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SPORTS
Oregon upsets No. 3 UCLA for Altman’s 700th win
BY BETH HARRIS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Oregon
had lost some close games be-
fore briefly getting shut down
by COVID-19. The Ducks are
finally turning a corner.
Jacob Young scored a sea-
son-high 23 points and Oregon
edged No. 3 UCLA 84-81 in
overtime Thursday night, Jan.
13, to give coach Dana Altman
his 700th career victory.
Will Richardson added 12
points as one of three Ducks
in foul trouble. Oregon (10-6,
3-2 Pac-12) won its fourth in a
row. The Ducks swarmed the
court and their loud celebra-
tion in the locker room echoed
throughout a mostly empty
Pauley Pavilion.
“We haven’t fought adversity
well throughout the year, but
we sure showed a little growth
tonight,” said Altman, who is
700-359 in his 33rd season as a
Division I coach. “Really proud
of the way they fought back.”
Johnny Juzang had 23 points
and nine rebounds, and Jules
Bernard added 13 points for
the Bruins (10-2, 2-1). Their
second loss of the season ended
Leon Neuschwander for The Oregonian
Oregon coach Dana Altman talks to his team as the Ducks take on the
Oregon State Beavers on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, at Gill Coliseum in
Corvallis. Altman won his 700th game on Thursday, Jan. 13, when the
Ducks upset UCLA in Los Angeles.
a five-game winning streak.
“You’re either humbled and
hungry like they were trying
to pull off the so-called up-
set, or you’re arrogant without
cause because we’ve won noth-
ing,” an incensed Bruins coach
Mick Cronin said.
The teams traded bas-
kets early in overtime. Young
scored to put Oregon ahead by
two. Jaime Jaquez Jr. missed a
pair of free throws that would
have tied it. Young scored
again to give the Ducks an 83-
79 lead.
Myles Johnson scored for
UCLA before Richardson
made one of two free throws
for an 84-81 lead. Juzang’s po-
tential tying 3-pointer missed.
Bernard got the rebound and
put up a jumper that Da’Vion
Harmon got his hand on as
time expired.
“We’ve got talented guys,
but we’ve got to come up with
stops down the stretch and we
just didn’t do that,” Juzang said.
“You can’t have that many mis-
takes.”
The Bruins forced overtime
on Jaylen Clark’s steal and base-
line layup that tied it 73-all
with 16 seconds left. Richard-
son missed a 3-pointer for the
Ducks and Bernard missed a
3 for the Bruins in the closing
seconds.
Both teams had a player foul
out in the five-minute extra
session. The Ducks lost Eric
Williams Jr., who had 10 points
and eight rebounds. The Bru-
ins lost Cody Riley, who had
11 points after picking up two
fouls in the game’s first 30 sec-
onds.
The Ducks made just one
3-pointer in the first half, then
came out and hit four to start
the second half. It was part of a
16-2 run that gave them a 46-
37 lead.
Peyton Watson and Tyger
Campbell bookended a 14-4
spurt with 3-pointers that gave
the Bruins a 51-50 lead.
After blowing a nine-point
lead early in the half, the Ducks
maintained a six-point cushion
most of the way until the Bru-
ins hit four straight free throws
and Clark scored to force over-
time.
UCLA pumped in fake
crowd noise for the second
straight game with only 119
relatives of coaches and players
allowed in the arena because of
surging COVID-19 cases.
“It didn’t help,” Cronin said
of the empty seats, “but I don’t
believe in excuses.”
The Ducks made just two
baskets over the final 8:20 of
the first half, when they trailed
35-30 at the break. UCLA had
runs of 12-0 and 9-0 in the first
half, when the Bruins led by
nine.
Bic picture
Oregon: The victory was
a huge lift for the Ducks,
who were struggling with
COVID-19 issues last week
and had a game postponed.
They came into LA riding the
momentum of a two-point win
over Oregon State in their ri-
valry game earlier this week.
“The whole team’s just coming
along and it’s just fun, exciting,”
Richardson said.
UCLA: The Bruins had nu-
merous chances to win but
missed too many shots. Ber-
nard was just 3 of 13, Camp-
bell was 3 of 10 and Jaquez
was 2 of 6 from the floor.
Among the starters, Riley shot
5 of 6 but missed four of five
free throws.
Beating the Bruins
Altman improved to 13-9
against UCLA and has won
three in a row. The Ducks trail
the all-time series 39-90. It was
Altman’s first visit to Pauley
Pavilion since Cronin became
UCLA coach in April 2019.
Bad practice
Cronin was still irritated by
what he called “a horrible prac-
tice” a day earlier. He called it
“our worst of the year.”
“My job is to stop it and get
their attention,” he said. “Obvi-
ously, I failed miserably.”
Up next
Oregon: Visits No. 5 South-
ern California on Saturday,
Jan. 15, to close a three-game
road stretch.
