Friday, November 3, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section B • Page 7
Arizona ready for huge season
The Associated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. — Lute Olson has coached three Final Four teams. He's won a national championship. He's got 422 victories in 17 seasons at Arizona.
This season's Wildcats could be better than any version before them. They're certainly not the most modest.
Wildcats center Loren Woods says Arizona could be the best college basketball team — ever.
Anything short of a national title will be a disappointment.
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"With a team with this talent and such character, there's no reason for us not to win it," said forward Gene Edwards.
Everybody from last year's 27-7 team returns — and then some.
All five starters are nominees for the John Wooden Award as player
of the year, something that's never happened in the award's history.
At 65, Olson says he has no plans to retire. With the kind of recruiting machine he has in Tucson, who could blame him? He's never had this much talent.
"This one has fewer question marks than probably any team that we've had." he said.
In the middle is smooth, agile 7-1 Woods, who last season set an NCAA record with 14 blocked shots against Oregon. Arizona was a serious national title threat until Woods went down with a back injury and missed the final eight games. After offseason surgery, he said he's stronger than ever.
"If we win the national championship and we play to the level we're capable of playing, then we will be the greatest team ever." Woods said.
The guards are sophomores Jason Gardner and Gilbert Arenas, as athletic a pair as there is in college basketball.
The 5-foot-10 Gardner came back with a shaved head and noticeably more muscles.
"He's our buff midget," said teammate Richard Jefferson. "You need your point guard to be tough, to be gritty. You need him to work harder than everyone else."
Gardner and the supremely athletic Arenas worked all summer on improving their outside shots. Every day for two months, Arenas said, he would arrive at 7 a.m. to practice shooting with ex-player and current graduate assistant Josh Pastner, then at midnight, he would be back on the court for more shooting practice.
"Everybody knows we can win it." Arenas said. "We've just got to be ready. We can't look past anybody."
The quietest member of the starting five is 6-7,238-pound Michael Wright, the strong power forward with a soft midrange jumper. Wright averaged 14.8 points and was the leading reboucher in his two seasons at Arizona.
Then there's Jefferson, maybe the most talented of them all. The 6-7 junior, who missed 13 games last season with a broken foot, can shoot from long range and soar high above the basket inside.
Off the bench are Luke Walton and Justin Wessel, who both moved into starting spots a year ago when injuries sidelined Jefferson and Woods. Then there's the 6-foot-6, 237-pound Edgerson (about 7-feet if you count his giant Afro), who returns for his senior season after taking last year off to complete his teaching degree. Edgerson, a tough-guy leader, played on Arizona's 1997 national championship team.
"I know I can come back to the team and help us win with something special, and that something special will be my all-out hustle and intensity throughout the whole game," Edgerson said. "Guys vibe off of that."
and 6-6 freshman guard Travis Hanour was one of the country's most-recruited prep players.
Lamont Frazier will back up Gardner after missing last season with academic and health problems,
"We've got everything." Gardner said. "We've got an inside game. We've got an outside game. We've got quickness. We've got strength. It's going to be hard for anybody to match up with us."
The team is so deep that Rick Anderson, part of the regular rotation in 1999-2000, has decided to sit out this season as a redshirt because of a lack of playing time.
"You may never see a collection of talent like this again," said Jim Rosborough, Olson's longtime assistant. "You go back to the great UNLV teams, the great Duke teams, the great Indiana team with Kent Benson and Scotty May. You look out here one through five, and then six through 10. I have never seen anything like it."
The Wildcats will have several early tests. They open the season Monday, Nov. 20 at the Maui Invitational, where the competition includes Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland and Louisville. They play Purdue in Indianapolis on Saturday, Nov. 25.
On Thursday, Dec. 9, Arizona plays at Connecticut, and on Saturday, Dec. 16, the Wildcats play Illinois in Chicago. Louisiana State comes to Tucson on Wednesday, Dec. 20.
"It's a very difficult schedule, but I think anything less than that would have been very unfair to this group and their development." Olson said.
With more depth, Olson hopes to hold down the playing time for Gardner, who averaged 36.6 minutes a game last season. Fewer minutes for Gardner, Olson said, would allow the team to increase the tempo.
The result could be spectacular:
"Only time will tell how great we will be, but in order to be a great team, you have to win a national championship." Jefferson said.
"When that's said and done, we can start rating ourselves. This year we know that if we just stay injury-free, it will be very hard to stop us."
First baseman ends 15-year career
The Associated Press
The announcement was a surprise, considering the way Clark played during the final two months of the season while subbing for Mark McGwire.
ST. LOUIS — Cardinals first baseman Will Clark, known for his intense stare and sweet left-handed swing, retired yesterday, ending a 15-year career that began in San Francisco and included stops in Texas and Baltimore.
"In every player's career, sooner or later, you're going to have to make a decision to move on." Clark said. "The first part of my life was based on being a baseball player. The second part of my life is going to be based on being a daddy and a husband."
Clark, 36, hit .345 with 12 home runs and 42 RBI for the Cardinals, who acquired him July 31 from Baltimore.
Clark lived up to his nickname. The Thrill, in his first at-bat with the club hitting a pinch
the club, hitting a pinch-homer. He then homered in each of his first four starts.
"We were looking forward to having Will come back," said Cardinals general manager Walt Jocketty. "What he added to our club the second half really put us over the top."
He also hit 345 in the postseason, and his three-run first-inning homer off Atlanta's Tom Glavine in Game 2 of the National League division series helped send St. Louis into its first league championship series since 1996.
"I just want to say thank you to the Cardinals organization, which allowed me to have a lot, a lot of fun the last two months of the 2000 season," Clark said.
While Clark said he'd been thinking about retirement for some time, he made the decision last weekend after talking to his family, Jocketty and manager Tony La Russa. The rigors of traveling and playing the game every day, combined with having 36 bone chips removed from his left elbow from 1996 to 1999, led to Clark's choice to leave the game.
"I can still hit, I can still play, still field my position," Clark said. "But also at the same time, this is the right time for me to exit."
McGwire underwent knee surgery last month, and hopes to be ready for spring training. Even if he's not, Clark said he won't be back.
"I'll come in and shake his hand, and give everybody high-fives and pump them up, but I not going to run out there on the field," Clark said.
Clark admitted he was tempted stay with the Cardinals, who lost to the Mets 4-1 in the National League Championship Series. The Cardinals are expected to push for free agent pitcher Mike Hampton and, with a healthy McGwire, should be a World Series contender in 2001.
"The one thing I played this long for was to get a World Series ring. That was my ultimate goal," Clark said. "I wasn't able to achieve it, but I've been close."
Clark spent eight years with the Giants before moving on to Texas in 1994 and Baltimore in 1999. He ends his career with a .303 batting average, 284 home runs and 2,176 RBI.
"I admire Will for making a tough decision at a time when he clearly had other baseball options," said Clark's agent, Jeff Moorad. "I had two other teams who asked why we hadn't filed for free agency, because they were interested in Will."
While looking forward to his first summer off since 1980, Clark made it clear yesterday he planned to stick around the game, although he didn't express much interest in managing.
"I would say I'm pretty much committed to the Cardinals, and that's about it." Clark said. "From what the Cardinals showed me in my short 2 1/2 months with them, believe me, they deserve all my loyalty."
Jocketyt said Clark would be welcome in the Cardinals organization, and Clark, who will be put on the voluntary retired list, promised Jocketyt he'd call soon.
A six-time All-Star, Clark was the MVP of the 1989 National League Championship Series for San Francisco.
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