From: crs@carson.u.washington.edu (Cliff Slaughterbeck)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: Pac Ten Report (1-26-93)
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:31:00 GMT
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		Cliff Slaughterbeck	crs@u.washington.edu


This week in the Pac Ten:

Arizona 91, Arizona State 87
Southern Cal 67, California 65
Washington State 95, Oregon 79
Oregon State 73, Washington 70
UCLA 84, Stanford 76
Washington State 56, Oregon State 51
Washington 70, Oregon 53
Arizona 82, New Orleans 79
Southern Cal 63, Stanford 55
Louisville 85, Arizona State 59
California 104, UCLA 82

Next week in the Pac Ten:

Arizona at Oregon (J28)
Arizona State at Oregon State (J28)
Washington at California (J28)
Washington State at Stanford (J28)
UCLA at Southern Cal (J28)
Arizona at Oregon State (J30)
Arizona State at Oregon (J30)
Washington State at California (J30)
Washington at Stanford (J30)
Notre Dame at UCLA (J31)



USC: 67 - CAL: 65

  After USC had played two of their worst games of the season last week against
the Oregon Schools, USC came back with one of their best showings by edging
out the Bears 67-65. The Bears although started fast making their first five
shots and had a 19-9 lead, with Cal sophomore Laymond Murray scoring 14 of the
19. Then Trojan sophomore Burt Harris sank a couple of three-pointers to get
SC back in the game and went into the locker room at halftime trailing only
43-40. The second half was mostlly a defensive struggle, but SC had jumped to
a 63-55 lead with 3:47 left, when Cal scratching back to tie the game 65-65,
with 42 seconds to play. SC played for the last shot, but after Rodney Chatman
missed a basline jumper with 2 seconds left, Phil Glenn was fouled while trying
a follow-up attempt with 6 tenths of a second left. Glenn sank both free throws
which iced the game.

  Hackett and Chatman both led the Trojans with 15 points eached followed with
Harris with 9. SC also attempted 29 three-pointers, but only made 11. Murray 
led Cal with 20 points followed by Haase with 19. Freshman sensation Jason Kidd
only scored 6 points manking only 3 of 11 shots, but was praised by Laker GM
Jerry West who attended the game. West said," Jason has great feel for the game
and is easy to see why he is an outstanding player".


USC:63 - STANFORD:55

  Though not a esthetic success, USC won its 3rd straight (15th straight at the
Sports Arena) 63-55 despite being shutout the first 6 minutes of the ball game
missing its first six shots (plus two free throws). Combines with end of the
previous game with Cal, SC was held without a field goal for 10:06. The thing 
that kept SC in the game was that the Cardinal missed its first nine shots. 
Both teams traded leads with SC leading by one at halftime. SC quickly fell
behind in the second half but never by than more 4 points. SC then went on a
10-0 run which put the Trojans up 50-44 with 9:11 left. Stanford got within
three, but never could tie the game in the stretch even though the Trojans 
missed 6 of 9 free throws.

Tremayne Anchrum let the Trojans with 18 points and a carrer-high 17 rebounds,
with Chatman following with 11 and Orr with 10. Marcus Lollie led the Cardinal
with 19,followed by Williams with 13 points. also the both the Trojans and
the Cardinal shooting was off, with both only shooting 33% from the field.
The win improved SC's record to 4-2 in confrence play and 11-4 overall, while
the Cardinal fell to 1-4 and 6-11 overall.




UCLA:84 - STANFORD:76

  Even though UCLA was entering this game as the Pac-10's worst three-point
shooting team, they broke out of their slump with Freshman guard Kevin Dempsey
hitting 4 out of 5 leading the Bruins to a 84-76 victory. Along with Dempsey,
the Bruins also got inspired play from Rodney Zimmerman and Marquis Burns. The
only lead that the Cardinal enjoyed, was a brief 44-41 lead with 15:15 remain-
ing,but then the Bruins went on a 16-3 run to put the game out of reach.

  Ed O'Bannon led the way for the Bruins with 19 points and 11 rebounds, fol-
lowed by Shon Tarver with 18 and five assists. Dion Cross led the way with the
Cardinal with 18 points, followed by Hicks with 15.


CAL:104 - UCLA: 82


  Cal, who was comming off a loss against USC, took their frustrations out on 
UCLA, routing them 104-82. This loss by the Bruins was by the biggest margin
ever since Pauley Pavilion was built,and only the second in 29 years to the
Bears. It seemed the more the game progressed, the worse the game went for
the Bruins. At halftime, the UCLA trailed by 16. Then with 18 minutes to go, 
they trailed by 18. With nine minutes to go it was 20. They to the game was
the 21 offensive rebounds by Cal to win the battle on the boards 39-33, which
caused UCLA Head Coach Jim Harrick to bench starting center Richard Petruska
for almost the entire second half.

