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Oregon players are excited
about chance at Oklahoma
The Ducks announced
the addition of Oklahoma
to the schedule last week
By Hank Hager
Sports Editor
The excitement is there.
The problem is, the game is still
more than five months away.
Oregon players can look forward to
Sept. 18, when they travel to Norman
to take on national powerhouse Okla
homa. That became reality last week
when the teams agreed to meet on Ok
lahoma's turf next season, then again as
late as the 2008 season in Eugene
"What an awesome experience,"
quarterback Kellen Clemens said. "We
are excited.
Having anoth
er opponent
FOOTBALL that on the
_ schedule this
year definitely
helps the enthusiasm and excitement
out here for spring ball."
The game became possible when
the Ducks pulled out of their contest
with Nevada. The Wolf Pack are now
set to play Buffalo in Las Vegas. The
Sooners were originally scheduled to
play Florida A&M, which is now set to
play Temple in Philadelphia.
All of that paved the way for Ore
gon to play the Sooners, who lost to
Louisiana State in the national cham
pionship game last season.
"Everyone loves a big game," cor
nerback Justin Phinisee said. "You
don't want to shy away from that. It's
a chance for us to get on our feet early
and get some good competition out
there. Hopefully we can feed off of it."
The last time the Ducks played a
national power outside of the Pacific
10 Conference? That came recently.
Oregon stunned Michigan, 31-27, in
the fourth game of the 2003 season.
"Everyone loves a big
game. You don't want to
shy away from that. It's a
chance for us to get on
our feet early and get
some good competition
out there. Hopefully we
can feed off of it."
Justin Phinisee
Oregon cornerback
"We learned from that that it is just
a man versus another man," line
backer Jerry Matson said. "It doesn't
matter about the uniform. It doesn't
matter about the tradition. It's about
where the program is that day."
The Ducks promptly lost to Wash
ington State, 55-16, after the upset of
then-No. 3 Michigan.
The 2004 season could provide the
same kind of pitfall, albeit against a
lesser-quality opponent.
Oregon opens up the season against
Indiana at Autzen Stadium Sept. 11,
followed by the visit to Oklahoma. Af
ter that, the Ducks return home for a
game against Idaho on Sept. 25, which
is then followed by the Pac-10 opener
against Arizona State on Oct. 2.
"You want to still take it one step at a
time," Clemens said. "Should we go to
Oklahoma and come away with a win,
then we've got to come back and we've
got to play whoever's next on our
schedule; 1 believe it's Idaho. You've got
to not get too high and you've got to
not get too low. That's one of the things
that hurt us last year."
What, in reality, does the game mean
for the Oregon program? While it is just
another game on the schedule, it is the
right step for a program that has been
on the way up the national ladder.
The Sooners are expected to win
every season. They held the No. 1 spot
in the nation for most of last season.
However, most forget the Ducks
were close to that just three seasons
ago. Oregon is not very far removed
from the 2001 season that saw the
Ducks finish No. 2 in the nation.
"It gives a little bit of a shout to the
people of the past, the Oregon Ducks
that have really put in a lot of work
and the coaching staff that has really
turned this place around," Matson
said. "Now we're on a national level
where we can get games with Okla
homa. It's a good step for the program.
Years ago we probably would've not
been able to get a game probably."
Contact the sports editor
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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personnel readied confetti rockets
with 20 seconds left, and then, with
one second to play, Calhoun finally
pumped his fists, finally smiled at
his bench.
"We did have a big lead at halftime
and I wanted to make sure we were
going to stand on the podium after
the game," Calhoun said. "With
about six minutes to play, Georgia
Tech started making a lot of threes —
more than I can count. That made us
a little nervous."
The game had not been in doubt
since midway through the first half,
but Calhoun's Huskies, the ones car
rying heavy expectations all season,
weren't leaving anything to chance.
They played a nearly flawless game,
holding Georgia Tech to 38 percent
shooting and limiting 7-foot-1 Luke
Schenscher to a pedestrian 9 points
and 11 rebounds. Okafor had the 15
boards and five other Huskies had six
boards apiece as Connecticut domi
nated on the glass. Gordon added 21
points and Rashad Anderson had 18
on a night when the Huskies took
very few bad shots and crisply execut
ed their offense.
The game was won long before
halftime, as the Huskies upped their
lead to 12 when Taliek Brown's layup
made it 28-16 with 8:56 to go in the
first half.
Before the game, the Huskies'
coaches admitted they feared Geor
gia Tech's physicality along the
perimeter. The Yellow Jackets' strong
guards if not manhandled, had at
least handled the Huskies' guards in
the team's first meeting, a 77-61 win
by Tech in the preseason NIT. But
UConn used its speed and finesse
early this time, repeatedly driving by
the slower Jackets.
And the Jackets, who had shown
such poise in making a remarkable
tournament run, apparently were so
besieged by nerves, they couldn't hit
their free throws.
Semifinal hero Will Bynum made
an enormously tough layup, driving
.past three Oklahoma State players
Saturday to put Georgia Tech in the
finals. But Monday, he missed the
front ends of consecutive one-and
ones, and then, given a chance to re
deem himself, he missed again. With
five seconds to go before the break,
Bynum drew a second foul on Okafor,
and went to the line, Georgia Tech
down, 39-26.
With a relative yelling from the
stands, "Yes you can, Will," Bynum
clanked first, and then the second
free throw. Okafor pulled down the
miss and the 6-foot-10 All-American
rocketed it out to a streaking Rashad
Anderson. Pulling up, Anderson hit
a long jumper, swinging Georgia
Tech's halftime deficit from what
could have been a manageable 11 —
had Bynum, an 80 percent free
throw shooter, made the free throws
- to a much more frightening 15 at
41-26.
The Yellow Jackets shot badly
from everywhere through the first
half, hitting just 2-of-10 from long
range, 4-of-11 from the charity stripe
and just 29.4 percent from anywhere
on the floor. The Huskies, mean
while, worked frenetically every
where, scoring off every one of Geor
gia Tech's six turnovers, and
camping under the glass, maniacal
ly tipping out misses and hustling
for loose balls.
Georgia Tech took a brief lead at
12-11 after a 5-0 run, but the presea
son favorite Huskies stopped toying
with the in-season surprise. They
scored 10 unanswered points in a run
that featured a real smile from the no
toriously grim game-faced Calhoun
and a fake-pass three from Gordon
that even faked out the alleged recipi
ent in Anderson.
After Okafor laid in — backwards
— a bounce pass from freshman Josh
Boone 13:15 into the game, UConn
only got one more first half-field goal.
But with the Jackets missing free
throws (6) and the Huskies making
theirs' (7), UConn added one point to
its lead.
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