Beavers heading home after loss to Arizona in the tourney

by Jake Bertalotto on Mar 13, 2008 6:38 AM PDT in Men's Basketball Comment 3 comments

When asked about the Beavers chances to win a game in the Pac-10 tournament, Marcel Jones responded with: "I think it's a great opportunity, and I like the fact people don't give us a chance.''

Well buddy, nobody gave you a chance, and you didn't have a chance.

As if the Beavers haven't been involved in enough records this year, the Wildcats set a Pac-10 first half scoring record with 59 points, breaking UCLA's 58 point first half performance from 1987.

In fact, Arizona scored the first seven points, lead 4-23, 40-12, 54-17, and you get the idea. The Wildcats went on to win 87-56. The Beavers actually outscored the Arizona bench in the second half, 35-28. The Wildcats will move on to play Stanford tonight at the Staples Center. Stanford won both games this season.

Lathen Wallace led the Beavers with 19 points off the bench. Calvin Haynes scored ten, and Marcel Jones had seven. Marcel led the Beavers on the glass with 12 rebounds, tying his Pac-10 conference high.

--JB--

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After getting smoked by Arizona yet again, can we all agree that whoever the next coach is should make playing good defense a priority?

by tingeyga on Mar 13, 2008 9:43 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

You've gotta do

what you did in football. Hire a proven (if controversial) coach and thug it out for a couple years to put yourself back on the map, then, when a bit of winning is established, you can hire someone a little more on the classy side.

The other option is to go for a Ken Bone/Randy Bennett type from a decent smaller school and hope for the best.

--Dave

Addicted to Quack, SBN's Oregon Ducks Blog

by Addicted to Quack on Mar 15, 2008 4:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Not a terrible idea....

but the problem with getting a proven coach and then "thugging it out" is that when Erickson was hired as the coach, the program was set up to consistently contend for bowl games. The basketball program isn't nearly as fortunate (if this isn't rock bottom, I don't want to see what that is).

by tingeyga on Mar 16, 2008 12:28 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs