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Oregon Daily Emerald
Friday, January 14, 2005
“I probably just played with him on Tecmo Bowl
or something. And if y’all don't know Tecmo
Bowl it was one of the first Nintendo games. ”
Carolina’s cornerback Ricky Manning Jr. on
__40-year-old St. Louis quarterback Chris Chandler
Chamberlain Oguchi
Heralded as one of the University's
best recruiting dosses, the 100th year
of men’s basketball at Oregon is
dominated by> its youngest.
Young. Talented. Fresh into
conference play.
Freshman Chamberlain Oguchi
starts afive-part Fridayphoto series
providing a closer look, at Oregon’s
newest recruits.
A
team
with
no
SENIORS
By Danielle Hickey I Photo editor
Nickname: Champ
Hometown:
Video Houston,
games Texas
and
dominoes
Goal:
‘Be the best player
that I can be here
at Oregon.”
The Mac Court experience:
“I like having 9,000 people all
rootingforyou. It’s a good feeling,
especially when they are all
chanting your name.”
#25 • Guard • 6-5 • 190
Favorite NBA player: Vince Carter
Player looked up to growing up: Clyde Drexler
■ Women's basketball
Oregon outlasts rival
Washington in victory
Despite Chelsea Wagner's second-half knee
injury, the Ducks outduel the Huskies 86-77
BY BRIAN SMITH
SPORTS REPORTER
On a night where individuals
were matching or surpassing
career-highs, the Oregon
women’s basketball team need
ed a true team performance
against Washington.
Behind four Ducks scoring in
double figures, Oregon
matched multiple runs by
Washington to survive 86-77 in
front of 3,970 at Mac Court
on Thursday.
“I think everyone came on
for us tonight,” Oregon head
coach Bev Smith said. “There
was some tough moments, but
we showed some fight. I didn’t
think we had 86 points in us
tonight, but we got it done. I
give Washington a lot of credit.
They played great.”
Oregon improved to 11-4
overall and 4-2 in the Pacific-10
Conference while Washington
fell to 6-11 overall and 2-5 in
the Pac-10.
The Ducks victory was tem
pered, however, when junior
guard Chelsea Wagner suffered
a knee injury with 7:54 left in
the second half. She returned to
the bench later in the game.
“I was just trying to play de
fense and stay in front of the
girl,” Wagner said. “And I went
for a change of direction, and
my left leg stopped. There was
a little bit of a pop and a lot
of pressure.”
Smith said she was unaware
of the extent of the injury, say
ing only that doctors would per
form tests late Thursday night
and would hopefully have a di
agnosis today.
Wagner’s knee injury ended
a career night for the native of
Springfield, Ore.
With 10:30 left in the second
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■ Men's basketball
Huskies ruffle Ducks'
feathers early, win 77-56
Washington jumped out to a 25-5 lead in
the first half and hardly looked back
ION ROETMAN
SENIOR SPORTS REPORTER
SEATTLE — The Oregon
men’s basketball team en
tered Thursday’s showdown
against No. 14 Washington
with a huge question waiting
to be answered.
How would the youthful
Ducks handle their first Pacif
ic-10 Conference road game
of the season?
The answer: not well.
Washington played with
more hunger from the
opening tip and buried
Oregon 77-56 in front of
10,000 fans at Bank of
America Arena.
The Huskies (14-2 overall,
4-1 Pac-10) jumped out to a
12-0 advantage and built a
25-5 lead 10 minutes into the
first half. The Ducks were
beaten to every loose ball,
played hesitantly on offense
and appeared intimidated by
Washington’s aggressiveness
and its raucous sellout crowd.
“We didn’t respond early
to the pressure defense that
(Washington) put on us,”
Oregon guard Bryce Taylor
said. “We kept turning the
ball over. 1 think we got off to
such a terrible start that we
put ourselves in too deep of a
hole to come back. ”
Oregon (10-3, 2-2) entered
the game knowing it would
need a big night from point
guard Aaron Brooks in order
to hang with its offensive
minded Northwest rival.
What the Ducks got, howev
er, was anything but his
best performance.
The Seattle native, playing
for the first time as a Duck
back in his hometown, got in
early foul trouble and was
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