USC
Oregon
USC Falls To Oregon
December 31, 2004 | Men's Basketball
Dec. 31, 2004
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Aaron Brooks scored a career-high 34 points and Bryce Taylor added 18 as Oregon opened the Pac-10 Conference season with a 90-83 victory against USC Friday night.
Brooks hit a 3-pointer with 2:17 to play to put the Ducks (9-1 overall, 1-0 Pac-10) up for good, 82-80. Seconds later Taylor made it a two-possession game with a layup in transition for an 84-80 lead.
Brooks finished 9-for-13 from the field and 12-for-13 from the free-throw line. He also made four of the Ducks' 11 3-pointers.
Lodrick Stewart, who scored 17 points in the first half, finished with 25 points to pace the Trojans (7-5, 0-1). His 3-pointer with 4:23 left in the game put USC up 80-77, but the Trojans didn't score another point until his 3-pointer with less than 10 seconds to play.
Freshman Nick Young scored a career-high 21 for USC. He gave the Trojans their first lead since early in the game when he hit a 3-pointer at the tail end of a 10-2 run that put USC up 65-64 at the 10:08 mark of the second half.
Both teams shot the ball well, with Oregon making 56 percent of its shots from the field, while the Trojans made 54 percent of theirs, including 60 percent in the second half, as they battled back from a 46-39 deficit at the break.
