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Oregon-Arizona: Nice way to open Pac-10 play

By Ed Graney
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, January 2, 2003

If things were identical to, say, the Mountain West Conference, Arizona basketball coach Lute Olson might have felt more sense of urgency. But you play 18 games in a Pac-10 season, a lifetime when you consider all the possible shifts in momentum. "I think too much can be made out of just one game," Olson before his Wildcats beat Oregon 81-72 in the Pac-10 opener for both schools Thursday. "It might be different if it was 14 games ... We've had tough opening games before and there are obvious r ...

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