Notes - Oregon Visits WSU on Friday - University of Oregon Athletics

EUGENE, Ore. - The No. 5 Oregon women's basketball team wraps up its season series with Washington State at 7 PM on Friday in Pullman, Wash.

#5 OREGON DUCKS (17-1, 6-0 Pac-12)
PPG: 90.4 | FG%: 52.1 | 3FG%: 41.1 | FT%: 78.3
Notes: The Ducks have one of the most effecient offenses in the nation so far this season. UO's 90.4 points per game is No. 2 in the NCAA. UO is first in the nation with a 1.79 assist-to-turnover ratio. UO's 11.3 turnovers per game are the third fewest in the NCAA while its 20.2 assists per game rank fourth. Oregon is second in the nation in field goal percentage (52.1%), fourth in three-point percentage (41.1%) and fourth in free throw percentage (78.3%).

WASHINGTON STATE COUGARS (7-11, 2-5 Pac-12)
PPG: 69.6 | FG%: 44.3 | 3FG%: 35.7 | FT%: 69.7
Series: Oregon leads, 66-19 (29-10 in Pullman)
Last: Oregon won, 98-58 (1/6/19 in Eugene)
Notes: Washington State was swept last weekend at the Bay Area schools, falling 85-64 to Stanford and 77-63 to Cal. Borislava Hristova is averaging a team-high 21.3 points per game. The guard had 13 points on 5-of-13 shooting in Eugene earlier this season. The Cougars are the only team in the Pac-12 with a negative rebounding margin (-3.7 rpg).

KEY STORYLINES
- Oregon has won three straight vs. Washington State. Kelly Graves is 3-0 in Pullman as head coach of the Ducks.
- The Ducks own the Pac-12's best scoring offense while the Cougars have the league's worst scoring defense.
- Satou Sabally (20.3), Sabrina Ionescu (20.0) and Ruthy Hebard (17.3) are all averaging 17+ ppg in Pac-12 play.
- Ionescu is the all-time NCAA (mens/womens) leader with 16 career triple-doubles (prev: 12, Kyle Collinsworth, BYU)
- Maite Cazorla (3.65-to-1) and Sabrina Ionescu (3.23-to-1) rank No. 4 and No. 9 in the NCAA in assist-to-turnover ratio.
- UO has two top-10 RPI wins this season (Syracuse, 6 and Miss State, 9), the most in the NCAA thus far.
- UO features both the national point guard of the year (Ionescu) and the national power forward of the year (Hebard).

THE DUCKS IN THE POLLS
UO is fifth in the AP poll for the fifth straight week.

BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV - Pac-12 Oregon
Stream - Pac-12.com & Pac-12 Now app with login
Radio - Terry Jonz on the call at 590 AM (Eugene), 1640 AM (Portland) & TuneIn. Search for "Oregon IMG" in the TuneIn app or online at TuneIn.com.

WASHINGTON STATE SERIES HISTORY
- Oregon leads the all-time series with WSU, 66-19. UO has won three straight and four of five vs. WSU.
- Oregon topped WSU, 98-58, in Eugene on the opening weekend of Pac-12 play this year.
- Kelly Graves is 5-3 against WSU as head coach at Oregon, he is 3-0 in Pullman. He went 6-3 against Washington State while head coach at Gonzaga.
- Of all Pac-12 opponents, Oregon has had the most success against Washington State, boasting 66 wins in the all-time series. Second best is Oregon State, as the Ducks own 60 wins all-time against the rival Beavers.
- UO's longest winning streak in the series with WSU is 17 games, spanning a decade from 1978-1988.
- Washington State's longest winning streak in the series is just two games, coming on three occasions.
- The last time Oregon allowed more than 100 points was in a 107-100 loss to Washington State in the Pac-12 Tournament on March 6, 2014.

LAST TIME VS. WSU
- Oregon topped WSU, 98-58, in Eugene on the opening weekend of Pac-12 play this year.
- Ruthy Hebard had a career-high 34 poins on 16-of-21 shooting with nine rebounds.
- Sabrina Ionescu posted a triple-double with 17 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists.
- Satou Sabally scored 25 points on 9-of-19 shooting, including 5-of-6 from three-point range.

HEBARD VS. THE COUGS LAST YEAR
Ruthy Hebard averaged 27.0 points and 9.5 rebounds while shooting 23-of-26 from the field against WSU last year, including a UO record 12-for-12 performance in Pullman. That perferct shooting night was part of Hebard's NCAA record streak of 33 straight made field goals.

CONFERENCE START
The Ducks are 6-0 in Pac-12 play thus far and have matched their best start in league play. Oregon started its Pac-12 slate 6-0 last season, the program's best start to league play since joining the Pac-10 for the 1986-87 season.

SHE STANDS ALONE
Sabrina Ionescu is currently averaging 20.0 points, 7.8 rebounds and 8.4 assists per game, the only player in the NCAA averaging 13+ points, 6+ rebounds and 6+ assists. The last time anyone posted a balanced stat line even close to that was in 2014-15, when Cal's Brittany Boyd averaged 13.4 points, 7.7 rebounds and 6.8 assists.

QUARTERS WON IN PAC-12 PLAY
The Ducks have lost just three quarters in six Pac-12 games this season. Washington outscored the Ducks in the second quarter (23-15), Arizona State outscored the Ducks in the fourth (24-20) and Arizona outscored UO in the second (19-13).

ATTENDANCE LEADERS
Oregon leads the Pac-12, averaging 6,468 fans per home game. The Ducks are averaging over 1,200 more fans per game than second-place OSU. Oregon is one of just 10 teams in the NCAA averaging 6,000+ fans per game.

FOUR-POINT QUARTERS
- The Ducks gave up just four points to Arizona in the first quarter on Jan. 20. Oregon outscored the Wildcats 31-4 in the first after opening the game on a 20-0 run. UA went 2-of-18 from the floor.
- Oregon's defense also allowed Long Beach State to score just four points in the second quarter of the Ducks' 110-48 win on Dec. 2. LBSU went 2-of-12 from the floor and didn't get to the line once. UO outscored the 49ers 26-4 in the quarter.

600+ ASSIST CLUB
- With after posting 10 dimes on Jan. 6 against Washington, Sabrina Ionescu became just the 12th player in Pac-12 history to tally 600+ career assists. She did it in 84 career games.
- Maite Cazorla joined Ionescu in the exclusive 600+ club in the very next game, on Dec. 11 at USC. The 13th player in Pac-12 history with 600+ assists, she's had 140+ assists each season. Cazorla reached the 600 mark in 123 career games.
- Only six active players have 600+ assists: Ionescu and Cazorla are joined by Colorado's Kennedy Leonard, Ohio State's Carmen Grande, Belmont's Darby Maggard and Lamar's Chastadie Barrs.