EUGENE, Arch. — The Oregon women’s basketball team continues a three-game road trip Friday while the Ducks travel to California for a 7 p.m. PT start at the Haas Pavilion in Berkley, California.
The Ducks are looking to win their eighth straight win over Cal and slip two games overall after suffering a 68-65 loss at Oregon State last Friday. Against the beavers, newbie chance grey the Ducks stepped up 18 points behind a career-best six 3-pointers.
Friday’s competition marks the only regular-season meeting between Oregon and Cal. UO leads the All-Time Series 45-33 and has won five straight on the road.
GAME #20 RV Oregon (13-6, 4-4) in California (10-9, 1-7)
Friday January 27 | 7 p.m. PT | Haas Pavilion (Berkley, California)
TV: Pac-12 Oregon
Game after game: Greg Mescall | Analyst: Maylana Douglas
Radio: Oregon Sports Network (KUGN 98.1 FM/590 AM)
Game after game: Terry Jonz
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AT A GLANCE
Oregon continues its three-game road trip with two games in the Bay Area, first taking on California on Friday at 7 p.m. on Pac-12 Oregon. Friday’s tilt will be the only meeting between the Ducks and Bears during the regular season.
The Ducks lost for the second consecutive game after a 68-65 setback against Oregon State last Friday.
Oregon has beaten Cal seven times in a row, including five straight at Berkley. UO leads the eternal series 45-33. The Ducks fell out of the Associated Press’s top-25 poll for the first time this season after UO’s 68-65 loss to Oregon State last Friday.
LAST TIME-OUT
The Ducks lost for the second consecutive game after a 68-65 setback against Oregon State last Friday. UO and OSU are sharing the regular season series for the third straight year.
OSU outplayed Oregon 46-16 in the paint, the minus 30 point difference being UO’s largest this season. The Ducks made 12 3-pointers to the Beavers’ fours, with six coming in the final quarter.
chance grey led the offense with 18 points while hitting a career-high six 3-pointers and has lost 11 3-pointers in her last two games. Gray joined in double digits Taya Hanson (14), Endyia Rogers (12) and Te Hina Paopao (11).
DISCOVER CALIFORNIA
California enter Friday night on a five-game losing streak, losing seven of their last nine games overall. A week ago, the Bears were defeated at home by No. 24 Colorado (73-66) and No. 8 Utah (87-62). Cal is 7-5 at home and 1-4 at the Haas Pavilion in the Pac-12 game.
The Bears’ offense averages 70.2 points per game, the ninth-highest average in the conference, while shooting 42.9 percent from the field (eighth in the Pac-12). Cal sits fourth in the league in 3-point shooting with 35.1 percent, led by Leilani McIntosh, who is fourth in the Pac-12 with 45.3 percent. As a team, Cal ranks 11th in rebounding (37.4) and 10th in rebounding margin (up-2.3) in the conference.
McIntosh (10.4 PPG) is one of four Golden Bears averaging double-digit points. Jayda Curry leads Cal with 14.2 points per game, followed by Kemery Martin with 10.9 points. Evelien Lutje Schipholt beats the team with an average of 5.6 rebounds per game.
WITHIN THE SERIES
Friday’s matchup will be the only meeting of the season between Oregon and California. The Ducks have led the all-time series since 1979 by 45-33. UO has won against Cal seven straight times and nine of the last 11, including five straight at Berkeley.
Oregon is 19-18 on the road against the Bears and won last season’s matchup at Berkley 88-53. in this game, Te Hina Paopao scored 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting (4-for-5 3PT) with four assists and two rebounds. The Ducks ended the Season Series sweep at Matthew Knight Arena on February 18 with a 52-47 win. head coach Kelly Graves is 10-3 against Cal in his Oregon career.
THE “O” STANDS FOR OFFENSE
Oregon’s offensive efficiency score of 110.7 (points per 100 possessions) is the ninth-highest mark in the country and third-best in the Pac-12 behind only Utah (113.6) and Stanford (112.8). The Ducks’ 80.0 points per game is the 16th-best in the country and the second-highest in the conference. UO’s 17-point lead is the third-best in the Pac-12 and 20th in the nation, while the team’s effective field goal percentage of 51.9 ranks third in the league.
