Ducks Wrap Up Homestand vs. Indiana

EUGENE, Ore. — The Oregon women's basketball team wraps up its three-game homestand on Friday evening, as the Ducks welcome the Indiana Hoosiers to Matthew Knight Arena for a 6 p.m. tipoff.

Oregon has won five straight home games and boasts a 12-1 mark at Matthew Knight Arena this season. The Ducks have won seven of their last nine games overall, and five of the last six, after a 50-49 win over Iowa on Sunday.

The Ducks hold a 2-0 lead in the all-time series with the Hoosiers, including a 1-0 home record. Friday's contest will be the first since a second-round matchup in the 2019 NCAA Tournament, which UO won 91-68 on its way to a Final Four berth.

GAME #20
Oregon (14-5, 5-3) vs. Indiana (12-6, 4-3)
Friday, Jan. 24 | 6 p.m. | Matthew Knight Arena (Eugene, Ore.)
TV/Stream: B1G+
Play-by-play: Saul Galvan| Analyst: Lily Crane | Sideline: Olivia Cleary
Radio: Oregon Sports Network (KUGN 98.1 FM/590 AM)
Play-by-play: Chris Clayton | Analyst: Bev Smith
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LAST TIME OUT
Oregon improved to 2-0 on its homestand with a 50-49 comeback victory over Iowa on Sunday. The Ducks trailed by 10 at halftime and by as many as 15 in the first half for their largest comeback win of the season. Oregon held the Hawkeyes to just 17 second-half points on 6-of 21 shooting.

Phillipina Kyei led the Ducks with 12 points, with eight coming in the second half, while Deja Kelly added 10 points, six rebounds and three assists.

Elisa Mevius capped a 13-0 UO run in the fourth quarter with a corner 3-pointer, handing the Ducks their first lead of the game with just under six minutes to play, 44-41.

The 49 points marked Iowa's fewest in any game since the 2012-13 season while the 50 points were the fewest in a UO win since Nov. 25, 2006 - snapping a 49-game skid when scoring 50 points or less.

SCOUTING INDIANA
Indiana (12-6, 4-3) comes to Eugene having lost two straight, and three of its last five, following a 73-66 home loss to No. 4 USC on Sunday. The Hoosiers began the season ranked 25th in the Associated Press poll, their only week in the AP top 25.

Four of IU's five starters are averaging double-digit points, led by Yarden Garzon's 13.7 a game. Sydney Parrish, who averages 10.6 points per game, leads the Hoosiers with 6.1 rebounds a night.

As a team, Indiana ranks fourth in free throw percentage (76.8), fifth in 3-pointers per game (7.3), fifth in turnovers per game (14.5) and sixth in 3-point shooting (34.2).

Garzona is No. 2 in the Big Ten with 2.6 made 3-pointers a game while ranking fourth in 3-point percentage at a 38.8 clip. Chloe Moore-McNeil is sixth in the league in assist-to-turnover ratio at 1.97 while ranking 11th with 3.9 assists a night.

INSIDE THE SERIES
Friday's game will be the third all-time meeting between Oregon and Indiana, with the last matchup coming at Matthew Knight Arena in the second round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament. The two-seeded Ducks defeated the No. 10-seed Hoosiers 91-68, getting a 29-point, 12-assist, 10-rebounds triple-double from Sabrina Ionescu on their way to a berth in the Final Four in Tampa Fla. The first meeting between the teams came in 1984, with UO earning a 77-56 win in Portland.

DUCK DEFENSE
Oregon has made life difficult for its opponents on the offensive end this season. The Duck defense has registered double-digit steals in eight of its last 12 games, and in 10 of its last 16 games overall, including a season-high 17 coming against Air Force on Dec. 17. Additionally, UO is allowing opponents to shoot just 28.8 percent from beyond the arc, and has allowed only six teams to shoot over 30.0 percent. UO allowed North Texas and Grand Canyon to shoot a combined 7-of-30 from deep over a two-game stretch (Nov. 12-18).

