From: crs@stein.u.washington.edu (Cliff Slaughterbeck)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: Pac Ten Report (1/7/93)
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:14:32 GMT
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Contributors:	Gary Newell		gln@cs.arizona.edu
		Ken Bowers		kbowers@esrc1.berkeley.edu
		Rajeev Pandey		rpandey@storm.orst.edu
		Valdis Kalejs		valdis@skat.usc.edu
		Cliff Slaughterbeck	crs@u.washington.edu


Conference Standings	(includes games through 1/7)
			(RPI through 12/30)
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RPI	RPI			Conference	Overall
Rank	Score			W  L  Pct.	W  L  Pct.
 77	.5684	Arizona St.	0  0  .000	6  1  .833
 13	.6642	UCLA		0  0  .000	9  2  .800
108	.5442	USC		0  0  .000	7  2  .750
 51	.5972	California	0  0  .000	6  2  .714
 11	.6717	Arizona		0  0  .000	5  2  .667
189	.4787	Washington St.	0  0  .000	6  3  .625
130	.5314	Washington	0  0  .000	6  3  .625
141	.5244	Oregon		0  0  .000	7  5  .545
197	.4719	Stanford	0  0  .000	5  6  .400
137	.5263	Oregon St.	0  0  .000	4  5  .375

The out of conference record is:  61-31 (.663)
This week in the Pac Ten:

Arizona 87, Rhode Island 79
Arizona State 80, Alaska-Anchorage 79
Oregon State 97, UC-San Diego 39
Stanford 66, Santa Clara 35
UCLA 87, Houston 78
Southern Cal 77, Notre Dame 74
California 84, Texas Southern 69
Oregon 71, Hartford 69
Washington 81, Idaho State 69
Washington State 87, Sacremento State 56

Next week's games:

Arizona at UCLA (J7)
Arizona at USC (J9)
Arizona State at USC (J7)
Arizona State at UCLA (J9)
Oregon at California (J7)
Oregon State at California (J9)
Oregon at Stanford (J9)
Oregon State at Stanford (J7)
Washington at Washington State (J9)

 OREGON DUCKS
 ============ 

 Oregon vs. Hartford 1/04/93

 Hartford is a one man team, the one man being Vin Baker, a 6'11"
 all-around player who is projected as a high 1st round NBA draft
 choice. Though Hartford lost to Oregon by a final score of 71 - 69,
 Vin Baker did nothing to hurt his draft chances, scoring 42 points
 along with 11 rebounds and 4 blocked shots. A last second trey fell
 short, and Hartford fell short, and to 4-6, as a result.

 Oregon was lead in scoring by Jeff Potter with 16. UofO is now 7-5, 
 and looks tough going into the Pac-10 season. With Oregon's first 
 stops being Cal and Stanford, and the woes the Bay Area schools are
 going through, Oregon might manage a split this week on the road.


 OREGON STATE BEAVERS
 ====================

 Oregon State University vs. UC-San Diego 01/02/93

 OSU beat the Div. III squad from San Diego 97 - 39. Nothing much to 
 report here, other than the game was a good tune-up for the Beavers
 before the Pac-10 season begins. The halftime entertainment, consisting
 of the Bud Light Daredevils, actually generated most of the excitement.

 The Beavers set a new record for largest margin of victory. In the
 process, every Beaver but Brent Barry and J.D. Vetter scored, with
 Barry playing only 3 minutes due to bronchitis and injuries. Chad
 Scott had 15 points and 13 boards, McKinney 15, Haskin 14, Thioune 13,
 Anderson 12, and Hoff 11.

 Oregon State is now 4-5, entering Pac-10 play with a losing record for
 the first time since 1970. Their first opponent is Stanford, on 1/7/93.


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

Notes From While I Was Gone
(Losses to JMU and Cornell): 
Cal's season took an abrupt about face with these two losses.  
Questions arose about Campanelli's ability to focus his young
squad, the team's ability to play on the road and the health of 
two key players.  Jason Kidd bruised his ribs or back in the James
Madison game, missed Cornell, and looked tentative in Sunday's Texas
Western game.  He will play against Oregon.  Brian Hendrick's knee
swelled up, and he missed Texas Western and will miss Oregon.  The
local press is starting to circle Campanelli, with comments like
"time to stop complaining about expectations and and start coaching."

