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Tuesday, February 19,2002
Kraayeveld grabs UO’s first Player of Week honor
■ I he sophomore forward has
averaged 11.3 points and 11.3
rebounds in her last 10 games
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
Oregon sophomore Cathrine
Kraayeveld became the first Oregon has
ketball player, man or woman, to earr
recognition from the Pacific-10 Confer
ence this season.
After a 16-point, eight-rebound per
formance against Oregon State on Sat
urday, Kraayeveld was named the Pa
cific-10 Conference Player of the Wee!
on Monday.
Kraayeveld, who also had three as
sists and one blocked shot Saturday
contested Felicia Ragland’s potentia
game-winning shot during the final sec
onds of regulation in Oregon’s 84-83
overtime victory against the Beavers.
“I just tried to go up and block it with
out fouling her, and I think I got part of
the ball,” Kraayeveld of Ragland’s
missed shot.
In her last 10 games, Kraayeveld has
been Miss Consistency, collecting 113
rebounds and 113 points. Additionally,
Kraayeveld has five double-doubles this
season, all coming in Pac-10 play. Her
154 rebounds (9.6 per game) conference
.play is just two less than the conference
leader, Stanford’s Nicole Powell, who
has 156 in 16 games.
“It’s nice that I’ve been able to do it
consistently, that it hasn’t been spo
radic,” Kraayeveld said. “I’ve really
been working hard on (rebounding),
and it’s really helping the team.”
For the season, the 6-foot-3 for
ward from Kirkland, Wash., is aver
aging 9.2 points and 7.8 boards per
Turn to Kraayeveld, page 8
Adam Amato Emerald
Sophomore Cathrine
Kraayeveld (33), who
had 16 points and
eight rebounds
against Oregon State
on Saturday, was
named the Pac-10
Player of the Week.
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Seen here guarding Oregon’s Shaquala Williams earlier this season, the Sun Devils’ Carrie Buckner (left) and Arizona State
have just one Pac-10 game left to try to clinch the second seed in the inaugural conference tournament.
Race for second place
tightens around Pac-10
■ Stanford has the Pac-10 clinched,
but Arizona State and Washington
are in the hunt for second
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
Arizona State is 12-5 in Pacific-10
Conference play. Washington is a game
and a half behind at 11-5.
Something has to give. Or does it?
With just two games left in confer
ence play, about the only thing for sure
is that Stanford has won its 11th confer
ence title in 16 years.
The Sun Devils’ (21-7 overall) only
remaining regular season game is
against Arizona on Saturday. Washing
ton (16-9), however, has two Pac-10
games left. The first one is against Ore
gon State (13-13, 9-7) Thursday, with
Oregon (14-11, 9-7) visiting Saturday.
If Arizona State and Washington tie
for second, the first tie-breaker would
go to the team with the advantage in the
season series. But both teams have
dominated on the road this season, with
Washington winning in Tempe, Ariz.,
and the Sun Devils in Seattle.
The next tie-breaker goes to the team
with the better record against Stanford,
the conference’s, champion. However,
the Cardinal are perfect in the Pac-10,
so this is a moot argument.
USC remains the next highest seed,
but both Arizona State and the Huskies
have split the season series with the
Trojans.
That puts Oregon, the fifth place team in
the conference, central in the picture. Be
cause Arizona State took both games from
the Ducks this season, the Sun Devils
would earn second place in the conference.
The Ducks defeated the Huskies, 69
56, at McArthur
Court on Dec. 28.
However, the Sun
Devils and Huskies
have been playing
well of late.
“I feel confident
going into the Pac
10 Tournament,”
Washington head
coach June Daugherty said. “We have a
big week ahead of us, at home against
Oregon State and Oregon to close out
the regular season. We really do take it
one game at a time, one practice at a
time. We work on what needs to im
prove. We can control that.”
Arizona State plays its second rivalry
game of this season when the Sun Dev
ils travel to Tucson, Ariz., to take on the
Wildcats. Arizona State dominated in
the first game, 87-64.
Surprise?
The Cardinal have sophomore Nicole
Powell and senior Lindsey Yamasaki.
Their head coach, Tara VanDerveer, is
one of the most revered in the sport.
Should it be a surprise that Stanford
clinched their 11th conference title in
16 years?
No, not really.
Stanford is 16-0 in the Pac-10 this sea
son. The Cardinal’s only loss came to
Tennessee, then ranked No. 2, in Decem
ber, and that was by a scant six points.
The only other team to come within
five of the Cardinal?
Oregon, which lost 77-72 at Mac
Turn to Basketball, page 6
Oregon State’s Haywood decides to leave team in midseason
■ Beaver Jimmie Haywood cites
personal reasons and leaves
ranked eighth for three pointers
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
Two days after scoring two
points in a blowout loss at
McArthur Court, Oregon State jun
ior guard Jimmie Haywood left the
Beavers program.
Haywood, a starter for 21 of Ore
gon State’s 24 games this season,
said Monday his departure was
based on personal reasons.
“We appreciate all that Jimmie
has done for this program,” Oregon
State head coach Ritchie McKay
said. “I’m sad to see him leave our
program, and I wish him the best
of luck in his future endeavors.”
Haywood averaged nine points in
just under 28 minutes per game. He is
ranked eighth on OSU’s all-time list
for most three-pointers made with 93.
The Seattle native’s best game
came on Jan. 24 when he scored a
career-high 23 points in a 74-72
win at Washington State. Hay
wood’s three free throws in the
closing seconds lifted the Beavers
to the victory.
Oregon State (10-14, 3-11) must
find a way to deal with the absence
of Haywood in its remaining four
Pacific-10 Conference games, as the
Beavers are just a half-game ahead
of Washington for eighth-place.
The Huskies visit Gill Coliseum on
Thursday to try to take over the lead
position in the fight for the eighth and
final spot in the Pac-10 Tournament.
Back and forth they go
The top six men’s basketball teams
in the Pac-10 are on a teeter-totter.
One weekend, some teams are
up. The next, they’re down.
But in reality, all six contenders
for the league title have remained at
an even keel, with neither end of
the playground structure touching
the bark dust.
•Last week at this time, Arizona
was alone at the top before entering
a tough two-game road trip in Los
Angeles. The Wildcats proceeded
to drop a tough 77-76 loss at UCLA
Turn to Beavers, page 8