No. 10 Ducks Host Huskies

EUGENE, Ore. - Head coach Kelly Graves will go for career win No. 500 on Sunday when No. 10 Oregon hosts Washington at 1 PM at Matthew Knight Arena.

#10 OREGON DUCKS (12-2, 1-0 Pac-12)
PPG: 88.9 | FG%: 50.9 | 3FG%: 41.2 | FT%: 75.6
Notable: Oregon opened conference play with a 33-point win over Washington State on Friday, the seventh largest Pac-12/10 win in program history. It was also the Ducks' first win in a conference opener since the 2009-10 season. Oregon owns one of the nation's best offenses this season, ranking fifth in the NCAA in scoring (88.9 ppg), sixth in field goal percentage (50.9%), fifth in three-point percentage (41.2%) and eighth in assists per game (21.1 apg).

WASHINGTON HUSKIES (6-6, 0-1 Pac-12)
PPG: 74.2 | FG%: 39.8 | 3FG%: 31.6 | FT%: 70.6
Series Record: Washington leads, 51-46
Last Game: UO won, 70-69 (3/3/17, P12 Tourney)
Notable: Washington comes into Eugene after a 75-63 loss at Oregon State on Friday. The Huskies owned a 36-30 halftime lead but were outscored 25-9 in the third quarter. Amber Melgoza had a team-high 19 points, going 8-of-10 at the free throw line. Melgoza is averaging a team-best 15.7 points per game this year on 42.0% shooting. Jenna Moser has a team-high 23 made threes. Former Long Beach State head coach Jody Wynn is in her first season at the helm of the Huskies after previous head coach Mike Neighbors left for Arkansas.

BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV - Pac-12 Network Oregon & Pac-12 Network Washington with Ann Schatz and Maylana Martin.
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

TV GAMES
Starting with Oregon's Dec. 31 date with Washington, each of the Ducks' final 17 games of the regular season will be broadcast on either Pac-12 Networks or the ESPN family of networks.

LAST TIME OUT
Oregon defeated Washington State, 89-56, on Friday to open league play. It was the Ducks' first win in a Pac-12 opener since defeating Washington on Jan. 1, 2010.

A WIN WOULD...
- Give head coach Kelly Graves 500 career wins, going back to his first head coaching job at Big Bend CC.
- Give the Ducks a weekend sweep of the Washington schools for second time in the last three seasons.
- Give Oregon a 2-0 start to conference play for the first time since the 2009-10 season, when UO also opened with two wins vs. the Washington schools.
- Give the Ducks a five-game winning streak.

DEJA VU
The Ducks are opening up Pac-12 play at home against the Washington schools for the second straight season. Oregon lost, 99-77, to No. 9 Washington on Dec. 30 and lost again, 75-59, to Washington State on Jan. 1.

LAST YEAR VS. WASHINGTON
- The Ducks lost to UW to open Pac-12 play last season but rebounded with a big win over the Huskies in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 Tournament in Seattle.
- In the pair of games vs. UW, Ruthy Hebard averaged a team-high 19.0 points on 16-of-25 shooting (64.0%) with 7.0 rebounds. Lexi Bando went 6-of-8 from three-point range combined.
- The Ducks lost, 99-77, to UW in the regular season last year, the teams' only regular season meeting. Kelsey Plum scored 44 points on 14-of-23 shooting for the Huskies while Heather Corral went 5-for-5 from three-point range. Ruthy Hebard starred for the Ducks, with a team-high 25 points on 11-of-14 shooting. Sabrina Ionescu did not play due to injury.
- Oregon bounced back with a huge, 70-69, win over No. 11 Washington at KeyArena in last year's Pac-12 Tournament, cementing UO's resume for the NCAA Tournament. UW led by nine in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter but Lexi Bando scored 11 straight points for the Ducks and UO later used a 10-0 run to take a 66-64 lead. Oregon was again down, 69-66, with just over a minute left when Bando hit a jumper and then, with 6.4 seconds remaining, Sabrina Ionescu was fouled and hit both free throws to give UO a 70-69 lead. Ruthy Hebard and Maite Cazorla hounded Kelsey Plum on defense and forced UW's star guard into a missed three-pointer to end it.

WASHINGTON SERIES HISTORY
- UO trails Washington, 51-46 all-time in the series.
- Oregon and Washington met just once each of the last two seasons but they play twice again this year.
- One of Kelly Graves' 11 top-25 wins at Oregon was a thrilling, 75-63, win at No. 24 Washington on Feb. 7, 2016. The Ducks trailed by as much as 17 points in the third quarter before outscoring UW, 21, 11, in the third and 35-19 in the fourth. With star Jillian Alleyne in foul trouble and on the bench much of the game (she played only 18 minutes and scored nine points), the Ducks used six threes in the third to cut the UW lead to 44-40 going to the fourth. Oregon then used a 13-2 run in the fourth to put the game away. Maite Cazorla scored 16 points and hit four threes. Kelsey Plum had 26 points for UW but Chantel Osahor was limited to just five points in 39 minutes.
- Graves picked up another top-25 win against UW in the 2017 Pac-12 Tournament with it's shocking 70-69 win over No. 11 ranked Washington at KeyArena.
- UO's win over UW in the Pac-12 Tournment last year snapped a string of three straight postseason losses to the Huskies (WNIT in 2014, Pac-12 Tournament in 2013, Pac-12 Tournament in 2012).
- Washington won the first nine meetings in the series, spanning from March 1, 1974 through March 11, 1978. That nine-game winning streak is UW's longest vs. UO.
- Oregon's longest winning streak in the series is 12 games, running from Feb. 8, 1996 to Dec. 28, 2001.
- The first meeting in the series was played in Eugene. Washington won, 50-39, on March 1, 1974.

THE SCOREBOARD, IT'S LIT
Oregon ranks fifth in the NCAA, averaging 88.9 points per game. UO has outscored their opponents by 28.6 points per game, which ranks sixth in the nation.

SHARE THE ROCK
- Oregon ranks second in the NCAA with 295 assists.
- The Ducks are averaging 21.1 assists per game this year, good for eighth in the NCAA.
- Individually, Sabrina Ionescu ranks third in the NCAA in total assists (111) and fourth in assists per game (7.9). Ionescu is 13th in the NCAA, with a 3.26-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio. Maite Cazorla is 23rd in the NCAA with 76 total assists. She's 28th in the country, averaging 5.8 assists per game.

SHARP SHOOTERS
- Oregon ranks sixth in the NCAA, shooting 50.9 percent from the floor.
- The Ducks are fifth in the country, shooting 41.2 percent from three-point range.
- Individually, Ruthy Hebard ranks third in the NCAA, shooting 66.2 percent on field goals. Sabrina Ionescu is No. 5 in the country, shooting 51.8 percent from three-point range. Ionescu is also 14th in the country with 44 made three-pointers.

BANDO ON RECORD PACE
Senior guard Lexi Bando is close to setting multiple three-point percentage records. The guard is a career 45.4 percent three-point shooter (236-for-520), 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 236 made three-pointers are the second most in UO career history. Taylor Lilley has the record with 270 made from 2007-2010.

DUCKS CRUSH WASHINGTON STATE
Oregon's 33-point win (89-56) over Washington State on Dec. 29 was their largest in a conference game since also taking down the Cougars by 33-points (85-52) on Feb. 20, 2003. It was the Ducks' seventh largest overall since joining the Pac-12/10 in 1986-87.