Arizona's pressure pushes OSU out of tournament.Byline: Rob Moseley The Register-Guard SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. - When Oregon State has won this season, the Beavers have held on to the ball and been led by Casey Nash. Neither happened Friday, so the Beavers are headed home from the Pac-10 Conference tournament. Oregon State set a season high with 29 turnovers and got just 11 points from Nash, the conference's leading scorer, in a 69-54 loss to Arizona in HP Pavilion HP Pavilion may refer to:
"All year long, intense ball pressure has been a problem for us," OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. coach LaVonda Wagner said. "Obviously it reared its ugly head tonight." The Beavers' turnover total was the second-highest by a Pac-10 team this season. Arizona's defensive pressure was led by guard Ashley Whisonant, who came off the bench and finished with a career-high 23 points along with four steals. "She definitely changed the tempo," UA coach Joan Bonvicini said of Whisonant, who might have had one of the best performances in the conference this season if not for four missed layins and four missed free throws. Whisonant also had four of Arizona's 10 steals. The Wildcats in particular flustered flus·ter tr. & intr.v. flus·tered, flus·ter·ing, flus·ters To make or become nervous or upset. n. A state of agitation, confusion, or excitement. OSU's guards; Mercedes Fox-Griffin finished with nine turnovers, Jasmine Smith had seven and Nash had six. Nash had just 11 points, on 2-of-10 shooting, after leading the Pac-10 with 20.3 points per game this season. "They played real physical, like every team has all year," Nash said. "They denied the ball, and we weren't connecting tonight." Nash appeared to sprain sprain, stretching or wrenching of the ligaments and tendons of a joint, often with rupture of the tissues but without dislocation. Sprains occur most commonly at the ankle, knee, or wrist joints, causing pain, swelling, and difficulty in moving the involved joint. her ankle in the first half. She took just four shots after halftime, none in the game's final 8:33. Wagner said Fox-Griffin was also playing through an ankle sprain ankle sprain Orthopedics A stretching of the ankle ligaments and/or muscles with swelling . Smith had 17 points on 6-of-10 shooting to lead Oregon State (9-19). UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX 72, Washington State 58: Lindsey Pluimer scored 15 points and Noelle Quinn added 14 as the seventh-seeded Bruins (14-17) advanced to face No. 2 Arizona State in today's quarterfinal round. Marisa Stotler had 14 points to lead Washington State (5-24). |
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