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Article: Stage set for Ducks' game.(Columns)(Column)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2002
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Byline: Ron Bellamy / The Register-Guard
WITHOUT QUESTION, the Ducks will have to play extremely hard to defeat Southern California in Thursday night's men's basketball showdown for the Pac-10 Conference title in the Sports Arena.
In recent days, Oregon lobbied extremely hard to get that game on television.
That persistence was rewarded late Monday afternoon, when Fox Sports Net and the Pac-10 agreed to allow the Oregon-USC game to be televised throughout the Pacific Northwest on Fox Sports Northwest (AT&T cable 23).
That this could be the most important Oregon basketball game since the Tall Firs won the national title in 1939 is the ...