No. 1 Seed Ducks Open Pac-12 Tournament on Friday in Seattle

EUGENE, Ore. - After clinching the outright 2018 Pac-12 regular season championship last weekend, the No. 6 ranked Oregon women's basketball team opens the Pac-12 Tournament on Friday as the No. 1 seed.

The Ducks will play the winner of No. 8 seed Utah and No. 9 seed Colorado at 11:30 AM on Friday. The game will be televised by Pac-12 Networks.

OREGON BREAKDOWN (27-4, 16-2 Pac-12, 1st)
Pac-12 Tournament Record: 6-16 overall (2-1 in 2017)
Last Year at the Tournament: Semifinals loss to Stanford, 71-56
Fun Fact: The first Pac-12 women's basketball tournament was at UO's McArthur Court (2002)
Notable: After clinching the 2018 outright Pac-12 regular season title, the Ducks come into the Pac-12 tournament as the No. 1 seed for the first time in program history. The Ducks' previous best was when they were the No. 2 seed in 2005. Oregon featues Pac-12 player of the year Sabrina Ionescu, Pac-12 freshman of the year Satou Sabally and one of the best offenses in the nation. In the NCAA this season, the Ducks rank eighth in scoring (82. ppg), fourth in field goal percentage (49.7%), fourth in three-point percentage (39.9%) and fifth in assist-to-tunover ratio (1.48-to-1).

BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV - Pac-12 National for each tournament game except for the championship, which will be on ESPN2.
Stream - Pac-12.com/live, WatchESPN with 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.

IONESCU NAMED PAC-12 PLAYER OF THE YEAR
After leading the conference in both scoring and assists during the regular season, Sabrina Ionescu was named the Pac-12 player of the year. Ionescu is the third player in program history to be named Pac-12 player of the year, joining Shaquala Williams, who won in 1999-2000, and Lauri Landerholm, who won in 1986-87, the first year the Pac-12 handed out the award. After winning Pac-12 freshman of the year honors last season, Ionescu joins Washington's Kelsey Plum, Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike, and Stanford's Jayne Appel as players in the last 10 years to win both the league's freshman and player of the year honors. Williams also won both for the Ducks, taking freshman of the year honors in 1998-99 before being named player of the year the following season. Ionescu is the league's first sophomore to win player of the year since Stanford's Candice Wiggins did it in 2004-05.

SABALLY NAMED PAC-12 FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
After being the top scoring rookie in the Pac-12 this season, forward Satou Sabally was named the Pac-12 freshman of the year. Sabally is the second-straight conference freshman of the year for the Ducks, after Sabrina Ionescu won last season. Sabally is the third all-time at Oregon to win it, as Shaquala Williams also won in 1998-99. Sabally, a native of Berlin, Germany, is the third international player to be named Pac-12 freshman of the year, joining Washington State's Alke Dietel (Germany) and Oregon State's Tanja Kostic (Sweden). Sabally averaged 10.9 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game while appearing in all 31 of the Ducks' regular season games with 22 starts. Sabally made her first career start on Dec. 2 against Weber State. Three games later, against Ole Miss on Dec. 17, Sabally was back in the starting lineup for good, starting Oregon's last 21 games.

FOUR DUCKS EARN ALL-CONFERENCE HONORS
The Oregon women's basketball team had four players earn all-Pac-12 recognition, the conference announced on Feb. 27. In a vote by the league's coaches, Sabrina Ionescu, Ruthy Hebard and Maite Cazorla each earned all-Pac-12 honors while Satou Sabally was named to the Pac-12 all-freshman team. Cazorla was also named honorable mention all-defense. The Ducks' three all-Pac-12 picks are the most for a single-season in program history.

