Pac-12 Friday night: #18 Arizona St @ #22 Oregon St

[triaddukefan]

I think Sun Devils are tougher than Blue Devils

I disagree...

 

[BostonCanuck]

ASU fails to run a coherent play on the final inbound, and Pivoc easily blocks an Ekmark attempt at a three. OSU holds on for the win.

Strangely, this game is immediately being followed on PAC 12 Network by another women's basketball game, Oregon vs. Arizona (minus the "State" in each case).

 

[nwhoopfan]

Strangely, this game is immediately being followed on PAC 12 Network by another women's basketball game, Oregon vs. Arizona (minus the "State" in each case).

I think Pac 12 scheduling is fairly unique. Each school has a travel partner, and you play against another pair each week. The pairs are the Oregon schools, the Washington schools, the Arizona schools, LA schools, Bay Area schools, and Utah/Colorado. Usually alternate between home and road pair of games each week, so there are very rarely extended road trips. The only goofy part is you play your travel partner back to back the same week home and away. Nobody wants to play the same opponent twice in 3 days, but that's how it works.

 

[nwhoopfan]

UCLA leading Utah 42-38 at halftime.

 

[BostonCanuck]

I think Pac 12 scheduling is fairly unique. Each school has a travel partner, and you play against another pair each week. The pairs are the Oregon schools, the Washington schools, the Arizona schools, LA schools, Bay Area schools, and Utah/Colorado. Usually alternate between home and road pair of games each week, so there are very rarely extended road trips. The only goofy part is you play your travel partner back to back the same week home and away. Nobody wants to play the same opponent twice in 3 days, but that's how it works.

Elise Woodward (one-half of the outstanding Seattle Storm broadcast team) on the call for this next one, I might just have to stick around and watch!

 

[Plebe]

Arizona State just executed very poorly down the stretch. In general their offense this year has been better than what I'm used to seeing from them, but tonight no one had a good shooting game except Robbi Ryan. Unfortunately, Ryan got in foul trouble in 3Q and then ended up fouling out with about a minute to play. She also missed some critical free throws.

Meanwhile, ASU had a couple defensive breakdowns late, one on an inbound play where Gulich got an easy layup, and another when Pivec dribbled the ball about 60 feet against the press and no one rotated over to stop ball.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Oregon off to a slow start, Arizona is leading 12-5. Ducks look half asleep on the floor so far.

 

[ochoopsfan]

Injuries suck.
Jordin Canada carried off the court with an ankle injury. Lets hope for a sprain....but I am not sure.

 

[triaddukefan]

Oregon off to a slow start, Arizona is leading 12-5. Ducks look half asleep on the floor so far.

I guess I'll be petty and say.. Lets go Cats

 

[nwhoopfan]

I guess I'll be petty and say.. Lets go Cats

You jinxed them. Oregon has stormed back to take a 19-14 lead after 1Q. Ionescu has 12.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Injuries suck.
Jordin Canada carried off the court with an ankle injury. Lets hope for a sprain....but I am not sure.

Bummer. Hope it's not serious.

 

[ochoopsfan]

Willis Reed back into the game.

 

[Plebe]

Injuries suck.
Jordin Canada carried off the court with an ankle injury. Lets hope for a sprain....but I am not sure.

Was definitely an ankle sprain. Canada just returned from the locker room and doesn't appear to be limping. That's a good sign.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Oregon has gone back to sleep again in the 2nd quarter. Only 2 bucket after 5 minutes, now leading 22-19. Bando has had four 3's rattle in and out, she's 1-5. A few of those drop and it's a very different story. Ionescu isn't getting assists because nobody is hitting shots.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Washington has no size to matchup w/ Anigwe, but somehow hanging around 29-23. I'm still pretty surprised they lost to both Utah and Colorado at home last weekend.

 

[nwhoopfan]

27-26 Oregon at halftime. They look bad. Sabally has 3 fouls and Hebard has 2.

 

[nwhoopfan]

UW had tied it up at 29 before Cal got a bucket to break a scoring drought. 1 minute ti halftime.

 

[nwhoopfan]

UCLA wins 81-74. Good road win.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Oregon game is still ugly. Arizona took 7 1/2 minutes to score in the 3rd quarter. Oregon slowly pulling away 37-28. Still playing poorly. Ionescu has 19 pts and 8 rebounds, nobody else doing much. Only 3 assists because none of her teammates are hitting shots.

 

[Plebe]

Jordin Canada survives the sprained ankle and gets 20 points, 8 assists, and 4 steals.

Michaela Onyenwere also had a huge game with 20 points and 12 boards.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Ducks w/ a flurry to close the 3rd quarter, up 45-31.

Cal leading UW 48-43 w/ 2 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Beating up on Wazzu doesn't necessarily mean much, but yeah Stanford has looked fairly good since conference play started.

Stanford lost the second half by 15.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Stanford lost the second half by 15.

Yeah, Tara gets the W but plenty to give her team a talking to about. They didn't empty their bench most of the 2nd half, that was their regular rotation players giving up a big chunk of their halftime lead.

 

[nwhoopfan]

62-44 final Oregon wins. Ionescu had 22 pts. 11 reb. 4 assists. It absolutely should've been another triple double, but her teammates missed shot after shot after shot off a pass from Sabrina.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Cal wins 69-60. Anigwe w/ 26 pts and 10 rebs. I feel bad for UW. Not a whole lot of talent. They're so scrappy, they've been in every game, but just not enough firepower. 0-5 in conference, including 3 ranked teams on the road. Stanford up next, I'm giving them just about zero chance of winning that one. Such a dramatic difference from last year.