No. 9 Ducks and No. 7 Bruins Meet Monday Night at MKA

EUGENE, Ore. - No. 9 Oregon and No. 7 UCLA meet Monday night in a top-10 women's basketball matchup at Mathew Knight Arena. With three games left in the regular season, the Ducks remain in a tie with Stanford for first in the Pac-12 standings.

The Ducks will honor seniors Lexi Bando and Justine Hall in a postgame ceremony as the duo plays their final home game of the year. The Ducks and Bruins will tip at 7 PM on ESPN2.

#9 OREGON DUCKS (24-4, 13-2 Pac-12)
PPG: 83.1 | FG%: 49.7 | 3FG%: 39.4 | FT%: 76.1
Notable: Oregon is tied for first in the Pac-12 standings with Stanford, 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. 10 in the NCAA in scoring (83.1 ppg), No. 4 in shooting (49.7%), No. 8 in three-point shooting (39.4%) and No. 7 in assists (19.6 apg). Sabrina Ionescu is a finalist for the Wooden Award, the Wade Trophy, the Naismith Trophy, the Dawn Staley Award and the Lieberman Award.

#7 UCLA BRUINS (21-5, 12-3 Pac-12)
PPG: 74.7 | FG%: 42.5 | 3FG%: 32.9 | FT%: 72.4
Series Record: UO trails, 29-36 (18-13 in Eugene)
Last Game: Oregon won, 70-61 (1/7/18 in LA)
Notable: UCLA is coming off a 67-64 overtime loss at No. 15 Oregon State on Friday night. Prior to the loss, UCLA had won 10-straight games since falling to the Ducks on Jan. 7. The senior duo of Jordin Canada (15.6 ppg) Monique Billings (14.3 ppg) lead the Bruins in scoring. Billings also grabs a team-high 9.7 rebounds per game. Canada is shooting 40.2 percent from three.

RPI CHECK
As of Feb. 17, the Ducks are No. 8 in the NCAA RPI report. UCLA is No. 9, down a spot after losing at OSU.

BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV - ESPN2
Stream - ESPN3.com
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 won a thrilling double-overtime game against USC on Friday night, 80-74. With the Ducks up one, Lexi Bando bounced in a three-pointer with 46 seconds left to put away the Trojans.

A WIN WOULD...
- Give UO 14 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.

UCLA SERIES HISTORY
- Oregon trails UCLA in the all-time series, 29-36
- UO is 4-5 vs. UCLA under Kelly Graves
- Oregon swept UCLA in the season series two years ago, winning 62-46 in Los Angeles on Jan. 5, 2015 and 67-65 in Eugene on Jan. 31, 2015. Before then, the last time Oregon swept a home-and-home season series with UCLA was during the 2001-02 campaign.
- Oregon's longest win streak against UCLA is six games, coming from 1993-96.
- UCLA's longest win streak in the series is six games, coming just before UO's six-game run (1990-93).
- UCLA won the first meeting between the teams, 92-88, on Dec. 6, 1980, in Los Angeles.

EARLIER THIS SEASON AT UCLA
- Then No. 9-ranked Oregon won, 70-61, against No. 14 UCLA on Jan. 7 at Pauley Pavilion.
- Ruthy Hebard was 8-of-12 from the field for 19 points while Sabrina Ionescu scored 18 points and grabbed nine rebounds. Maite Cazorla added 17 points.
- The Ducks went just 4-of-16 from three-point range but Lexi Bando hit a three with 59 seconds left to put the Ducks up 63-59. Oregon knocked down free throws in the final minute to put the game away. UO was 22-of-26 at the free throw line.
- Monique Billings had a double-double for UCLA with 22 points on 7-of-15 shooting with 10 rebounds. Jordin Canada had 19 points on 6-of-19 shooting with three three-pointers.

HEBARD SETS NCAA CONSECUTIVE FG RECORD
- Going into Monday night's game against UCLA, Ruthy Hebard has made an incredible 30 straight field goals, a new NCAA record.
- The previous mark was 28 straight made shots, set by Southern Utah's Myndee Kay Larsen in 1998.
- Hebard made her last six shots at Washington on Feb. 9 and set a UO single-game record by going 12-for-12 at Washington State on Feb. 11. Hebard matched her own record in the the next game, when she went 12-for-12 again in a double-overtime win against USC on Feb. 16.

HEBARD SETS UO FG 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.
- She did it again in the very next game, going 12-for-12 in a double-overtime win against USC on Feb. 16.
- 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 FIVE TIMES PERFECT
- Forward Ruthy Hebard has been perfect from the floor in five 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 against both WSU on Feb. 11 and USC on Feb. 16.

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 982 points in 98 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 49.7 percent from the floor.
- The Ducks are eighth in the country, shooting 39.4 percent from three-point range.
- Oregon is 26th in the NCAA and leads the Pac-12, shooting 76.1 percent at the free throw line.
- Individually, Ruthy Hebard leads the nation, shooting 67.0 percent on field goals.
- Lexi Bando (45.6%) and Sabrina Ionescu (44.7%) are first and second in the Pac-12 in 3-point percentage.

SHARE THE ROCK
- Oregon ranks fifth in the NCAA with 549 assists.
- The Ducks are averaging 19.6 assists per game this year, good for seventh in the NCAA.
- Sabrina Ionescu ranks third in the NCAA in total assists (214) and fifth in assists per game (7.6 apg).

THE SCOREBOARD, IT'S LIT
- Oregon ranks 10th in the NCAA, averaging 83.1 ppg.
- UO is outscoring its opponents by 19.5 points per game, the eighth 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 45.7 percent three-point shooter (255-for-558), 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 255 made three-pointers are the second most in UO career history. Taylor Lilley has the record with 270 made from 2007-2010.