From: crs@stein.u.washington.edu (Cliff Slaughterbeck)
Subject: Pac Ten Report, Volume 2
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:16:43 GMT

This week in the Pac 10:

California 80, Oklahoma State 65
California 89, San Fransisco 79
Virginia 72, Stanford 48
Pacific 80, Oregon 68
Oregon State 69, Seattle Pacific 62
Arizona State 67, San Diego State 64
Arkansas def. Arizona  (sorry, I missed the score)
Arizona 89, New Mexico 70
UCLA 69, Santa Clara 60
Ohio St. 73, USC 56
Washington 73, Boise State 63
Rice 68, Washington 60
Fresno State 77, Washington 75
Alabama 70, Washington State 68
Idaho 65, Washington State 63

Also, Southern California played Gonzaga (I have no report on that score).

Next week in the Pac Ten:

Utah @ Arizona (D12)
Idaho @ Oregon (D12)
Oregon St. @ SW Missouri St. (D12)
Sacramento St. @ Stanford (D12)
Eastern Washington @ Washington St. (D12)
San Diego @ UCLA (D12)

No other contests are scheduled, since this is exam week for most Pac Ten
schools.

CALIFORNIA BEARS
================

Cal beat Oklahoma State 80-65 in Harmon on Saturday 12/5.
The Bears pulled out to a 15 point lead at the end of the
first half, and the Cowboys never managed to get closer than
9 the rest of the way.  Poor foul shooting hurt Ok State
and Cal had a 39-29 rebounding advantage.  Murray lead with
19 points and Kidd added 13 and seven assists in his
national television debut on ESPN.

On Monday 12/7 Cal travelled across the Bay to face USF in
the Cow Palace, where they won 89-79.  USF pressure helped
the Dons take an early lead but Cal tied it at 46 at the half.
The Bears used a 16-4 run early in the second half to take.
Once again, Cal had a significant advantage in rebounds 39
v. 28) and free throws (33-39 v. 23-29)  The game was billed
as a matchup between Jason Kidd and USF superfrosh Gerald
Walker.  Walker generated 8 points and 5 assists, while
Kidd had 18 points, 5 assists and 5 turnovers.  "Gerald and
I are freshmen," Kidd said, "and we're going to make freshmen
mistakes, and people forget that. They never expect me to make
a turnover.  The team comes first.  I have four years to develop.
I don't have to develop overnight."  Cal gained valuable experience
dealing with USF's quick guards and pressing defense.

Notes: Bruce Jenkins of the Chronicle counted 12 guys wearing
suits and ties on the Cal bench.  Grigsby hurt his ankle against
Ok St and missed USF. Johnson hurt an ankle (I think) during USF
and sat out the remainder.  Both have time to heal as the Bears
take an exam break before a trip to Santa Clara 12/20.


STANFORD CARDINAL
=================

An update on Cardinal MIAs: G David Harbour's hand injury has
caused him to redshirt this year.  6'11" C Jim Morgan should
return mid-January, bringing much-needed size with him. F Jason
Weaver is also injured (not sure how) and should be back earlier
than Morgan, although prognosis is uncertain.

Stanford dropped to 1-2 with a depressing 72-48 loss at Virginia.
The struggling Cardinal offense disappeared for the last part of
the first half and early moments of the second while Virginia
went on a 27-2 run to put the game away.  The Cardinal shot 33%
(17-51) for the game.  The defense managed to hold UVa to just
under 40% shooting, but the Cavs' 53-28 rebounding advantage
allowed Virginia to take twenty more shots than the Cardinal.
Dukes and Williams were a combined 2-12.  Marcus Lollie managed
a dozen points but couldn't come up with enough asissts to
surpass Bart Lammersen's 4.  Lammersen also pulled down 8 boards.
Bright Spot: 5-15 three-point shooting.  Excuse: play-Thursday-
night-fly-cross-country-Fri-play-Saturday-noon schedule
Spin Control: Virginia's burly, experienced front line was
tailor-made to take advantage of Stanford's depleted young
front court.  Stanford has home games against Sacramento State
(sat 12th) and Howard (sat 19th) coming up to help them get back
on track.  The return of Weaver and then Morgan will help them
improve steadily as the conference season builds.


 OREGON
 ======

 Well, Oregon is still looking for that first win against a Division I
 opponent this season. From the looks of things, they may have to wait
 a long while. 

