No. 7 Ducks Visit Colorado on Friday

EUGENE, Ore. - The No. 7 ranked Oregon women's basketball team hits the road this weekend, with a 7 PM PT tip on Friday at Colorado up first.

#7 OREGON DUCKS (18-3, 7-1 Pac-12, 1st)
PPG: 84.2 | FG%: 49.7 | 3FG%: 39.5 | FT%: 76.5
Notable: At 7-1, Oregon is alone atop the Pac-12 standings, a game up on both UCLA and Stanford. UO hasn't won a Pac-12 title since the 1999-2000 season. The Ducks are coming off a 75-63 win over No. 18 OSU, where freshman Satou Sabally had a game-high 21 points and three three-pointers. She is the top scoring freshman in the Pac-12 (11.2 ppg), ahead of CU's Annika Jank (10.8 ppg). Sophomore Sabrina Ionescu leads the Pac-12 in both scoring (19.8 ppg) and assists (7.3 apg).

COLORADO BUFFALOES (11-8, 2-6 Pac-12, 9th)
PPG: 72.5 | FG%: 42.0 | 3FG%: 30.6 | FT%: 69.6
Series Record: UO leads, 13-8 (5-4 in Boulder)
Last Game: UO lost, 76-66, in Boulder (2/19/17)
Notable: Star guard Kennedy Leonard is averaging a team-high 14.3 points per game this season. However, in Pac-12 play, Alexis Robinson leads the Buffs with 13.3 points per game. Colorado comes into Friday's game on a four-game losing streak, dropping contests to the LA and Arizona schools. Colorado's conference wins came against Arizona and Washington.

BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV - Pac-12 National, Oregon & Mountain
Stream - Pac-12.com with a cable login
Radio - Terry Jonz on the call at KUGN 590 (Eugene), KUIK 1360 (Portland) & TuneIn. Search for "Oregon IMG" in the TuneIn app or online at TuneIn.com.
Live Stats - oregon.statbroadcast.com

LAST TIME OUT
Oregon snapped Oregon State's 14-game Civil War winning streak with a 75-63 win on Sunday in Eugene. The Ducks jumped out to a 40-18 lead at halftime and never looked back. After scoring just three point in last Friday's loss in Corvallis, freshman Satou Sabally had a team-high 21 points on 9-of-15 shooting in Sunday's win. Sabrina Ionescu had a double-double with 15 points and 11 assists.

A WIN WOULD...
- Improve UO's road record to 4-3 this season, with all three losses coming to top-20 opponents.
- Keep UO in first place in the Pac-12 standings, the only team with just one conference loss.
- Improve Oregon's all-time record in Boulder to 6-4.

COLORADO SERIES HISTORY
- The Ducks are 13-8 against CU all-time and 5-5 vs. the Buffs since they joined the Pac-12 in 2011-12.
- Kelly Graves is 3-2 vs. CU as Oregon's head coach.
- Oregon and Colorado first met on March 18, 1981 in Eugene, a 74-67 victory for the Ducks.
- The Ducks and Buffaloes played in Portland on Dec. 9, 2006 as part of the annual Pape' Jam game at the Rose Garden. Oregon won, 70-60.
- Colorado defeated the Ducks, 92-71, in Boulder on March 19, 1994 in the NCAA Tournament.
- Oregon's longest winning streak in the series is six games, running from 1998-2012.
- Colorado's longest winning streak was the four-game streak snapped in 2016.

LAST YEAR VS. COLORADO
- The teams split last season, with Oregon winning at home and losing on the road.
- In Eugene, the Ducks won , 71-66, behind Ruthy Hebard's 19 points and 11 rebounds. Maite Cazorla added 14 points plus six assists.
- In Boulder later in the season, the Ducks lost, 76-66. Colorado jumped out to a 25-8 lead at the end of the first quarter and the Ducks could never battle back. Hebard had a team-high 24 points.
- Hebard averaged 21.5 points on 64 percent shooting in two games vs. Colorado last season.

BEST HOME RECORD IN THE NCAA
At 13-0, Oregon has the best home record in the NCAA this season. Mississippi State, Oklahoma State, George Mason and Duke are tied for second at 11-0.

SHARE THE ROCK
- Oregon ranks 4th in the NCAA with 413 assists.
- The Ducks are averaging 19.7 assists per game this year, good for eighth in the NCAA.
- Individually, Sabrina Ionescu ranks fifth in the NCAA in total assists (153) and eighth in assists per game (7.3). Ionescu and Maite Cazorla rank No. 1 and No. 4 in the Pac-12 in assists per game, with 7.3 and 5.4, respectively.

SHARP SHOOTERS
- Oregon ranks fifth in the NCAA, shooting 49.7 percent from the floor.
- The Ducks are seventh in the country, shooting 39.5 percent from three-point range.
- Individually, Ruthy Hebard ranks seventh in the NCAA, shooting 64.2 percent on field goals.
- Sabrina Ionescu (45.2%) and Lexi Bando (44.7%) rank No. 2 and No. 3 in the Pac-12 in three-point field goal percentage.

THE SCOREBOARD, IT'S LIT
- Oregon ranks 10th in the NCAA, averaging 84.2 ppg.
- UO is outscoring its opponents by 21.8 points per game, the seventh biggest scoring margin in the NCAA.