Oregon Lands One Three Point Shot in Loss to Arizona State

The Oregon Ducks coming of a win over Arizona on Friday night met up with Arizona State on Sunday Afternoon at Matthew Knight Arena. The Sundevils were ranked second in the Pac-12 Conference but the first tem minutes of the game played out to a different story. Arizona State and Oregon were off to sluggish starts. Nineteen points were scored in the first thirteen minutes with the Ducks on top before Jillian Alleyne picked up her second foul.

The Oregon Junior scored six of the Ducks points early in the game and Oregon was down 12-10 with the first media timeout with 11:33 remaining in the first half. The first half would come to an end with Oregon down double digits. Jillian Alleyne had eight points and three rebounds. Arizona State had a couple of short runs, one a 5-0 run to take a 33-19 lead with 2:37 left in the first half. For a game that started out slow, the Sundevils appeared to take control toward the end of the first half.

The big difference in the first twenty minutes was shooting percentage. The Ducks shot forty-four percent to Arizona State with thirty-seven percent. Arizona State was five for ten from beyond the arc, Oregon just one for six. ASU had eighteen points in the paint in the first half with a 39-25 lead on the Ducks.

Oregon started the second half well getting their shooting percentage to the fifty-percent mark and getting to within eleven points of the lead with 15:50 left in the game. The Ducks would go on  a run and pull to within six of Arizona State with 10:51 to play. It was as close as the Ducks would get as Arizona State would pull away to build a 57-42 lead with six minutes to go.

For the game Oregon hit one three point shot. One. Alleyne would pick up her fourth foul of the game wtih 5:13 to go and the Ducks would fall to Arizona State. Oregon had eleven turnovers in the game. The Junior would finish the game with fifteen points and ten rebounds. Lexi Petersen added twelve points with six rebounds.

Oregon at 12-13 will head to Colorado and Utah next week and will look to get back to .500 before returning home to face Cal and nineteenth ranked Stanford on February 26th and March 1st.