Oregon Finishes Trip at WSU

PULLMAN, Wash. — The Oregon women's basketball team finishes its trip to the Evergreen State Sunday afternoon with a 12 p.m. matchup against Washington State at Beasley Coliseum.

GAME #29
Oregon (11-17, 2-13) at Washington State (16-12, 5-10)
Sunday, Feb. 25 | 12 p.m. PT | Beasley Coliseum (Pullman, Wash.)
TV: Pac-12 Washington
Play-by-play: Greg Heister| Analyst: Stephanie Hawk-Freeman
Radio: Oregon Sports Network (Eugene: KUGN 98.1 | Portland: KPAM 860 AM)
Play-by-play: Chris Clayton
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AT A GLANCE
Oregon finishes its weekend against the Washington schools on Sunday afternoon at Washington State. The Cougars will mark just the third unranked opponent over the Ducks' last 11 games as UO seeks to end its 10-game losing streak.

Sunday's game will be the only meeting between the teams during the regular season after WSU swept the regular-season series in 2022-23.

UO holds a 71-21 lead in the all-time series, marking its most wins against a single opponent in program history. The Cougars won an 85-84 overtime decision in Eugene before a 64-57 win in Pullman.

LAST TIME OUT
Oregon suffered its 10th straight loss Friday at Washington 74-66. It was the Ducks' first game against an unranked team since Jan, 21 at California - a stretch of seven straight games.

UO saw four players score in double figures, led by a game-high 19 from Grace VanSlooten. Chance Gray added 16 and Kennedy Basham produced a career-best 15 points on 7-of-11 shooting.

Phillipina Kyei matched her career high with 21 rebounds to pair with 10 points for her 18th double-double of the season, which are tied for seventh-most in a single season in UO history.

Oregon and UW were tied at 48 through three quarters, but he Huskies outscored the Ducks 26-18 in the final frame.

SCOUTING WASHINGTON STATE
Washington State (16-12, 5-10) has lost six of its last seven games after suffering a 65-52 loss against No. 9 Oregon State Friday night. Overall, WSU has dropped seven of its last nine games, including five straight home games.

The Cougars feature four players in double figures, but leading scorer Charlisse Leger-Walker is out for the rest of the season due to injury. Bella Murekatete is next at 12.6 points per game, while she is also the team leader at 7.5 rebounds a game. Eleonora Villa puts up 12.5 a night and Tara Wallack averages 10.6 points.

As a team, WSU is second at 5.4 blocks per game and 12.8 turnovers a game. The Cougars are 10th in rebounding (36.0 a game).

Alex Covill's 48 blocks are fourth-most in the Pac-12, as she ranks sixth at 1.7 a contest. Murekatete is seventh in rebounding and eighth in field goal shooting at 51.4 percent.

INSIDE THE SERIES
Oregon leads the all-time series with Washington State 71-21, marking the Ducks' most wins against any single opponent in program history. A season ago, WSU swept the regular-season series for just the third time in the series' history and the first time since the 2000-01 season. Including an 85-84 overtime win at Matthew Knight Arena, the two games last year were decided by a combined eight points. Over the two games, Chance Gray averaged 20.0 points a game while going 7-for-13 from the 3-point line (53.8 percent). Grace VanSlooten averaged 10.5 points a game with 6.0 rebounds.

Oregon has won eight of the last 10 meetings, going back to the 2016-17 season, and six of the last seven in Pullman. The Ducks have a 33-10 all-time record on the road in the series while head coach Kelly Graves is 10-5 against the Cougars during his UO tenure.