Statistically Speaking: Oregon Ducks Look To Run Against Oklahoma State

The Oregon Ducks will meet the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Friday afternoon in the NCAA Tournament Second Round in Omaha, Nebraska. The Ducks Head Coach Dana Altman is hopeful that his team will have a home field advantage. Altman coached at Creighton for seventeen years and will feel right at home playing an away game in Nebraska. The Oregon Ducks also have several advantages entering the game. Momentum is one one of them.

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Oregon is Streaking At The Right Time

Oregon has won twelve of their last fourteen games. Their two losses were to Arizona on the road and in the Pac-12 Championship Game in Las Vegas. Oklahoma State is more stumbling into the NCAA Tournament losing seven of their last eight games. The Oregon Ducks also are ahead of OSU in several key categories entering the game.

Pouring in the Points

Oregon Ducks Senior Joseph Young is averaging over twenty points per game this season and is hitting over ninety percent of his free throws. In the second half of the season his average is closer to twenty-five points. Oklahoma State is led by Le’Bryan Nash who is averaging seventeen points per game, he has scored in double digits in every game this season and led his team to a seventh place finish in the Big 12. Oregon finished second in the Pac-12 Conference. The Ducks are averaging just over seventy-five points per game this season. Oklahoma comes in at just over sixty-seven points per game.

Blocking Battle

Jordan Bell started the season on a tear destroying the Oregon Ducks record for blocks per game pretty much before the end of the non-conference slate and is averaging 2.6 blocks per game. Oklahoma State is ranked 23rd in Defense near the rim and Senior Michael Cobbins is averaging 1.9 blocks per game this season.

Oregon and Oklahoma State will meet in the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three years on Friday. Tipoff is set for 3:50pm Pacific Time on TBS.