Notes - No. 3 Ducks Visit Utah State - University of Oregon Athletics

EUGENE, Ore - After an exciting win on Saturday against Syracuse, the No. 3 ranked Oregon women's basketball team hits the road for a meeting with Utah State on Wednesday.

#3 OREGON DUCKS (2-0, 0-0 Pac-12)
PPG: 95.0 | FG%: 52.0 | 3FG%: 41.8 | FT%: 78.7
Notes: The Ducks are coming off the winningest season in school history, with a program-best 33-5 record. Oregon won both the Pac-12 regular season and tournament titles last year and advanced to the Elite Eight for the second straight season. The Ducks ranked seventh in the NCAA in scoring last year (82.4 ppg), fourth in field goal percentage (50.0), third in three-point percentage (40.1) and fourth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.52-to-1).

UTAH STATE AGGIES (2-0, 0-0 MWC)
PPG: 89.0 | FG%: 49.7 | 3FG%: 28.6 | FT%: 83.3
Series: Oregon leads, 3-0 (1-0 in Logan, Utah)
Last Meeting: UO won, 100-77 (11/14/14, Eugene)
Notes: Utah State opened up its season with a 72-61 win at Washington State. Junior forward Hailey Bassett-Meacham had a team-best 23 points against the Cougars with six rebounds. The Aggies forced WSU into 20 turnovers. Utah State's most recent win was a 106-35 shellacking of Northern New Mexico College, with six players scoring in double figures.

KEY STORYLINES
- UO's last game vs Utah State was Kelly Graves' first with the Ducks, a 100-77 win in 2014-15, exactly four years ago.
- Junior Sabrina Ionescu had a triple-double in the season opener at Alaska and a double-double vs. No. 18 Syracuse.
- The Ducks were picked to win the Pac-12 this season for the first time in program history.
- Oregon's No.3 ranking this week is the best in program history. UO was No. 6 in last year's postseason poll.
- Junior Sabrina Ionescu is one of five AP preseason All-Americans (Durr, Samuelson, Ogunbowale, Kalani Brown)
- Oregon returns four starters off last year's Elite Eight team, with all four averaging 10+ points per game last season.
- UO features both the national point guard of the year (Ionescu) and the national power forward of the year (Hebard).

BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV - None
Stream - Free at utahstateaggies.com/watch
Radio - Terry Jonz on the call at 590 AM (Eugene), 860 AM (Portland) & TuneIn. Search for "Oregon IMG" in the TuneIn app or online at TuneIn.com.

A WIN WOULD...
- Give Oregon a 3-0 start for the fourth straight season. The Ducks beat CSUN, Drake and No. 19 Texas A&M last year before falling at No. 5 Louisville.

UTAH STATE SERIES HISTORY
- The Ducks are 3-0 all-time against Utah State.
- Oregon won the last meeting, 100-77, on Nov. 14, 2014, in Kelly Graves' first game as UO head coach.
- The Ducks and Aggies have met once in Logan, Utah, a 73-64 win by UO on Jan. 7, 1986.

SYRACUSE SHOCKER
The No. 3 ranked Ducks pulled off a thrilling comeback win over No. 18 Syracuse on Saturday at Matthew Knight Arena. Down six points with just over two minutes left to play, the Ducks hit back-to-back-to-back three-pointers (two by Sabrina Ionescu and one from Erin Boley) to take a 70-67 lead. Oregon hit its free throws down the stretch to hold on for a 75-73 win over the Orange.

NCAA STAT RANKINGS
- Oregon ranks No. 5 in the NCAA so far this season with a 2.26-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio. Last year the Ducks were fourth in the country at 1.52-to-1.
- The Ducks are 19th in the NCAA in field goal percentage at 52.0 percent. The Ducks shot 50-percent from the floor last year, good for fourth in the NCAA.

ESPNW'S PRESEASON PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Sabrina Ionescu was chosen as ESPNW's preseason national player of the year. The junior already has an NCAA record 11 triple-doubles in her career and is coming off a season in which she claimed the Nancy Lieberman Award (national PG of the year), unanimous first team All-America honors, the Pac-12 player of the year and the Pac-12 Tournament MVP.

ESPNW"S PRESEASON TOP-25 PLAYERS
In ESPNW's preseason list of the top-25 players in the NCAA this season, both Ruthy Hebard and Sabrina Ionescu were ranked. Ionescu was picked No. 1 as ESPNW's preseason player of the year. Hebard was picked No. 10. They were the top rated players in the Pac-12.

PRESEASON WATCH LISTS
- Of the 50 players named to the Naismith Trophy Watch List, three were Ducks. Sabrina Ionescu, Ruthy Hebard and Satou Sabally were all selected to the watch list for the Atlanta Tipoff Club's national player of the year honor. Only Notre Dame (5) and UConn (4) have more players on the list. The field will be cut to 30 for the midseason watch list.
- After winning the award a season ago as a sophomore, Sabrina Ionescu has been named to the Nancy Lieberman Award watch list for her junior season. The award is annually presented to the top point guard in the country.
- A year after being named the Pac-12 freshman of the year, sophomore Satou Sabally has been named to the watch list for the Cheryl Miller Award, given annually to the nation's top small forward.
- A year after winning the inaugural Katrina McClain Award for the nation's top power forward, Ruthy Hebard is on the watch list again this season.

ATTENDANCE GAINS
The Ducks had the biggest increase in average attendance in the NCAA last season. Oregon went from averaging 2,595 fans in 2016-17 to 4,255 in 2017-18. The Ducks had 7,000+ fans at MKA four times, including both NCAA Tournament games.