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Those three seniors — Philip
Ricci, Brian Jackson and Jimmy
Haywood — have played in seven
Civil Wars without winning one.
The Ducks have won 18 of the past
19 matchups between the squads
dating back to the 1993-94 season.
But those three seniors have a
good chance to win their last one,
especially if all three play well. Sort
of like Cal’s “Big Three,” Oregon
State’s big threesome accounts for
most of the team’s scoring. All to
gether, they score 42.1 of the
Beavers’ 69.6 points per game, a
60-percent clip.
When the teams first played,
Oregon State’s big threesome
scored 45 points, mostly because of
Ricci’s 24.
“We want to win,” Haywood told
reporters Wednesday. “This is the
last chance we’ve got.”
As for Oregon, the Ducks will
welcome a finally healthy Luke
Jackson back into the lineup.
Jackson had the stitches removed
from his right ring finger after Sat
urday’s loss to Cal, and should be
fully healthy for Saturday’s game
in Corvallis.
Jackson scored 27 points in a
gutsy performance against UCLA
one week after suffering the injury,
but since then has scored 40 points
in three games. He had only nine in
Oregon’s loss to Cal on Saturday.
On the opposite end of the spec
trum, redshirt freshman center
Matt Short is only having more im
pact as the season wears on. Short
has started the last two games in
place of the struggling Brian
Helquist, and is expected to start
again against Oregon State. He had
a career-high 11 points against Cal
and is a presence for Oregon inside.
Short will have his hands full
against Ricci on Saturday.
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Luke Jackson (33) had his stitches taken out, and he'll play without them against OSU.
“(Ricci) is one of our main go-to
guys, and (Oregon’s) big guys are
not go-to guys,” John said. “But
they are big bodies, which makes it
hard to score down low.”
For the Ducks, the Civil War
falls into the “must win” column,
and they will need their big guys
to perform if they want to do it.
Oregon is 4-4 away from
McArthur Court on the season,
and only 1-3 on the Pac-10 road.
With five road games remaining,
the Ducks have precious little
time to sway the NCAA Tourna
ment selection committee, which
frowns upon poor road records.
The game Saturday is the first of
three on the road for Oregon.
“We have to win all three, but we
have to take it game-by-game,”
Duck guard Andre Joseph said.
The Civil War will tip off at 6
p.m. Saturday at Gill Coliseum.
The game is set to be broadcast on
the Beaver Sports Network, whose
local affiliate is KVAL.
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while Oregon is 9-for-9 in stolen
bases.
Winning
With as well as they are playing,
the Ducks look to possibly be a
force in the Pac-10 once the sea
son starts.
In the first tournament of the
preseason, Oregon went 4-1 to win
the tournament. The Ducks only
loss came in a 3-1 game to
Arkansas, when Oregon committed
two errors that gave Arkansas the
winning runs.
In the most recent tournament,
Oregon defeated Southeast
Louisiana, then beat No. 9 Florida
State, 3-1. The next day, the Ducks
beat No. 17 Georgia, 3-2, before
taking the tournament with a win
over Florida A&M. The back-to
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back wins over Florida State and
Georgia marked the first time since
2000 that Oregon has beat ranked
teams in back-to-back games.
The Ducks face four teams in
the Campbell/Cartier Classic,
which was affected Thursday by
heavy Southern California rains.
The schedule of the tournament
was altered.
Oregon starts against Califomia
Santa Barbara (9-1) at 5:30 p.m. to
day. Saturday, the Ducks take on
California-State Northridge (3-3) at
10 a.m., and No. 4 Michigan (0-0) at
8 p.m. before closing the tourna
ment against host San Diego State
(2-3) at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.
The Campbell/Cartier Classic is
Oregon’s third preseason tourna
ment of the six in which the Ducks
will participate.
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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