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Luke Ridnour was named to the NCAA "All-Hair" team, albeit the second team, by the jokesters at ESPN.com.
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got up from where he was laying on
the court, walked over to Swoop
and motioned to the Utah mascot
* to get off the floor. When Swoop
continued forward, Williams moved
closer and got more emphatic.
That’s when Swoop took a swing
from his great height, knocking
Williams’ Duck head off. Williams
started throwing punches at
Swoop’s stilts, as a Utah male
cheerleader came over to break
up the mascots.
“I’m glad I didn’t knock (Swoop)
over, because that would’ve hurt
him,” Williams said. “They pulled
us off the floor, and right away he
was all over me apologizing.”
But Williams said he was hesitant
to accept the Utah mascot’s apology.
“Here’s the thing,” Williams
said. “The girls, before they went
out for their dance, were in the
tunnel, and so was he in the same
tunnel, and he was getting on
these stilts. He said, ‘So you guys
are doing halftime, right?’ And
they said ‘Yeah.’ And he’s like ‘I’m
going to come on after you guys.’
But he didn’t wait to do it after. He
came out during it, and totally dis
tracted the fans.”
Whether or not Williams wanted
to, NCAA officials asked the mas
cots to make up during the first
time out of the second half, which
they did. After the game, CBS’ Bon
nie Bernstein “talked” to both mas
cots in an odd, mute interview that
was televised nationally.
“She was not happy she had to
interview two mascots,” Williams
said. “I told her, ‘I can tell you
don’t want to do this, and as much
as you don’t want to do this, I
don’t want to do this.’”
Whatever the result, Williams
said he received the support of
some big-name Oregon fans.
“Joey Harrington wrote a note
to my mom to give to me, saying
‘Way to protect your girls and
your university,’” Williams said.
“Phil Knight came up to me after
the game and said ‘Way to protect
your university.”’
And on an afternoon where
nothing went right for Oregon,
Williams said he was disappointed
with how much attention the fight
got in the media. In Nashville’s
newspaper, The Tennessean, the
only picture from the Oregon
Utah game in its coverage the next
day was of Williams, head off,
swinging at Swoop. It was a last
ing, bizarre image from a lasting,
bizarre weekend.
Mop-topping the
awards floor
Luke Ridnour wasn’t named the
MVP of the Midwest regional, ending
his awards streak after he won the
Pacific-10 Conference Player of the
Year award and MVP honors at the
Pac-10 Tournament.
Or did it end the streak?
Ridnour was named to the NCAA
Tournament’s “All-Hair” second
team by ESPN.com. He joined the
likes of Utah’s Tim Frost and Indi
ana’s Tom Coverdale on the second
team, while the first team was high
lighted by Stanford’s Josh Childress
and Texas’ James Thomas.
Luke Jackson was named among
the tournament’s top ‘dos last year,
but didn’t make the cut (pun intend
ed) this season. Ridnour didn’t re
ceive the honor last year.
Pac-king up,
Pac-king out
The Final Four includes a team
from Texas, a team from Kansas, a
team from Wisconsin and a team
from New York.
Not much love for the West Coast.
The Pac-10 had one of the worst
showings of any power conference
at this year’s NCAA Tournament, go
ing 6-5. The Big XII is, so far, the
best with a 15-4 record.
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