Arizona State gets rare win at Mac Court.Byline: BOB RODMAN rod·man n. One who carries and employs a leveling rod under the supervision of a surveyor. The Register-Guard So much for the McArthur Court McArthur Court is a basketball arena located on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene. Also known as "The Pit," it is known as one of the toughest arenas in the country for opposing players to play in. The arena is named for Clifton N. mystique mys·tique n. An aura of heightened value, interest, or meaning surrounding something, arising from attitudes and beliefs that impute special power or mystery to it: the cowboy mystique; the mystique of existentialism. as it applies to the Arizona State women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. program. After having lost eight straight times in the old building, and pairing that with an uppercut-to-the-chin loss at Oregon State on Friday night, the Sun Devils
Like a desert storm, the ASU ASU Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) ASU Appalachian State University ASU Arkansas State University ASU Angelo State University ASU Alabama State University ASU Australian Services Union outfit blew past Oregon 86-72 on Sunday before a season-high crowd of 4,804 in a Pac-10 Conference beating that was not nearly as close as the final score indicated. The Sun Devils shot better from the field (57 percent) than any other team this season against Oregon. They bagged 6-of-10 attempts from the three-point line, they buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. 26-of-29 tries from the free-throw line free-throw line n. See foul line. , and they outrebounded the Ducks, 37-23 (including 28 off the defensive boards). "You can look at that stat stat adv. With no delay. adj. Immediate. STAT Stat! Clinical medicine adverb Fast, quickly, immediately, schnell, vite Lab medicine noun sheet and then crumple crum·ple v. crum·pled, crum·pling, crum·ples v.tr. 1. To crush together or press into wrinkles; rumple. 2. To cause to collapse. v.intr. 1. it up and throw it away," said Oregon's Shaquala Williams, who equaled a career high with 31 points and added that "it doesn't matter what I did. "We did not play as a team. They were in our face the whole game. We're not used to that, and by the time we recovered we were down 30 or something." Not 30, but close. The Sun Devils led by as many 25 points on five occasions in the second half and had a double-digit advantage for all but seven minutes of the game. "They just flat-out beat us today," said Bev Smith Bev Smith (born April 4 1960) is the head women's basketball coach at the University of Oregon. She has held that position since 2001, replacing controversial coach Jody Runge, and has posted an 83-69 record. , the UO coach whose team slipped to 9-6 overall, 4-2 in the Pac-10, "particularly in the first half." Ahhh, the first half, that 20-minute stretch in which the Ducks gave up more points (49) than they did in an entire game to Washington State (47) one week ago. With less than four minutes to play in the first half, Arizona State was shooting 76 percent from the floor (16-of-21). "We learned our lesson on Friday night," said Betsy Boardman, the former Beaverton High star who threw in 17 points and grabbed seven rebounds for ASU, which upped its season record to 12-4 and its Pac-10 standing to 3-2. "We were not about to take two losses up here," she said. Melody Johnson Melody Johnson(born December 15, 1978) is a women's basketball player who attended University of Colorado. 2 seasons later, she transferred to Arizona State University. She entered the 2002 WNBA Draft, and was selected by the Portland Fire. , a 6-foot-2 senior, had her way with the Ducks, scoring 18 short-range points against a taller UO inside defense that tried everything to stop her. "We train every day to make moves around people," she said, smiling. Amanda Levens Amanda Kay Levens (born on January 24, 1979 in Belvidere, Illinois) is a basketball player who played in college and had a brief stint in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). , the 20-points-a-game guard for ASU, managed to score the first 12 of her team-high 22 points in the first half following an early collision with Oregon's Jamie Craighead. "Sometimes those things knock sense into you," said Levens, who was assisted off the floor 2 1/2 minutes into the game but returned eight minutes later. "It shook me up a little, but I think it also refocused me." Oregon had its win streak end at three games and lost for the first time to Arizona State at Mac Court since Feb. 25, 1993 (or since Williams was 12 years old). The Ducks led 13-8 five minutes into the game, but Arizona State used a 12-0 surge to take a 20-13 advantage and seldom looked back. Leading 27-21, the Sun Devils outscored Oregon 22-9 en route to 49-30 lead at the break. Arizona State cooled off a bit in the second half (10-of-22 from the floor), in part because the Ducks refused "to lay over and die," ASU coach Charli Turner Thorne said. "We knew they wouldn't give up. "They made their run (but never getting closer to the Devils than 12 points in the second half). Fortunately, we made our free throws (17-of-19 in the final 20 minutes)." "This was a game