 On December 5th the Oregon Ducks went down to Stockton to take on the
 University of Pacific Tigers. The Ducks lost to Pacific 80 - 68. The
 Ducks were slow from the start, missing 8 of their first 10 shots. On
 the other hand, the Tigers started quick and never let up. The score at
 the half was 42-30. The second half was more of the same, with UofO
 closing to within 4, but never quite capable of stopping Pacific nor
 going on a serious run. 

 On December 10th the Ducks faced off against Division II Alaska-Fairbanks
 at home. Center Bob Fife had a career high 26 points and pulled down 8
 rebounds as the Ducks managed their second victory, 97 - 77. Orlando
 Williams and Aaron Johnson both had 13 points for the Ducks as well. As
 lopsided as the score was, the Ducks were only up by 3 at the half, 40-37,
 but scored the first 9 of the second half to put the game out of reach.
 The Nanooks (4-3) seemed to run out of gas in the second half, never
 closing the gap to less than 9.

 So the Ducks and first year coach Jerry Green have 2 Division II wins and
 4 Division I losses to show for the year so far. I don't know whether
 perimeter play has deliberately been relegated a back seat role or not,
 but the Ducks most able player, Antoine Stoudmire, has been very subdued
 so far this year. The interior strength of the Ducks is not good enough
 to carry the Ducks against any team with a good frontline, as they are
 finding out.

 Next up for the Ducks are the Idaho Vandals from the Big Sky Conference,
 who recently knocked off the Washington State Cougars. Allowing for
 transitivity of relative strengths, one would have to believe the Ducks
 may have their work cut out for them.


 OREGON STATE
 ============

 Well, I have been a bit lethargic about posting the results of Saturday's
 OSU game against Division II Seattle Pacific. I must have caught the bug
 that was going around at Gill Coliseum.

 The Beavers held off Seattle Pacific 69 - 62 in a very unremarkable
 manner. Let's first dispose of the excuses: the Beavers were coming off
 the tough road trip to OK, it would be hard for anyone to get up for
 Seattle Pacific, and it is nearly finals week. That said, I must say that
 I have not seen the Beavers this lethargic, disinterested, bored, tired,
 out of sync, etc in a long while. McKinney saved the day with 19, Scott
 Haskin and Chad Scott followed him with 18 apiece. The biggest lead was
 51 - 39, halftime score was 45 - 37, and the Falcons even had the 
 opportunity to close to within 2 with under a minute to go. At one juncture,
 OSU missed 11 of 14 shots. The Seattle Pacific team was lead by Reggie Paul
 (high school teammate of Harold Miner), who ended up with 23 pts and 12
 boards.

 Beavers are now 2-1, and play at SW Missouri State on Saturday. 

ARIZONA STATE SUN DEVILS 
========================

 ASU won an ugly game Tuesday night against San Diego State 67-64 on
a fall away 3-point shot by Steve Smith before 4,567 fans at the
activity center. The Sun Devils managed to win despite shooting only
32 percent from 2-point range and 20% from 3-point land. The Sun Devils
started out hot hitting 4 of their first 8 threes but cooled off
quickly hitting only 2-30 until the final 2 minutes of the game.
The Sun Devils appeared to be better prepared for their new run and
gun pace coming back from a 13 point second-half deficit to win. ASU
forced a record (SDSU record that is) 39 turnovers including 12
turnovers in their final 15 possesions. SDSU outrebounded ASU 43-30
but the turnovers told the story. ASU football player Shante Carver
had 2 points, three rebounds, a blocked shot and a turnover in
seven minutes Tuesday in his first game since joining the
team last Thursday at Bill Freider's request. He has yet to get into
basketball shape but expects to improve as the weeks wear on.

 For ASU

 Riley 5-21  2-4   12
 Neal  3-5   2-4    8
Bacon  2-6   4-5    8
Whitlock 4-15 2-2  13
Smith  2-8   2-2    8
Capers  4-5  0-0   10
Conlisk  1-1  0-2   2
Versher  1-8  1-2   4
Carver   1-3  0-0   2

