USC @ Oregon 2/16

[nwhoopfan]

15-10 Oregon at the first media timeout. USC is forcing TO's, most of their points have come off of runouts. Hebard is picking up where she left off, 8 points on 4-4 shooting already. She is just KILLING opponents in the paint lately. She even hit a FT line jumper tonight. Bando didn't start but she came in fairly quickly. Cazorla has knocked in a couple of 3's.

 

[nwhoopfan]

21-12 after 1Q. Hebard has 11. USC getting almost nothing from their half court offense. 3 quick transition buckets early, then they ground to a halt.

 

[nwhoopfan]

The suspended players from Washington St. are back. "Indefinite" turned out to be 2 games. They are in a tight game @ Utah.

Colorado handling Washington.

Arizona St. only up a deuce against Arizona.

UCLA @ Oregon St. coming up later.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Graves rolled the dice, started Q2 w/ 4 subs on the floor. It backfired. They've lost all momentum, USC has creeped back to within 21-18. Ducks haven't scored for 4+ minutes.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Oregon was TERRIBLE in Q2. Only scored 5 points. Game is tied at 26 at halftime.

 

[nwhoopfan]

A bunch of low scoring games at the half other than Colorado leading UW 48-35. All the others are within 6 point margin or less.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I keep forgetting how good Kristen Simon from USC is. The Pac 12 has some real quality depth of post players. Almost every team has a good one. USC now leading 38-33, Simon has taken over Q3.

To my eye, something is not quite right w/ Ionescu. She looks like a shell of herself the last 3 games.

 

[ochoopsfan]

I keep forgetting how good Kristen Simon from USC is. The Pac 12 has some real quality depth of post players. Almost every team has a good one. USC now leading 38-33, Simon has taken over Q3.

To my eye, something is not quite right w/ Ionescu. She looks like a shell of herself the last 3 games.

Simon has always been a beast in the middle. She really has only had one other good PF or C to play with in her 4 years and that was Fembengle who played one year after she left Harvard.

 

[DefenseBB]

I am sort of surprised this game is as close as it is AT Oregon. Why only 5 pts in Q2?

 

[nwhoopfan]

I am sort of surprised this game is as close as it is AT Oregon. Why only 5 pts in Q2?

A ton of turnovers, tough D by USC, poor shooting.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Oregon has finally started matching USC's intensity/energy level. Ducks have regained the lead 45-42 after 3Q. Simon leading USC w/ 19 and Hebard has 15 (7-7 FG; she's hit 32 of her last 34 shots over 3 games!).

 

[nwhoopfan]

ASU is running away from Arizona in Q3, have outscored them 25-5 since halftime.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Oregon was up 5, now USC back on top 48-47 w/ 7 minutes left.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Back and forth it goes. Oregon was up 4, then USC tied it up again. 54-54 w/ 4:20 left. Edwards has come alive in Q4 for USC.

 

[SCspur]

Athletic teams seems to be Oregon's Kyrptonite

 

[nwhoopfan]

58-57 USC, 2 minutes left. Oregon has 20 TO's.

 

[nwhoopfan]

60-57. 21 TO's. 16 of those have been USC steals. They can definitely chew you up if you can't handle the pressure.

 

[triaddukefan]

Must be Oregon refs #24 for Oregon should have gotten a T

 

[nwhoopfan]

61-60 Oregon. Hebard is 9-9 tonight and 21-21 the last 2 games.

 

[nwhoopfan]

50 seconds left

 

[nwhoopfan]

illegal screen by USC, Oregon ball up 1

 

[nwhoopfan]

jump ball but Oregon keeps possession, 28 seconds left

 

[nwhoopfan]

some final scores:

Colorado 76
Washington 56

Utah 54
Washington St. 50

Arizona St. 75
Arizona 50

 

[nwhoopfan]

USC had a steal on the inbounds but then stepped out of bounds

 

[HuskyFan1125]

Tuned in to game and saw Melissa Barlow as an official.......

Thats all I needed to know.