✽☎ ➋✆✝✞ ø ❖✟✞ ÿ ❱✞ ÿ
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“For us, man, I just can’t
be prouder of my team
today. You talk about
competitive, tough. I just
thought my team just
fought tooth and nail to-
day in a really hostile envi-
ronment,” Bulldogs coach
Vic Schaefer said.
Ionescu’s jumper put
Oregon up 78-73 with just
under three minutes left.
After McCowan made a
pair of free throws, Io-
nescu added a 3 that put
the crowd on its feet and
essentially put it away for
the Ducks.
Bre’Amber Scott’s layup
with 54 seconds left pulled
the Bulldogs within 81-77,
but Maite Cazorla answered
with a 3-pointer for the
Ducks. Jazzmun Holmes’
jumper cut the margin to
÷øùúûüý ûþÿ ❆ ✁ ý ✂✄✁✾
SPORTS
an impact player in the
WNBA. Holmes added 15
points and 13 assists for
the Bulldogs, and didn’t
way to say it,” she said,
drawing laughs. “I wanted
✏✌ ✠✎✍✑✓ ✏✓✍✑ ✲✚✱☛ ✌✳ ✏✓☛
assists and no turnovers,
in an Elite Eight game,
right way. We’ve come so
far. We played so hard that
entire game and I knew it
was my time to hit a big-
time shot.”
❅❈✱ ✎☛✡☛✜ ✲☛✏✏✍✎✲ ✌✳ ✱✢
❲❉❊❋● ❍✻■✸❏
✓✚✡☛ ✚ ✏✫✜✎✌✡☛✜✖ ❃✬✓☛ ✠✜✑✏
✏✓✍✎✲ ✏✓✚✏ ❄✫✱☞✑ ✌✳ ✍✑ ✧★
soapbox about that kid,”
Schaefer said. “What an
injustice to have an award
and she’s not one of the
✏✌☞ ✠✡☛ ✍✎ ✏✓☛ ✘✌✫✎✏✜✢✣ ✍✏❈✑
a joke.”
Ionescu’s big 3: Io-
nescu was asked afterward
to go through the 3 she hit
with just over a minute
left.
“That was going in, re-
gardless, there’s no other
Baylor (34-1) reached
✏✓☛ ✼✰✍✏☛ ✼✍✲✓✏ ✛✌✜ ✏✓☛ ✠✛✏✓
time in six years with a 93-
68 victory over South Car-
olina on Saturday, while
Iowa (29-6) advanced with
a 79-61 win over North
Carolina State for the
❁✚✒✮☛✢☛✑❈ ✠✜✑✏ ✼✰✍✏☛ ✼✍✲✓✏
berth since 1993. The Fi-
nal Four game against
the Ducks is set for Friday
night.
❑▲▼◆P ◗◆❘❙❤❚❯❯❳❨❚▲❩❬❭❪❫❴❴❵❛❜❝❞❪❡ ❢r❪❴❴
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onds to go, but Mississippi
State could not catch up.
Oregon also beat Mis-
sissippi State in Decem-
ber, ending the Bulldogs’
streak of 46 consecutive
regular-season nonconfer-
ence wins.
Ionescu averaged 19.6
points, 8.3 assists and 7.5
rebounds going into Sun-
day’s game. The Pac-12
Player of the Year has 18
career triple-doubles, an
NCAA record among men
and women, including
eight this season.
“I’m never amazed at
anything she does really,
☎✆✝✞ ✟✠✡ ✝☛☞✌✍✝☛✞ ✍✟ ✎✏✑☛✝✡✒✠✟✒
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said. “You just expect the
incredible.”
The Bulldogs went up
15-8 early, but Sabally hit
a 3-pointer that closed the
gap as Oregon relied on its
perimeter game. Oregon
❈✻✼✼✽✾✿ ❀ ❁❂❃ ❄❅❇✽
✠✎✍✑✓☛✦ ✒✍✏✓ ✧★ ★✑✖
Ionescu’s 3-pointer tied
it at 19, but the Bulldogs
had free throws to make it
✔✧✙✧✩ ✚✏ ✏✓☛ ☛✎✦ ✌✛ ✏✓☛ ✠✜✑✏
✪✫✚✜✏☛✜✖ ✬✓☛ ✭✫✘✮✑ ✓✍✏ ✠✡☛
of eight 3-pointers in the
opening period alone.
Oregon
pulled
in
front 30-27 on Cazorla’s
3-pointer in the second
quarter. The Ducks led
40-38 at the break. Io-
nescu led all scorers with
15 points, including three
3-pointers.
Hebard was tasked with
guarding McCowan, but
she had two fouls and
went to the bench midway
through the second quar-
ter. But she opened the
second half with a layup,
and Ionescu added anoth-
er to give the Ducks a 44-
38 lead. Andra Espinoza-
Hunter made a 3-pointer
to close the gap.