  Even though Grisby and Hendrick led Cal in scoring with 23 points a piece,the
play of guard Jason Kidd was the diffrence. Kidd scored 11 points, grabbed 8 
rebounds and dished off 6 assists and stole the ball 6 times. "He was simply
all over the court" commented Coach Harrick. Shon Tarver led the way for the
Bruins with 21 points. The loss dropped The Bruins to 3-3 in conference and
12-2 overall, while Cal improved to 3-2 and 9-4.


 ASU vs UA in Tempe Arizona
############################

 This was a big game for both programs. Arizona needed the win to keep
its road record perfect and put it in a solid position to take control of
the Pac-10 with a good trip to Oregon this week. ASU was coming off two big
home wins against the Washington schools and a win over Arizona could
have put them into the spotlight for awhile and put them in a very good 
position in the pac race.

 The game was played at ASU's pace in the first half. They put up a bundle
of threes and had 12 or 13 drop and went in at the half up by 7 points. 
They had forced 19 firsthalf turnovers for Arizona and held Ed Stokes
to only 4 points. Headake Smith was not expected to play but he showed
no signs of the hip-pointer that would sit him out of the Louisville
game on the weekend as he hit from outside, played well on the press and
simply helped the Sun Devils run up their lead and take control of the
game.

 From the start of the second half it looked like more of the same. ASU
continued to control the pace of the game and in the first 4 minutes ran the 
lead out to 13 points. It was then that the Devils let the game slip
away. They allowed Arizona to take control of the pace of the game and
when Arizona extended its defense to half-court ASU went on a cold-spell
with turnovers and missed threes. Arizona meanwhile began to have little
trouble with the SunDevil press (only 6 second half turnovers) and
by controling the boards they closed the gap and eventually took the lead.
They opened up a lead of as much as 7 points but ASU hit a very late
3 and ended up going down by the final 4 point spread. It appeared that ASU
ran out of gas and began to let up a bit on defense, allowing the Cats to
claw their way back in and then take control. Ed Stokes ended up with 19
points scoring 15 in the second half and along with Chris Mills lead
the cats to their victory.



ASU vs. Louisville
##################

 ASU played its worst game of the year by far in Louisville. They started
off in the usual way tossing up threes from everywhere and pressing full-court
from the first play of the game but things didn't go the way they
have in other games. The 3's were not falling and Louisville had little
trouble breaking the Sun Devil press. ASU showed signs of a let down after
the tough loss to Arizona earlier in the week and that, combined
with Smith sitting out, seemed to lead to a poorly played game in which
no sun devil looked confident or capable. Fontanna missed at least
3 easy lay-ups and was blocked many times underneath and the outside
shooting stayed cold (FOR ASU - the Cardinals hit their open 3's fairly
consistently) through out the game.

 The only positive thing the Sun Devils can take from this game is that
it doesn't have any effect on their conference standings and so they can
easily rebound from the blow-out by upsetting OSU on the road this
Thursday. If they managed to pull off the upset it would most likely
solidify their claim to a top-5 Pac-10 team status and might even put
Freider in line for a shot at P10 coach of the year - something I for one
thought I'd never see this season.


ARIZONA vs. Univ. of New Orleans
################################

 This was a very strange game for Arizona. Unlike past seasons where the cats
would go all out to take this type of game (non-conference, on the road) coach
Olson announced two days before the game that he intended to play a 
line-up consisting of his 5 freshmen at the 8 minute mark of the first half and
it did not matter what the situation was. He did just that, putting in the
freshmen with Arizona hanging tough down by 1 with around 12 minutes
to go. Up to that point, Arizona was lead by Chris Mills and Ed Stokes
who had stellar nights shooting extremely high fg%'s. Stokes was matched
up against Earvin Johnson of New Orleans, probably the best center he will
face this season, and he had done quite well scoring 7 points in his
short first half minutes and grabbing some rebounds a steal and a block.
Johnson had some success 4 points a some rebounds but seemed to be having
difficulty dealing with Stoke's defensive abilities. When the freshmen
came in, the flood gates opened for UNO and they began to take
advantage of the inexperience and lack of size inside for the Cats. 
Blair and Bohanon were taken to school pretty well by Johnson and
company and it appeared as if Olson's experiment was going to be a
huge failure. The insertion of Kevin Flanagan seemed to help the cats
get back into their rythym as he made no huge plays but UNO was
less effective inside from that point on. Arizona managed to go into
the half down "only" 5 points.

 The second half was the Chris Mills, Ed Stokes show. Stokes continued
to dominate Johnson inside and ended up with 20 points, double figure
rebounds, 3 blocks and 2 steals. He once again avoided foul trouble
and his offense, combined with Mills' 27 points was enough to allow
the cats to finally take the lead with under 2 minutes to go in the game
on a big three point shot by Mills. UNO seemed to lose their composure
a bit and took some questionable shots but Arizona looked steady running
the lead to 6 with under a minute to go. UNO hit a 3 pointer with about
15 seconds left and fouled Arizona. A missed foul-shot gave UNO a
chance to tie with less than ten seconds to go but a 3-point shot 
went long and Mills grabbed the rebound to run out the clock and the Cats
left the Big Easy with a 3-point win and some great experience under their
belt for the freshmen.

