{"id":15400,"date":"2011-03-11T18:15:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T01:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=15400"},"modified":"2011-03-11T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T02:07:35","slug":"ducks-detour-bruins%e2%80%99-dance-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=15400","title":{"rendered":"Ducks Detour Bruins\u2019 Dance Chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15407\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15407\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15407\" title=\"oregon - ucla 3-11-11\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oregon-ucla-3-11-111-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oregon&#39;s Malcolm Armstead heads for the free throw line <\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tony Solorzano<\/p>\n<p>(Los Angeles) \u2013 Oregon\u2019s E. J. Singler lit up UCLA for 24 points as the Ducks knocked off the Bruins 76-59 to advance to the Semifinals of the Pacific Life PAC-10 Tournament Thursday night at Staples Center.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Bruins (22-10) looked lethargic and unmotivated, which the Ducks (16-16) took advantage of, something not lost on Bruins head coach Ben Howland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to give Oregon credit, Oregon came out and really did a nice job isolating us and taking us off our dribble,\u201d a dejected Howland said after the game. \u201cThey did a good job executing their offense and also defending us. We had six baskets at the end of the first half, which is obviously not going to win many ball games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks took control of the game early on, not only getting the first basket but grabbing the lead twice before pulling away from the Bruins for the remainder of the half. Almost nothing the Bruins offered up seemed to find the cylinder, the Bruins only managed six baskets in 24 attempts, a shooting percentage of 25.0%. In fact, after Garret Sim sank a three to tie the game 14-14 with 12:39 left in the half, the Ducks took over the lead and never trailed again.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins could not break the double digit lead the Ducks built with 5:22 left in the first half for the remainder of the game. In fact, the Ducks increased their lead to 22 points twice in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Singler topped all scorers in the game, putting in his 24 points and was a perfect eight for eight at the free throw line. Malcolm Armstead tossed in 13 points and Sim had 10. Tyler Honeycutt was the only Bruin in double figures, scoring 19 points for UCLA. Honeycutt addressed the lack of motivating play early on after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just started from the warm-ups. Guys weren\u2019t taking game shots, weren\u2019t being focused,\u201d Honeycutt said. \u201cThey had the mentality that they didn\u2019t have anything to lose. We came in here with a \u2018too cool\u2019 of an attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks will face Washington Friday night in the second semi-final of the Men\u2019s bracket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tony Solorzano (Los Angeles) \u2013 Oregon\u2019s E. J. Singler lit up UCLA for 24 points as the Ducks knocked off the Bruins 76-59 to advance to the Semifinals of the Pacific Life PAC-10 Tournament Thursday night at Staples Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[4806,4805,4807,4820,4809],"class_list":["post-15400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-ben-howland","tag-ej-singler","tag-garret-sim","tag-malcolm-armstead","tag-tyler-honeycutt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15408,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15400\/revisions\/15408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}