Sunday 1/3  Cal 84 Texas Southern 69.  A thoroughly uninspired win.
Cal looked asleep, and couldn't take control until a 15-2 run with 
about eight minutes remaining.  Al Grigsby and and Stevie Johnson
were effective inside in the adsence of Hendrick, with Grigsby leading
the way with 13 points and 12 boards.  Lamond Murray saw limited time
as punishemnt for attempting and missing a reverse slam at the end
of the Cornell loss.  Taking a stand that seems ludicrous from the
outside, Campanellis says he is not sure if Murray will start against
Oregon. 


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

Notes From While I Was Gone
(Loss to Chaminade, Win over American, Loss to Ohio): 
The best news for the Cardinal was the return of Center Jim 
Morgan, who scored the winning basket against American in his
first game back.  Otherwise, things looked pretty dim.  After
the loss to Ohio, Montgomery opened his press conference with
"I don't know ... I don't know what to do."  Brent Williams is
his only player who has shown even vaguely consistent production.
Shooting guard Peter Dukes is up and down in the scoring column,
and point guard Marcus Lollie is in a shooting funk. 

Saturday 1/2:  Stanford 66, Santa Clara 35  Broncos coach Dick 
Davey described Stanford's defense as "very solid" and said his
own team "shot it poorly."  Try 9-55, a frightening 16.4% from
the floor.  Stanford had the rare opportunity to roll up a big lead 
while only managing to shoot 38% themselves.  Up by eleven at the 
half, the Cardinal came out strong and scored seven straight right
after the break to set the tone for the rest of the game.  Jim 
Morgan lead with 10 points.  Montgomery was pleased with the
team's defensive effort, and in a season where any win is welcome,
a 30-point victory was an enjoyable way to open the new year. 

WASHINGTON STATE COUGARS (courtesy of Jim Jungbauer)
========================

Monday night marked the return of former WSU assistant coach Don Newman,
now head coach at Cal State Sacramento, and the Cougars showed Donny no
mercy, pounding his still winless Hornets 87-56 at Friel Court in Pullman.
After a slow start by the Cougs kept the game close early, they made a quick
run to break a 19-19 tie, and never looked back.  To be perfectly honest,
this was a game that was difficult to watch with much interest, so I don't
remember too many details.  The Cougars' hot shooting returned, almost to
the level that it was at in the win over Princeton, as they hit 58% of their
FGs tonight, while holding Sac. St. to just 33% from the floor.  Bennie
Seltzer shot very well from 3-pt land and wound up with 19 points.  Mark
Hendrickson had another solid outing, finishing with 16 points and 7 boards.
Fred Ferguson played extremely well off the bench, coming up with some big
blocked shots and impressive rebounds.  Tommie Oatis had a rare good game,
scoring 9 in just 8 minutes.

The Cougs open the conference season at home on Saturday against the 
Washington Huskies.  A really good matchup in this game will be on the
front line... sophomore Mark Pope against freshman Mark Hendrickson, both
at the top of the PAC-10 in rebounding.  I'm not as familiar with the 
Huskies this year, but the Cougars should have a decided advantage in the
back court.  One note: the originally scheduled time for this game was
1:00 PST.  This has been changed to 4:00 PST to accomodate TV coverage
(Raycom, I believe), for anyone who didn't know.

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

The Huskies beat Idaho State 81-69 on Monday to go to 6-3 on the year. The
Huskies were without the services of leading scorer and rebounder Rich
Manning, who tweaked a knee last week against Dartmouth.  In his absence,
Maurice Woods started and poured in 12 points and grabbed 9 boards in 26
minutes.  More important was the defense he played against the Bengals
center Jim Potter.  Potter had been averaging 20+ points per game but was
held to just 1 point and two rebounds as Woods totally kept him out of the
game.  Leading scorer for the Huskies was Jason Tyrus who had 15.  Chandler
Nairn threw in 14 to join Woods in double figures.

The key for the Huskies has been injuries.  With Martin Keane just recovering
from early ankle injuries and now Manning sidelined, the Husky frontline
has still not played a game as a complete unit.  In this game, guard
Bryant Boston was on the bench with the flu and two more ankles were
injured in the last few minutes of play, with  Jason Tyrus going down and
Prentiss Perkins going down a few minutes later.  Boston should play against
WSU on Saturday, as should Tyrus.  Manning and Perkins are both listed as
questionable.

USC TROJANS
===========

No report from Valdis this week.

UCLA BRUINS
===========

No report from Valdis this week.

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

No report from Gary this week.

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

No report from Gary this week.

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Cliff Slaughterbeck           * 
Dept. of Physics, FM-15       *   There is no such thing as "rock bottom".
University of Washington      *   
Seattle, WA 98195             *
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