Poll: The Best of the 700
by PaulSF on Dec 28, 2008 9:30 AM PST
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PrintI know the Holiday Bowl is around the corner, but I wanted to squeeze this poll in before this historic moment passes. I would have posted it earlier in the week, but the inclement weather in Portland knocked the power out and turned me into a Luddite for four days.
After the Ducks squeaked by Portland in OT last Saturday to pick up the program's 700th win at McArthur Court, The Register-Guard's Bob Clark listed his most memorable Oregon victories at Mac Court.
I was very pleased to see Luke Jackson's incredible performance against Colorado in 2004's NIT on Bob's list. Luke's second-half hot streak might be the single-greatest half of basketball ever played by an Oregon player, and it's certainly the most amazing I've ever seen at any level.
The rest of Bob's choices are solid, although one of my personal favorites happened in 2002, when Freddy Jones played his final game in the Pit against UW. It wasn't really much of a game, as the Ducks went on to win 86-64, capping off an undefeated season at home before rolling into the Elite Eight a few weeks later. But Jones was electric. He posterized, like, three guys in the first 5 minutes, and I think one of them was Doug Wrenn.
I know we all have our favorites, but let's start with Bob's list. Which of the wins on Bob's list is most memorable? And if none of them suffice, make sure to list your most memorable in the comments.
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I may be too new school to appreciate some of the older events but the 2007 defeat of UCLA at Mac Court was unreal. Talk about putting together a complete game and Mac Court was electric. An unbelievable feeling
--Dominic
Autzen Stadium is where great teams go to die." - J. Brady McCullough, The Michigan Daily.
Yep
I feel guilty for voting because I’m only familiar with the Two Lukes And A Freddy era, and post-that.
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My vote is for...
That game against Arizona State where they were down 7 with like 12 seconds left and came back, it was capped by a half court shot by Darius Wright. That team also had AD Smith and Alex Scales. I remember listening to it on the radio and going crazy. That was the first team under Kent that really started having a lot of success.
What year?
Like, ’98ish?
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Speaking of amazing comebacks...
From the opposite side…Does anyone else remember the USC game many years ago, where the USC play caught the inbounds pass beyond half court, turned, took a dribble, and threw up a prayer in, like, 1 timed second, to beat Oregon at Mac on the final play?
That game will stick with me, for both the insanity, and the horrible clock management and reffing…
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
Deranged Idiot
I don’t remember if it was 1975 or ‘76. There was no clock and Dick Harter’s “Kamikaze Kids” (he hated the Duck nickname), faced #1 UCLA. Oregon played mostly defense and jus passed the ball around until someone was free for a layup. UCLA’s fast break was throughly disrupted. Mac Court was rocking…frisbees flew in the stands and the scoreboard, supended from the wooden ceiling, was swinging back and forth. I don’t remember the score either, but when it was over, UCLA coach Gene Bartow went over to Blaine Newnham (the RG’s sports writer at the time) and blamed the loss on the Oregon fans, calling them “deranged idiots.”
It set up the next home game vs. Washington and the famous (for me anyway) Groucho masks that Harshmann had his players wear when being introduced.
If you can't get your Dick Enright, get your Dick Harter
forever etched in heartbreak hell...
was that loss. 4 rows up from the sc bench. Felt like I was gutshot. I think we were up
by 2 scores(at least 5) with about 12 seconds left, something like that. Possibly ‘98
or ’99, anybody? The shot barely got off in time, seemed like the shot/game clock
buzzed ,and that sucker wasn’t even halfway in flight…. there are no words.
Unstoppable
In the Arizona game of ‘89 all the Ducks did in the second half is wind down the 45 second shot clock and let T.B. go one on one at the top of the key. What a performance! With the exception of a few of Kevin Mixon’s threes, Terrell was the whole offense. Monson’s quote after the game was something like,“He played good”.
I voted for Brandon knocks off Arizona
But I was really thinking about the 06-07 win over Bethune-Cookman.
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