Pilots @ Oregon (Dec. 15 @ 6:00 PM)

GAME INFO
6:00 PM
Matthew Knight Arena (Eugene, Ore.)
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Pac 12 Oregon
910 ESPN Portland
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METRICS
NET: Oregon #117, Portland #235
Kenpom: Oregon #53, Portland #291 (80-61 Ducks)
Barttorvik: Oregon #68, Portland #237 (77-63 Ducks)
Haslametrics: Oregon #98, Portland #269 (77-62 Ducks)

GAME TOPIC STARTER RECORDS
Dipper 4-0 (1.000)
dholcombe 1-0 (1.000)
BSleik 1-0 (1.000)
up7587 2-2 (.500)
Deaner 0-1 (.000)

Oregon was a preseason top 25 team (No. 13 in the first AP poll of the year) but the Ducks have been trending downhill since being boat raced by BYU last month in Portland.

After the game tonight, they'll then get ready to host the current top team in the country. Baylor will visit Eugene on Saturday.

Dean Murdoch wrote:Oregon was a preseason top 25 team (No. 13 in the first AP poll of the year) but the Ducks have been trending downhill since being boat raced by BYU last month in Portland.

It is odd the Ducks have not had better success this season.  They are a large and athletic team with a coach on par with many of the great ones.

Dana Altman is one of only five active coaches in D1 with 24 consecutive winning seasons...the otehrs are Hall-of-Famers Mike Krzyzewski, Tom Izzo, Bill Self and Jim Boeheim.

He is the 34th head coach to record 600 career wins at the D1 level and is the winningest head coach in Oregon history. In 2016-17, Altman led Oregon back to the Final Four for the first time in 78 years.

The 2013 National Coach of the Year and three-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year, Altman is 280-110 in Eugene, and 690-353 in 32 seasons as a head coach at the D1 level in stints at Oregon, Creighton, Kansas State and Marshall.

If UO gets their offense going against the Pilots defense that is still in the early learning process, they could score over 90 points tonight.

Las Vegas is predicting a 17-point win for the Ducks with an o/u of 141.

ABOUT OREGON

• The Ducks (5-5, 0-2 Pac-12) lost a pair of close Pac-12 games last week to Arizona State (69-67, ot) and at Stanford (72-69). Oregon has posted wins against Texas Southern, SMU, Montana and UC Riverside with non-league losses to BYU, Saint Mary's and Houston.
• The Ducks were picked second in the Pac-12 Preseason Poll and were nationally ranked early in the season.
• Oregon is holding opponents to just 65.2 points per game and forcing 13.7 turnovers per outing.
• Will Richardson (11.4) and Eric Williams Jr. (10.6) lead a balanced scoring attack as eight players average 14 or more minutes per game.

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DoubleDipper wrote:If UO gets their offense going against the Pilots defense that is still in the early learning process, they could score over 90 points tonight.

Oregon got their offense going...96-71

Pilots score 30 more points than last year's team did against UO. Guess that's something.

I did not watch the game, but it is stored on my DVR, is there any portion that is worth watching or should I just erase it all?

Pilots started a little sloppy but were not horrible.  Tyler was tasked with guarding UO's big man, and he got dominated in the paint. You might look for the possession where UO got 6 offensive rebounds before finally scoring and getting fouled.  Ducks dominated inside, and hit some kickout threes too.  Hard to beat that.

A bright spot from last night’s game was the free-throw shooting:

Chris Austin: 9-10
Tyler Robertson: 4-4
Moses Wood: 2-2
Matheus Silveira: 2-2
Vasilije Vucinic: 1-3

Total: 18-21 (85.7%)

The Pilots are currently #1 in the nation (tied with Kent St.) at free-throw shooting percentage: 83.3%.