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Oregon Ducks forward Jordan Bell (1) talks with Head Coach Dana Altman during a break in play.(Adam Eberhardt)

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Jordan Bell sat back at his locker as tears ran down his face.

He fought through the crying to answer every question. As more questions came, so did more tears, often after a prolonged silence.

In Oregon’s 77-76 loss to the North Carolina Tar Heels on Saturday, a Keith Smith layup cut the lead to one with 6.8 seconds to play. North Carolina’s Kennedy Meeks stepped to the free throw line. The first shot — clank. The second shot — clank. As it fell to the floor, players battled and North Carolina’s Theo Pinson wrestled it from Bell.

A few seconds later, another opportunity emerged for the Tar Heels to extend their lead. This time Joel Berry III stepped to the line. The first shot — clank.

The second shot — clank. As it fell, North Carolina’s Meeks pushed Bell to the side, grabbed the rebound and passed it out.

Game over.

“If I had just boxed out,” Bell said. “I had two opportunities and I missed both of them and we lost the game because of it.”

A reporter reminded Bell that one moment doesn’t win or lose a game.

“You can tell me that all you want,” Bell said. “I lost the game for us.”

Oregon head coach Dana Altman wasn’t about to let Bell put the blame on himself.

Altman said he told Bell, “Buddy, you got 16 rebounds. We wouldn’t have been in this position if it hadn’t been for you.”

Overall, North Carolina defeated Oregon because its best players showed up and Oregon’s did not. Meeks was the best rebounder on the floor, and he dominated all night. He recorded the first 25-point, 14-rebound game in the Final Four since Greg Oden in 2007.

North Carolina knew that Oregon was thin in the front court, so they attacked it all night. The Tar Heels also knew that Bell loves to come from the weak side to block

shots. So, when he left his man — usually Meeks — to contest a shot, it often led to an open layup. It all went as planned for Meeks, who shot 11-of-13 from the field.

Oregon stayed within a six-to-10 point deficit throughout most of the second half. It seemed like every time Oregon would make a run, Justin Jackson would be there to answer with a 3-pointer.

“These two guys up here, [Meeks], I thought was awesome,” North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said. “[Jackson] made, I think, three big 3s in the second half when the tempo got going up and down a little bit more.”

Jackson finished with 22 points with four 3-pointers.

For Oregon, Dillon Brooks and Tyler Dorsey played poorly for most of the game. Brooks finished 2-of-11 from the field and 0-of-3 from three. He was not only a big contributor to Oregon’s turnover problem — he committed five in the game — but was also in foul trouble all night. He picked up his fifth foul with 1:32 left.

Dorsey didn’t make his mark until late in the game. He finished the game with 21 points after a large flurry from the free throw line in the second half. He didn’t have his shot, which was a theme for every Duck.

“We were getting good looks,” Dorsey said. “It’s game-by-game. Sometimes the shot doesn’t go in and you’ve got to find another way to win the game.”

Dylan Ennis played great in his final performance as an Oregon Duck. His 18-point, six-rebound and three-assist night will go largely forgotten, but he was fighting during every moment.

It will be hard for Oregon players and fans to think about what could have been.

Heads will clear and tears will dry, but no Duck will forget the amazing journey and the heartbreaking end.

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Oregon Ducks forward Chris Boucher (25) walks out to the court from the locker room before the game. (Adam Eberhardt)

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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Heartbreaking.

There’s no other way to describe Oregon’s 77-76 loss to North Carolina on Saturday night. Four straight missed free throws, two missed offensive rebounds and one devastating finish. What more can be said?

“We had a good year but we didn’t reach our goal,” Jordan Bell said as he fought back tears in the Oregon locker room.

This team had all the pieces a championship team needs. Savvy guards, big men who could play on both ends, scorers who get a bucket when needed and lockdown defense. The only piece the Ducks were missing on Saturday night was Boucher. And against a team like North Carolina, that was all it took.

“It would’ve been great to have him,” Dylan Ennis said. “Chris changes the game, especially on the defensive end. But we didn’t have him.”

For how special this season was and all the Ducks achieved with and without Boucher, their season ended in a game in which they needed him most. North Carolina’s big men attacked the glass all night and wore out Bell to the point where he simply failed to box out on two straight free throw attempts with the game on the line.

“I lost us the game,” Bell said in the locker room postgame.

