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the Ducks in scoring.
This year’s award marked the
second in two years for Ridnour,
who was last season’s Freshman
of the Year. He joined Stanford’s
Casey Jacobsen, Arizona’s Jason
Gardner and UCLA’s Jason
Kapono as former Freshmen of
the Year to make this season’s All
Pac-10 Team.
Rounding out the all-conference
team were Arizona’s Luke Walton,
Stanford’s Curtis Borchardt, Ari
zona State’s Chad Prewitt and
Washington’s Doug Wrenn.
Joining Jackson as honorable
mentions were USC’s David
Bluthenthal and Brandon
Granville, UCLA’s Dan Gadzuric,
California’s Joe Shipp and Wash
ington State’s Marcus Moore.
Joining Stoudamire on the All
Freshman team were his Wildcat
teammate Channing Frye, Califor
nia’s Amit Tamir and Jamal Samp
son, USC’s Errick Craven and hon
orable mentions Cedric Bozeman
of UCLA, Josh Childress of Stan
ford and Chris Hernandez, also
from Stanford.
All the awards handed out
Wednesday night were voted on by
the 10 conference coaches. The
ceremony took place in Los Ange
les, where eight conference teams
will start play in the Pac-10 Tour
nament today.
E-mail sports reporter Peter Hockaday
at peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Pac-10 Awards
Coach of the Yean
Ernie Kent, ORE
Player of the Year:
Sam Clancy, USC
Freshman of the Year:
Salim Stoudamire, ARIZ
Oregon selections:
Freddie Jones, Ali-Pac-10 Team
Luke Ridnour, AfFPac>10Team
Luke Jackson, AII-Pac-10
Honorable Mention
2002 Pac-10 men’s tournament bracket
March 7 - 9 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles
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QUARTERFINALS ■ SEMIFINALS ■ CHAMPIONSHIP
Thursday, March 7 Friday, March 8 Saturday, March 9
1. Oregon (22-7)
OREGOn
1 p.m. Fax Sports
8. Wash, (11-17)
4. USC (20-8)
3:30 p.m. Fox Sports
5. Stanford (19-8)
6 p.m.
Fox Sports
3 p.m. CBS
TOURNAMENT WINNER
SEMIFINALS ■ QUARTERFINALS
Friday, March 8
8:30 p.m.
Fox Sports
Thursday, March 7
2. Arizona (19-9)
6:30 p.m. Fox Sports
7. Arizona St. (14-13)
3. California (21-7)
9 p.m. Fox Sports
6. UCLA (19-10)
Scott Abts Emerald
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have split the series 3-3.
Get ready for the 2002 North
west Battle, round three.
Washington always manages to
have one loaded weapon re
served for the Ducks, and this
season that weapon is sopho
more forward Doug Wrenn. The
transfer from the Connecticut
notched 32 points in the
Huskies’ 97-92 win in January,
then scored 27 in Oregon’s 90-84
win in Eugene in February.
But other than Wrenn, Wash
ington has little offense. Center
David Dixon averages 8.3 points
and 7.7 rebounds per game. For
ward Grant Leep averages 7.8
points per contest. Meanwhile,
Oregon has three starters averag
ing more than 15 points per game.
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A Party
That's Been
S3 Years
In The Making
o
OREGOn
Head Coach Ernie Kent and the Men’s Basketball team
invite you to
Mac Court on Sunday, March 10,
to celebrate the first outright fec-10 Championship since 1939.
Admission is FREE. Doors open at 1:45pm.
Festivities begin at 2:15pm.
We’ll cut down the same nets that produced a 16-0 home record.
We’ll handout FREE popcorn and Pepsi.
We’ll show the NCAA Selection Show at 3:00pm,
then you can stick around for the taping of
Oregon Basketball with Ernie Kent on KEZI.
No need to RSVR Ernie knows you’ll be there.
No. 4 USC vs.
No. 5 Stanford, 3:30 p.m.
The big-name players on the
Trojan and Cardinal teams abound.
Casey Jacobsen; Sam Clancy; Cur
tis Borchardt. But those big names
have supporting casts, which
should make this game a classic.
USC has gotten the best of Stan
ford in the series this season. The
Trojans managed a 90-82 win in
Los Angeles in January, then blew
out the Cardinal, 77-58 at Stan
ford’s Maples Pavilion.
Clancy led the Trojan charge in
both contests. The senior All
American candidate scored 24
points and grabbed 13 rebounds in
the first matchup, then scored 17
points and added 11 rebounds in
the second game.
