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Article: Traditional power up next for Oregon.(Sports)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 26, 2001
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Byline: BOB RODMAN The Register-Guard
It's not exactly like the Ducks are being tossed from the frying pan into the fire tonight.
After all, they did the cooking Saturday night, barbecuing a Texas Christian outfit 75-63 with an impressive display of defense, a baseline-to-baseline attack and some demoralizing long-range shooting.
"And the beauty of this team," Oregon women's basketball coach Bev Smith, "is that it is just beginning to see how the concepts of our offense and defense will allow it to find the freedom it can have."
But now the Ducks (2-2) step into the ring against a big-time prizefighter, eighth-ranked Texas Tech, just ...