Oregon Ducks Meet Delaware State for the First Time on Saturday
The Oregon Ducks will look to continue building team chemistry when they face Delaware State on Saturday at Matthew Knight Arena. It will be the second of seven straight home games and just the second game for Michael Chandler, who in his season debut against Cal State Northridge earlier this week made his presence felt with thirteen points. He missed the first nine games of the season due to injury.
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Chandler, along with a talented Freshman Class including Dwayne Benjamin, Dillon Brooks, and Ahmaad Rorie have all had key minutes early this season. Brooks had scored in double figures in all of the games he has played in this season. Rorie joined Brooks in the impressive won over Illinois on the road last weekend with eleven points. Brooks had a season high twenty-four. The Oregon Ducks beat Cal State Northridge on Wednesday night.
Oregon will look to Joseph Young, who is one of four players in the country averaging nineteen points per game, to keep a hot hand. Freshman Jordan Bell will also look to stay sharp when it comes to blocked shots. The talented Freshman has already entered the Oregon Ducks History books with top ten worthy performance. On the season he has thirty-two blocks, good enough for the list. So far in 2014 Oregon has fifty-eight blocks. In 2013 the season total was one-hundred thirteen.
The Delaware State Hornets enter the game at 5-6 on the season and will look to add to an early post-season statement on their body of work with a win over the Oregon Ducks. Gametime is set for 12pm Pacific Time, broadcast on Pac-12 Networks.