That second USC-Stanford game
was followed by the Cardinal’s 95
92 loss at home to UCLA. After
dropping those two games, Stanford
could have been in danger of head
ing to the NIT, but the Cardinal re
covered and beat Arizona and Ari
zona State on the road to solidify
their NCAA Tournament chances.
Now the Cardinal, like the Tro
jans, will be looking to improve
their NCAA seeding by winning in
the Pac-10 Tournament. The win
ner of the game will face the win
ner of the Oregon-Washington
matchup Friday.
No. 2 Arizona v.
No. 7 Arizona State, 6:45 p.m.
This is a Duel in the Desert — if
Los Angeles is a desert.
Arizona and Arizona State will
square off in a battle of youth ver
sus experience, and the game may
come down to who wants it more.
So who wants it more? Probably
the Sun Devils, who need to win
the conference tournament in or
der to punch a ticket to the Big
Dance. Arizona is riding the tide of
a 19-9 regular season that included
enough wins against top-25 teams
to fill an ocean liner, essentially ce
menting a high NCAA Tournament
seed for the Wildcats.
Arizona also has a coach, Olson,
who is vocally opposed to the Pac
10 Tournament. Olson says that,
among other things, the tourna
ment is too brief and tiring, and
too hard on academics.
Arizona State has already had
success in the Duel of the Desert
this season. The Sun Devils won
on their home floor, 88-72, then
played the Wildcats to a close
83-75 loss in Tucson, in a game
that Arizona State led late in the
second half.
Part of the Sun Devils’ success
against the Wildcats could be due
to Arizona State’s depth and expe
rience matching up with Ari
zona’s youth and inexperience.
The Sun Devils have three starters
averaging more than 12 points per
game but also have four other
players averaging more than five
points. Five of those seven play
ers are juniors or seniors.
The Arizona schools will take
their desert show to Los Angeles
tonight at approximately 6:45. The
time could change if other games
run longer than expected.
No. 3 California v.
No. 6 UCLA, 9 p.m.
By 9 tonight, the floor of the Sta
ples Center will have seen a lot of
good basketball. But California and
UCLA should light up the building
once more, especially if all the
Bruin fans in Los Angeles come to
support their team.
But the Golden Bears have some
factors in their favor as well. In the
teams’ last meeting, California de
stroyed UCLA in Berkeley, 69-51.
The Golden Bears are still looking
for national respect even after a 21
7 regular season, and they need a
good conference tournament
showing to jump to a high NCAA
Tournament seed.
The Bruins have two of the com
ponents necessary for a deep con
ference tournament run: experience
and depth. UCLA coach Steve
Lavin starts an all junior-senior
lineup except for freshman guard
Cedric Bozeman. The Bruins will
also be looking to improve their
NCAA seed with conference tour
nament wins, after finishing 11-7 in
Pac-10 play.
The winner of the UCLA-Cali
fornia game will face the winner of
Arizona-Arizona State on Friday.
E-mail sports reporter Peter Hockaday
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
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Przekwas out
Only one day after the comple
tion of the Pac-10 Tournament and
three days after the Cougars were
ousted by Oregon, Washington
State head coach Jenny Przekwas
was fired Tuesday.
The coach, who had been paid
$125,000 this season and had two
years left on her contract, was of
ten criticized by current players
for being a rugged and sometimes
unfair tactician.
Coming to Washington State
from St. Francis College of Pennsyl
vania in 1999, she led the Cougars
to a three-year record of 17-68, in
cluding a 2-27 mark this season.
“Her coaching is not in ques
tion,” said Jim Sterk, Washington
State athletic director. “The pro
gram has been unable to attract and
retain the athletes to be competitive
in the Pac-10.”
In her three-year tenure, eight
players left the team or were sus
pended for academic or discipli
nary reasons. Of those eight, three
were recruited by Przekwas.
“The mental abuse wasn’t
worth it," Rebecca Jordan told the
Spokesman-Review in January.
“She made me lose my passion
for the game.”
Sterk admitted that comments
from former players did play a part
in his decision to remove Przekwas
from her post. In addition, her three
assistants — Pippa Pierce, Cassie
Sawyer and Mary Markey — will
also be let go.
“I’d be lying if I said (the media
reports) didn’t influence (the deci
sion) somewhat,” Sterk told the
Seattle Times. “There’s hard feel
ings, obviously, to make someone
want to leave a program. For what
ever reason, it didn’t work, and
we’re moving on.”
E-mail sports reporter Hank Hager
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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