Around the Pac-10

Thu., Feb. 28, 2008

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Parity still reigns in the conference – if you take UCLA, Stanford and Oregon State from the picture. The other seven teams are separated by three games with two weekends left. … USC’s O.J. Mayo was the Pac-10 player of the week, the fifth freshman to win the award. Can you name the other four? Answer at the bottom of the column. … Stanford has turned up the defense. The Cardinal held Cal to 39.7 percent shooting last Sunday, and has held six of its last seven opponents to less than 40 percent. … Oregon’s Maarty Leunen may be 6-foot-9, but he leads the Pac-10 in 3-point percentage, hitting 50 percent (48 of 96) from long range. … Oregon State has lost 15 consecutive conference games. That is still only halfway to the league record, set by UCLA from 1937-40. … Trivia answer: Kevin Love (UCLA), Jerryd Bayless (Arizona), James Harden (ASU) and Ty Abbott (ASU).

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