Oregon Ducks Meet Arizona In Key Early Season Matchup
If you look at the statistics entering the game on Thursday between the Oregon Ducks and the Arizona Wildcats on thing stands out. Oregon is averaging close to eighty-nine points per game this season. Arizona is outside the top thirty averaging seventy-six point one. From the beginning of the year Oregon has been fortunate that team chemistry and coming together have played a key role in their success.
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Entering the year no one really knew that the Oregon Ducks had. There was talent certainly and now there is an 11-3 record, 1-0 in the Pac-12 Conference to go with that talent. Dana Altman started the season with a shot taker in Joseph Young, averaging twenty points per game this season. Arizona will counter with Freshman Stanley Johnson who is averaging just over fourteen points per game this season.
On the Defensive side of the ball Freshman Jordan Bell has spent the first part of the season blocking shots. He ranks second on the All-time list at Oregon. He has forty eight and is three away from the all time mark of fifty-one set by Tony Woods just a few seasons ago.
Oregon enters the game on a six game winning streak that includes two overtime victories in a row earlier this month. It will the the second conference game of the season for both teams. Arizona was ranked as high as third in the country but stumbled against UNLV before entering Pac-12 Conference play. At 13-1 and 1-0 in the Pac-12 they are still a top ten team sitting at seventh.
A win tonight by Oregon would likely vault them back into the Top Twenty five. The Oregon Ducks and Arizona Wildcats tipoff at 7:30pm Pacific Time on Pac-12 Networks.