Ducks' one question is now four questions

UO, which never found the answer to replacing Aaron Brooks, faces next season without three key seniors
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
JOHN HUNT
The Oregonian Staff

The Oregon Ducks had an entire season to establish themselves, to answer that key preseason question: How do they replace Aaron Brooks?

After two exhibition games, 12 nonconference games, 18 Pacific-10 Conference games, one Pac-10 tournament game and a season-ending 76-69 loss to Mississippi State in the NCAA Tournament, they never really found an answer.

"We just couldn't find our identity," said guard Tajuan Porter, one of four returning players from last season's final-eight team. "We had spurts where we played good Oregon basketball. But it just wasn't a whole year of basketball. We didn't show people the Oregon way."


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Oregon's Zimmerman Elected Into NFL Hall of Fame

Former University of Oregon All-American Gary Zimmerman has become the sixth Ducks’ standout elected into the NFL Hall of Fame.

The long-overdue honor caps a long list of accolades for one of the best football players in school history, who completed his collegiate career by receiving the Morris Trophy as the Pacific-10 Conference’s top offensive lineman his senior year. The first-team all-conference and All-Coast choice, who played for the Ducks from 1980-83, earned the rare distinction of receiving league player-of-the-week acclaim following a 1983 win over California.

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