Notes: Ducks Host Bakersfield Friday

EUGENE, Ore. - The Oregon women's basketball team opens up a stretch of six games in 10 days when CSU Bakersfield visits Matthew Knight Arena on Friday night.

The Ducks and Roadrunners tip at 6 PM on Friday. A free live stream will be available at GoDucks.com/live while radio and live stats links are available on the women's basketball schedule at GoDucks.com.

OREGON DUCKS (1-0)
PPG: 84.0 | FG%: 44.9 | 3FG%: 48.0 | FT%: 76.9
Notable: Oregon opened up its 2016-17 season with a victory on Sunday, defeating Lamar 84-67. Lexi Bando matched her career-high with six three-pointers and finished with a game-high 20 points on 6-of-8 shooting. Jacinta Vandenberg filled the stat sheet with eight points, seven rebounds, four assists and three blocks. Oregon led the nation last year shooting 42.1 percent from three-point range. Against Lamar, the Ducks shot 48 percent (12-of-25).

CSU BAKERSFIELD ROADRUNNERS (1-1)
PPG: 58.5 | FG%: 34.2 | 3FG%: 27.9 | FT%: 66.7
CSUB Series Record: Tied, 1-1
Last Meeting: UO won, 131-91, on 11/9/13 in Eugene
Notable: CSUB is coming off a split in two games at home to open up the 2016-17 season. The Roadrunners defeated Hawai'i, 58-51, on Nov. 13 but lost to Southern Utah, 65-59, on Nov. 15. Aja Williams is averaging a team-high 18.5 points per game on 31.6 percent shooting. She also leads the team with 6.5 rebounds per game.

OREGON'S LAST GAME
The 2016-17 Oregon women's basketball season got off to a successful start, as the Ducks made 12-of-25 three-point attempts to beat Lamar, 84-67, before ,2,098 fans in Matthew Knight Arena on Sunday afternoon. A year after leading the NCAA in three-point accuracy, the Ducks showed that their shooting prowess will be a strength in 2016-17 as well. Junior Lexi Bando made three early three-pointers as Oregon jumped out to a 13-3 lead, and freshman Sabrina Ionescu's first career three-pointer made it 34-19 in the second quarter, the Ducks' biggest lead of the half. Lamar fought back to within 10 at halftime, and made a three-pointer of its own to cut the lead to 43-36 early in the third quarter. But Maite Cazorla and Ionescu got the lead back to double digits with two more three-pointers, and another by Bando later in the period pushed the advantage to 20 at 60-40. "It's awesome because we've got so many guards that can find you," Bando said. "They're going to hit you when you get open." Oregon's biggest least was 29 early in the fourth quarter, a period the Cardinal won 22-13. The Ducks shot .449 for the game, including an even .500 in the first half, and limited Lamar to .397 for the game.

TAPPING THE DEPTH
The Ducks had 13 of their 15 scholarship players in uniform on Sunday against Lamar, and by halftime all 13 had played. Transfer Justine Hall and rehabbing freshman Sierra Campisano weren't suited up. Of those 13, all but one, Mar'Shay Moore, scored at least three points in the game. "We played 13 players, and that makes it kind of disjointed a bit," Graves said. "But I made a conscious effort to get everybody in in the first half, kind of get those nerves out of the way. We're going to try to play as many players as we can early, and see. But by Pac-12 play we'll settle into a nine- or 10-player rotation. We have to."

LAST TIME VS. BAKERSFIELD
The last time Oregon and CSUB met, the Ducks scored a school-record 131 points and hit a school-record 20 three-pointers in a 131-91 victory on Nov. 9, 2013 at Matthew Knight Arena. Katelyn Loper matched Taylor Lilley's single-game record with nine threes in the win. The Ducks also set the UO single-game record with 34 offensive rebounds against the Roadrunners. No current Oregon player was on the roster for that game three seasons ago.

THE NEW TALL FIRS?
With six players standing 6-foot-3 or taller, the Ducks are tied with Kansas State and Texas for the tallest roster in Div. I women's basketball this season. Oregon's tallest player is 6-foot-6 freshman forward Lydia Giomi from West Seattle, Wash. She is the tallest player on the Oregon roster in 10 years (Jessie Shetters, 6-foot-6, 2003-07).

THREE STARTERS RETURN FOR 2016-17
The Ducks return three starters off last year's team which advanced to the final four of the WNIT. Junior guard Lexi Bando is back for her third year as a starter, sophomore point guard Maite Cazorla also returns as does senior forward Jacinta Vandenberg.

NCAA'S NO. 1 THREE-POINT SHOOTING TEAM
The Ducks shot a blistering 42.1 percent from three last season, the best in the NCAA. That percentage was the second-best in UO history and was just the second time a UO team has shot better than 40 percent from three in a season.

BANDO FROM DEEP
Returning guard Lexi Bando shot 45.3 percent from three-point range last season, which ranked second in the Pac-12, behind Stanford's Karlie Samuelson, and sixth in the NCAA. Bando led the league as a freshman, shooting 44.0 percent, just ahead of Bonnie Samuelson.

POISE BEYOND HER YEARS
Despite being a freshman last season, point guard Maite Cazorla led the Pac-12 in assist-to-turnover ratio, total assists and assists per game. Her 206 total assists ranked 12th overall in the NCAA and was the second most in single-season Oregon history.

JUST SHY OF PROGRAM WINS RECORD
With 24 victories last year, Oregon finished just one win away from matching the program record for wins in a season. The record for wins for the Ducks is 25, set in 1980-81 under head coach Elwin Heiny and again in 1998-99 under Jody Runge.