OREGON'S CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- With a win over Arizona in the final game of the regular season, the Ducks clinched their first Pac-12 championship since the 1999-2000 season.
- Oregon had only won two Pac-10/12 titles in program history prior to this season. The Ducks shared the title in 1998-99 when they went 15-3 in conference play. Oregon won an outright title a year later in 1999-2000 when the Ducks went 14-4 in league games.
- UO has finished better than sixth just four times since 2000 (4th in 2001, 5th in 2003, 2nd in 2005, 1st in 2018).
- Prior to the Pac-10 adopting women's sports for the 1986-87 season, the Ducks won six league titles in the Northwest Basketball League and the NorPac Conference, including four straight from 1978-79 to 1981-82. The Ducks were 23-2 (the fewest losses in program history) in 1978-79 and went a perfect 11-0 in the Northwest Basketball League.

GRAVES' CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Kelly Graves has won 11 league titles in his career, 10 at Gonzaga and one at Oregon.
- Graves won 10 straight WCC titles while at Gonzaga, stretching from 2005-2014.
- Graves won his first league title at Gonzaga in his fifth season. He won his first conference championship at Oregon in his fourth season.
- Graves' teams have won a league title in 11 of the last 14 seasons.

OREGON'S PAC-12 TOURNAMENT HISTORY
- Oregon is 6-16 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament.
- UO is 2-5 at the Pac-12 Tournament in Seattle, with both wins coming last season.
- The Ducks defeated Arizona in the first round last year, upset Washington in the quarterfinals and lost to Stanford in the semifinals.
- Oregon has never advanced to the finals of the Pac-12 Tournament. The Ducks have made it to the semifinals three times. The first was in 2002, when the tournament was played in Eugene at McArthur Court. The No. 7 seed Ducks knocked off No. 10 seed Washington State, 85-67, in the first round and No. 2 seed Washington, 78-64, in the second round before falling to No. 3 seed Arizona State, 64-58. The second was in 2005 when the No. 2 seed Ducks had a bye in the first round, defeated No. 7 seed Washington, 64-50, in the quarterfinals and lost to No. 3 seed Arizona State, 54-47, in the semifinals. The third time the Ducks reached the semifinals was in 2017. The No. 6 seed Ducks beat No. 11 seed Arizona, 70-63, in the first round, upset No. 3 seed Washington, 70-69, in the quarterfinals and lost to No. 2 seed Stanford, 71-56, in the semifinals.
- Five of Oregon's six Pac-12 Tournament wins have come against the Washington schools. The Ducks have beaten the Cougars twice (2008, 2002) and the Huskies three times (2017, 2005, 2002). The other win was last year against Arizona.
- Oregon's loss to WSU in 2013-14 was the highest scoring game in Pac-12 Tournament history as the Ducks lost, 107-100. The 207 combined points beat the previous mark, which was 179 point when Oregon lost, 90-89, to Arizona in 2011.

OVERALL & CONFERENCE WINS RECORD
At 27-4 overall and 16-2 in the Pac-12, the Ducks have set program records in both categories. The previous wins record was 25, set in both 1980-81 (25-7) and 1998-99 (25-6). The conference wins record was set in 1998-99 (15-3).

NATIONAL AWARDS WATCH
Naismith Coach of the Year Semis (10)   Kelly Graves
Naismith Award Semifinalist (10)   Sabrina Ionescu
Naismith Award Midseason List   Ruthy Hebard
Wooden Award Midseason List   Sabrina Ionescu
Wade Trophy Midseason List   Sabrina Ionescu
Wade Trophy Midseason List   Ruthy Hebard
Dawn Staley Award Watch List   Sabrina Ionescu
Nancy Lieberman Award Final 5   Sabrina Ionescu
Katrina McClain Award Final 5   Ruthy Hebard

SHARP SHOOTERS
- Oregon ranks fourth in the NCAA in field goal pct., shooting 49.7 percent from the floor.
- The Ducks are also fourth in the country, shooting 39.9 percent from three-point range.
- Oregon is 23rd in the NCAA and is second in the Pac-12, shooting 76.3 percent at the free throw line.
- Individually, Ruthy Hebard is second in the nation, shooting 66.6 percent on field goals.
- Lexi Bando (46.1%) and Sabrina Ionescu (44.3%) are first and second in the Pac-12 in three-point percentage, respectively.