» The Ducks have held each of their last 10 opponents below its season average, by an average of 14.0 points a game, while not allowing a team to reach the 70-point plateau in that stretch.
» Oregon held Iowa to a season-low 49 points, its lowest output since the 2012-13 season, allowing just 17 second-half points.
» With 10 or more steals in nine of their last 14 games, the Ducks have 11 games this season with double-digit steals after turning in only two such games last season and seven times in 2022-23.
» The Ducks recorded 10-plus steals in five straight games from Nov. 26-Dec. 19, their longest streak since putting together seven straight games with 10 or more steals in 2013-14.
» The 11 games with 10-plus steals are tied for the third-most such games among Big Ten team, and just two behind the league leader in Michigan State (13), and tied for 18th nationally.
» On the season, Oregon is averaging 10.1 steals a game (fourth in the Big Ten), which would mark the most on a per-game basis since averaging 10.3 in 2011-12. UO ranks fourth in steals per game in league play at 10.0.
» The Ducks have forced opponents into 20 or more turnovers nine times this season, including in six of their last 10 games after forcing 23 against Purdue on Jan. 15. The nine such games are already the most since doing so 11 times in 2013-14.
» UO had just one game forcing 20 or more turnovers last season and did so five times in 2022-23. The last time the Ducks had more than eight games forcing at least 20 turnovers was 2013-14, when they recorded 11 such performances.
» UO has forced 20-plus turnovers in five of eight Big Ten games this season, averaging 20.1 turnovers a game in league play (the third-highest rate in the conference).
» The Ducks forced a season-high 29 turnovers against Air Force on Dec. 17, marking the most forced turnovers since forcing 29 against CSUN on Nov. 19, 2017.
» The 19.1 turnovers forced a game would mark the highest rate by the Ducks since averaging 20.8 per game in 2010-11.
» Oregon has finished with fewer or the same number of turnovers 17 times this season, and has committed fewer turnovers than its opponent in 14 straight games.

CLUTCH DUCKS
Sunday's 50-49 comeback win over Iowa marked UO's fourth victory by two points or less this season, as the Ducks are unbeaten this season in those games. Oregon trailed by 10 points at half and by as many as 15 points in the first half, marking the first halftime deficit overcome for a win this season.

» The four two-point victories are Oregon's most since at least 2009-10 and ties the most two-point games since 2014-15.
» Oregon has won its last six games decided by two points or less dating back to the 2022-23 season, and seven of the last eight such games going back to 2021-22.
» Despite only scoring 50 points, UO picked up its first victory when scoring 50 points or less since defeating Utah 50-44 on Nov. 25, 2006 - snapping a streak of 49 straight losses when scoring 50 or less.

DUCK DEPTH
Oregon's depth, helped by seven transfers among nine newcomers, has keyed the Ducks' 14-5 start this season. Seven different players have led (or tied) UO in scoring through 19 games, including three off the bench in Nani Falatea, Katie Fiso and Elisa Mevius. The Oregon bench is averaging 28.1 points per game and has outscored its opponents' bench 534-302 on the season, an average of 12.2 points a game. Last year, UO averaged just 9.6 points a night from its bench and opponents outscored the Ducks' bench by 288 points.

» After Oregon's bench scored 46 points at Northwestern on Dec. 31, the Ducks' bench outscored the starting five in three out of four games from Dec. 19-31, and has done so four times in total this season.
» Over that four-game stretch, the reserves accounted for 174 of Oregon's 313 total points (55.6 percent) and averaged 43.5 points a game.
» Five players finished in double figures at Northwestern, including three off the bench in Falatea (13), Alexis Whitfield (11) and Ehis Etute (10), while seven players turned in at least nine points in the win.
» UO's bench has outscored its opponents in all but two games this season, and nine times by double digits.
» The Ducks dropped a season-high 51 bench points on Air Force on Dec. 17, the most points scored by the bench since scoring 58 against Seattle U on Nov. 28, 2020.
» Ten players finished with at least eight points against the Falcons, with four scoring in double figures, while six handed out multiple assists and seven recorded multiple steals.
» The Ducks followed that up by scoring 48 bench points in their win over UC Irvine, combining for 99 points in a two-game stretch - their most in any two-game span on record.
» Seven players are averaging at least 5.5 points per game, including three bench players, with Falatea leading the bench scoring at 7.7 points per game.
» The Oregon bench has scored at least 20 points 13 times, and five times eclipsed the 40-point plateau. Last year, UO's single-game bench high was 26 points while surpassing 20 points just twice.
» The Ducks have been led (or tied) in rebounding by seven different players, five of which are newcomers, this season. Deja Kelly, Phillipina Kyei and Amina Muhammad are the only players to lead the team in rebounding in multiple games.