Notes: Ducks Close Regular Season vs. Stanford

Sunday, February 26

Eugene, OR

1:00 PM

University of Oregon

Stanford

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Photo by: Eric Evans/GoDucks.com

02/25/17 | Women's Basketball

Oregon Game Notes vs. Stanford Oregon Game Notes vs. Stanford

Oregon will honor seniors Jacinta Vandenberg and Mar'Shay Moore plus junior Megan Trinder with a ceremony after the game on Sunday.

By: Joe Waltasti

EUGENE, Ore. - The Oregon women's basketball team will celebrate senior day and close out the regular season on Sunday against No. 8 ranked Stanford at Matthew Knight Arena.

The Ducks and Cardinal tip at 1 PM in a Pac-12 Networks televised game.

OREGON DUCKS (18-11, 8-9 Pac-12)
PPG: 72.2 | FG%: 45.9 | 3FG%: 39.0 | FT%: 71.3
Notable: After falling to Cal on Friday, Oregon is locked into the No. 6 seed in next week's Pac-12 Tournament in Seattle. The Ducks will play the No. 11 seed in the first round on Thursday at KeyArena. The Ducks continue to be one of the nation's best shooting teams. Oregon ranks fifth in the NCAA in three-point percentage (39.0) and 17th in field goal percentage (45.9). The Ducks also share the ball well, ranking eight in the country in total assists (508) and 13th in assists per game (17.5).

#8 STANFORD CARDINAL (24-5, 14-3 Pac-12)
PPG: 73.4 | FG%: 45.2 | 3FG%: 34.9 | FT%: 68.1
Series Record: Stanford leads, 51-9 (8-22 in Eugene)
Last Meeting: Lost, 81-60, on Jan. 6 in Palo Alto
Notable: Stanford is coming off a tough loss on Friday, 50-47, to Oregon State in Corvallis. Erica McCall hit a layup with 20 seconds left to give Stanford at 47-46 lead but OSU scored four points in the final 15 seconds to win. McCall leads the team, averaging 14.9 points per game. The Cardinal rank 10th in the NCAA in field goal percentage defense (34.6) and 26th in scoring defense (56.4 ppg).

TV AND RADIO BROADCAST INFO
Oregon's game at 1 PM PT on Sunday vs. Stanford will be aired on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Oregon and Pac-12 Bay Area. The game will also be carried live on the radio in Eugene (KUGN 590 AM) and Portland (KBNP 1410 AM) with Terry Jonz on the call, Oregon women's basketball's longtime play-by-play man. Fans can find a free radio stream online via TuneIn.com/Ducks and the TuneIn app.

OREGON'S HISTORY VS. STANFORD
- Oregon trails in the all-time series with Stanford, 51-9.
- The Ducks snapped an 18-game losing streak to the Cardinal with a 62-55 win in Eugene on Senior Night to cap the 2014-15 season, Kelly Graves' first with UO.
- The Ducks lost twice to Stanford last season.
- Last season, Lexi Bando tallied 15 points on five made three-pointers in a two-point, buzzer-beater loss to the Cardinal in Eugene on Jan. 15. Lili Thompson's runner with three seconds remaining sunk the Ducks' upset bid of No. 11 Stanford. The Ducks also lost the Cardinal in Palo Alto, falling 69-42, in the final game of the regular season. The Ducks were without star senior forward Jillian Alleyne, who suffered an ACL tear that week in practice.
- Oregon has lost 28 straight games on the road vs. Stanford. The Ducks' last win at Stanford was actually the first time the two teams met in Stanford, Calif., a 63-54 win on March 5, 1987. The Ducks haven't won at Stanford in 30 years.
- Oregon's longest winning streak in the series is three games, the first three meetings between the two teams.
- Stanford's longest winning streak in the series is 22
games, running from 1988 to 1998.

TOP-25 TESTED
Oregon has played 10 games against top-25 teams this season. The Ducks are 3-7 in those contests with wins against No. 24 Michigan State, No. 20 California and No. 15 UCLA. Of the 14 games Oregon has played in Pac-12 play thus far, eight have been against top-25 teams.

RPI CHECK
As of Saturday morning, the Ducks dropped from No. 30 to No. 38 in the NCAA's RPI after Friday's loss to California. Stanford enters Sunday's game ranked No. 9, unchanged after losing. The Pac-12 features four teams in the top-11 of the RPI, highlighted by OSU at No. 5.

BRACKETOLOGY
The latest edition of Charlie Creme's projected NCAA tournament bracket on ESPN.com has the Ducks as a No. 9 seed facing No. 8 seed Michigan State in Starkville, Miss.

LAST TIME IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
The last time the Ducks made the NCAA Tournament was in the 2004-05 season. No. 10 seed Oregon defeated No. 7 seed TCU, 58-55, in Seattle in the first round behind Catherine Kraayeveld's 23 points. The Ducks lost, 69-46, to No. 2 seed Baylor in the second round.

HEBARD NEARS FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE RECORDS
Freshman Ruthy Hebard has a chance to break both the UO and the Pac-12 single-season records for field goal percentage. Hebard is shooting 63.7 percent, which leads the Pac-12 and ranks fifth in the NCAA. Debbie Adams set the Oregon record, when she shot 61.4 percent from the field (162-of-264) in 1980-81. Oregon State's Judie Lomax owns the Pac-12 record after shooting 64.5 percent from the field (120-of-186) during the 2006-07 season.

BANDO FROM DEEP
Lexi Bando leads the nation, shooting 49.6 percent from three-point range. Bando is also the NCAA's active career leader, shooting 46.2 percent from deep. Taylor Lilley owns the UO single-season record after shooting 50.6 percent during the 2006-07 season.

BANDO CAREER THREES
Lexi Bando now ranks third in Oregon career history with 188 three-pointers made. She needs just one more to match Missy Crowshow (1990-94) for second.

IONESCU A TOP-10 PASSER
Freshman Sabrina Ionescu has 144 assists this season, jumping Bev Smith's 143 assists in 1981-82 for the ninth most in single-season UO history. Lauri Landerholm ranks eighth with 145 assists in 1984-85 and Allison Towriss is seventh with 151 assists in 1980-81.

NCAA TRIPLE-DOUBLE SINGLE-SEASON LIST
Sabrina Ionescu is the first freshman in NCAA history to post four triple-doubles. She is tied for third in NCAA single-season history, just two away from the record. She is one behind Nicole Powell's Pac-12 record. Powell is now an assistant coach for the Ducks.