Four-Game Road Trip Begins in LA

EUGENE, Ore. — The Oregon women's basketball team begins a four-game road trip in Los Angeles Friday, taking on USC at Galen Center at 7 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Networks.

The Ducks seek to snap their season-long three-game skid after dropping home games to Colorado (63-53) and No. 7 Utah (100-92) over the weekend. Sunday, Endyia Rogers dropped a career-high 35 points for her league-leading third 30-point outing of the season.

Oregon has won 12 straight in the series with the Trojans – its longest winning streak in the series' history – including a 73-45 win at Matthew Knight Arena back on Jan. 1. UO has won five straight meetings at Galen Center and look for a regular-season series sweep for the sixth consecutive year.

GAME #24
Oregon (14-9, 5-7) at RV USC (17-6, 7-5)
Friday, Feb. 10 | 7 p.m. PT | Galen Center (Los Angeles Calif.)
TV: Pac-12 Networks
Play-by-play: Anne Marie Anderson | Analyst: Mary Murphy
Radio: Oregon Sports Network (KUGN 98.1 FM/590 AM)
Play-by-play: Terry Jonz
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AT A GLANCE
Oregon begins a four-game road trip Friday at USC, as the Ducks look to snap a season-long three-game skid in Los Angeles. The Ducks (14-9, 5-7) sit in an eighth-place tie in the Pac-12 standings after dropping five of its last six games. UO fell to Colorado (63-53) and No. 7 Utah (100-92) at Matthew Knight Arena over the weekend.

The Ducks have won 12 straight games against the Trojans, their longest winning streak in the series' history, including a 73-45 win in Eugene on Jan. 1. In the season's first meeting, Endyia Rogers scored a game-high 19 points while Phillipina Kyei hauled in a career-high 20 rebounds. UO has won six straight on the road against USC and seeks its sixth consecutive regular-season series sweep.

LAST TIME OUT
Rogers dropped a career-high 35 points against the seventh-ranked Utes Sunday, making a career-high 16 field goals in the process. She was one of four Ducks to finish in double figures, helping Oregon to its second-highest point total of the season (92).

Chance Gray added 18 points while Grace VanSlooten contributed 16 points and five rebounds. Taya Hanson dropped 13 points off the bench and went 3-for-3 from beyond the arc.

Sunday's loss marked the first time under ninth-year head coach Kelly Graves that UO has scored at least 90 points and lost, after winning the previous 52 such games. It marked the first time since 2014 that Oregon allowed 100 points at home, and just the third time since 2010.

SCOUTING USC
USC (17-6, 7-5) comes into Friday night's tilt having won five of its last seven games, including a 81-75 double-overtime loss to then-No. 22 Arizona Sunday. The loss marked just the second home loss for the Trojans this season (11-2), both coming during Pac-12 play.

Three players average double-digit points for USC, including Kadi Sissoko (15.8), Rayah Marshall (140) and Destiny Littleton (13.5). Sissoko is shooting a team-high 53.0 percent from the field while Marshall leads the Pac-12 with 11.8 rebounds a game. Marshall posted a 17-point, 20-rebound double-double against the Wildcats, matching Oregon's Phillipina Kyei for the most boards in a game in the Pac-12 this season. Marshall leads the conference (No. 15 nationally) with a dozen double-double on the season. Littleton leads the league in free throw shooting, connecting on 89.8 percent from the line.

As a team, USC is the Pac-12 leader in scoring defense, allowing 54.0 points a game. The Trojans' defense allows a league-low opponent 3-point percentage (25.3) while ranking second in opponent field goal percentage (35.2) and blocks per game (5.6).

INSIDE THE SERIES
Oregon has won 12 straight games against USC - the Ducks' longest winning streak in the series' history - but trails the all-time series 45-30, dating back to 1981. UO is 11-27 on the road against the Trojans, but has won the last six at Galen Center, dating back to 2016. Head coach Kelly Graves is 13-2 against USC in his Oregon tenure, with a 5-1 road record.

The Ducks look to sweep the regular-season series with USC for the sixth straight season, winning 73-45 at Matthew Knight Arena in the season's first matchup on Jan. 1. In the game, former Trojan Endyia Rogers led all players with 19 points on 6-of-12 shooting while Taya Hanson added 17 off the bench after hitting five 3-pointers. Phillipina Kyei hauled in a career-high 20 rebounds, which is the most by a Duck since Jillian Alleyne on Jan. 29, 2016.

THE "O" STANDS FOR OFFENSE
Oregon's 108.5 offensive efficiency rating (points per 100 possessions) is the 12th-highest mark in the country and third-best in the Pac-12 behind only Utah (113.6) and Stanford (110.8). The Ducks' 78.1 points per game rank as the 20th-best mark in the country and second-highest in the conference. UO's plus-13.1 scoring margin is the third-best rate in the Pac-12 while the team's 50.1 effective field goal percentage ranks third in the league.

UO has scored at least 75 points in 14 of 23 outings while reaching the 90-point mark five times. Sunday's 100-92 loss to No. 7 Utah marked the first loss under ninth-year head coach Kelly Graves in which the Ducks scored at least 90 points and lost (had been 52-0). This season, Oregon is 4-1 when reaching the 90-point plateau, surpassing the total number of 90-point efforts during the 2021-22 and 2020-21 seasons (three times each). At Matthew Knight Arena this season, the Ducks are averaging 80.5 points per game while shooting 44.9 percent from the field and 38.8 percent from behind the arc. In total, Oregon gets a Pac-12 high 30.6 percent of its points from 3-pointers.

NUGGETS AND TRENDS
This season, Oregon averages just 10.9 turnovers per game in victories while turning the ball over 12.9 times per game over nine losses. When the Ducks have 15 or more turnovers, they are 2-5. Despite losing five of its last six games, UO is averaging just 8.8 turnovers a game in that stretch, but shooting just 37.8 percent from the field and 31.7 percent from behind the 3-point line.

In its 14 victories, Oregon is shooting 39.1 percent from 3-point range while averaging 8.6 3-point field goals. Defensively, the Ducks are holding teams to 27.2 percent and 5.6 made 3-pointers. In defeats, the Ducks are shooting just 31.7 percent from behind the arc and their average made 3-pointers drops to 7.0 while opponents are making 8.2 3-pointers a game at a 39.8 percent clip.

Since the 2020-21 season, Oregon is 3-6 in games decided by three points or less with a 1-3 overtime record, dropping its last three games that have gone to overtime. Under Graves, the Ducks are 5-5 in overtime decisions. Each of Oregon's last eight games have been decided by 10 points or less (2-6 in that span).