Sports brief
UAB stuns Marquette
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Speed kills.
That was confirmed constantly in
this second-round game of the Con
ference USA tournament. Ninth
seeded UAB (18-11) used its plentiful
speed to pull off a stunning 83-76 up
set of top-seeded and eighth-ranked
Marquette (23-5) and advance to a
Friday semifinal against St. Louis.
“We’re not a huge basketball
team,” said coach Mike Anderson, a
former Arkansas assistant who has
taught UAB the frenetic style that
earned the Razorbacks the 1994 na
tional title. “So we have to create
chaos. Some of the words I wrote on
the blackboard (before the game)
were, ‘Attack, attack, attack.”’
They attacked. They made 20
steals and forced 30 turnovers.
Their guards, Finley and Eric Bush,
penetrated constantly and finished
with 23 and 17 points, respectively.
They totally frustrated Wade, who
committed 10 turnovers and scored
only 11 points while going 3-of-12.
Marquette coach Tom Grean
thought the pressure got to his
team. “We just gave the ball away,”
he said. “We flat-out handed the
ball to them at times.”
His Golden Eagles certainly did
that after rushing off to a quick 9-2
lead. Over the next nine minutes,
they went l-of-12 from the field,
committed nine turnovers (five by
Wade) and fell behind by eight. They
pulled to within four at halftime, but
then went down 10 at 11:18 after
committing three more turnovers.
“We never got a great flow be
cause of the way we turned it over,”
Crean said.
Yet somehow his team stayed close
and actually took the lead at 2:21 on
a Diener three-pointer. They were
still up one after a pair of Robert
Jackson (18 points) free throws at
1:36, but Finley answered with two
of his own as UAB regained the lead.
Then Marquette made its critical
error. Jackson was on the end line as
he accepted an entry pass from Terry
Sanders, a turnover that led to Bush’s
6-foot floater at :28.4.
T\vo more Finley free throws that
put UAB up five with :20.7 seconds
left. Then Jackson, after grabbing an
offensive rebound, was stripped by
Finley, who put the exclamation
point on his team’s victory with a last
pair of free throws.
—Skip Myslenski, Chicago
Tribune (KRT)
Faith
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players on matters of faith, life and
basketball.
“I give them a different voice
than the coaches, because I’m com
ing from a different perspective,”
Jenkins said. “I’m not yelling at
them like Coach (Ernie) Kent. I
don’t control playing time, I’m not
checking grades, I’m an out. You
can tell Pastor Keith.”
Jenkins, who has been a good
friend to Kent since the coach came
to Eugene five years ago, calls him
self the “court jester” of the basket
ball team. Since he’s an “outsider,”
he can lighten a situation the Ducks
treat as too melodramatic.
He told a story about Oregon’s
bus trip to Sacramento for the first
round of the NCAA Tournament
last season.
“Coach Kent is tense. You could
just feel the tension in the air,”
Jenkins recounted. “So I proceed to
sit behind Coach Kent and pluck
him in his ear. I’m just flicking his
ear, and he’s like, ‘Will you please
stop.’ And I just keep pluckin’ him,
and a few minutes later I give him a
Walkman with some music on.
“And his whole countenance
changes from, ‘We got to win the
game,’ to — you just see his huge
afro movin’ back and forth. And it
changes his approach.”
Jenkins has personally counseled
athletes from Akili Smith to A.D.
Smith to Freddie Jones. And the
athletes themselves notice it when
he is or isn’t around.
“Pastor Keith brings that aspect
where he’s like, ‘Yeah, this is busi
ness and this is basketball, but
there’s life outside of that, there’s
an eternal life that you’re working
toward at the same time,”’ Marcus
Kent, son of coach Ernie Kent,
said. “’So be joyous in what you’re
doing.’ It brings that sense of
peace to the team.”
Both pastors warn their pupils
about the dangers of devoting their
lives solely to sports. Jenkins said
when he first met with Akili
Smith, he asked the Duck quarter
back what he would do without his
right arm, what would happen if
he lost his passing cannon in a car
accident. Smith pondered the an
swer for a long time before Jenkins
pointed to a football on his desk
and made the point that an ath
lete’s entire life can’t be consumed
by his sport.
O’Neil said he wrestled with that
very concept when he was the
Ducks’ starter.
“The outcome of a football game
should not determine my charac
ter,” O’Neil said, remembering the
feeling of being an Oregon athlete.
“If I won, I shouldn’t be walking
around town like I’m special be
cause I won. I think winning and
losing should be part of sports be
cause that’s part of the game. But I
don’t think they should be part of
the fabric of your being.”
O’Neil said that for many ath
letes, it comes down to motivation.
“When you give your heart to
Christ, the benefits of success —
which include money, fame, fortune
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Danny O'Neil, a former Oregon quarterback, started a church from scratch after returning to Eugene more than two years ago.
— aren’t as appealing to you as be
fore you found Christ,” O’Neil said.
“So now the prize of success isn’t as
valuable. But you’re able to deal
with the pressure better because
you’re trusting God rather than
yourself and the outcome.”
They sit across town from each
other, but both pastors head rela
tively young churches. O’Neil heads
the Calvary Fellowship while Jenk
ins leads Jubilee World Outreach.
They both work closely with ath
letes. They both have similar mes
sages as they pertain to those ath
letes. And they both hope to contin
ue their relationships with Oregon
in the future.
“My purpose to come up here is
to share what God has placed on my
heart,” O’Neil said. “And if people
respond to that, and people enjoy
that message then, well, I’m willing
to keep on doing that. And that goes
for the athletes. If they enjoy it and
think what I’m saying is true, then
I’m more than willing to talk
about it.”
“Ultimately the mission is about
the young men,” Jenkins said. “I
would definitely want to pursue
that.”
Ultimately, the mission for both
pastors is about the athletes. It’s
about faith, it’s about wisdom, and
mostly, it’s about life.
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