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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
UConn pulls
away late to
knock off
Oregon 71-63
PORTLAND — Terry Larrier
scored 18 points, Alterique Gil-
bert and Jalen Adams both added
16 points each, and Connecticut
knocked off Oregon 71-63 in the
opening round of the PK80 Invita-
tional on Thursday night.
The Huskies (4-0) overcame an
awful night of shooting to knock
off the Ducks playing essentially
a home game a couple hours north
of their campus in Eugene. Most
of the lower bowl at Moda Center
was clad in green and yellow but
went home disappointed at Ore-
gon’s first loss of the season.
The tight matchup saw 17 lead
changes, the final one coming with
2:24 left when Antwoine Ander-
son cut baseline and dunked off a
perfect pass from Gilbert to give
the Huskies a 64-62 lead. UConn
led 68-62 in the closing seconds
and could finally celebrate the
victory when Payton Pritchard
missed a deep 3-pointer with 11
seconds left.
Duke overcomes
tenacious
Portland State
PORTLAND — Marvin Bag-
ley III said the Blue Devils knew
they had to wake up for the second
half against Portland State.
And eventually, they did.
Trevon Duval had 22 points and
No. 1 Duke pulled away for a
99-81 victory over the surprisingly
tenacious Vikings on Thursday to
open the Phil Knight Invitational.
Bagley added 18 points, and
Grayson Allen had 14 points and
nine assists. The Blue Devils (6-0)
will face the winner of the Thurs-
day game between Butler and
Texas.
Duke trailed by as many as
eight points but took control mid-
way through the second half when
Wendell Carter Jr.’s dunk put the
Blue Devils in front 67-62. They
would go on to lead by as many
as 21 points.
Maye leads No. 9
North Carolina
to 102-78 rout of
Portland
PORTLAND — When Luke
Maye took stock of what North
Carolina was losing from last sea-
son’s championship squad and
what was coming back, he made it
a focus to become a better scorer
in the post.
Maye made scoring around
the basket look easy against over-
matched Portland.
Maye had 20 points and 10
rebounds, Joel Berry II added 18
points and No. 9 North Carolina
had five players in double figures
in overwhelming Portland 102-
78 on Thursday to open the PK80
Invitational.
Ponds scores 26,
St. John’s beats
Oregon State
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.
— Guards Shamorie Ponds and
Marcus LoVett helped St. John’s
get off to its best start in years.
Ponds scored 26 points and
LoVett added 18 as St. John’s
rallied from a double-digit sec-
ond-games half deficit to beat
Oregon State 82-77 Thursday
in first round of the Advocare
Invitational.
“If the guards set the tone,
then it sets the tone for the game,”
Ponds said. “So I feel like if we
come out there hungry with a dog
mentality, it changes the whole
game.”
After trailing by 10 midway
through the second half, St. John’s
went up 69-67 with 4 minutes left
on Kassoum Yakwe’s rebound
slam.
— Associated Press
AP Photo/Timothy J. Gonzalez
Oregon State running back Ryan Nall, top, dives over Oregon’s Danny Mattingly for a touchdown in last year’s Civil War game.
Highlights (and lowlights)
of the Civil War rivalry game
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
E
UGENE — Oregon coach Willie Tag-
gart has never experienced a Civil War
game, but he certainly knows hard feel-
ings when he sees them.
And that’s what he sees among the Ducks.
Oregon lost 34-24 to Oregon State last year
in the 120th Civil War rivalry game, snap-
ping an eight-year losing streak for the Bea-
vers. The Ducks finished at the bottom of the
Pac-12 North and a few days later fired coach
Mark Helfrich.
“You hear everybody was ticked off, not
just our players but everybody, and consider-
ing it had been so long since that happened
that really just stays with you,” Taggart said.
“And unless you want that taste to continue
you’ve got to do something about it, and we
talked to them to do something here in Aut-
zen Stadium, and send these seniors out the
right way.”
The Ducks (6-5, 3-5 Pac-12) are coming
off a 48-28 victory over Arizona that made
them bowl eligible for Taggart’s first season.
The Beavers, who parted ways with coach
Gary Andersen earlier this season, are 1-10
overall and still seeking a first conference win.
This will be the 121st meeting between
the teams, a series that dates to 1894 and is
the longest-running rivalry game west of the
Rocky Mountains.
Some of the more memorable Civil Wars:
EARLY DAYS: Oregon State — then
Oregon Agricultural College — won the first
one 16-0 in a showdown between the “Farm-
ers” and the “Lemon-Yellows” in front of
some 500 fans. In 1916, Oregon beat OAC
27-0, giving the Ducks a 6-0-1 regular-season
record and their first appearance in the Rose
Bowl, where they topped Penn 14-0.
