Preview:
Our last game against Oregon, in Santa Cruz, was fairly close, and this time we meet them on their home court.
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In that game we were behind at the half, had an outpouring of points in the 3rd for a 17 point lead, and almost choked it away in the fourth. Lexie could not play. Oregon's zone really hampered Belibi, who had been on fire coming into that game.
Since that last meeting Oregon is 4-2 with 5 postponed games. The losses were to Arizona twice, each decisively. The wins have not always been impressive, narrowly beating UC Davis, but they did beat WSU by 8.
Graves has complained after games and clearly is trying to stoke a fire, but his all-star cast has not been producing what he expected.
Oregon is offensively balanced between Nyara Sabally, Erin Boley, and Te-Hina Pao Pao all in double digits. Sabally is shooting 56%, mostly from inside, Boley is shooting 42%, mostly from outside, and they have a bevy of good three point shooters like transfer Mikesell lurking around the perimeter.
Sedona Prince is back and playing, and was their #2 scorer against Arizona last time out--so that is a new wrinkle for us to handle. It would be very good if Prechtel were able to go.
The game is televised nationally but at a poor time--I won't be home from work in time to see the first half. ESPN does makes its games available on replay, at least.
Our last game against Oregon, in Santa Cruz, was fairly close, and this time we meet them on their home court.
https://thecardboard.org/board/showthrea...hlight=wbb
In that game we were behind at the half, had an outpouring of points in the 3rd for a 17 point lead, and almost choked it away in the fourth. Lexie could not play. Oregon's zone really hampered Belibi, who had been on fire coming into that game.
Since that last meeting Oregon is 4-2 with 5 postponed games. The losses were to Arizona twice, each decisively. The wins have not always been impressive, narrowly beating UC Davis, but they did beat WSU by 8.
Graves has complained after games and clearly is trying to stoke a fire, but his all-star cast has not been producing what he expected.
Oregon is offensively balanced between Nyara Sabally, Erin Boley, and Te-Hina Pao Pao all in double digits. Sabally is shooting 56%, mostly from inside, Boley is shooting 42%, mostly from outside, and they have a bevy of good three point shooters like transfer Mikesell lurking around the perimeter.
Sedona Prince is back and playing, and was their #2 scorer against Arizona last time out--so that is a new wrinkle for us to handle. It would be very good if Prechtel were able to go.
The game is televised nationally but at a poor time--I won't be home from work in time to see the first half. ESPN does makes its games available on replay, at least.