It wasn’t all his fault, though. Oregon turned the ball over 12 times in the first half and shot a measly 32 percent from the field in the second.

Dillon Brooks and Tyler Dorsey never got into a rhythm offensively. The Ducks had only seven assists to 15 turnovers in the game.

Having Boucher would have given Bell some much-needed aid on the glass and the Ducks some much-needed reinforcement.

If Boucher had played, Oregon would have won this game. His ability to stretch the floor would have pulled one of North Carolina’s big men out to the perimeter which would have given Oregon’s guards more room to drive. His help on weak-side rebounding would have been vital against the unrelenting Tar Heels, who grabbed 17 offensive boards in the game. His shot blocking ability would have put some extra doubt in the heads of UNC’s guards and forwards whenever they took the ball to the hoop.

The impact that Boucher has on a game could have been the difference if he had played on Saturday night. Instead, his Oregon career ended on the sidelines.

“It hurt more for him not to be out there than us,” Casey Benson said of his injured teammate.

“It would be terrible to not be able to play in games like these.”

The Ducks found ways to win without Boucher all March. Their convincing win over Kansas without him proved that they were as good as anyone in the country.

But whatever magic they had found once he went down, ran out on Saturday night.

Until the Ducks do eventually climb the summit and break their 78-year drought, people will remember this 2016-17 team for what could have been. Specifically, what could have been if Chris Boucher had been healthy and present for this historic run.

“We made history,” Dillon Brooks said about this season. “This is the best team the Oregon Ducks ever had. We went the furthest and this team is going to go down in history and be remembered for a long time.”

Brooks is right. This is the best team that Oregon has ever fielded and it could remain that way for a long time. But the Boucher injury will always remain a gut-wrenching what-if.

Oregon Ducks forward Jordan Bell (1) breaks down as he walks off the court after the game.(Aaron Nelson)

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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Dillon Brooks methodically twirled a pair of scissors in his hands as he sat and described how North Carolina had just buried a dagger in the Duck’s season.

Brooks had just watched his team’s historic run through March end in agonizing fashion. They fell 77-76 to a Tar Heel squad that dangled a win in front of the Ducks for the entire game, only to pull it away at the last second.

“We lost this game not at the end of the game,” Brooks said. “We lost it in the middle. We didn’t take care of the basketball. No rebounding during the game.”

Brooks blamed himself for fouling out with 1:32 left to play. One locker over, Jordan Bell sat, inconsolable, and shouldered the blame after failing to pull down a rebound on the last play of the game.

Oregon’s run through March had been fueled by a

red-hot shooting streak from Tyler Dorsey, while its regular season conference title was due in large part to some late-game heroics from Brooks. Oregon needed one of them to come to the rescue on Saturday, but it never happened.

Instead, whenever the Ducks cut a deficit, or looked to be swinging momentum, Tar Heel forward Justin Jackson became North Carolina’s own superhero and extinguished each and every Oregon comeback effort.

Jackson, the ACC player of the year and an AllAmerican, was there to haunt the Ducks every step of the way. While Kennedy Meeks bulldozed his way to a 25-point double-double, Jackson was canning contested jumpers that made a seven point deficit feel like 70. He finished with 22 points on 6-of13 shooting and buried four of North Carolina’s eight 3-pointers.

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“He was just making shots,” Brooks said of Jackson. “Making tough ones. He was getting his fingerprints all over the game.”

Oregon began to find its offensive rhythm five minutes into the second half. But as Dylan Ennis carved his way to the basket for contested layups, and Dorsey worked his way to the free throw line, Jackson made sure the Ducks were trading two points for three. When he wasn’t scoring, he made life difficult for both Brooks and Dorsey on the defensive end.

“Once we started getting stops, we didn’t have to play against a set defense the whole time,” Jackson said. “And I think that was the biggest part of it was we were able to get out in transition and get better shots out of things we wanted to do.”

Jackson scored 11 points in a four minute span during the second half and pushed the North

Carolina lead to nine with 12 minutes to go.

That span included three 3-pointers, two of which came after Oregon had scored a basket of its own.

“It was tough, just because we knew that’s what he did going into the game,” Oregon forward Keith Smith said. “Just to let him do that was not what we wanted. I think if you take some of his points off the board and Meeks’ points off the board, we win that game.”

