No. 9 Ducks Open Final Regular Season Home Weekend vs. USC

EUGENE, Ore. - The No. 9 ranked Oregon women's basketball team opens its final regular season home weekend of the year on Friday night against USC.

#9 OREGON DUCKS (23-4, 12-2 Pac-12)
PPG: 83.3 | FG%: 49.8 | 3FG%: 39.5 | FT%: 76.6
Notable: Oregon is tied for first in the Pac-12 standings with Stanford and UCLA, looking for its first league title since the 1999-2000 season. UO's offense has been leading the way this year, as the Ducks rank No. 11 in the NCAA in scoring (83.3 ppg), No. 3 in shooting (49.8%), No. 7 in three-point shooting (39.5) and No. 7 in assists (19.7 apg). Sabrina Ionescu is a finalist for the Wooden Award, the Wade Trophy, the Naismith Trophy, the Dawn Staley Award and the Lieberman Award.

USC TROJANS (17-8, 7-7 Pac-12)
PPG: 69.6 | FG%: 42.4 | 3FG%: 31.8 | FT%: 74.2
Series Record: UO trails, 22-45 (14-18 in Eugene)
Last Game: Oregon won, 70-66 (1/5/18 in LA)
Notable: The Ducks and Trojans meet for a second time after UO won a tight game in LA. Forward Kristen Simon leads USC in scoring (17.5 ppg) and rebounding (8.4 rpg). Simon had 18 points and eight rebounds against UO in LA while Aliyah Mazyk hit four threes and scored a team-high 21 points. Mazyck leads the team, shooting 35.8 percent from three-point range.

RPI CHECK
As of Feb. 14, the Ducks are No. 11 in the NCAA RPI report. USC is No. 50 and UCLA is No. 10.

BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV - Pac-12 National, Oregon & Los Angeles
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

LAST TIME OUT
Oregon defeated Washington State, 90-79, on Sunday in Pullman. Ruthy Hebard went 12-for-12 for 29 points. Both her and Sabrina Ionescu reached 1,000 career points in the victory.

A WIN WOULD...
- Give UO 13 league wins, the most for the program since 1999-2000 (14-4), when UO won a Pac-10 title.
- Give Oregon five straight wins against USC, matching its longest winning streak against the Trojans.

USC SERIES HISTORY
- Oregon trails the all-time series with USC, 45-22.
- The Ducks have won four straight vs. USC.
- Kelly Graves is 5-2 against USC while at Oregon.
- UO swept the season series with the Trojans last year.
- Oregon snapped a nine-game losing streak to USC with a 63-57 win in Eugene on Feb. 2, 2015.
- Oregon has just three wins at the Galen Center, and is 3-11 at the facility since it opened for the 2006-07 season. The Ducks are 3-8 against USC (2-6 regular season, 0-1 Pac-12 Tournament) plus 0-3 against other foes at the former home of the Pac-12 Tournament.
- USC won 19 of the first 22 meetings in the series, which started on March 21, 1981 in Los Angeles. USC won that game, 67-64.
- Oregon's longest winning streak in the series is five games, coming from 1997-99. USC's longest winning streak in the series is 10 games, from 1990-95.

EARLIER THIS SEASON VS. USC
- Then No. 9-ranked Oregon defeated USC, 70-66, on on Jan. 5, 2018. It was the Ducks' first Pac-12 road game of the season.
- Both teams had four players score in double figures. UO was led by Maite Cazorla's 18 points while Sabrina Ionescu added 16 points, Lexi Bando scored 12 and Ruthy Hebard had 11. USC was led by Aliya Mazyck's 21 points while Kristen Simon added 18, Minyon Moore scored 16 and Sadie Edwards tallied 11.
- The Ducks overcame 20 turnovers to win the game.

HEBARD SETS FIELD GOAL 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.
- 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 has been perfect from the floor in four 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 on Feb. 11 against the Cougars.

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. 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.

ONE MORE NEARING 1,000 CAREER POINTS
The Ducks have one other player closing in on 1,000 career points. Junior Maite Cazorla has 965 points in 97 career games. Senior Lexi Bando reached 1,000 career points last year as a junior. It came in the Ducks' Pac-12 Tournament upset of Washington.
- When Cazorla reaches the 1K mark, the Ducks will join Notre Dame, UConn and Ohio State as the only teams in the country with four active 1,000 point scorers.

SHARP SHOOTERS
- Oregon ranks fourth in the NCAA, shooting 49.8 percent from the floor.
- The Ducks are seventh in the country, shooting 39.5 percent from three-point range.
- Oregon is 18th in the NCAA and leads the Pac-12, shooting 76.6 percent at the free throw line.
- Individually, Ruthy Hebard ranks fourth in the NCAA, shooting 65.6 percent on field goals.
- Sabrina Ionescu is 10th in the NCAA and first in the Pac-12, shooting 46.2 percent from three.

SHARE THE ROCK
- Oregon ranks fifth in the NCAA with 532 assists.
- The Ducks are averaging 19.7 assists per game this year, good for seventh in the NCAA.
- Sabrina Ionescu ranks fourth in the NCAA in total assists (205) and sixth in assists per game (7.6 apg).

THE SCOREBOARD, IT'S LIT
- Oregon ranks 11th in the NCAA with 83.3 ppg.
- UO is outscoring its opponents by 20 points per game, the sixth biggest margin in the NCAA.

BANDO ON RECORD PACE
Senior guard Lexi Bando is close to setting multiple three-point percentage records. The guard is a career 45.6 percent three-point shooter (252-for-553), 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 252 made three-pointers are the second most in UO career history. Taylor Lilley has the record with 270 made from 2007-2010.