UO has scored at least 75 points in 12 of 19 games, hitting the 90-point mark four times. Under the ninth year head coach Kelly Graves, the Ducks are 52-0 if they score at least 90 points. This season, Oregon is 4-0 in reaching the 90-point plateau, beating the total number of 90-point efforts in the 2021-22 and 2020-21 seasons (three times each). At Matthew Knight Arena, the Ducks are averaging 82.0 points per game this season while shooting 45.0 percent from the field and 40.7 percent from behind the arc. Overall, Oregon gets a Pac-12 high of 32.8 percent of its points from 3-pointers.
TREY GREY
Freshman from Oregon chance grey, after a career-high 22 points and five 3-pointers against Washington State on Jan. 15, Pac-12 was named Freshman of the Week. Gray’s honor was the first of her career and the Ducks’ sixth weekly award this season, which led the conference (the most awards since she earned six awards in the 2017-18 season). It’s the third time since the 2019-20 season that two different Ducks have been named Pac-12 Rookie of the Week (Jaz Shelley, Holly Winterburn).
Gray continued her career high by completing 6 of 12 3-pointers at Oregon State last Friday — the most three-pointers of any Pac-12 freshman this season. Her six threes are the fourth most by a Duck freshman in program history and the most since Shelley’s freshman record of 10 on December 16, 2019. Gray leads Pac-12 freshmen with 1.9 3-pointers made per game.
In her last two games, Gray has hit 11 three-pointers (30.6 percent of her total of 36 three-pointers made during the season). Additionally, Gray has connected on 22 direct free throw attempts dating back to November 14 in Southern — a span of 17 games — and leads the team with 93.5 percent from the line.
NUGGETS AND TRENDS
This season, Oregon is averaging just 11.0 turnovers per game in wins while turning the ball 15.0 times per game in six losses. When the Ducks have 15 or more turnovers, they are 2-4, while all four of UO’s six losses have come to teams ranked in the nation’s top 15.
In his 13 wins, Oregon shoots 40.6 percent from 3-point range and averages 9.0 3-point field goals. Defensively, the Ducks hold teams 26.7 percent and make 5.5 3-pointers. In losses, the Ducks shoot just 33.3 percent from behind the arc and their average 3-pointers drop to 8.2, while opponents average 8.2 3-pointers per game at a 40.5 percent clip.
In the first 10 games of the season, UO’s full-backs suppressed opponents to just 24.0 percent from 3-point range (4.8 made 3-points per game). Over the next six games, UO allowed teams to shoot a total of 43.4 3-point percent to 9.8 3-point points. Those numbers have fallen from three (4.3 per game) to 25.4 percent over the past three games against Washington, Washington State and Oregon State.
After losing games for the second straight season this season, the Ducks have been outplayed by the paint on a total of 52 points, including a minus 30 difference against Oregon State last Friday. Having been surpassed only once this season before their last two games, the Ducks held a plus-221 lead for the season in the Paint (plus 13.0 per game).
As of the 2020-21 season, Oregon has been 3-6 in games decided by three points or fewer with a 1-3 overtime record and has dropped its last three games that went into overtime. Under Graves, the Ducks are 5-5 in overtime decisions.
CARE OF THE ROCK
As a team, Oregon has an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.44 — good for the top spot in the Pac-12 and seventh in the country. A high assist-to-turnover ratio is an issue under the head coach Kelly Graves, as the Ducks have led the category with a 1.54 since the 2017-18 season. Oregon led the country in assist-to-gross ratio for consecutive seasons (2018-19, 2019-20), finishing fourth in 2017-18.
The Ducks lead the Pac-12 and rank 11th in the country with 12.3 in earnings per game. Conversely, UO forces their opponents to 13.6 per game for a plus 1.6 turnover margin. In addition, the Ducks have an assisted shot rate of 60.1 percent and a net rating of 23.5 (win margin per 100 possessions).
