Tenacious Ducks Outlast Huskies

Pac-10

Oregon didn’t score a point in the final 4 minutes, but held on to beat the Washington Huskies 55-52 Thursday night at Seattle.

Bryant Boston and Mark Sanford missed 3-point tries for the Huskies in the final 3 seconds.

The Ducks (11-10 overall, 5-5 Pac-10) took a 55-46 lead with 4:09 left on Rob Ramaker’s layup.

Washington (13-6, 6-4) scored the game’s final six points, but couldn’t catch up on a cold-shooting night for both teams. Oregon shot 38 percent and Washington 35 percent.

UW’s second home loss dealt its aspirations for an NCAA Tournament berth a tough blow.

Sanford had 17 points and 11 rebounds. Leading the Ducks with 13 points each were Kyle Milling and Terik Brown.

Washington led 30-25 at halftime and the score was tied at 38-38 when the Ducks went on a 13-3 run as Brown made a 3-pointer and hit a pair of free throws for a 51-41 Oregon lead with 5:48 on the clock.

Oregon 55, Washington 52

Oregon (11-10) - MILLING 6-11 1-1 13, Ramaker 5-7 1-4 11, Wilkins 2-12 2-2 7, Lawrence 1-7 0-0 2, Curry 3-10 1-3 7, Brown 4-9 3-3 13, Carson 1-1 0-0 2, Smith 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 0-1 0-0 0, Quinine 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-58 8-13 55.

Washington (13-6) - Sanford 6-16 4-4 17, Femerling 0-0 5-6 5, Hamilton 2-8 1-2 7, Boston 2-9 2-2 6, Booker 2-4 3-4 7, MacCulloch 4-5 0-0 8, Amos 1-1 0-0 2, Watts 0-1 0-0 0, Hartman 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 17-48 15-18 52.

Halftime-Washington 30, Oregon 25. 3-Point goals-Oregon 3-15 (Brown 2-5, Wilkins 1-3, Ramaker 0-1, Williams 0-1, Lawrence 0-2, Curry 0-3), Washington 3-15 (Hamilton 2-5, Sanford 1-5, Boston 0-2, Hartman 0-3). Fouled out-None. Rebounds- Oregon 37 (Milling 9), Washington 30 (Sanford 11). Assists- Oregon 8 (Wilkins, Curry 2), Washington 10 (Hamilton, Watts, Booker 2). Total fouls-Oregon 17, Washington 13. A-5,704.

(17) UCLA 73, California 65

J.R. Henderson had 21 points and the Bruins (16-5, 9-1) held the Golden Bears (12-7, 6-4) scoreless for the final 3:57 at Oakland, Calif., to gain their 19th victory in their last 20 conference games.

Kris Johnson added 15 points and Charles O’Bannon had all 12 of his points in the first half for UCLA. O’Bannon blocked two shots in the final minute of the game.

Freshman Shareef Abdur-Rahim had 24 points and 16 rebounds for Cal.

UCLA hit 53 percent of its shots - matching its season average, which is best in the nation. The Bruins are 14-1 when hitting shooting better than 50 percent.

UCLA (16-5) - O’Bannon 6-10 0-0 12, Henderson 9-15 3-6 21, McCoy 5-8 0-3 10, Bailey 2-8 3-4 7, Johnson 7-12 0-1 15, Dollar 1-4 2-2 4, Myers 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 32-60 8-16 73.

California (12-7) - Abdur-Rahim 7-17 10-13 24, Fowlkes 4-12 4-9 14, Stewart 1-3 0-0 2, Gardner 1-3 0-0 3, Duck 1-3 0-0 2, Gray 2-14 6-6 10, Marks 0-4 0-0 0, McGruder 2-4 2-2 6, Gonzalez 1-1 0-0 2, McQueen 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 20-62 22-30 65.

Halftime-UCLA 36, California 34. A-15,039.

(25) Stanford 99, Southern Cal 69

Andy Poppink scored 20 points and Dion Cross had 19 as the host Cardinal (14-5, 7-3) routed the Trojans (11-11, 4-6) in USC’s first game under interim coach Henry Bibby.

It was Stanford’s biggest margin of victory in the series.

Bibby was an assistant to Charlie Parker, who was fired Wednesday after going 18-31 in less than two seasons.

Southern California (11-11) - Wilson 6-11 2-3 14, Boseman 5-14 3-4 13, Crouse 1-6 0-0 2, Martin 2-14 4-6 8, Murray 1-4 2-2 5, Dawson 3-7 0-0 8, Strong 1-3 0-2 2, Reuter 4-9 2-2 14, Souferian 1-2 0-0 3, Daffeh 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 24-72 13-19 69.

Stanford (14-5) - Harbour 5-9 0-1 11, Poppink 8-14 4-4 20, Allaway 2-3 0-0 4, Cross 5-9 5-6 19, Knight 2-5 2-3 7, Seaton 7-9 4-6 18, Weems 2-3 0-0 4, Jackson 2-3 0-0 5, Lee 2-2 0-0 4, Tshionyi 0-1 2-4 2, Thompson 1-1 0-0 3, Wente 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 37-61 17-24 99.

Halftime-Stanford 45, USC 33. A-5,982.