Ex-Cat Stoudamire ruled out of 'Oregon's Greatest Athlete'

The Oregonian newspaper is in the process of selecting “Oregon’s Greatest Athlete,” and using a 64-person bracket a la the NCAA basketball tournament to do so. It seeded former Wilson High School point guard Damon Stoudamire, a 1995 consensus All-American at Arizona, No. 7, and then eliminated Stoudamire in a first-round “upset” against former University of Portland soccer star and 1999 Women’s World Cup winner Tiffeny Milbrett. The newspaper seeded ex-OSU basketball player A.C. Green higher than Stoudamire, which seems a bit off. Green scored 1,694 points at OSU; Stoudamire scored 1,849 at Arizona. Green was never a first-team All-American. In the NBA, Stoudamire averaged 13.4 and Green 9.6. But once Stoudamire left Oregon to play at Arizona — his UA teams were 8-0 against both the Beavers and Ducks — his chance to get a break in a “Greatest Ever” countdown was compromised.

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