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zhang hasn't played of late. you see how he achlffects the g. >> steve: we did a game against the washington huskies. mike montgomery had a funny comment about max zhang sprinting down the court. he said, max, that's the way to do it. you're the fastest 7'3" chinese guy in america. >> don: he assumes he can beat yao ming down the floor. >> steve: yep. >> don: yao ming's 7'5". >> steve: and he's got a bad foot. mike told us, he understands english but not sarcasm. let's take a look and see if this ball hit the rim. i don't think so. >> steve: did the net shake? >> don: yep. a little bit.

>> steve: so the three official s over there, checking with the monitor, to see where they will set the shot clock. there's dwayne from the pac-10 conference, making sure they get it right. steve physioc filling in for barry tompkins, he lost his voice. >> don: two pretty good games to start this pacific life pac-10 tournament. last night, overtime the game ucla and arizona was competitive pretty much the entire way. see if this one stays competitive. cal with a ten-point lead. we talk and it in the opening, how long will cal be able to go off of momentum from last night.

how much do you want to stay and play tomorrow? >> steve: they're playing for their coach. lot of rumors about ernie kent. he has done a wonderful job at oregon. i have always loved the personal growth by his players. he has a personal improvement academics. they have been in the top academically of basketball players in the country. ernie kent cares not only about wins but his kids and where they move on to. >> don: you know it's not just lip service. every time we talk to him, it inevitably comes up, he's done a good job. >> steve: back in 2002, pac-10

coach of the year. they won their first conference title since 1945. winning 26 games and he has the most wins in oregon history. our pacific life tournament summary. as we take a look at the brackets. we told you ucla knocked off higher seeded arizona. as reeves nelson who didn't play in the last game against arizona had 19 points and 10 rebounds. a double-double in the bruins victory. >> don: pretty impressive. >> steve: porter missing the three. into the hapdz of oregon. it looked like zhang got knocked from behind. >> don: jerome randle out of his

mind in this first half. if you're ernie kent, we let randle get 20. they're shooting unbelievably from behind the line. only a ten-point game. >> steve: christopher, also, 3 of 5 from three-point range. porter stays with randle defensively. he is feeling it. when you hit shots like that, don -- >> don: not often that jerome randle can go over the top of anyone. you're right. when those start going down, look out. >> steve: we saw that a couple of weeks ago when he went out in tucson, arizona. >> don: zhang affecting the game. they're trying to get to the rim. it goes off of porter. cal ball. >> steve: he's been a differencemaker. and they'll need that depth.

they haven't zhang because of a partially collapsed lung. here's christopher for three! >> don: which is why they're so dangerous. randle's going off. we got to get to him. christopher, too much space on the other wing, knocks it down. >> steve: two players, randle and christopher have 36 of the team's 46 points. gutierrez telling zhang how he'll help. to longmire. was that a charge? >> don: it was a block. >> steve: jerome randle, though, absolutely on fire at the pacific life pac-10 tournament. 22 points in the first half. and going for the cal all-time scoring record. wir sabe eto fundreti? whl haf youse ou youny y

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5'8". in our battle of dimunitive dan dandies porter is 2 for 11 and randle is 8 of 8. >> don: don't count him out yet. he's got to it going here soon. i talked about the league getting away from oregon. it's now to 15. >> steve: robertson with the fade. short. what must oregon do in the last 3:18, don, to give themselves a chance for the second half? >> don: they have to somehow get cal to miss. i know that doesn't sound very

analytical or anything. they can't continue to let cal shoot this high of a percentage or they'll never be able to come back. they've got to get some stops and momentum going into halftime. >> steve: singler. zhang, again, affected that shot. the center from chinese really making a defensive difference for cal. zhang. will be back at the free-throw line. >> don: gutierrez can bring it up so that randle can play off the ball. i think that helps out a lot, too. gutierrez really not a threat from behind that line, or at least a big a threat as robertson, christopher. if he can bring it up and

initial your offense, you can spread it out more. randle, robertson and christopher. >> steve: zhang misses the first and cal has opened up a 15-point lead because of their great three-point shooting. they're 9 of 11 today. that's 82%. cal record for threes is 16 in one game. it came last year against arizona. zhang coming out. >> don: 9 for 11, it's hard to overcome if you're anybody but oregon hasn't been lighting it up offensively. to be giving up that many threes, again, tough to overcome. let's see if they can make a run at halftime. >> steve: remember, cal absolutely smothered oregon in

their first two meetings this year. back in january and winning by 15 points on february 20th. dunigan will be back at the free of this l free-throw line. >> don: you look the production

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and welcome back to staples center the acura halftime report. cal leading oregon lead. in transition for memphis. gets called for a double-dribble and houston upsets memphis, 66-65 in the conference usa tournament. does that mean memphis will not be in the field of 65 next year?

>> tough way to lose for the memphis tigers. >> of course, you said it bodes well for the pac-10 that some of these bubble teams lose in their conference tournaments. do you think now a better chance for washington and arizona state to be in the tournament? >> get into the semifinal game on friday night and one of them advancing these bubble teams are slowly getting knocked off and it gives the pac-10 a chance to get that third team in. >> another case for both arizona state and washington, they played their best basketball of the season the last several games. washington's won 9 of their last 11. right here in this first half, oregon trailing cal by 13.

and we're back here at staples center. one team has punched for the semifinal round for the pacific life pac-10 tournament.

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the year, didn't miss a shot in first half 378 of 8 from the floor. 2 of 2 from the free-throw line. for a total of 22 points and his top-seeded cal bears up 13 over oregon. welcome back inside staples center. miles, it seems like oregon is playing as if they didn't know that jerome randle was the player of the year in the conference. >> absolutely. ernie kent at halftime maybe need to adjust his defense. and limit jerome randle touches as much as possible. >> he only needs ten points the second half to become cal's all-time leadingr. reerbeen jerome randle and the cal bears. think you've seen it all at lunch?

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