ARIZONA WILDCATS
================

 Arizona started the week by losing their 4th straight game (including the
end of last season) to the Arkansas Razorbacks. The Wildcats were unable
to handle the Arkansas pressure and speed and seemed a bit winded in
their first game of the season. Probably the biggest surpise of the game
was Reggie Geary who played 21 minutes and gave the cats their most
effective guard performance of the night. Also a pleasent surpise was
Tony Blair who was the first big man off the bench (answering many people's
question as to who would win the spot) and ran the court impressively. He
also showed a scoring touch which surpised many. Lute Olson was forced to
use more subs than expected due to the pace of the game but the main reserves
appeared to be Geary, Blair, and Derron Johnson. Bohanon, Flanagan, and
Rigdon did not see any playing time nor did freshman Cory Williams.
Khalid Reeves was criticized strongly after the game by coach Olson
for what he perceived to be a lack of hustle during the game. Reggie Geary
practiced with the starting squed the following day. Ed Stokes had
a reasonable performace but the running game hurt him as his
teammates began rushing the offesne and in the second half Ed rarely touched
the ball on offense. Arkansas shot over 50% from 3-point land due in great
part to their superior speed and Arizona's weak outside defense.

 Judging by the game on Tuesday against New Mexico, Olson decided to send a
few messages - not the least of which was "if you do not hustle then you
will sit no matter how big your reputation is". Reeves sat while
freshman Reggie Geary started for the Cats. Arizona started a bit sloppy
but managed to open up a 9 point lead at the half. The guard duty was split
between Geary Stoudamire and Reeves with Rigdon also getting some
time (7-9 minutes I believe). Ed Stokes was simply not able to find his way
into this fast-paced running game and Arizona made its best move of the
night during a span when Ed was on the bench and Bohanon and Blair
were no the court with Geary in the backcourt. Reeves was very effective when
he was in and his shooting touch was on. Blair is now 10-11 as
a Wildcats and continues to impress the coaching staff. This of course
is too bad for one Ray Owes who has seen his time decrease and his numbers
shrink.

 The cats won 89-70 and were in control for most of the second half. Arizona
taking a page from the Arkansas handbook forced 20 turnovers and held
their own down to 12. Mills led the cats with 18 points on 7-11
shooting and 3-3 from the line. Stoudamire had 15 while Reeves and
Blair chipped in with 13 each. Stokes also finished up in double
figures with 10 points in 24 minutes to go along with 6 rebounds.
Bohanon had 5 points and 5 rebounds in 14 minutes of play.

UCLA
====

UCLA 69 Santa Clara 60

The 16th ranked Bruins, who was thought to have a easy time with the Broncos
(picked to finish last in the WCC) had a harder time than most people had
expected. By the time the game ended the 4-1 Bruins still had all but one of
 theirstarters on the court. "Well, we won the game" said Coach Jim Harrick
 said."We played pretty good for about nine minutes and I thought that was the diffrence in the game". The point came where UCLA outscored Santa Clara 13-4
at the end of the first half when the Broncos went cold, missing four of its 
last five shots before halftime and making three turnovers to fall behind 40-
31.

  The only real bright spot for the Bruins was the play of Ed O'Bannon who 
scored a career-high 20 points, and grabbed 10 rebounds. Shon Tarver followed
with 19 and 6 assists and Tyus Edney 10 with 6 assists. DeWayne Lewis led the
Broncos with 25 points and 13 rebounds. Both teams had an off shooting night
with the Bruins shooting 40.4% and Santa Clara 33.8%.


USC
===

Ohio State 73  USC 56

  The Trojans who gave a Buckeye's a big lead in the first half, rallied with
a flurries of three-pointers, before Jamie Skelton led a Buckeye run which
polished of the Trojans. The Buckeye'scored the games first seven points,
before Trojan Phil Glenn made a three-pointer, built a 46-19 lead when the Tro-
jans (1-1) made only 26% of their shots and committed 17 turnovers. Ohio State
increased it's lead to 48-19 in the second half, before USC came to life. The
Trojans scored the next 13 points and also had another 16-6 rally to cut the
deficit to 60-48 with 5:57 left. But Skelton killed the rally with two three-
pointers within 13 seconds which made it 66-48 and the Buckeyes never looked
back.

Skelton led the way for the Buckeyes with 20 points and five assists, followed
by Fanderburke with 16 points. Glenn led the Trojans with 16 points, five from
three point range, follwed by Hackett with 15 points,including 4 three pointers
USC shot poorly making only 32.1% of their shots, plus only 55% from the foul
line. Ohio State shot much better, shooting 52.8% from the field, but shot only
58.8% from the line.


