Ducks Prepare for 353rd Civil War

No. 14 Oregon will play six of its final eight games in the state of Oregon. That stretch begins Saturday in Corvallis with the 353rd Civil War (7:30 p.m., Pac-12 Networks). It is the most contested rivalry in NCAA Division I history.

THE STARTING FIVE
• 1 – With Oregon's next win, Dana Altman will tie John Wooden for 28th on the NCAA Division I coaching wins list. Altman has 663 career wins. Wooden won 664 games in his legendary career with Indiana State and UCLA.
• 2 – Payton Pritchard's next start will be his 133rd at Oregon, breaking the record he currently shares with E.J. Singler.
• 3 – Payton Pritchard is the only player from a Power 6 conference, and one of just three players nationally overall, currently leading his conference in both scoring and assists. He is also one of just three players nationally averaging at least 19 points, four rebounds and five assists per game.
• 4 – Earlier this week, Payton Pritchard was one of 20 players nationally named to the Wooden Award Late Season Top 20 Watch List and is also one of 10 final candidates for the 2020 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award. Pritchard is the only player from the Pac-12 on the Wooden list.
• 5 – Payton Pritchard is the first player in Pac-12 history to reach 1,700 career points, 600 career assists and 500 career rebounds. He is just the fifth player in Pac-12 history with 1,700 career points and 600 career assists.
• BENCH – The Ducks have now secured their 10th straight winning season, tying an 88-year-old school record. Dana Altman also has his 23rd consecutive winning season as a head coach, matching five Hall of Famers - Mike Krzyzewski, Tom Izzo, Roy Williams, Bill Self and Jim Boeheim - with an active streak of 23 or more consecutive winning seasons.

WOODEN UP NEXT FOR ALTMAN
Dana Altman is currently 29th in all-time NCAA Division I coaching wins with 663. With one more win, Altman will tie John Wooden, who had 664 wins for Indiana State and UCLA, for 28th.

IMPRESSIVE RESUME LANDS PRITCHARD ON WOODEN, COUSY LISTS
Senior Payton Pritchard made the cut for both the Wooden Award list and the Bob Cousy Award list this week. Pritchard was one of 20 players nationally named to the Wooden Award Late Season Top 20 Watch List and is one of 10 final candidates for the 2020 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award. Pritchard is the only player from the Pac-12 on the Wooden list. A two-time national player of the week honoree this season (Oscar Robertson Trophy, NCAA.com), Pritchard leads the nation with 132 consecutive starts. He is the only player in Pac-12 history with 1,700 career points, 600 career assists and 500 career rebounds. He is one of three players nationally leading his conference in both scoring (19.6 points per game) and assists (5.8 per game) and is one of three players nationally averaging at least 19 points, four rebounds and five assists per game. He is the only player from the Power Six conference leading his league in scoring and assists. Already the school's record holder in assists (621) and wins (99), Pritchard is also on pace to become the school's career leader in steals, games started and games played. In addition to the Wooden and Cousy awards, Pritchard has been named to the Pac-12 preseason first team, the Battle 4 Atlantis all-tournament team, the Sporting News Midseason All-America team, the Naismith Trophy watch list and the Oscar Robertson Trophy watch list this season.

OREGON LOCKS UP TENTH STRAIGHT WINNING SEASON
The Ducks have now secured their 10th consecutive winning season. That ties an 88-year-old school record. The only other time Oregon has had 10 winning seasons in a row was the decade between 1923-32, when the program posted 10 consecutive winning seasons under coaches William Reinhart and George Bohler. Oregon has now won a program-record 253 wins over the last 10 seasons.

PRITCHARD SECOND TO NONE IN ASSISTS
One of Oregon's most successful positions at the professional level has been at guard, from Jim Barnett to Ron Lee in the 1960s and 1970s to NBA All-Star Terrell Brandon in the 1990s to Luke Ridnour and Aaron Brooks in the most recent decade. All of those players save Lee played at least 10 years in the NBA, and all figure prominently in the UO record book. And Payton Pritchard now has more assists, steals and three-pointers than all of them. Pritchard broke the UO career assists record last week against California, where he also registered his 200th career steal (second). His 258 three-pointers are third all-time, while his 621 assists now rank 12th in Pac-12 history.

PRITCHARD LEADS PAC-12 IN SCORING AND ASSISTS
Entering the week, Payton Pritchard leads the Pac-12 in both scoring (19.6 points per game) and assists (5.8 per game). He is the only player from a Power 6 conference currently leading his league in both scoring and assists (and one of three overall). Pritchard is also the only player ranked in the Pac-12's top five in scoring and assists. By scoring 20 points with 11 assists Dec. 7 against Hawaii, Pritchard became the first Duck with a 20-point, 10-assist game since Johnathan Loyd in 2013-14.

PRITCHARD NOW THE WINNINGEST PLAYER IN PROGRAM HISTORY
Payton Pritchard is the winningest player in program history, netting number 99 Jan. 30 against California. He passed Johnathan Loyd, who won 97 games between 2010-14, Jan. 26 against UCLA.

THE CLUTCH GENE
Five times this season, Payton Pritchard has registered double figures in the last five minutes of regulation and overtime to help Oregon close out a win. The list includes Memphis (10 points), Michigan (16), Texas Southern (16), Washington (10) and USC (11). he nearly added a sixth game to his totals with eight points in the last five minutes Jan. 30 at California to close out that win.

ALTMAN RECORDS 23RD CONSECUTIVE WINNING SEASON
Dana Altman now has 23 consecutive winning season as a head coach. He is currently one of six active head coaches in NCAA Division I who have posted a winning record for 23 consecutive seasons (the other five are in the Hall of Fame). For Altman, that streak runs from the 1997-98 season through 2019-20, and covers his final 13 seasons at Creighton and his first 10 in Eugene.

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