Meeks flaunted all week that the Tar Heels planned to neutralize the post presence of Bell by attacking the weak side each time Bell helped over to contest a shot. True to his word, Meeks racked up eight offensive rebounds, most of which came after Bell had left the hoop to go help a teammate. For long stretches of the game, North Carolina’s best plan of attack was to chuck up a shot and let Meeks play as a rimrunner and crash the glass.

But when Meeks went to the bench in foul trouble on two separate occasions in the second half, it was Jackson who kept the offense afloat.

Oregon’s tournament run was decorated with dramatic Hollywood endings. For three straight games leading up to Saturday, Dorsey and Bell were there to save the day when the Ducks seemed doomed.

On Saturday, there was none of that. Only Jackson systematically picking apart Oregon’s defense and deflating another dazzling comeback before the Ducks could start one.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. — There were plenty of chances to do the improbable again.

Oregon fans had seen it happen too many times to believe the Ducks wouldn’t pull themselves together, hit a couple of late shots, survive and advance. Just like they had all March, and all season.

Oregon built its most successful season in 78 years on a foundation of dramatic, late-game performances. The Ducks dug themselves into trouble on a weekly basis, only to deliver a grand finale each time their luck seemed to be running out. This time, however, Oregon walked too fine a line and saw its season end on Saturday in a 77-76 loss to North Carolina at the Final Four “We were right there even though we played a bad game,” Oregon forward Dillon Brooks said. “We were right there, but those last championship plays, we didn’t make them.”

All year, the Ducks had been “right there” — one play away from a seasonaltering loss — and found a way to come away clean time after time. Oregon won eight games by five points or less, and won five by one possession. The Ducks’ 13.1-point scoring this season was the 10th best in the country, but it felt like an aberration.

On so many occasions, Oregon’s games came down to one or two crucial possessions. The Ducks became one of the best teams in the country at grabbing hold of those moments and bending them in their favor. A Brooks buzzer beater here, a Tyler Dorsey pull-up dagger there. The improbable started to become routine.

On Saturday, luck wasn’t enough. North Carolina’s Kennedy Meeks, a 6-foot-10 rebounding machine built like a bulldozer, punished the Ducks for 25 points on 11of-13 shooting. A lengthy Tar Heel defense exploited the sloppy play of the Ducks, who turned the ball over 12 times in the first half alone. Justin Jackson, North Carolina’s own version of Dillon Brooks, delivered a shot to the heart each time the Ducks were on the verge of clawing their way back in.

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minutes to go, and wouldn’t give into it,” Oregon head coach Dana Altman said of the Ducks. “They’re going to look back, and it’s going to hurt because we didn’t play very well at times. And our turnovers were bad and we made some really bad decisions and quick 3s.”

Oregon’s penchant for late-game success had come through many times before Saturday.

On December 28, 2016, after a sluggish start to the season, Brooks drilled a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to upset the then-No. 3 UCLA Bruins and push Oregon back into the national conversation. The Ducks trailed the Bruins by eight with 3:32 left, but timely shots from several players left Brooks with a chance to take over the game.

A month later, Brooks hit an almost identical shot as time expired to upend the California Golden Bears in Berkeley.

He also hit a game-winning shot against Tennessee in November in his first game back from a foot injury.

In March, Dorsey turned into one of the most efficient sharpshooters in the nation and drilled go-ahead 3-pointers against Rhode Island and Michigan in the NCAA Tournament to help the Ducks escape after they had trailed late in both games.

Oregon mastered the art of sidestepping late-game catastrophe during the year, but the concept of putting together 40 consistent minutes was a struggle at times. While late-game heroics made for a compelling show, that brand of basketball took its toll in Glendale. “[The Tar Heels] definitely started getting after us,” Oregon guard Dylan Ennis said. “Their experience really set in. They’ve been here before and it definitely showed.”

For as bad as the Ducks played during the game — going strictly by the numbers, it was one of their worst showings of the year — they were still one bucket away from upstaging a loaded Tar Heels squad.

Saturday’s performance seemed to contrast every other game the Ducks played throughout the NCAA tournament.

Against Kansas, the ball bounced Oregon’s

way every time the Ducks needed a bucket. Against Rhode Island and Michigan, Oregon took hold of the last five minutes of each game and then left the rest to Dorsey.

But in the second half on Saturday, every Oregon point was a struggle.

