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over Wake Forest in the second
round of the NCAA Tournament
deserves to be kept. It deserves to
be stored in our ever-expanding at
tic that holds all those memorable
Ducks sporting events.
We won’t need to go through the
contents of the box right away, es
pecially with Friday’s Sweet 16 ap
pearance to look forward to.
But at some point, this box should
be looked through and cherished.
The contents inside can be en
joyed separately or together as one,
as they’re all a part of one splendid
day of March Madness.
Inside the box, we’ll find the
grandeur of back-and-forth NCAA
Tournament basketball.
We’ll find the Demon Deacons
scoring 14 straight points to take a
36-25 lead with 7:39 to play in the
first half.
We’ll find Oregon’s Luke Rid
nour respond to that run by
pulling up and swishing through
back-to-back three-pointers.
We’ll find future NFL quarter
back Joey Harrington constantly
hopping up and down from his
seat in the stands, throwing his
hands up in frustration at the offi
cials, or thunderously applauding
a basket by his alma mater.
We’ll find Luke Jackson convert
a floater in the lane to cut the
Ducks’ deficit to 48-46 at halftime.
We’ll find Wake Forest jumping
out to a 56-48 lead after Craig Daw
son nailed two treys. And then
find the Ducks close to 67-66 after
Ridnour amazingly drilled two
more back-to-back trifectas.
We’ll find the tragic emotion of
Dawson, Wake Forest’s clutch sen
ior, gripping his left shoulder in
agony after separating it and simply
walking off the floor with still 7:45
to play and his team leading, 78-73.
We’ll find Freddie Jones sky
through the lane, rebound a Jack
son missed three-pointer and slam
it down to tie it up at 78 and send a
bolt of energy through the arena.
We’ll find the Ducks scoring
nine straight points, capped by a
Jones steal and fast break layin, to
take their first lead since a 25-24
advantage.
We’ll find Oregon leading by
just two with less than a minute
remaining.
We’ll find some of the players on
both benches leaning forward,
then back, then forward, then
back, all the while clutching white
towels over some faces, not want
ing to witness a potential loss.
We’ll find retired Navy Admiral
John Dick, Oregon’s leading scorer
in its 1939 NCAA Championship
victory, clapping to the school’s
fight song and yelling his approval
from his fourth-row aisle seat.
We’ll find Oregon hitting 7-of-8
free throws in the last 33.1 seconds
to clinch a berth in the Sweet 16
and ignite a mini-celebration.
We’ll find the Demon Deacons
coming to grips with the sudden
end to their season, best exempli
fied by those solitary tears stream
ing down some of their faces.
We’ll find a final box score that
shows Ridnour, Jackson and Jones
scoring 81 of the Ducks’ 92 points,
leading Wake Forest head coach
Skip Prosser to say that “those
three guys could have played for
the Kings,” which, of course, is the
NBA team that usually runs up
and down the Arco Arena floor.
We’ll find the ESPN camera
crew follow Oregon into its jubi
lant locker room — the same
camera crew that has been with
the Ducks everywhere all week,
including the moment Friday
where they taped Anthony Lever
taking his Business 317 final
exam before practice. (“As if I
wasn’t nervous enough already,”
Lever said.)
We’ll find Oregon head coach
Ernie Kent breathe a deep sigh of
satisfaction after the game and
say, “I want to go home and
watch the game. What a great, en
tertaining game.”
We’ll find a jam-packed Oregon
locker room with cameras and
scribes everywhere. And find
Robert Johnson attempting to join
the media frenzy by grabbing an
ESPN microphone and jokingly
stick it in Lever’s face.
We’ll find Chris Christoffersen
raising his arms at the sight of him
self on TV raising his arms. And
find him then saying with a hearty
chuckle, “Who’s that big dork?”
We’ll find Brian Helquist sitting,
staring and smiling at the images
of his team beating Wake Forest in
highlights on CBS and find him
still pinching himself, unable to
believe that he is a part of the Big
Dance that he has dreamt about
since childhood.
We’ll find Jones making the
statement that, “The Sweet 16 was
one of our goals, but we’re not at
all satisfied. We’re trying to make
the Final Four.”