WASHINGTON HUSKIES
==================

The weekend saw Washington host Boise St., Rice, and Murray St. in the 1st
US West Cellular Air Time Classic.  The opening night saw the Huskies power
past the BSU Broncos on the strength of Richard Manning's 19 points and 
career high 17 boards.  The Huskies were consistently able to score inside
against a pretty good BSU front line featuring 6-10 Tanoka Beard and 7-0
center  John Coker.  Pope scored 15 in the Husky victory.  The Rice Owls
defeated Murray State on the first night to take on the Huskies in the 
championship.  The UW could score inside against the Owls, but had an
abysmal shooting percentage from outside, and when Rice went to a matchup
zone, the Huskies fell behind.  The Huskies did a very good job defensively
against Rice center Brent Scott, holding him to just 11 points.  They just
packed in the lane, giving center Rich Maning as much help as he needed to
keep Scott from scoring.  The thing was, that this gave guard Marvin Moore
enough space to plug away from outside.  He responded with a career high
29 points including 13-14 from the line as he drove on the Huskies who
were out of position trying to defend Scott.  Rich Manning put in 25
to lead the Huskies on 12-17 shooting, but he never got to the line very
often, despite playing so much inside, as his best move is a jump hook
that is hard to defend, but doesn't draw many fouls.  Once again, outside
shooting is what killed the Huskies:  4-19 just won't get the job done.
On Tuesday night, the Huskies hosted new WAC member Fresno State.  The Huskies
came out really cold, scoring just a point a minute or so for the first 12 
minutes.  They finished the first half shooting only 13/38 from the floor.
Nonetheless, they led 33-32 at halftime, largely thanks to a pretty good
man to man defense.  The second half was close all the time, with the Bulldogs
leading most of the way by a couple of points.  It seemed that FSU would
score a couple of buckets in a row, only to have the Huskies finally hit 
a three point shot to move it back to about 4 points.  Fresno raeally did
everything they could to lose this game.  They led by three with only 20
seconds left and the ball, when the Huskies fouled and sent them to the line.
Miss the front end of a 1-1, and the Huskies called time out with 13 seconds
to play.  Chanler Nairn throws up a wild off balance shot with 6 seconds
to play, and FSU gets the rebound--immediate foul.  Miss the front end of
the 1-1 again.  The Bulldogs then fouled PG Prentiss Perkins with 2 seconds
left to play.  Perkins hits the first shot, and intentionally misses the
second.  Mark Pope grabs the rebound and is fouled as time runs out.  He has
a 1-1, down by two points.  He bricks the free throw (he is and 86% FT 
shooter), and the game is over.  Sigh.

WASINGTON STATE COUGARS
=======================

The Cougars losta close game in Birmingham on a James Robinson short jump
shot as time wound down against the Alabama Crimson Tide. The All-American 
candidate had 22 points to lead the Tide.  Bennie Seltzer had 17, Tony Harris
15, Eddie Hill 13, and Hendrickson 11 to lead th Cougars.  Harris had 7
assists and Hendrickson 11 boards in the losing effort.

Wednesday night, the 246th battle of the Palouse between WSU and the Univ.
of Idaho took place in Moscow.  The schools are only 8 miles apart, and
while the rivalry isn't as intense as say Duke-UNC, their is a lot of
pride running on this game.  The Vandals are picked to win the Big Sky
conference, and have given the Cougars quite good games for many years.
This time, it was Orlando Lightfoot and Marvin Ricks who scored 16 and 17
points respectively to lead the Vandals to a 65-63 victory over the Cougs,
who now have lost two consecutive close games.  Tony Harris had 17 and 
Eddie Hill 18 to lead the Cougars.

Some team notes, coutesy of Jim Jungbauer (see Jim somebody does read
your posts besides Dave Bakken!!):

Notes:

* Bennie is going to have to be extra careful this year not to commit silly
  fouls.  If he gets into foul trouble, which he almost did tonight, we
  don't have a Tyrone Maxey to bring off the bench anymore.

* To correct myself from my last summary, Nathan Erdmann's redshirting
  is apparently *not* due to his wrist injury, according to Kelvin Sampson.
  Erdmann has been cleared to play, but will be redshirted anyway along 
  with Mack.  [written after Alabama game...]

* Interestingly, Nathan Erdmann and Tavares Mack were both dressed tonight.
  We have heard nothing about Kelvin changing his mind about redshirting
  them, so we're not sure if this means anything. [written after Idaho...]

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