 Arizona goes to Oregon for their biggest trip of the season so far. The
cats traditionally have trouble on Mac court in Eugene and OSU needs
to sweep this series badly. Should the cats manage a sweep it would 
put them in control of the Pac-10 race as they end the season with 5 of 7
conference games at home.

WASHINGTON HUSKIES (vs. Oregon State and Oregon)
================================================

Thursday night in Hec-Edmundson Pavilion, the Dawgs lost to the Beavers 
73-70 in a close, hard fought game.  The battle was expected to be a matchup
of two of the best centers in the Pac Ten in OSU's Scott Haskins and U-Dub's
Rich Manning.  Manning won the battle against Haskins as he racked up 27
points and 9 boards, compared to Haskin's 17 points and 7 boards.  Manning
hit just about everything he threw up, hitting 8/14 from the field and 
11/13 from the line.  He thoroughly dominated OSU's big man.  Having done
so well in the pivot, why did the Huskies lose?  The answer is simple.
Guard play.  After having racked up career high points of 19 and 20 in the
previous weekend's trip to Arizona, shooting guard Bryant Boston was held
scoreless against the Beavers, and point Prentiss Perkins managed just
a single deuce.  Substitutes weren't the answer either, as Brett Pagett
and Jason Tyrus went a combined 4-11.  All in all, the Husky guards were
an absolutely miserable 5-24 from the field, and had 12 turnovers with
their 12 assists.  Bleah!  Meanwhile, the Beavers went to JC transfer
Mustafa Hoff who hit 11-12 from the foul stripe in route to his 17 points.
Charles McKinney, the OSU point guard was also a big contributer with 15
points.  Washington had a chance to tie this game, when Haskin missed two
free throws and Washington ran down court and Perkins put a three off of
the back rim as time ran out.  As the players were walking off of the court,
Perkins picked up the ball where he stood, and nailed the shot on the
second attempt.  Sigh.

Saturday night saw Jerry Green's Oregon Ducks come in looking for their 
first conference victory this year.  They left the same way, losing 70-53.
The Ducks hung in with the Huskies, coming back from 17-8 early to tie
the score at 30 going into the locker room.  In the second half, it was
all Dawgs, as the Husky front line owned the boards and Perkins rebounded
from his abysmal night against OSU with 16 second half points to end up
with 22.  The Ducks' game plan was to deny Rich Manning his offense by
sagging off of everyone else to help in the pivot.  The ploy worked to
prevent Manning from beating the Ducks, as he was just 3-12 from the
floor.  What that did was to open up the rebounding lanes for the other
players and they responded, owning the glass 48-28.  Mark Pope chipped in
with 19 points on 6-8 shooting from the floor and 5-6 from the line, mostly
on put backs and open jumpers.  Pope's 13 boards, Keane's 10, and Manning's
8 were all more than Oregon's leading rebounder Aaron Johnson with 6.  At
the other end of the court, the Husky defense did a marvelous job on
Antoine Stoudamire, who entered the game averaging 17 ppg.  He had an off
night, hitting only 1-7 shots and ending up with only 4 points.  Williams
and Johnson were the only double figure scorers for the Ducks with 11 and
10 respectively.  Oregon ended up shooting an abysmal 34.5% from the floor.

WASHINGTON STATE COUGARS (vs. Oregon and Oregon State)
======================================================

I already told you about how badly UW beat the Ducks.  It was even worse
two nights before in Pullman.  The Cougars jumped out to a 17-3 lead from
the opening bell, and it didn't get any closer.  Bennie Seltzer led the
Cougars with 31, the most by any player in the Pac Ten this year.  Eddie
Hill chipped in 20 and Tony Harris 14 for the Cougars.  Antoine Stoudamire
was the leading scorer for the Ducks with 19.  Johnson and William both
put in 15 for the Ducks who were 25-58 (43.1%) from the floor.  The
Cougars, on the other hand were 35-52 (67.1%), and 18-20 (90%) from the
line. 

On Saturday evening, the Cougars hosted the Beavers.  Unbelievedly, the
Seattle Times did not carry a review of the game.  I looked.  Three times.
I did catch the last few minutes on the tube after I got back from the
Husky-Duck game. The big man in the second half was Tony Harris, who scored
14 or so points in leading the Cougars to a 56-51 win.  The Cougars did
a number on Scott Haskin as well, holding him to under 10 points for the
first time in quite a while.  The Cougars have now won six consecutive games
against the Oregon schools dating back to last year.  Remind me to call up
and bitch at the Seattle Times Sports Editor....

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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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