and Curry drove the
lane, leaned for a 10-footer, changed her shot
in mid-air, released, kissed the glass, rattled
the rim once, twice ...
Money.
“It’s probably the shot of my career,” Curry
later said of her game-winning basket with
1.8 seconds left on the clock, giving the Ducks an 84-83 victo
ry over Oregon State at Gill Coliseum.
“It was a good shot for me to take and I had courage to take
it,” the senior guard said. “I’ve never hit a game-winner before. ”
Curry’s bucket saved the Ducks (14-11 overall, 9-7 Pacific
10 Conference) from getting swept by Oregon State (13-13,9
7) for the first time in nine years. The Beavers won at
McArthur Court on Jan. 19, their first victory in Eugene in
nine years.
Fans numbering 3,629 — the most to see a women’s game
at Gill Coliseum this season — were treated to a nationally
televised game that was “great for women’s basketball,” Ore
gon head coach Bev Smith said.
“If you are a true competitor, that is the kind of game that
you wish for — a game that comes down to the last shot, the
last possession,” said Oregon guard Shaquala Williams, who
had 20 points. “Whether you were on the bench or on the
floor, it was just so much fun because it was competitive.”
In overtime, Oregon senior center Alyssa Fredrick began
by blocking a Ragland three-point attempt and was awarded
at the other end with a nice feed from Cathrine Kraayeveld.
Fredrick scored six points in overtime.
“It was just a lot of fun,” said Fredrick, who finished the
game with 13 points. “They beat us at home and we knew we
had to get revenge.”
Oregon State guard Juleen Smith sank a short jumper in the
lane with 1:10 left to give the Beavers an 83-82 lead.
Curry’s game-winner came after an Oregon timeout with
18 seconds left. The Ducks did not have a set shot for the play
— they stuck with their zone offense — but planned to hit
whoever was open. Curry was open and Williams found her
on a cross-court pass, setting up the game’s final shot.
“Curry saw her opening and did the right thing,” Smith
said. “It couldn’t have been a finer shot.”
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Adam Amato Emerald
Senior Edniesha Curry, shooting over Oregon State’s Juieen Smith on
Jan. 19, scored Jhe game-winner Saturday with 1.8 seconds left.