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Ducks Get LA Sweep in Hoops

With senior and team leader E.J. Singler on the bench with four fouls the young Oregon Ducks grew up a ton in the Saturday's final moments. Oregon would score eight straight points in the final three minutes and defeat No. 24 UCLA 76-67.

Tony Woods

Tony Woods led all players with 18 points in Oregon's road victory over No. 24 UCLA.

Oregon extended their winning streak to seven games while snapping the Bruins' 10-game streak.

The Ducks (16-2, 5-0) are off to their best start in league play since 1973-74 when Oregon won their first five games in the Pac-8. In fact Oregon has only started 5-0 in league play four other times in school history.

Tony Woods who played with the flu led all players in scoring with 18 points on 8-of-9 shooting. Dominic Artis added 14 points and six assists. Arsalan Kazemi recorded a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Damyean Dotson chipped in 11 points.

UCLA's Travis Wear led the Bruins (15-4, 5-1) with 17 points.

Oregon's second half performance on defense powered the Ducks to victory. The Bruins appeared ready to blow the game open when they took an early 46-41 second half lead.
Oregon increased their effort on defense and held UCLA scoreless for a five-minute stretch to regain the lead.

Oregon led 62-61 with 3:30 left after a pair of free throws by UCLA's Kyle Anderson and from there Oregon never looked back.

Kazemi grabbed an offensive rebound and scored a layup. On Oregon's ensuing possession Dotson was fouled and made his two free throws to push Oregon's lead to five, 66-61. Dotson then got a steal on defense and fed Woods for a slam dunk. UCLA was forced to call a timeout trailing 68-61 with 1:42 left.

After a second Woods dunk the Ducks made six free throws and iced the game and the win.

The Ducks swept the LA schools for the first time since 2009-10.

Oregon's next game is Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at home against the Washington State Cougars.

Matt Prehm

    • so sweet

      Canaduck

    • This is a fun team to watch when their playing well and they are only gonna get better as the season progresses

      jeffc1

    • I thought this was their best game of the year ( I did not see the UNLV game). When the game was getting tight down the stretch, Oregon made plays on both ends to secure the W. We now own tie breakers over both Zona and UCLA.

      Great game by Woods. I go back and forth on most improved with Woods and J. Loyd......this game goes to Woods. Now bring on the pups. While I know we play wazzu first....i just wish we could play the pups twice and smash'em both times.

      Keyser Soze 2 U

    • Keyser Soze 2 U said...

      I thought this was their best game of the year ( I did not see the UNLV game). When the game was getting tight down the stretch, Oregon made plays on both ends to secure the W. We now own tie breakers over both Zona and UCLA.

      Great game by Woods. I go back and forth on most improved with Woods and J. Loyd......this game goes to Woods. Now bring on the pups. While I know we play wazzu first....i just wish we could play the pups twice and smash'em both times.

      I'm down with smashing the pups as many times as humanly possible.

      Canaduck

    • I thought for sure after those 2 ridiculous offensive fouls on us that we were done, but this is a Dana Altman coached team and they never give up. Go Ducks!!!

      JGen_Goducks

    • Obviously the Arizona win was huge, but I felt much better with how we finished the game this time.

      mr_griff

    • We finished the game well! We looked like we knew how to win a close game this time. We weren't hoping not to lose.

      Canaduck

    • I told you they'd win, but maybe Dana Altman should make all these Duck Player's do a bunch of lay up drill's cause I've never in my life seen so many chip shot's missed.

      MaitaiDuck

    • Attended a funeral in Tacoma today (surrounded by poodle fans) Couldn't wait to get back to my hotel room to view results of the game. WOW - what a resounding win and at hallowed Pauley Pavillion! Go duckies....can't wait to paddle the puppies!

      DuckLucky

    • Awesome win and an awesome year so far. The great thing is that this team has the potential to be even better! Looks like it's shaping up to be a historical year.

      LetMeSeeYourO

    • JGen_Goducks said...

      I thought for sure after those 2 ridiculous offensive fouls on us that we were done, but this is a Dana Altman coached team and they never give up. Go Ducks!!!

      Hey welcome to the site! Glad you checked us out!

      As for the game it was a "Big East" feel to it if you ask me. Refs let a lot be played out. I like games like that.

      MattPrehm

    • mr_griff said...

      Obviously the Arizona win was huge, but I felt much better with how we finished the game this time.

      To me this was Oregon's biggest win in Dana Altman's era as head coach. Ranked team at their place on a national audience with the Pac-12 lead up for grabs. I know it is early in the Pac-12 season and the Ducks could lose some games but getting tonight's win sets Oregon up to have tiebreakers over both the Bruins and Arizona. Huge.

      MattPrehm

    • Great wins and Huskies lose at home to Utah, leaving Ducks in sole possession of Pac-12 lead. Washington teams in Eugene this week. This, coupled with Helfrich as HC and Frost as OC.

      Hey commits, stay committed, and prospects, please commit. Ducks keep on winning, rain or shine, fall, winter, spring (and late summer, too).

      rgyle

    • Agree, JGen, twasn't looking good in the first half. Nine point win coupled with Huskies' nine point loss at home to Utah (who played really well, imo) puts Ducks in the leader's seat with washington schools visiting this week and LA schools playing 2 tough teams in Arizona. Hope the FB recruits are paying attention to all the good news today.

      (Matt, why don't replies appear under the post to which I'm replying?)

      This post was edited by rgyle on 1/20/2013 at 12:30 PM

      rgyle

    • MattPrehm said...

      To me this was Oregon's biggest win in Dana Altman's era as head coach. Ranked team at their place on a national audience with the Pac-12 lead up for grabs. I know it is early in the Pac-12 season and the Ducks could lose some games but getting tonight's win sets Oregon up to have tiebreakers over both the Bruins and Arizona. Huge.

      There is still a conference tournament at the end of the year right? Will it be split into a North division and South division or just 1-12?

      By the way rgyle- I have been losing posts also. I hit reply, make my post then I came back to the thread and there was nothing. I'm assuming it wasn't deleted (there was nothing controversial written).

      This post was edited by LetMeSeeYourO on 1/20/2013 at 2:50 PM

      LetMeSeeYourO

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