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Ducks will need to raise game.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-NOV-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Ducks will need to raise game.(Sports)(Oregon will play its first road game on an elevated court that has yielded few wins to teams visiting Vanderbilt)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bob Clark The Register-Guard

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - This is really going to be different.

Not only is Oregon going to face a much more difficult opponent after four relatively easy victories at home, but the Ducks will be doing it at one of the stranger setups in college basketball.

At the Memorial Gymnasium where the Ducks take on Vanderbilt tonight at 6:05 PST (live telecast on OSN), the coaches and substitute players sit behind the baskets rather than in the usual sideline seating for teams. And the playing court itself is actually raised above the base level of the facility, so players could end up going down into the crowd in pursuit of a loose basketball along the sidelines.

`I've been there before and it wasn't that bad,' UO coach Ernie Kent. `It'll be worse for us as coaches because you have to give up some of your control of the game.'...

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