Keeping pace with the Tar Heels was like carrying a boulder up a hill. While North Carolina piled up easy buckets over a gassed Oregon defense, the Ducks depended on Ennis to pinball his way to the basket and finish acrobatic layups for most of the second half.

And yet, despite recording 16 turnovers to just seven assists and shooting 7-of26 from 3-point range, Oregon was in place to defy the odds once again. With 45 seconds left, Dorsey connected on a 3-pointer that touched every inch of the rim before rolling in. It felt like deja vu.

But for all the times they had emerged with a win after a nail-biting finish, the Ducks also lost three games during the year by three points or less. That’s the way Saturday went.

“It wasn’t on Tyler,” Oregon guard Payton Pritchard said. “Every one of us had to step up. We were down three at half. They kind of punched us in the mouth in the second half and we brought it back and gave them a fight.”

With five minutes left in regulation, North Carolina held a seven point lead.

According to a win-probability metric created by basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy, that lead gave the Tar Heels an 87 percent chance of locking up a victory.

Just 11 days earlier against Rhode Island, the Ducks trailed by six points at the five minute mark, and were thought to be dead in the water; that deficit left them with an 84 percent chance of losing, according to the same metric.

Instead, that game ended with Dorsey drilling a game-winning jumper to push the Ducks to the Sweet Sixteen.

Oregon knew as well as any team in the country that taking the game down to the wire could end in either brilliance or disaster. On Saturday, the Ducks’ luck finally ran out.

Oregon Ducks forward Jordan Bell (1) speaks to the media in his locker after the game. (Adam Eberhardt)

Oregon Ducks guard Tyler Dorsey (5) takes a jump shot. (Aaron Nelson)

Oregon Ducks forward Dillon Brooks (24) drives past a North Carolina player toward the hoop. (Adam Eberhardt)

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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Dylan Ennis played his final game in an Oregon uniform Saturday night. The six-year man has been the heart of the team all season.

When Oregon needed that heart against North Carolina, he provided it, but it wasn’t enough. He was fighting and hustling all night.

The thought that this could be his final game in an Oregon uniform motivated him in every moment. He played one of his best games of the season, but unfortunately it will be forgotten because of Oregon’s 77-76 poignant loss to North Carolina.

Ennis was the vocal leader for Oregon throughout the year. He’s 25 years old, so whenever the team needed a mature voice, he was there.

No one ever doubted his passion for the Ducks or the game of basketball.

When Oregon was trailing North Carolina, his aggressive play surprised no one.

“Ennis knew it was his last game.

And so that sense of urgency when you’re a senior and you’re thinking it could be the last time you get to play, I think that takes it up a notch,” Oregon head coach Dana Altman said.

This season, Ennis averaged 10 points, 4.4 rebounds, three assists and 0.4 blocks per game. Against North Carolina, he scored 18 points, grabbed six rebounds and recorded three assists, and one steal. Officially, he only had one block, but that is because a block on a shot in which a player is fouled doesn’t count.

In the first half, North Carolina’s Justin Jackson ran down the court in transition with Casey Benson in front of him. Benson fouled Jackson as he attacked the rim and shot the ball. Seemingly out of nowhere, Ennis flew through the air and sent it flying off the court.

Later, with six minutes left in the

Eugene’s Weekly Arts, Food & Music Festival! game and Oregon trailing, North Carolina’s center Kennedy Meeks jumped for what looked like open dunk, but Ennis blocked it. Meeks is eight inches taller and outweighs Ennis by sixty pounds. It was Ennis who came up bigger this time.

Unfortunately, like the entire Oregon team, his shots just weren’t falling. Despite his eighteen points, Ennis shot 7-of-19 and a crucial 2-of-9 from 3-point range. In the second half, he was 5-of-14 and 0-of-4 from three. That could be attributed to him being the most aggressive offensive player Oregon had.

“That’s what he did all night and it got the offense going and flowing,” Tyler Dorsey said. “He was running out, finishing like he usually does.”

After the crushing final moments for Oregon, Ennis ran off the court apparently on the verge of tears.

In the locker room, before media could enter, Ennis spoke to a quiet team.

“I’m just glad, after all this time,

me playing college basketball, I’m glad I finished with you guys and have friendships for the rest of our lives,” Ennis said in a video posted by the team. “We fought as a family, the whole time — ups and downs.”

In the lowest moment of the season, Ennis was a thoughtful and mature leader. He could’ve pouted. He could’ve been upset that arguably his greatest performance of the season was all for nothing.

