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Ducks take split on road trip
after UCLA outlasts Oregon
Oregon opens conference
play at 1-1 after nearly
beating UCLA, where it
trailed by 22 at one point
By Jesse Thomas
Sports Reporter
Oregon nearly pulled off another
mirade comeback at Pauley Pavilion
on Sunday, but lost 81-74 for a 1-1 Pa
cific- 10 Conference start
It was reminiscent of last year's Pac
10 Tournament when Oregon (6-3
day, the Ducks succumbed, but only af
ter suffering through a 22-2 UCLA ran.
It would have been a sixth-straight vic
tory against UCLA (6-3 overall, 2-0 Pac
10) and Oregon's first 2-0 start on the
road since the 1976-77 season, when
Oregon defeated UCLA and USC.
At the 3:57 mark in the first half,
UCLA opened it up. Oregon led 31-30
and proceeded to score just one field
goal in the next 10 minutes, continuing
into the second half.
The Bruins beat Oregon at its own
game by scoring in transition offense.
UCLA went on a 16-2 ran to end the
first half and scored the first nine points
of the second half.
"Once they got their energy going
they kept coming to the glass every
single time," Oregon head coach
Ernie Kent told KUGN (590 AM) Ra
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dio. "We did not execute our game
plan in the first half of keeping this
team off the boards."
After beginning the game shooting 4
of 6 from the three-point line, Oregon
was looking to keep pace with the 14
of-23 showing in the 92-74 victory over
USC on Friday night
Oregon missed its next 10 attempts.
The Bruins did all the little things to
hold off Oregon. UCLA's 17 second
chance points helped lead it to victory.
The Ducks shot 40 percent for the
night and 81 percent on free throws.
Oregon's 28 percent from the three
point line was sub-par of its 45 percent
average, which led the nation entering
the game.
Oregon did a lot of things right, ex
cept allowing the Bruins to get ahead by
22 points.
The Ducks began to execute their
game plan in the second half and
brought the pressure defense.
It worked.
"This is a team (UCLA) that isn't a
very skilled team at breaking you
down," Kent said. "We definitely can do
some things there, it looked good with
Jordan (Kent) at the point. We did not
do a good job in the first half and they
made us pay."
Oregon would have its run.
At one point, senior Luke Jackson
scored six of his 28 points and then
caused turnovers on the next two Bruin
possessions, allowing senior Andre
Joseph to get a quick five points.
Jackson's 28 points in his 37 minutes
pushed him over the 1,500 career point
mark at Oregon. Joseph was Oregon's
second-leading scorer with 16.
Oregon trailed 63-54 at the 8:41
mark. Redshirt freshman Jordan Kent
then reached for a steal and dunked the
ball in the backcourt to bring Oregon
within seven.
With the chance to cut the deficit to
three points, Oregon missed out. Jack
son missed a reverse layup. Kent made
only one of his two free throws off an
intentional foul and Oregon couldn't
convert on the ensuing possession.
Oregon managed to get within six
points before having to repeatedly foul
the Bruins, who made nearly every shot
UCLA shot 25-for-32 from the free
throw line for 78 percent. The Bruins
were 58 percent entering the game —
the worst in the Pac-10.
The Ducks forced UCLA into 17
turnovers compared to Oregon's eight.
Oregon was outrebounded 38-27 in
the game.
Oregon fought the entire comeback
without their rookie point guard Aaron
Brooks. Brooks only played the first six
minutes before he got knocked out of
bounds on a rebounding play, injuring
his right hand.
The extent of the injury is still un
known. Brooks had his hand wrapped
around a pop can for the remainder of
the game and X-rays will be conducted
when Oregon returns to Eugene.
Sophomore Brandon Lincoln
played the extra minutes. Lincoln
only had three points but did not
turn the ball over. Freshman Mitch
Platt played 15 minutes in the game
and earned six points before fouling
out in the second half.
Contact the sports reporter
at jessethomas@dailyemerald.com.
Harless, McBee lead Oregon,
but Ducks shut out by Huskers
Oregon is again stymied by
a Big 12 Conference foe,
this time in a 41-0 loss
at the hands of Nebraska
Scott Archer
Freelance Reporter
Although University students are
just returning from vacation, the Ore
gon wrestling team has had anything
but a break
during the past
three weeks.
Oregon's les
sons moved
from the class
room to the mat, with matches against
then No. 1 Oklahoma State and No. 5
Nebraska — both Big 12 Conference
powerhouses — over the winter break.
The Ducks' most recent loss came Sat
urday in a 44-0 decision to Nebraska.
Oregon dropped to 0-3 on the season.
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It was the second time in 20 years
that the Ducks failed to score a single
point in a match.
Coincidentally, Oregon was also
held scoreless against Oklahoma State
two weeks prior, 41-0, but before that
the team hadn't been held scoreless in a
match since 1983.
"Nebraska is a tough team and they
came out and wrestled hard." Oregon
head coach Chuck Kearney said. "We
came out a little tentative and again we
made some beginner mistakes that we
will need to work out."
Patience is being preached with a
young Oregon squad this season,
but the Ducks still feature several ex
perienced wrestlers, including No.
16 Jason Harless.
Harless is the only Duck ranked na
tionally and provided one of Oregon's
most closely contested matches Satur
day, facing off against No. 18 Matt
Keller in the 133-pound weight class.
Harless lost a 9-3 decision.
Sophomore Chet McBee proved to
be the toughest Oregon wrestler for the
Comhuskers. McBee was edged out by
James Pummel in the 174-pound
match, 10-7.
"(The Comhuskers) are a No. 5
ranked team and tonight they showed
us why," Kearney said. "We will get back
in the practice room and get ready for
next week's tournament."
If Oregon hopes to use the lessons it
learned from a tough December sched
ule, it will need to do so soon. The
Ducks travel to Redmond on Jan. 9 for
the Oregon Classic.
Oregon will face off with Army, Air
Force and Cal State-Fullerton next
week. The Ducks have five matches be
tween Jan. 9 and Jan. 23.
In the meantime, Oregon hits the
books along with the mats, hoping
to show that its biggest lessons came
not during finals week, but during
winter break.
Scott Archer is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
HAGER
continued from page 7
Maroney was pivotal on two scor
ing drives. When Minnesota ran a
drive of more than seven minutes in
the second quarter, he was the cata
lyst, using 3 and 5-yard runs to break
down the Oregon defense.
In the fourth quarter, he provided
those same runs again, but at that
point, they were far more important.
Had he not gained 5 yards on the play
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prior to the filial field goal, Lloyd would
have been looking at a 47-yarder.
Who knows what five more yards
would have meant. Maybe Junior
Siavii's forearm would have gotten the
ball just enough to give the Ducks the
last-second victory. Maybe Keith
Lewis' hand would have kept the ball
from clearing that crossbar by no
more than a few feet.
There were enough maybes from
the game to last a lifetime and
there's no doubt the Oregon coach
es and players will think about
them at times until the Ducks take
on Indiana in the 2004 season
opener on Sept. 11. For the time be
ing, though, they can take solace in
the fact that Minnesota, a team
many expected to do far better
things this season, needed the final
seconds of the game in El Paso to
subdue the Ducks.
So close.
Contact the sports editor
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
His opinions do not necessarily
represent those of the Emerald.