And we’ll find Oregon students
in places such as Sacramento, Eu
gene, Maine and London all
brought together through a com
mon bond of Ducks fever that be
gan with the football team’s un
precedented fall and has
continued with the basketball
team’s historic winter.
The chapters that have filled this
storybook 2001-02 Oregon athletics
season have indeed been memo
rable and may get even more so as
the madness of March continues.
But no matter how this story fi
nally ends, we’ll always have the
collection of images and sounds
stashed away in this box to help
preserve the drama of one special
Saturday in Sacramento.
A day where some windows of
opportunity were slammed shut
and others were flung wide open.
E-mail assistant sports editor Jeff Smith
at jeffsmith@dailyemerald.com.
Late injury hampers Wake Forest’s
chances of upsetting No. 2 Oregon
■Wake Forest came close
to an upset but couldn’t
overcome an injury to a key
player late in the game
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sud
denly, the game changed.
Wake Forest senior Craig Daw
son was setting a pick on Oregon
senior Freddie Jones when Jones
fought his way through it.
There was contact made, and
Jones could recognize pain in
Dawson’s voice.
“I don’t know exactly what
happened,” Jones said. “I just
heard him scream that he was
hurt. My feelings go out to him.”
Dawson, who had 20 points at
the time, suffered a dislocated left
shoulder and immediately
walked off the court. He did not
return. The incident occurred
with Wake Forest leading Oregon,
78-73, with eight minutes to play.
The moment Dawson left the
court, Oregon’s Luke Jackson
drilled a three that was followed
by an emphatic two-hand re
bound slam from Jones.
Those two plays sent energy
throughout the Arco Arena crowd
as the Ducks went on to beat the
Demon Deacons, 92-87, Saturday
to advance to the Sweet 16 of the
NCAA Tournament.
“Losing Craig was hard,” Wake
Forest guard Taron Downey said.
“He is a great outside shooter.”
Dawson was lights out for
much of the game. He connected
on 5-of-8 three-pointers and
played a big part in Wake Forest’s
14-0 first half run that put the De
mon Deacons on top, 36-25.
“I don’t know exactly what
happened I just heard him
scream that he was hurt.
My feelings go outtohim. ”
Freddie Jones
Oregon senior
Not having Dawson at the end
of the game was obviously a big
blow, but the Demon Deacons
(21-13) never went away down
the stretch. Wake Forest trailed
for the first time, 80-78, since a
25-24 first half lead. The Demon
Deacons reclaimed the advantage
after Jamaal Levy scored two of
his 10 points for the slim 83-82
lead, but that would be the last
time Wake Forest would have the
advantage.
On the next play down, Ore
gon’s Luke Ridnour stopped,
popped, shot and scored a three
pointer to take a two-point lead.
Wake Forest had a relatively
easy look at the basket to tie in
the final minute, but Darius
Songaila missed a contested
layin, and the Demon Deacons
were forced to play the free throw
game from there on out in a los
ing effort.
“I give all the credit to Ore
gon,” Wake Forest head coach
Skip Prosser said. “We played
well, but Oregon played better.”
In addition to Dawson, other
scoring contributors included
Songaila with 19 points, Antwan
Scott with 13 and Downey with
11.
But one of the real keys in this
game was Wake Forest’s inability
to contain the Oregon perimeter
game. Jackson scored a game-high
29, Ridnour scored a career-high
28 and Jones finished up with 24.
“Those three kids — we could
n’t slow them down, much less
stop them,” Prosser said.
Oregon had a tough time stop
ping Dawson until the shoulder
separation forced the senior to
walk off the court for the last time
as a Demon Deacon.
“Craig does a lot for that team,”
Jones said. “I’m sure once he left
the floor, it kind of took a little
out of them. They did not have
him to go to.”
Dawson’s absence certainly had
a pivotal effect on the game and
was probably the deciding factor
on his team earning a trip to
Madison, Wis., for the Sweet 16,
or one back home to Winston
Salem, North Carolina, with its
season now complete.
“Some games you run out of
time,” Prosser said. “To a degree in
this game, we ran out of players.”
E-mail assistant sports editor Jeff Smith
at jeffsmith@dailyemerald.com.