Instead, he handled it with class.

“I’m going to go to bed wishing I had another chance at this,” Ennis said. “At the same time, I was happy that I was able to finish out in the Final Four. A national championship would’ve been great but I got to count my blessings.”

For most of Oregon’s players, the season was over but they will be back again. For Ennis, his college career is over. He may never take a shot, make a pass or dive for a ball at the professional level. But he gave all he could to Oregon basketball.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. — In 2014, the USA National Select Team, a squad with the nation’s top high school seniors, made its way to Portland for the Nike Hoop Summit.

The U.S. team needed a group to scrimmage against in preparation for a looming weekend matchup against a team featuring the top international prospects in the world.

Payton Pritchard, fresh off a state title and Oregon 6A player of the year honors, received a call to join a ringer team of local players. The makeshift team was supposed to be a punching bag for the U.S. Select Team.

Instead, Pritchard, a sophomore, stole the show and dominated a group that featured future NBA talents Jahlil Okafor and Myles Turner.

“I have nothing to lose in those situations,” Pritchard said on Thursday. “I knew my name wasn’t that out there, so I just thought I should put up what I can do.”

Three years later, Pritchard’s same fearless mindset against an elite team brought him and Oregon to the Final Four in Phoenix. A player who is as well known for his confidence as his crossover, Pritchard has put his ego aside this year and become Oregon’s floor general during its greatest season in school history.

“A lot of freshmen come in scared, trying to figure out what they’re gonna do. They don’t want to mess up,” Oregon forward Jordan Bell said. “Payton came in and was straight up like, ‘Yo, I’m gonna come in to kill. I’m gonna get us in position and just keep playing my game.’”

In just over a year, Pritchard has gone from playing in the Oregon state championship game to facing Kansas and UNC in back-to-back weeks with the season on the line. Already considered by many as one of the best high school players in state history, it was difficult for Pritchard to take a backseat when he first arrived at Oregon.

When he joined the backcourt competition, Pritchard and returning point guard Casey Benson butted heads in the early going. Benson recorded the best assist-toturnover ratio in the nation during the 2015-16 season and led Oregon to an Elite Eight run. Regardless, Pritchard wasn’t content with just surrendering the starting job.

“To be honest, at first we didn’t have the greatest relationship,” Pritchard said. “When I was growing up, I never liked anybody else I was competing against. I think in the world we live in today, you’re not going to like anybody who you compete with.”

As Mennenga tells it, the icy relationship carried over into early practices.

“I think any young guy, any young competitor who is 18, 19 years old, you’re all fired up,” Mennenga said.

“We had to separate them a couple of times when they would go at it. The whistle would blow and those guys would still be going at it.”

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Oregon Ducks guard Payton Pritchard (3) prepares for his next shot attempt during a drill. (Adam Eberhardt)

so long, surrendering even an inch in the battle for a starting spot wasn’t an option.

“But I got over that and opened myself up,” Pritchard said. “[Benson] taught me a lot of things going into the season.”

Pritchard was there to push Benson, who has improved his 3-point shooting from 36 to 40 percent this year. Benson has helped Pritchard learn how to play more efficiently and how to run a team.

The result has been the 10th-most efficient offense in the nation, according to Ken Pom. Pritchard is averaging 7.4 points per game in 28 minutes this season while settling into a role as a distributor. But with an ankle-breaking crossover and a penchant for drilling timely jumpers, his scoring comes in bunches when he plays aggressively, something he has struggled to do at times this year.

While he hasn’t had to do it at Oregon, Pritchard has proven that he is capable of rising to occasion and carrying an offense.

“I remember we were in Atlanta one time playing one of the top AAU teams in the country,” Gonzaga forward Zach Collins, who played two summers with Pritchard on Portland-based Team Fast, said. “In the first half he hit like six or seven 3s. I would just be running behind him and I would just get back on defense because I knew it was going in.”

“You need to walk in with confidence to get what you want,” Pritchard said. “If you’re young [and] on an old team they’re gonna pick you apart if you’re soft at all. You’ve just got to be prepared and show them that you’re ready to go to battle.”

You’ve just got to be prepared and show them that you’re ready to go to battle.”

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Oregon Ducks guard Payton Pritchard (3) shoots during the national semi final at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. on Friday, March 31, 2017.

(Adam Eberhardt)

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