Young Can Hit One-Thousand Point Milestone Thursday for Oregon vs USC

The Oregon Ducks started the season on a five game winning streak and ended the non-conference slate with another. If there was ever a time for the team to start another one, it is now. Dana Altman has seen his team have an up and down start to the Pac-12 season dropping two in a row on the road at Washington and Washington State last week. With the losses the Oregon Ducks dropped to seventh place in the Pac-12.

Oregon returns home to Matthew Knight arena to face the USC Trojans on Thursday and will look to get back to .500 in Conference play with a win. In their last ten games the Trojans have gone 7-3, including a loss to UCLA last week. USC is led by Nikola Jovanovic who is averaging thirteen points and close to eight rebounds per game. He had twenty points in the loss to UCLA.

The Oregon Ducks will look to get back on track Defensively, an area that has plagued them this season. Freshman Jordan Bell continues to add to his record breaking year when it comes to shot blocks. He owns and is building on the single season record for an Oregon Duck and now has sixty-three on the season. Another player can make some history of his own Thursday night.

Oregon Ducks Senior Joseph Young who needs seven points to become the thirty-third player in Ducks history to score one-thousand points in his career. Offensively the team is coming together. Freshman are stepping up.

Underclassmen are accounting for thirty-nine percent of scoring and forty-two percent of rebounding this season.

Oregon and USC tips off Thursday night at 8pm Pacific Time on Pac-12 Networks.