PYRAMID PLAY: The 1933 game was
notable because Oregon’s extra-point attempt
was blocked by Clyde Devine, who was lifted
in the air by his teammates. The Ducks none-
AP Photo/Chris Pietsch
AP Photo/Timothy J. Gonzalez
Oregon head coach Willie Taggart con-
gratulates Oregon quarterback Braxton
Burmeister after a score against Utah in
a Oct. 28 game in Eugene.
Oregon State head coach Cory Hall ges-
tures during last week’s game against
Arizona State.
UP NEXT: CIVIL WAR
• Oregon State Beavers (1-10)
at Oregon Ducks (6-5)
• Saturday, 4 p.m. TV: CSNW
theless defeated Oregon State 13-3, and the
so-called Pyramid Play was later banned by
the NCAA.
THE INTERCEPTION: The visiting
Beavers stunned the Eugene crowd in 1953
when Oregon quarterback Barney Holland’s
pass bounced off the hands of George Shaw
— the first pick of the 1955 NFL draft by the
Baltimore Colts — and was intercepted by
Oregon State’s Tommy Little. He returned
it 30 yards for the only touchdown in a 7-0
victory.
TERRY BAKER: In 1962, the Beavers
and their Heisman Trophy-winning quarter-
back trailed 17-6 at halftime but dominated the
second half. Baker’s 13-yard touchdown pass
to Danny Espalin in the fourth quarter sealed
a 20-17 victory. Baker was the only Heisman
Trophy winner from an Oregon school until
Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota in 2014.
GIANT KILLERS: A week after beating
No. 1 USC and O.J. Simpson 3-0 in the mud
in Corvallis, the Beavers’ famous 1967 “Giant
Killers” team came back from a 10-0 deficit to
win the first Civil War at the new Autzen Sta-
dium, 14-10.
TOILET BOWL: A futile 0-0 tie on a
blustery and wet day in November 1983 fea-
tured 11 fumbles, five interceptions and four
missed field goals. It would go down as the
last scoreless Division I college football game.
“It was almost like neither team wanted to
win,” Oregon coach Rich Brooks was quoted
as saying.
FINISHING BIG: In his first year with
the Beavers, Jerry Pettibone led Oregon State
to a victory after 10 straight losses to start the
1991 season. Ian Shields, playing with a bro-
ken big toe, scored on a 6-yard bootleg for
the go-ahead touchdown. Oregon State won
14-3, the Beavers’ first victory in Eugene in
18 years.
ROSE BOWL BOUND: The Ducks
entered the 1994 Civil War tied with USC for
the Pac-10 championship and needed a win to
clinch their first Rose Bowl berth since 1957.
Trailing 13-10, Danny O’Neill drove the team
70 yards, hitting Dino Philyaw for a 19-yard
touchdown with 3:47 to play, giving Oregon
a 17-13 victory.
PHIL KNIGHT INVITATIONAL
No. 17 Gonzaga routs
Ohio State in 86-59 win
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Moments after
walking off the court following a vic-
tory over Ohio State, Gonzaga was
already thinking about No. 7 Florida.
The 17th-ranked Bulldogs will
face the Gators today in the Phil
Knight Invitational.
“In tournaments as great as this
you don’t get a lot of time,” Gon-
zaga coach Mark Few said Thurs-
day night after his team’s 86-59 win
over the Buckeyes. “We’ve got to
move on and get ready for a big one
tomorrow.”
Johnathan Williams had 21 points
and Gonzaga was boosted by an
enthusiastic crowd that turned out for
an event featuring four teams ranked
in the top 10 in the country.
Josh Perkins added 20 points for
the Bulldogs, who improved to 4-0
after playing in last season’s NCAA
Tournament championship game.
C.J. Jackson and Jae’Sean Tate
each scored 12 points for Ohio State,
which trailed by as many as 26 in the
second half as the Zags pulled away.
The Buckeyes (4-1) will face Stan-
ford on Friday.
The tournament involves 16 teams
playing in two brackets on Thanksgiv-
ing, Friday and Sunday, with a break
on Saturday. The field also includes
top-ranked Duke, No. 4 Michigan
State and defending NCAA Tourna-
ment champion North Carolina.
Dubbed the PK80, the event cele-
brates Nike co-founder Phil Knight’s
80th birthday.
AP Photo/Timothy J. Gonzalez
Ohio State’s C.J. Jackson guards Gonzaga’s Josh Perkins during
Thursday’s game at the Phil Knight Invitational tournament.