Oregon held the edge
until Howard’s layup
put the Bulldogs in front
54-53.
Mississippi State got
a scare late in the quar-
ter when McCowan went
down hard on a layup at-
tempt and stayed on the
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She went to the bench
holding the right side of
her chest.
“A loss is a loss, you
know? It doesn’t feel
good,” McCowan said.
“But I’m proud of my
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à áÕâ❮Ö
✏☛✚✱✣ ✱✢ ✘✌✚✘✓✍✎✲ ✑✏✚✳
we got this far. We had a
great season. Nothing to
hang our heads on. Yeah,
it hurts, but we’ll be OK.”
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õäæö
æöë çîî
❇✴✵ ✶✴✷✸✹✺✻
Oregon: The Ducks
lost to eventual champion
Notre Dame in last year’s
ãäåäæçè éêêëìí
êïì óïô
✼✰✍✏☛ ✼✍✲✓✏✖ ✿✍✏✓ ✓☛✜ ✠✜✑✏
basket of the game, Sabally
went over 1,000 points at
óïôì ìëåäíæëìëò
îöïðë ÷ çæ øöëøùïôæ
❀✜☛✲✌✎✖ ❁☛❂✚✜✦ ✠✎✍✑✓☛✦
with 14 points.
Mississippi
State:
The Bulldogs fell short in
their bid to become the
seventh team to reach the
Final Four three straight
years.
The
6-foot-7
McCowan, the SEC Player
of the Year, was averag-
ing 18.3 points and 13.5
rebounds and should be
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⑥ ⑦⑧⑩
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îëìíïðçèäñëò
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❞❡❤❦❞❦q❦❞⑨❡❵ ❳❦♥➃✐ ✐➃❤❦✐❞♦❦❞⑨❡❤ ❜❡❧ ➃①♦➄q❤❞⑨❡❤ ❜❻❻➄➆❵ ❏✐⑨♦➃✐➆ ▲➃④❜✐❧❤ ❥❜➆ t➃ ✐➃❧➃➃❥➃❧ ⑨❡ ❜❡ ⑨➉➃✐➃❧ ❞❦➃❥ ⑨❡➄➆ ❞❸ ➆⑨q✐ ▲➃④❜✐❧❤ t❜➄❜❡♦➃ ➃⑤q❜➄❤ ⑨✐ ➃①♦➃➃❧❤ ▲➃④❜✐❧❤ ✐➃⑤q❞✐➃❧ ❸⑨✐ ❦♥❜❦ ❞❦➃❥❵ ❳❦♥➃✐ ✐➃❤❦✐❞♦❦❞⑨❡❤
