Notes: Civil War Weekend Starts Friday Night in Eugene

EUGENE, Ore. - The first round of the Civil War series starts at 6 PM on Friday when the No. 3 ranked Ducks host No. 9 Oregon State at Matthew Knight Arena.

#3 OREGON DUCKS (23-1, 12-0 Pac-12)
PPG: 90.2 | FG%: 52.6 | 3FG%: 43.8 | FT%: 77.9
Notes: The Ducks have one of the most efficient offenses in the nation this season. UO's 90.2 points per game leads the NCAA. The Ducks also lead the nation with a 1.91 assist-to-turnover ratio. Oregon's 10.5 turnovers per game are the fewest in the NCAA while its 20.0 assists per game ranks fourth. The Ducks are first in the nation in field goal percentage (52.6%), first in three-point percentage (43.8%) and sixth in free throw percentage (77.9%).

#9 OREGON STATE BEAVERS (20-4, 10-2 Pac-12)
PPG: 78.7 | FG%: 48.5 | 3FG%: 41.7 | FT%: 73.5
Series: Oregon leads, 60-40 (34-12 in Eugene)
Last: #7 UO beat #18 OSU 75-63 (1/21/18 in Eugene)
Notes: Oregon State enters the Civil War series off a split in the Bay Area. The Beavers lost at Stanford (61-44) but defeated Cal (82-74). Guard Destiny Slocum is averaging a team-best 19.6 points per game in Pac-12 play. Mikayla Pivec, Aleah Goodman and Katie McWilliams are all shooting better than 40% from three-point range this season.

KEY STORYLINES
- Oregon owns the NCAA's longest winning streak at 16 straight games. The UO record is 21 straight wins (1978-79).
- Oregon (43.8%) and Oregon State (41.7%) rank No. 1 and No. 3, respectively, in the NCAA in three-point percentage.
- The Ducks snapped Oregon State's 14-game winning streak in the Civil War with a 75-64 win in Eugene last season.
- Maite Cazorla (3.50-to-1) & Sabrina Ionescu (3.21-to-1) rank No. 5 and No. 10 in the NCAA in assist-to-turnover ratio.
- For the second straight year, all five of Oregon's starters are averaging 10+ points per game, led by Ionescu's 19.3 ppg.
- Ionescu is the all-time NCAA (mens/womens) leader with 16 career triple-doubles (prev: 12, Kyle Collinsworth, BYU)
- UO features both the national point guard of the year (Ionescu) and the national power forward of the year (Hebard).

BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV - Pac-12 National and Pac-12 Oregon
Stream - Pac-12.com & the Pac-12 now app
Radio - Terry Jonz on the call at 590 AM (EUG), 1640 AM (PDX), Sirius 211, XM 197 & TuneIn. Search for "Oregon Sports Network" on TuneIn.

CIVIL WAR SERIES HISTORY
- The Ducks own a 60-40 edge in the all-time series.
- Kelly Graves is 1-7 against Oregon State since becoming head coach for the 2014-15 season.
- Oregon won the 100th meeting of the Civil War last year in Eugene, 75-63, snapping a 14-game Oregon State winning streak in the series.
- The Ducks' longest winning streak in the series is 11 games, coming from 1986-90 and 1996-2001.
- Oregon women's basketball played its first ever game in Matthew Knight Arena against Oregon State, winning 81-72. A Pac-12 record crowd of 12,320 was in attendance for the win. In former coach Paul Westhead's second season, point guard Nia Jackson, now on staff with the Ducks, had a team-high 24 points on 8-of-12 shooting.
- OSU won the first meeting between the two programs, 44-31, on Jan. 24, 1974 in Corvallis.
- OSU won six of the first seven games in the series.
- Oregon and OSU have gone to overtime just six times in the series, with the teams even at 3-3.

LAST YEAR VS. OREGON STATE
- Then-No. 7 Oregon and then-No. 18 Oregon State split the Civil War series last season.
- OSU won a thriller in Corvallis, 85-79, in overtime. Sabrina Ionescu buried a three-pointer with six seconds left to tie the game, 75-75, and Mikayla Pivec missed a three at the buzzer to send the game to overtime. UO went scoreless for almost three minutes to open overtime as the Beavers outscored the Ducks, 10-4. Katie McWilliams' three with 15 seconds left put the game away.
- The Ducks got revenge two days later in Eugene, winning 75-63. Oregon used a dominant first half to lead, 40-18, at halftime. OSU cut the lead to 12 at 58-46, with 8:38 left in the fourth quarter but Oregon responded and a Maite Cazorla three put the Ducks up 19 points, 71-52, with 5:05 remaining.
- Ionescu tallied 50 total points, including 35 in Corvallis, and 17 assists in the two games.
- Ruthy Hebard had a big game in Corvallis with 24 points but scored just seven points in Eugene.
- It was the opposite for Satou Sabally, as she scored just three points on 1-of-7 shooting in Corvallis but went off for a team-high 21 points on 9-of-15 shooting in Eugene.

CIVIL WAR SELLOUT
For the second time in Matthew Knight Arena history, there will be a sellout crowd on hand for a women's basketball game. The Ducks also sold out in their first game at the new arena, Jan. 23, 2011, which was also against Oregon State. UO won that matchup, 81-72. There was also one sellout for a women's basketball game at McArthur Court on March 10, 2000 in a 60-53 win against the Beavers.