No. 8 Ducks Host No. 18 Sun Devils

EUGENE, Ore. - The No. 8 ranked Oregon women's basketball team meets its sixth top-25 team of the season but the first at home when No. 18 Arizona State visits Matthew Knight Arena at 5 PM on Sunday in a Pac-12 Networks televised game.

#8 OREGON DUCKS (16-2, 5-0 Pac-12)
PPG: 85.6 | FG%: 49.6 | 3FG%: 39.2 | FT%: 76.4
Notable: At 5-0, Oregon is off to its best start to league play since joining the Pac-10 for the 1986-87 season. Arizona State will be the sixth top-25 opponent for the Ducks this season but the first at home. Oregon is a perfect 11-0 at home this season and has won eight straight overall. The Ducks rank No. 11 in the country, averaging 85.6 points per game. UO is sixth in the NCAA in field goal percentage (49.6%) and 11th in three-point field goal percentage (39.2%).

#18 ARIZONA STATE SUN DEVILS (13-4, 4-1 Pac-12)
PPG: 64.3 | FG%: 38.2 | 3FG%: 29.0 | FT%: 74.2
Series Record: ASU, 34-30 (UO, 19-11 in Eugene)
Last Game: UO lost, 68-63 (2/5/17 in Tempe)
Notable: Coming into the weekend, Oregon and Arizona State were the lone undefeated teams in Pac-12 play but the Sun Devils were defeated, 57-54, on Friday night at Oregon State. ASU turned the ball over just four times against OSU, but the Sun Devils shot 34.9% from the field and just 6-of-21 (28.6%) from three. Guard Robbi Ryan had a team-high 19 points.

DUCKS IN THE POLLS
Oregon's No. 8 ranking in the AP poll is the highest in program history. UO's No. 9 ranking earlier this season matched the previous best. UO was ranked No. 9 in four different weeks during the 1981-82 season.

BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV - Pac-12 National, Oregon & Arizona
Stream - Pac-12.com with a cable login
Radio - Terry Jonz on the call at KUGN 590 (Eugene), KUIK 1360 (Portland) & TuneIn. Search for "Oregon IMG" in the TuneIn app or online at TuneIn.com.
Live Stats - oregon.statbroadcast.com

LAST TIME OUT
Oregon didn't play well offensively, but still came out with a win, 62-44, on Friday night against Arizona. The Ducks shot just 21-of-55 (38.2%) from the field but Sabrina Ionescu was 8-for-14 for a team-high 22 points plus 11 rebounds. Ruthy Hebard had 14 points while Maite Cazorla tallied nine points and six assists.

A WIN WOULD...
- Give Oregon a 6-0 start to Pac-12 play.
- Give Oregon nine straight wins overall.
- Snap a four-game losing streak to ASU.
- Improve Oregon's record against top-25 teams this season to 4-2.
- Give Oregon a 12-0 record at home this season.
- Keep the Ducks in first place going into next weekend's back-to-back games against Oregon State.

LAST YEAR VS. ARIZONA STATE
- The two teams met just once last year, in Tempe.
- Oregon lost, 68-63, at #23 Arizona State last season. - The Ducks led early in the fourth quarter but ASU pulled away late. Maite Cazorla had a team-high 17 points plus five assists and no turnovers. Sabrina Ionescu added 16 points while Ruthy Hebard grabbed 10 boards.

ARIZONA STATE SERIES HISTORY
- The Sun Devils hold a 34-30 edge in the overall series.
- ASU has won four straight games in the series.
- ASU has won nine of the last 10 games vs. UO and 19 of the last 21 meetings, going back to March 6, 2005.
- UO's last win in the series was when the Ducks upset the 20th-ranked Sun Devils, 98-90, at home in 2014.
- Oregon won 11 straight between the two schools between 1995-2000, it's longest streak in the series.
- Oregon has lost 14 straight games vs. ASU in Tempe. The Ducks' last win on the road against Arizona State was March 2, 2000, the last win in Oregon's 11-game winning streak vs. Arizona State.
- Arizona State won the first ever meeting between the two schools, 70-69, in Tempe on Jan. 5, 1981.

THE SCOREBOARD, IT'S LIT
- Oregon ranks 11th in the NCAA, averaging 85.6 points per game.
- UO is outscoring its opponents by 24.6 points per game, the fifth biggest scoring margin in the NCAA.

SHARE THE ROCK
- Oregon ranks fourth in the NCAA with 367 assists.
- The Ducks are averaging 20.4 assists per game this year, good for seventh in the NCAA.
- Individually, Sabrina Ionescu ranks fifth in the NCAA in total assists (131) and seventh in assists per game (7.3). Maite Cazorla is 23rd in the NCAA with 96 total assists. She's 32nd in the country, averaging 5.6 assists per game.

SHARP SHOOTERS
- Oregon ranks sixth in the NCAA, shooting 49.6 percent from the floor.
- The Ducks are 11th in the country, shooting 39.2 percent from three-point range.
- Individually, Ruthy Hebard ranks fourth in the NCAA, shooting 66.9 percent on field goals.
- Sabrina Ionescu (44.8%) and Lexi Bando (44.7%) rank No. 2 and No. 3 in the Pac-12 in three-point percentage.

BANDO ON RECORD PACE
Senior guard Lexi Bando is close to setting multiple three-point percentage records. The guard is a career 45.5 percent three-point shooter (249-for-547), the best among active players in the NCAA.
- The NCAA career record is 47.6 percent (262-of-550), set by Notre Dame's Alicia Ratay from 2000-03.
- The Pac-12 career record is 45.2 percent (191-of-423), set by Stanford's Jennifer Azzi from 1988-90.
- The Oregon career record is 44.6 percent (66-of-148), set by Jennifer Bourn from 1987-91.
- Bando's 249 made three-pointers are the second most in UO career history. Taylor Lilley has the record with 270 made from 2007-2010.