SHARE THE ROCK
- Oregon ranks sixth in the NCAA with 603 assists.
- The Ducks are averaging 19.5 assists per game this year, good for seventh in the NCAA.
- Sabrina Ionescu ranks third in the NCAA in total assists (242) and fifth in assists per game (7.8 apg).

THE SCOREBOARD, IT'S LIT
- UO ranks eighth in the NCAA, averaging 82.6 ppg.
- UO is outscoring its opponents by 18.7 points per game, the eighth-biggest margin in the NCAA.

HEBARD SETS NCAA CONSECUTIVE FG RECORD
- Going into the Ducks' Feb. 19 game against UCLA, Ruthy Hebard had already made an incredible 30 straight field goals, a new NCAA record. She hit her first three shots versus the Bruins to extend her record to 33, the most consecutive field goals in either men's or women's NCAA basketball.
- The previous mark was 28 straight made shots, set by Southern Utah's Myndee Kay Larsen in 1998.
- The men's record was 30, set by Yale's Brandon Sherrod in 2016.
- Hebard made her last six shots at Washington on Feb. 9 and set a UO single-game record by going 12-for-12 at Washington State on Feb. 11. Hebard matched her own record in the the next game, when she went 12-for-12 again in a double-overtime win against USC on Feb. 16. She then started the game 3-for-3 against UCLA on Feb. 19 before missing a tough shot in the paint in the second quarter.

HEBARD SETS UO FG PERCENTAGE RECORD
- Sophomore Ruthy Hebard went 12-for-12 from the floor against Washington State on Feb. 11, setting a new UO single-game field goal percentage record.
- She did it again in the very next game, going 12-for-12 in a double-overtime win against USC on Feb. 16.
- The previous program record was a pair of 11-for-11 outings by Jillian Alleyne at Arizona on Jan. 21, 2014 and Lauri Landerholm at Washington State on Jan. 22, 1987.

HEBARD FIVE TIMES PERFECT
- Forward Ruthy Hebard has been perfect from the floor in five games this season.
- She went 10-of-10 at Texas A&M on Nov. 16, 7-for-7 against Eastern Washington on Nov. 21, 9-for-9 against Arizona State on Jan. 14 and then 12-for-12 against both WSU on Feb. 11 and USC on Feb. 16.

HEBARD, IONESCU JOIN 1K CLUB TOGETHER
Sophomores Sabrina Ionescu and Ruthy Hebard, who were roommates as freshman at UO, both joined the 1,000-point club in a win at Washington State on Feb. 11. Hebard tallied 16 points in the first half to reach the 1K mark by halftime while Ionescu reached the milestone on a jumper in the fourth quarter. They joined former star Jillian Alleyne as the only player in UO history to reach 1,000 career points as sophomores.

CAZORLA MAKES IT FOUR IN 1K CLUB
- Junior Maite Cazorla reached 1,000 career points in Oregon's overtime win over No. 10 UCLA on Feb. 19. Cazorla did it in 99 career games.
- Senior Lexi Bando reached 1,000 career points last year as a junior while Sabrina Ionescu and Ruthy Hebard both reached 1K points on Feb. 11 at Washington State. Bando reached the 1K threshold in the Ducks' Pac-12 Tournament upset of Washington on Mar. 3, 2017.
- With Cazorla, Ionescu, Hebard and Bando all in the 1K club, the Ducks join Notre Dame, UConn and Ohio State as the only teams in the country with four active 1,000 point scorers.

BANDO ON RECORD PACE
Senior guard Lexi Bando is close to setting multiple three-point percentage records. The guard is a career 45.8 percent three-point shooter (262-for-572), the best among active players in the NCAA.
- The NCAA career record is 47.6 percent (262-of-550), set by Notre Dame's Alicia Ratay from 2000-03.
- The Pac-12 career record is 45.2 percent (191-of-423), set by Stanford's Jennifer Azzi from 1988-90.
- The Oregon career record is 44.6 percent (66-of-148), set by Jennifer Bourn from 1987-91.
- Bando's 262 made three-pointers are the second most in UO career history. Taylor Lilley has the record with 270 made from 2007-2010.