UCLA: Hosts Oregon State
on Saturday, Jan. 15.
No. 5 USC rallies in 2nd half to beat Oregon St.
Beavers before coming back.
USC didn’t grab its first lead
LOS ANGELES — Andy
until midway through the sec-
Enfield admits his fifth-ranked ond half and didn’t get firm
Southern California squad is
control of the game until the
still rusty after a 16-day layoff final three minutes.
due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
On a night when Isaiah Mo-
But the Trojans need to make bley was held in check most
up quickly for lost time, es-
of the way, Chevez Goodwin
pecially during this stretch of
picked up the slack with 20
three games in five days.
points and 12 rebounds. Drew
USC struggled early against Peterson added 15 points and
Boogie Ellis scored 14 for the
Oregon State on Thursday
Trojans, who were playing their
night, Jan. 13, but was able to
first home game since Dec. 15.
rally in the second half for an
“We came together. They
81-71 victory.
had the momentum but we
“We haven’t had a lot of
practice time and I think that found a way to pull it out at
the end,” said Goodwin, who
has hurt us, but there’s no ex-
posted his second double-dou-
cuses. We have to figure this
ble of the season. “It was a
out quickly and our players
have to get back to the flow we team effort. My thing was to
bring energy as much as I can.”
had,” Enfield said.
Mobley, who came into the
USC (14-1, 4-1 Pac-12) was
handed its first loss of the sea- game leading the Pac-12 in re-
bounds and fourth in scoring,
son Tuesday, Jan. 11, at Stan-
finished with 11 points and
ford and trailed by 10 during
seven boards.
the second half against the
BY JOE REEDY
Associated Press
“I’m not going to lie, I am
running on fumes — but we
have to grind it out. This is what
we signed up for. It wasn’t easy,
but we got the win,” he said.
Warith Alatishe’s layup gave
the Beavers a 71-70 advantage
with 3:55 remaining before
the Trojans scored the final
11 points. Mobley had five
straight, including a pair of
free throws after Alatishe’s fifth
foul with 3:41 left, to put the
Trojans up for good.
Jarod Lucas led Oregon
State (3-12, 1-4) with 27
points, including six 3-point-
ers. Alatishe had 15 points
and eight rebounds.
The Beavers made 19 of their
first 32 shots and had a 51-41
lead less than four minutes into
the second half before they went
cold and the Trojans rallied.
USC went on a 21-6 run
over the next seven min-
utes, including nine points by
Goodwin, to go up 65-59 on
Reese Dixon-Waters’ 3-pointer
with 9:10 remaining. The Bea-
vers went 2 of 14 from the field
during that stretch.
“They did exactly at halftime
what we said they were going
to do in the second half. USC
got physical, threw us around,
drove right at us and unfortu-
nately we weren’t able to stand
toe-to-toe with them the last
few minutes as we did over the
course of the game,” Oregon
State coach Wayne Tinkle said.
Highlight reel
Lucas hit a 3-pointer to give
the Beavers a 35-26 lead before
the Trojans went on an 11-2 run
to tie it. USC appeared to have
momentum after Ellis’ jumper
from beyond the arc tied it at 37
with 1:23 remaining, but Lucas
responded with a 3 to put Ore-
gon State back on top.
Ellis tried to get the Trojans
within one, but his driving
layup was blocked by Alatishe.
Roman Silva was able to get
the ball before it went out of
bounds to give Oregon State
possession before Alatishe
made a layup to extend the
lead to 42-37 at halftime.
Milestone
Peterson reached 1,000 col-
legiate points on a jumper early
in the second half. The 6-foot-9
senior scored 516 points during
two seasons at Rice before
transferring to the Trojans be-
fore the 2020-21 season.
Getting technical
Officials were not letting any
taunting or extra shoving in the
paint go uncalled. Oregon State’s
Dashawn Davis and Alatishe as
well as USC’s Isaiah White were
assessed technical fouls.
“What I have noticed is
when there are no fans, there
are more technical fouls called.
The refs can hear what is be-
ing said,” Mobley said. “They
did a good job of initially try-
ing to stop it, but there was a
lot of chirping going on.”
Big picture
Oregon State: The Beavers
are playing top-five teams in
back-to-back games for the
first time since 1971. Coin-
cidentally, those teams were
also USC and UCLA.
USC: The Trojans were back
at the Galen Center but it didn’t
feel like much of a home-court
advantage. Only families and
guests of players and coaches
are permitted to attend events
until Jan. 21 due to COVID-19.
USC is conducting classes re-
motely during the first two
weeks of the spring semester.
Up next
Oregon State: Remains
in Los Angeles to face No. 3
UCLA on Saturday, Jan. 15.
USC: Hosts Oregon on Sat-
urday, Jan. 15.
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