❜❡❧ ➃①♦➄q❤❞⑨❡❤ ❜❻❻➄➆❵ ❑➃➃ ❸q➄➄ ❻✐⑨❣✐❜❥ ❧➃❦❜❞➄❤ ❞❡ ❦♥➃ ❋➄t➃✐❦❤⑨❡❤ ❙⑨❥❻❜❡❞➃❤ ❫❜❡❡➃✐ ❤❦⑨✐➃❤ ❥⑨t❞➄➃ ❜❻❻❤❵
P ✁✂✄☎ ✁✆ ✝✞✁☎ ✟✠ ✟ ✄ ✄✡✡✄✂✝✁❢✄ ☛ ☞✌ ✍✉✄☎✠✟✎✱ ☞✏ ✁✑ ✒ ✝✞ ✉ ✍✉✄☎✠✟✎✱ ☞✏ ✁✑ ✓✱ ✒✔✕✓ ✖✉✆✑✄☎☎ ✗✝✞✄ ✘✁☎✄ ✆✗✝✄✠✙ ✁✆ ✟✑✑ ✚✟✡✄✘✟✎ ✗ ☞✑✛✄ ✝☎✗✆☎ ☎✝✗ ✄☎ ✁✆ ✜ ✄✢✗✆ ✟✆✠ ✚✣✤✣ ✤✟☎✞✁✆✢✝✗✆ ☎✝✗ ✄☎ ☎✄ ❢✁✆✢ ✤✟✞❛✁✟❛✉✥✱ ✦✗✘✑✁✝✧✱ ✦✑✟ ❛✱ ✚❛✟✥✟✆✁✟✱ ✤✟✑✑✟ ✤✟✑✑✟ ✟✆✠ ★✑✁✂❛✁✝✟✝ ✦✗✉✆✝✁✄☎✣ ✩✝✄✥☎ ✗✡✡✄ ✄✠ ✡✗ ☎✟✑✄ ✟ ✄ ✆✗✝
✟❢✟✁✑✟✛✑✄ ✝✗ ✗✝✞✄ ✠✄✟✑✄ ☎ ✗ ✘✞✗✑✄☎✟✑✄ ☎✣ ✚✟✑✄☎ ✗✡ ✏ ✗✠✉✂✝☎ ✂✗✆✝✟✁✆✁✆✢ ✄✏✞✄✠ ✁✆✄✱ ✏☎✄✉✠✗✄✏✞✄✠ ✁✆✄ ✗ ✏✞✄✆✎✑✏ ✗✏✟✆✗✑✟✥✁✆✄ ✑✁✥✁✝✄✠ ✛✎ ✑✟✘✣ ✳✉✟✆✝✁✝✎ ✁✢✞✝☎ ✄☎✄ ❢✄✠✣ ✚✜✌✪ ☞✫✬✪✭✍✩✚✩❚✮ ✩✍✪✌✚ ✌☞❨ ❚✜✍ ✯✪ ☞✬☞✩❆☞✯❆✪ ✩❚ ☞❆❆ ✚✍✜✭✪✚✣ ✚✗✥✄ ✟✠❢✄ ✝✁☎✄✠ ✏ ✁✂✄☎ ✥✟✎ ✛✄ ✄❢✄✆ ✑✗✘✄ ✁✆ ☎✗✥✄
☎✝✗ ✄☎✣ ✜✆ ✯✉✎ ✜✆✄✱ ✮✄✝ ✜✆✄ s ✄✄ ✖✰✯✜✮✜✲✙ ✗✡✡✄ ☎✱ ✂✉☎✝✗✥✄ ✥✉☎✝ ✏✉ ✂✞✟☎✄ ✝✞✄ ✴ ☎✝ ✁✝✄✥ ✝✗ ✄✂✄✁❢✄ ✝✞✄ ☎✄✂✗✆✠ ✁✝✄✥ ✡ ✄✄✣ ✯✜✮✜ ✗✡✡✄ ☎ ✟ ✄ ✆✗✝ ✕✵✒ ✏ ✁✂✄ ☎✟✑✄☎✣ ✩✡ ✗✆✑✎ ✟ ☎✁✆✢✑✄ ✁✝✄✥ ✏✉ ✂✞✟☎✄✠✱ ✝✞✄ ✄✢✉✑✟ ✏ ✁✂✄ ✟✏✏✑✁✄☎✣ ✌✟✆✉✡✟✂✝✉ ✄ ☎✶ ✂✗✉✏✗✆☎ ✥✟✎ ✛✄ ✉☎✄✠ ✗✆ ✏✉ ✂✞✟☎✄✠ ✁✝✄✥☎ ✗✆✑✎ ✷ ✆✗✝ ✗✆
✡ ✄✄ ✁✝✄✥☎✣ ❆✁✥✁✝ ✗✆✄ ✂✗✉✏✗✆ ✏✄ ✏✉ ✂✞✟☎✄✠ ✁✝✄✥✣ ✦✉☎✝✗✥✄ ✘✁✑✑ ✛✄ ✄☎✏✗✆☎✁✛✑✄ ✡✗ ✝✟✸ ✟✆✠ ✠✄✏✗☎✁✝☎ ✟☎ ✄✹✉✁ ✄✠ ✛✎ ✑✟✘ ✗✆ ✝✞✄ ✏✉ ✂✞✟☎✄✠ ✟✆✠ ✡ ✄✄ ✁✝✄✥☎✣ ❚✗ ✑✁✹✉✗ ☎✟✑✄☎ ✁✆ ✄✸✂✄☎☎ ✗✡ r✒ ✢✟✑✑✗✆☎✣ ❚✗ ✑✁✹✉✗ ☎✟✑✄☎ ✡✗
✩✆✂✣ ✗ ✺✒✔✕✓ ☞✑✛✄ ✝☎✗✆☎ ❆❆✦✣ ☞❢✟✁✑✟✛✁✑✁✝✎ ✗✡ ✁✝✄✥☎ ✥✟✎ ❢✟ ✎ ✛✎ ☎✝✗ ✄✣ ✜✆✑✁✆✄ ✟✆✠ ✩✆✈☎✝✗ ✄ ✏ ✁✂✄☎✱ ✠✁☎✂✗✉✆✝☎ ✟✆✠ ✗✡✡✄ ☎ ✥✟✎ ✠✁✡✡✄ ✣
P ✶✱❈♦✄✄♦♥
✵✹✵✸✶✾❴P❖❘❴❘❖P❴❙❆❴✽✳✽✷①✶✼❴▲❛ r❛♥✁❡❖❜s❡r✈❡r❴✂✵✶❴❈♦✄✄♦♥
✄☎✟✑✄✣ ❆✁✹✉✗ ☎✟✑✄☎ ✟✝ ✑✁✂✄✆☎✄✠ ✚✟✡✄✘✟✎ ✗ ☞✑✛✄ ✝☎✗✆☎ ☎✝✗ ✄☎ ✗✆✑✎✣ ✺✒✔✕✓ ✚✟✡✄✘✟✎