Oregon Heads North to Take on Huskies

EUGENE, Ore. — The Oregon women's basketball team visits Washington for the only regular-season matchup between the teams Friday, as the Ducks and Huskies tip at 7 p.m. PT at Alaska Airlines Arena.

GAME #28
Oregon (11-16, 2-12) at Washington (13-12, 3-11)
Friday, Feb. 23 | 7 p.m. PT | Alaska Airlines Arena (Seattle, Wash.)
TV: Pac-12 Washington
Play-by-play: Elise Woodward| Analyst: Alyssa Charlston
Radio: Oregon Sports Network (Eugene: KUGN 98.1 | Portland: KPAM 860 AM)
Play-by-play: Chris Clayton
Listen Online | Live Stats

AT A GLANCE
Oregon makes the trip north to take on Washington Friday night at Alaska Airlines Arena. The Huskies will mark just the second unranked opponent over the Ducks' last 10 games and will end a stretch of seven straight games against top-20 teams.

Friday's game will be the only meeting between the teams during the regular season after facing each other four teams a season ago.

UO holds a 56-53 lead in the all-time series after going 2-2 against UW last season. After splitting the regular-season series, with each side winning on its home floor, the Ducks defeated Washington in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament 52-50 before the Huskies ousted UO in the quarterfinals of the 2023 WNIT in Seattle 63-59.

LAST TIME OUT
Oregon suffered its ninth straight loss Sunday against No. 9 UCLA 74-55. It was the Ducks' seventh consecutive contest against a team ranked in the top 20.

UO got a 17-point, 10-rebound double-double from Grace VanSlooten and 15 points from Chance Gray. Despite having a higher field goal percentage (39.3-38.0), UCLA attempted 23 more field goals, due in large part to the Ducks' 16 turnovers and the Bruins' 19 offensive rebounds.

UCLA converted those 16 Oregon turnovers into 22 points and owned a 24-7 edge in second-chance points. UO went just 1-for-6 from the 3-point line, while the Bruins shot 9-for-29.

SCOUTING WASHINGTON
Washington (13-12, 3-11) sits one game ahead of Oregon in the Pac-12 standings after the Huskies dropped a pair of multi-overtime games at the Arizona schools over the weekend. Overall, UW has lost six straight games - three of which in overtime - and 12 of its last 14 games dating back to Dec. 20.

UW, who ranks 10th in the Pac-12 in scoring offense, is led by three players who average above 11.0 points per game in Elle Ladine (11.9), Lauren Schwartz (11.8) and Dalayah Daniels (11.5). Daniels is the team's leading rebounder at 6.9 a game

As a team, the Huskies are 10th in the conference in assists per game, free throw percentage and 3-point percentage, but rank third in 3-point defense, as teams shoot just 29.2 percent against them.

Daniels has the third-most blocks in the league with 47, raking fourth with 1.9 a game. Daniels' averages the 11th-most rebounds per game in the Pac-12.

INSIDE THE SERIES
Oregon leads the all-time series with Washington 56-53 after splitting four meetings last season. Each team won on its home floor during the regular season, while Oregon defeated the Huskies in the first round of last year's Pac-12 Tournament. A few weeks later, UW ousted the Ducks in the quarterfinals of the WNIT in Seattle. It marked just the second time in the series' history that UO and UW played four times in the same season when the Ducks won three of four matchups in the 2001-02 season.

Oregon has won 11 of the last 13 meetings, going back to the 2016-17 season, and six of the last eight on the road. UW has won the last two meetings in Seattle, while head coach Kelly Graves is 12-5 in his UO career against the Huskies.

During the four games against Washington last season, Phillipina Kyei averaged 7.0 points and 10.0 rebounds a game while shooting 50.0 percent from the floor. Grace VanSlooten, who played in only three of the games with two starts due to injury, averaged 7.0 points and 3.3 rebounds. Chance Gray scored 6.3 points per game against UW with 1.3 assists a game.

CLOSING TIME
Oregon has been at its best when it counts this season, averaging 32.9 points in the second halves of games compared to 27.9 points in first halves. The Ducks average 16.6 points in the third quarter, most of any single quarter and, as a team, UO has a higher field goal percentage (41.2%), 3-point percentage (32.7%) and free throw percentage (73.9%) in the fourth quarter than overall for the season and have outscored their opponents in the fourth quarter 11 times on the season.

OLYMPI-DUCKS
The 12-team women's basketball field for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been set and multiple former Ducks will be on display at the next Summer Games. Nyara and Satou Sabally helped Germany qualify for its first-ever Olympic Games while Maite Cazola led Spain to a qualifying berth. Oregon legend Sabrina Ionescu was a member of Team USA's Olympic Qualifying Team, and looks poised to make the national roster as Team USA defends its Olympic gold medal from the Tokyo 2020 Games.

OREGON vs. RANKED TEAMS
Last Sunday, No. 9 UCLA marked the seventh straight team Oregon faced ranked inside the top 20 Oregon, and 10th over the last 13 games overall. The Bruins were the 11th ranked team the Ducks faced, going 0-11 against those teams. Oregon has dropped 12 consecutive games to ranked teams overall, dating back to last season.

» 11 of the Ducks' 14 conference games have been against teams ranked inside the nation's top 20, while UO has won two of three Pac-12 games against unranked teams (Arizona, Arizona State).
» Oregon averages 66.1 points per game at a 41.7 percent clip against unranked opponents, compared to 53.1 points a game while shooting 37.0 percent from the floor against ranked foes.
» Grace VanSlooten leads UO with 13.7 points per game against ranked teams while Phillipina Kyei is averaging 13.1 points and 11.8 rebounds per game against. Chance Gray scores 12.8 a night against ranked opponents.