UO Visits No. 8 Stanford Friday

EUGENE, Ore. — The Oregon women's basketball team heads to the Bay Area for a pair of road conference matchups, first making a Friday night stop at No. 8 Stanford for a 7 p.m. PT tip at Maples Pavilion on Pac-12 Network.

GAME #19
Oregon (11-7, 2-3) at #8 Stanford (15-2, 4-1)
Friday, Jan. 19 | 7 p.m. PT | Maples Pavilion (Stanford, Calif.)
TV: Pac-12 Network
Play-by-play: Guy Haberman | Analyst: Mary Murphy
Radio: Oregon Sports Network (Eugene: KUGN 98.1 | Portland: KPAM 860 AM) | SXM 373
Play-by-play: Chris Clayton
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AT A GLANCE
Following a sweep the Arizona schools in its first home weekend of Pac-12 action, Oregon hits the road to take on No. 8 Stanford Friday before facing California Sunday.

The Ducks completed a home weekend sweep of Arizona and Arizona State for the second straight season and sixth time in the Pac-12 era. UO has won six straight games at Matthew Knight and is 8-1 at home this season.

Oregon and Stanford will meet for the 76th time in the series' history, with the Cardinal holding a 61-14 lead. The Ducks have won just three times at Maples Pavilion, with two of the three wins coming since the 2018-19 season.

LAST TIME OUT
Due to a severe ice storm that made its way through Eugene, the Ducks' game against Arizona took place without fans in the building. Despite committing 27 turnovers, Oregon held off the Wildcats to pick up a 70-68 victory,

The Ducks held a 38-19 rebounding advantage, leading to a 16-2 edge in second chance points. Down the stretch, Oregon connected on 8-of-10 free throws over the game's final 5:03, including Grace VanSlooten going 6-for-6 in that span. Sammie Wagner hit two 3-pointers over the final six minutes, both coming with UO's lead at five points or less.

VanSlooten led UO with 19 points, her third straight game scoring at least 18. Chance Gray added 13 and Phillipina Kyei recorded her third straight double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds.

SCOUTING STANFORD
Stanford (15-2, 4-1) remains No. 8 in the country for the third straight week after splitting a pair of top-25 road matchups last weekend. The Cardinal escaped 19th-ranked Utah 66-64 before dropping a 71-59 decision at fifth-ranked Colorado.

The Cardinal feature a pair of 17-point, 10-rebound-per-game players in Cameron Brink (17.6 ppg, 11.1 rpg) and Kiki Irafen (17.2 ppg, 10.4 rpg). Hannah Jump adds 10.7 per game to round out three averaging double figures. Stanford is tops in the Pac-12 in free throw shooting at 81.3 percent (third nationally) and rebounds per game at 47.2 (fourth nationally), while its plus-17.0 rebounding margin is second in the country.

Brink leads the league and is third in the nation at 3.4 blocks per game while recording the third-most double-doubles in the conference with nine. Brink leads the Pac-12 in defensive rebounds per game with 8.3 while Irafen is the league leader with 4.1 offensive boards a game.

INSIDE THE SERIES
Friday's game will mark the 76th all-time meeting between Oregon and Stanford, with the Cardinal owning a 61-14 edge in the series' history. The teams met twice a season ago, with Stanford winning at Maples Pavilion 62-54 and again in the quarterfinal round of the 2023 Pac-12 Tournament 76-65. Overall, the Cardinal have won the last six meetings after the Ducks had won five of the previous six matchups from March 4, 2018 to March 8, 2020.

UO is 3-31 on the road in the series, with two of the Ducks' all-time road wins coming under head coach Kelly Graves. Oregon went winless at Stanford from 1988-2019. Graves has guided the Ducks to six of their 14 all-time wins in the series. Stanford has been ranked in the top-25 in each of the last 44 meetings between the teams, ranking in the top 10 in 34 of those matchups.

CLOSING TIME
Oregon has been at its best when it counts this season, averaging 34.9 points in the second halves of games compared to 29.2 points in first halves. The Ducks average 17.5 points in the fourth quarter, most of any single quarter with a plus-nine scoring margin, and boast a plus-38 scoring differential in the second half compared to a minus-10 differential in the first halves of games. As a team, UO has a higher field goal percentage (44.0%), 3-point percentage (31.7%) and free throw percentage (78.1%) in the fourth quarter than overall for the season.

» The Ducks have outscored their opponents in the fourth quarter in six of their last 11 games, and nine times on the season.
» Sunday against Arizona, Oregon staved off the Wildcats' comeback bid by going 8-for-10 from the free throw line, all coming over the final 5:03, with Grace VanSlooten going 6-for-6 from the stripe.
» In the last five minutes of games, the Ducks shoot 86.2 percent from the free throw line (50-for-58) while Gray is a perfect 20-for-20 from the line.
» Oregon is 4-1 this season in games decided by less than 10 points and have won five of the last seven such games, dating back to last season. The Ducks are 11-6 in games decided by three points or less since the start of the 2016-17 season, and have won two straight games decided by two points or less.
» The Ducks have played six "clutch games" - games that are within five points with five minutes or less to play - and have won five of those six: Grand Canyon, Idaho, UTSA, Oklahoma State and Arizona.

PHEED PHILLI
Junior center Phillipina Kyei, the tallest player in Oregon history, has turned in a double-double in 11 of Oregon's first 18 games to tie for the Pac-12 while being tied for the fifth-most in the nation. Kyei has produced a double-double in each of the last three games, the third time this season she has at least three straight games with a double-double. She put together a career-long stretch of four straight double-doubles from Dec. 3-11. She grabbed a career-high 21 rebounds to go with 16 points against Southern on Dec. 17 for just the 23rd 20-rebound double-double in UO history.

» Kyei upped her career total to 19 double-doubles Sunday against Arizona with 13 points and 12 rebounds, as she is now alone in 11th-place in program history. She is just the 23rd player in UO history with at least 10 career double-doubles.
» Kyei is second in the Pac-12 and fifth in the country at 11.6 rebounds per game, while her 7.6 defensive rebounds per game ranks 18th and her 3.9 offensive boards a game is 16th nationally. Kyei's nine offensive boards against Arizona State set a career high.
» Kyei has 19 double-doubles in just 80 career games, the fewest number of any Duck with at least 13 double-doubles.
» Kyei is one of two players in the Pac-12 averaging at least 12.0 points and 11.0 rebounds (Raegan Beers, Oregon State).