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Article: Oregon women running on empty.(Sports)(Smith calls out her team for its lack of effort against Washington State)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2006
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Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard
It was a rough weekend for the Ducks, perhaps the roughest of the Pac-10 Conference women's basketball season.
Maybe the roughest for Bev Smith since she became the Oregon coach nearly five years ago.
For the first time since the 1995-96 season, Oregon was swept on its annual road trip to Washington and Washington State, piling the 11th loss in the last 17 games on top of a struggling Duck team that is 14-12 overall, in eighth place in the Pac-10 at 5-11 and winless in its nine league road games.
Have the Ducks surrendered?
"I wondered about that as we came home from Washington State," ...