Ducks Meet Stanford Sunday in Pac-12 Tournament Championship

SEATTLE - No. 1 seed Oregon meets No. 2 seed Stanford at 6 PM on Sunday in the Pac-12 Tournament championship game on ESPN2.

OREGON BREAKDOWN (29-4, 16-2 Pac-12, 1st)
2018 Tournament: Oregon rallied back from a 13-point deficit and ended the game on a 10-0 run to beat UCLA yesterday, 65-62.
Pac-12 Tournament Record: 8-16 all-time record (2-1 in 2017)
Last Year at the Tournament: Semifinals loss to Stanford, 71-56
Notable: After clinching the 2018 outright Pac-12 regular season title, the Ducks came into the Pac-12 tournament as the No. 1 seed for the first time in program history. Oregon is also making its first appearance in the Pac-12 Tournament championship game. The big reason for Oregon's success this year has been its incredible offense. After beating UCLA on Saturday, the Ducks rank 12th in the NCAA in scoring (82.1 ppg), fourth in field goal percentage (49.8%), second in three-point percentage (40.4%) and eighth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.47-to-1).

OREGON AGAINST STANFORD THIS YEAR
- Oregon lost its only meeting against Stanford this season, 78-65, on Feb. 4 in Eugene.
- Stanford's Brittany McPhee had 33 points in the win, with 30 coming in the second half.
- Sabrina Ionescu had 22 points plus seven rebounds, seven assists and seven turnovers in the loss.
- Ruthy Hebard had 16 points and a game-high eight rebounds. She went 6-of-11 from the field.
- Oregon shot 50% from the field in the first half but shot just 28% in the second half.

STANFORD SERIES HISTORY
- UO trails in the all-time series with Stanford, 54-9.
- Oregon has lost six straight games to Stanford.
- 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 31 years.
- 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 year with Oregon. Stanford was ranked No. 19 at the time. The Ducks haven't beaten the Cardinal since.
- UO's longest win 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.

Sabrina Ionescu
- Named Pac-12 player of the year by both the league's coaches and media.
- Ionescu has shattered the UO single-season assists record. She has 260 and the record was 209, set by Corrie Mizusawa in 2004-05
- NCAA career record nine triple-doubles.
- Ionescu has 622 points, just the eighth player in UO history to reach 600 points in a season.
- Ionescu reached 1,000 career points this season, only the third sophomore at UO to do it.
- Posted her 13th double-double of the season against CU on Friday with 10 points and 13 assists.
- Her 13 assists vs. CU matched the Pac-12 Tournament single-game record (Marta Sniezek, 2016).

Ruthy Hebard
- Owns the NCAA record for both men's and women's basketball with 33 consecutive made field goals stretching from Feb. 9 at UW to Feb. 19 vs. UCLA.
- Reached 1,000 career points this season, the second UO sophomore to do it, just minutes ahead of Ionescu.

Lexi Bando
- Her big three-pointer from the wing late in the fourth quarter in the Pac-12 Tournament semifinals against UCLA gave her 271 career threes, breaking the UO career record of 270, set by Taylor Lilley (2007-10).
- Bando is 9-of-14 from three in the tournament.
- The NCAA's active leader in career three-point percentage at 46.2 percent. If the season ended today, that percentage would break both the Oregon (44.6 percent, Jennifer Bourn, 1987-91) and Pac-12 (45.2 percent, Stanford's Jennifer Azzi, 1988-90) career marks. The NCAA record is 47.6 percent, set by Notre Dame Alicia Ratay from 2000-03.

Satou Sabally
- Pac-12 frosh of the year in media and coach vote.
- Had 21 points on 8-of-11 shooting, including five threes, in just 19 minutes against CU on Friday.
- Went out with a midsection injury vs. UCLA.

OREGON'S CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- With a win over Arizona in the final game of the regular season, the Ducks clinched their first Pac-12 championship since the 1999-2000 season.
- UO had only won two Pac-10/12 titles in program history prior to this season. The Ducks shared the title in 1998-99 when they went 15-3 in conference play. Oregon won an outright title a year later in 1999-2000 when the Ducks went 14-4 in league games.

GRAVES' CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Kelly Graves has won 11 league titles in his career, 10 at Gonzaga and one at Oregon.
- Graves won 10 straight WCC titles while at Gonzaga, stretching from 2005-2014.
- Graves won his first league title at Gonzaga in his fifth season. He won his first conference championship at Oregon in his fourth season.

OREGON'S PAC-12 TOURNAMENT HISTORY
- Oregon is 8-16 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament.
- UO is 4-5 at the Pac-12 Tournament in Seattle, with all four wins coming over the last two years.
- The Ducks are making their first appearance in the Pac-12 Tournament championship game.
- The Ducks defeated Arizona in the first round last year, upset Washington in the quarterfinals and lost to Stanford in the semifinals.
- The Ducks have reached the semifinals in back-to-back years and four times now in program history. The first was in 2002, when the tournament was played in Eugene at McArthur Court. The No. 7 seed Ducks knocked off No. 10 seed Washington State, 85-67, in the first round and No. 2 seed Washington, 78-64, in the second round before falling to No. 3 seed Arizona State, 64-58. The second was in 2005 when the No. 2 seed Ducks had a bye in the first round, defeated No. 7 seed Washington, 64-50, in the quarterfinals and lost to No. 3 seed Arizona State, 54-47, in the semifinals. The third time the Ducks reached the semifinals was in 2017. The No. 6 seed Ducks beat No. 11 seed Arizona, 70-63, in the first round, upset No. 3 seed Washington, 70-69, in the quarterfinals and lost to No. 2 seed Stanford, 71-56.
- Five of Oregon's eight Pac-12 Tournament wins have come against the Washington schools. The Ducks have beaten the Cougars twice (2008, 2002) and the Huskies three times (2017, 2005, 2002). The other win was last year against Arizona.
- Oregon's loss to WSU in 2013-14 was the highest scoring game in Pac-12 Tournament history as the Ducks lost, 107-100. The 207 combined points beat the previous mark, which was 179 point when Oregon lost, 90-89, to Arizona in 2011.

OVERALL & CONFERENCE WINS RECORD
At 29-4 overall and 16-2 in the Pac-12, the Ducks have set program records in both categories. The previous wins record was 25, set in both 1980-81 (25-7) and 1998-99 (25-6). The conference wins record was set in 1998-99 (15-3).