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Article: PANDEMONIUM IN `THE PIT'.(Sports)

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The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
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February 20, 2004
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard

SECTION 10, ROW 1, SEAT 28 - We're bouncing. We're rocking. We're rolling. We're calling you everything but your name.

We're the Pit Crew and we smell. Jumping up and down for more than two hours will do that to you.

I went back to school Thursday night. Back to the future. Back to the Pit.

The University of Oregon students who make up one of the rowdiest student sections in all of college basketball allowed me to join them during the UO's 100-87 loss to 14th-ranked Arizona in front of a sold-out crowd of 9,087 at McArthur Court, and who knows how many more watching on national television. They ...

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