we wanted and we needed," Smith said after the Ducks had given up the season's single-game high for points, "but we did not have the substance to respond to ASU." Williams was Oregon's only offensive threat. That was OK with Arizona State. "We keyed on one player at Oregon State (Felicia Ragland, who scored 21) and every other player got going (including Hollye Chapman, who scored 22 in a 77-70 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. win)," Johnson said. "Today, we stalked stalked adj. Having a stalk or stem. Often used in combination: long-stalked; short-stalked. Adj. 1. the whole (Oregon) offense." It worked. Two UO starters - Craighead and Alissa Edwards - did not score. Two others - Cathrine Kraayeveld and Alyssa Fredrick - had nine and two points, respectively. Meanwhile, six ASU inside players combined to score 57 of the team's 86 points. "We play well when we get our defense going and rebound rebound (rē´bownd), n/v 1. a recovery from illness. n 2. an outbreak of fresh reflex activity after withdrawal of a stimulus rebound adjective , but establishing the inside game is the first thing we wanted to do," Turner Thorne said. Maybe the second. Beating the Ducks at Mac Court seemed to rank No. 1 this day. Oregon Women's Basketball Game Report NOTES ... ASU'S 83 points equals the most allowed by Ducks in a game this season ... UO had a season-low 23 rebounds ... Shaquala Williams' 31 points equals her career high for Ducks ... Win was first by ASU over Oregon at Mac Court in nine games ... UO now 1-6 when trailing games at halftime. KEY STAT ... Sun Devils shot 57 percent (27-of-47) from the field, 60 percent from the three-point line and 90 percent from the free-throw line (26-of-29). NEXT ... Ducks play on Thursday at California in a Pac-10 game scheduled for a 7 p.m. tip-off. PAC-10 STANDINGS Arizona State 86, Oregon 72 ARIZONA STATE (86) Mp Fg Ft R F A To S Tp Boardman ... 28 5-12 5-6 7 1 2 3 2 17 Carvalho ... 25 3-7 6-6 5 4 3 3 2 13 Johnson ... 25 8-9 2-2 7 4 0 1 1 18 Levens ... 28 5-8 10-11 5 2 4 8 0 22 Loney ... 28 1-4 0-0 4 2 3 3 0 2 Tate ... 6 2-3 0-0 2 1 0 1 0 4 Stagg ... 8 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 4 0 0 Combs ... 11 2-2 0-0 0 1 0 1 0 4 Buckner ... 14 0-0 2-2 2 5 0 0 0 2 Albert ... 13 1-1 0-0 0 1 0 1 1 3 Crisp ... 14 0-0 1-2 2 1 1 1 0 1 Totals ... 200 27-47 26-29 37 23 14 26 6 86 Shooting: Field goals 57.4%, 3-point baskets - 6-10 (Boardman 2-2, Carvalho 1-2, Levens 2-3, Loney 0-1, Stagg 0-1, Albert 1-1). Total rebounds include three team rebounds. OREGON (72) Mp Fg Ft R F A To S Tp Fredrick ... 16 1-4 0-0 2 0 1 1 1 2 Kraayeveld ... 34 4-11 1-2 4 2 0 0 1 9 Williams ... 39 9-20 9-10 1 2 3 6 3 31 Craighead ... 21 0-4 0-0 1 5 2 1 0 0 Edwards ... 23 0-2 0-0 1 2 2 1 0 0 Curry ... 10 3-7 1-4 2 3 3 2 4 7 Shreve ... 6 0-0 2-2 1 0 1 1 0 2 Parrish ... 7 1-5 0-0 1 0 0 0 0 2 Taylor ... 11 0-1 1-2 0 1 1 1 0 1 Gunderson ... 10 3-6 3-4 1 5 0 0 0 10 Bills ... 23 4-4 0-1 2 2 0 3 2 8 Totals ... 200 25-64 17-25 23 22 13 16 11 72 Shooting: Field goals 39.1%, 3-point baskets - 5-17 (Williams 4-8, Craighead 0-3, Curry 0-2, Parrish 0-1, Taylor 0-1, Gunderson 1-2). Total rebounds include seven team rebounds. Arizona State ... 49 37 - 86 Oregon ... 30 42 - 72 Officials - Michael Price
Michael F. Price (born 1953) is a value investor and fund manager in Far Hills, New Jersey. , Mazetta Garrett, Rick Showers. Attendance - 4,804. NOTES ... ASU'S 83 points equals the most allowed by Ducks in a game this season ... UO had a season-low 23 rebounds ... Shaquala Williams' 31 points equals her career high for Ducks ... Win was first by ASU over Oregon at Mac Court in nine games ... UO now 1-6 when trailing games at halftime. KEY STAT ... Sun Devils shot 57 percent (27-of-47) from the field, 60 percent from the three-point line and 90 percent from the free-throw line (26-of-29). NEXT ... Ducks play on Thursday at California in a Pac-10 game scheduled for a 7 p.m. tip-off. Pac-10 Women's Basketball W L Pct. GB Overall Stanford ... 4 0 1.000 - 14 1 Washington ... 4 1 .800 1/2 9 5 Oregon ... 4 2 .667 1 9 6 Oregon State ... 4 2 .667 1 8 7 Southern Cal ... 4 2 .667 1 8 7 Arizona State ... 3 2 .600 1 1/2 12 4 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 ... 2 4 .333 3 5 9 Arizona ... 1 4 .200 3 1/2 5 8 California ... 0 4 .000 4 5 8 WSU WSU Washington State University WSU Wayne State University WSU Wichita State University WSU Wright State University WSU Weber State University WSU Western State University College of Law WSU Winona State University WSU Walter Sisulu University ... 0 5 .000 4 1/2 2 13 SUNDAY'S RESULTS Arizona State 86, Oregon 72 Oregon State 71, Arizona 56 Washington 80, USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. 79 (OT) UCLA 76, Washington State 64 THURSDAY'S GAMES Oregon at California Oregon State at Stanford Washington State at Arizona Washington at Arizona State CAPTION(S): NICOLE NICOLE Nearly Intelligent Computer Operated Language Examiner (chatterbot) DeVITO / The Register-Guard Arizona State's Melody Johnson, who finished with 18 points, takes a shot in front of Andrea Bills (left), while UO head coach Bev Smith and assistant Dan Muscatell encourage the Ducks (above). |
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