Road Trip Kicks Off Monday at GCU - University of Oregon Athletics

EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon women's basketball team begins a three-game, three-state road trip on Monday with a stop at Grand Canyon for a 7 p.m. PT tip at Global Credit Union in Phoenix, Ariz.

UO began the season 2-0 for the 12th straight year with its 64-57 come-from-behind victory over Washington State Friday night. The Ducks trailed by 14 at halftime to earn its sixth double-digit comeback victory since the start of the 2024-25 season.

The Ducks and Antelopes will meet for the fourth consecutive season, and second time in Phoenix. Oregon has claimed each of the three previous meetings after an 84-66 win at Matthew Knight Arena last season.

GAME #3
Oregon (2-0) at GRAND CANYON (1-0)
Monday, Nov. 9 | 7 p.m. PT | Global Credit Union Arena (Phoenix, Ariz.)
TV: CBS Sports Network
Play-by-play: Jack Gordon| Analyst: Kelly Burke
Radio: Oregon Sports Network (KUGN 98.1 FM/590 AM)
Play-by-play: Saul Galvan
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A WIN WOULD…
» Mark the 12th consecutive season that Oregon starts 3-0.
» Improve the Ducks' record against Grand Canyon to 4-0 and 2-0 on the road.
» Be the fourth straight season UO defeats GCU.
» Improve head coach Kelly Graves' nonconference record to 149-41 while at Oregon.

LAST TIME OUT
Since joining the Big Ten, Oregon has been no stranger to close game and come-from-behind wins. And the Ducks got an early taste of the chaos in just the second game of the 2026-27 season.

The Oregon women's basketball team crawled out of a 14-point halftime deficit to thwart a game Washington State squad on Friday night, claiming a 64-57 victory at Matthew Knight Arena in front of 4,531 fans.

Katie Fiso finished with 19 points and seven rebounds while freshman Brooklynn Haywood scored 14 off the bench, with nine coming in the second half. Avary Cain scored all 11 of her points in the second half, as she went 3-of-4 from the 3-point line, with her third triple giving the Ducks the lead for good with just over five minutes to play.

SCOUTING GRAND CANYON
Grand Canyon began its 2026-27 season with a 77-55 home win over Jackson State on Nov. 4. Sophomore Nyadieng Yiech paced the Antelopes in both scoring and rebounding with her 18-point, 11-rebound double-double, as she was one of four players to score in double figures in the victory. Chloe Mann added 16 points, hitting on 3-of-4 attempts from downtown, while Jana Sallman scored 12 and Maya Foz finished with 11 points.

A season ago, GCU went 13-19 overall and 11-9 in Mountain West play in Winston Gandy's first season as head coach. Gandy brought back five players from last year's squad, headlined by Mann who was named to the preseason all-Mountain West team. Mann was the Lopes' leading scorer in 2025-26 at 13.0 points per game, adding 3.3 rebounds and 3.0 assists. Grand Canyon's freshman class checked in as the 39th-best recruiting class in the country, according to 247Sports.

INSIDE THE SERIES
Monday's matchup will mark the fourth consecutive season that Oregon and Grand Canyon will meet, with the Ducks winning all three previous meetings. The Ducks will make their second trip to Phoenix to take on the Lopes. Back in the 2023-24 season, Oregon came away with a hard-fought 64-56 road win.

In last season's meeting, UO earned an 84-66 in Eugene behind a 20-point, 10-assist double-double from guard Katie Fiso. Fiso went 8-of-9 from the floor, as the Ducks shot 57.4 percent from the field overall and held a 46-30 edge in points in the paint.

OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT
The Ducks opened the first week of the 2026-27 season with a pair of home victories, beginning the season with an emphatic 87-54 win over Hawai'i on Monday at Matthew Knight Arena. Oregon finished the week with a 64-57 comeback victory over former conference foe Washington State, where the Ducks trailed by 14 at halftime and by as many as 16 points in the second half. UO's 2-0 start marks the 12th straight year that the Ducks won the season's first two games.

» Mallory Heyer, who made her Oregon debut last Monday after sitting out last season following a mid-season transfer from Minnesota, scored all of her team-high 16 points in the first half.
» Oregon's defense forced 23 Hawai'i turnovers behind 18 steals. Senior guard Ari Long tallied a career-best six steals in the game, while Ehis Etute also set a career best with four thefts.
» The Ducks hit on 11-of-32 3-point attempts vs. UH, which would have tied for the second-highest number of attempts in a game last season. A season ago, Oregon averaged just 19.4 3-point attempts per game.
» The Ducks owned a 50-35 rebounding advantage against Hawai'i, producing their first 50-rebound game since Dec. 9, 2023 against Portland.
» Etute brought in 12 offensive rebounds in the season opener, equaling the most offensive boards in a game by a Duck since Jillian Alleyne recorded 12 against Washington on March 24, 2014.
» Her 12 offensive rebounds equaled the most by a Duck since at least the 1999-000 season and marked the most by any player in the Big Ten since the 2024-25 season.
» Friday's win against WSU marked the sixth time that the Ducks have overcome a double-digit deficit to win - and the fourth since the start of last season.
» The 14-point halftime deficit was UO's second-largest halftime deficit overcome since the 2017-18 season.
» Junior Avary Cain scored all 11 of her points in the second half and went 3-of-4 from the 3-point line, with her last triple giving the Ducks the lead for good with just over five minutes left to play.
» Freshman guard Brooklynn Haywood scored nine of her 14 points in the second half.
» Oregon outscored the Cougars 42-21 in the second half while shooting 60.0 percent from the 3-point line and limited WSU to 1-of-14 (7.1 percent).