■ Women's basketball
Offensive attack
woes cost Ducks
game in Arizona
BY BRIAN SMITH
SPORTS REPORTER
The Oregon women’s basketball
team didn’t have an answer for Pacif
ic-10 Conference Player of the Year
candidate Dee-Dee Wheeler on
Thursday.
The Arizona senior guard scored a
game-high 23 points as Oregon lost
its third Conference game of the
season, 69-60.
In front of 2,065 fans at the McKale
Center in Thcson, Ariz., the Ducks
handcuffed themselves by commit
ting turnovers, showing an unwilling
ness to shoot the ball in the second
half and failing to get rebounds —
especially on the defensive end.
“Their aggressiveness was the
story,” said Oregon head coach Bev
Smith. “We can’t hope to make a
run when we can’t get any
defensive rebounds.”
For the first 13 minutes, Oregon
(12-5 overall, 5-3 Pac-10) held Ari
zona (13-5 overall, 5-3 Pac-10) to 30
percent shooting. Meanwhile, the
Ducks shot 56 percent during the
same stretch and built a five-point
lead, 20-15, when senior Brandi
Davis —wearing number 30 instead
of her normal 21 after leaving her jer
sey in Eugene — hit a three-pointer
from the comer with 10:35 left.
In addition, Oregon held Arizona’s
junior center Shawntinice Polk to
seven points — all in the opening 20
minutes — and three rebounds in a
foul-plagued first half.
“That was one of my best games
I’ve played against her,” Oregon sen
ior Andrea Bills said. “(Especially)
getting her into foul trouble, but their
transition game and our turnovers
hurt us.”
For the third time this season, the
Ducks committed 20 turnovers in a
Pac-10 road game, leading to 21
Wildcat points.
Thirteen of those points came in
the first half and fueled a 24-12 run in
the last nine minutes by the Wildcats,
en route to capturing a 39-32 lead
going into halftime.
Claire C. Laurence | Arizona Daily Wildcat
Arizona senior guard Dee-Dee Wheeler
scored a game-high 23 points in the win.
“We had a hard time matching up
with them because of our size,” Ari
zona head coach Joan Bonvicini said.
“But they probably thought the same
thing about us and our quickness.
We just wanted to put pressure on
them and anticipate the ball.”
While Arizona did have problems
matching up with Oregon’s size, the
Wildcats used their speed and aggres
siveness to outrebound the Ducks 35
26, including an 18-8 advantage on
the offensive glass.
“We didn’t play to our best ability
knowing how fast they were,” Bills
said. “They were quick going to the
offensive boards, and our guards
didn’t get a body on them.”
Arizona’s Natalie Jones led all
players with 11 rebounds to offset her
0 of 10 shooting night from the floor.
Early in the second half, the Ducks
cut the lead to three after four quick
points by Kaela Chapdelaine and
Eleanor Haring. But even with Polk
on the bench with her third foul, Ore
gon did not get closer to Arizona the
rest of the game.
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