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Ducks will face Huskies in Seattle in WNIT quarterfinal played on Sunday

 

The Ducks will meet a familiar foe in Sunday's WNIT quarterfinal game. For the fourth time this season, the Ducks will meet Washington, who bested Kansas State on Friday night in Seattle, on Sunday in Seattle. The game will tip at 3 PM. 

 

The Pac-12 rivals have played three times already this season. The Ducks won the majority of those games, including a 52-50 win in the opening round of the Pac-12 Tournament earlier this month in Las Vegas. Both schools won the games played on their home courts with the Huskies winning 68-60 on Feb. 19 at Alaska Airlines Arena.

 

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 The Ducks will head north for their fourth meeting of the season with Washington in Seattle in the WNIT quarterfinals on Sunday.
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Defense must travel with Ducks, who head north for WNIT quarterfinal

 

The Ducks have a pretty good idea of what to expect in Seattle on Sunday. They have three previous games with the Huskies to pull from. 

 

"If we play Washington it'll be the fourth time which is unusual," head coach Kelly Graves said on Thursday before the matchup was set. "That doesn't happen very often, if ever."

 

Those three games have shown that 40 minutes have hardly been enough to separate these teams with an average margin of just 5.7 points per game. Oregon (20-14) has won two of three, but Washington (18-14) took the game played in Seattle where Sunday's WNIT quarterfinal will take place.

 

Because of Washington's style, all three games have felt like they've been played in the mud with the winning team scoring fewer than 70 points each game. Stylistically, that style doesn't jive with Oregon's most seasons, but it does align more with the way the Ducks have performed in three WNIT games. 

 

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To beat Washington for a third time this season and to advance to the WNIT semifinals, the Ducks will need to continue to play...
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Why are the mutts hosting?  We were a 1 seed, were there two 1 seeds in the "group"?  Gi Ducks

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DUCKS HEAD TO UW FOR WNIT GREAT 8

 

The Oregon women's basketball team's postseason journey continues Sunday, as the Ducks head to Seattle to take on Pac-12 rival Washington in the WNIT Great 8 at Alaska Airlines Arena at 3 p.m. PT.
 
The Ducks have won three straight games in the tournament, all by at least 20 points after an 81-61 win over San Diego in the round of 16. Ahlise Hurst dropped a season-high 23 points off the bench behind six 3-pointers while Te-Hina Paopao carded her first career double-double with 15 points and 10 assists.
 
Sunday's matchup will mark the season's fourth meeting between UO and UW. Each team won on its home floor during the regular season while the Ducks ousted the Huskies from the Pac-12 Tournament in Las Vegas, 52-50, in the opening round.
 
The winner will advance to the WNIT's Fab 4 and face either Kansas or Arkansas.

 

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The Oregon women's basketball team's postseason journey continues Sunday, as the Ducks head to Seattle to take on...

 

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On 3/25/2023 at 6:51 PM, JDuck said:

Why are the mutts hosting? 

Triple Crown Sports owns the WNIT tournament. Home teams for the first two rounds have to pay TCS a guarantee of approx. $7K. After that, the games go where ticket sales are likely to be highest. Because of the NCAA, there are lots of basketball fans in Seattle this weekend. If the Huskies had lost on Friday, today's game would have been at MKA.

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Huskies down Ducks to end their season in WNIT quarterfinals

 

The Ducks had become accustomed to playing their beautiful game on offense in three WNIT home games.

 

But the Huskies muddied the waters in Sunday's WNIT quarterfinal, as the game was played to their liking and not Oregon's over the final three quarters in what proved to be the Ducks' 2022-23 season finale. 

 

Washington led throughout the second half, but never by more than nine points, and held on for a 63-59 win to advance to the WNIT semifinals where they'll meet Kansas.

 

Oregon (20-16) raced out to a 21-10 lead in the first nine minutes with semblances of that offensive firepower appearing early before the rest of the game became a major struggle. Washington won the second quarter in convincing fashion to take a halftime lead and then dominated the third to pull ahead by seven after three. Washington won the middle two quarters 35-to-20.

 

The Ducks rallied in the fourth and cut it to one with six to play before Washington answered with a run that created what proved to be an insurmountable margin.

 

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Oregon's 2022-23 season came to a conclusion in Seattle with the Ducks falling to rival Washington 63-59 in the WNIT quarterfinal...
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Ducks’ Run Ends in WNIT Great 8

 

Oregon's postseason run came to an end in the WNIT Great 8 Sunday, as Washington earned a 63-59 victory at Alaska Airlines Arena in front of 3,052 fans.

 

Te-Hina Paopao led the Ducks with 14 points while Taya Hanson added a dozen off the bench behind 4-of-7 3-point shooting. As a team, UO shot 35 percent from the field and 29 percent from 3-point range. The Huskies out-rebounded the Ducks, 49-34, resulting in a 42-22 edge in points in the paint.

 

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Oregon's postseason run came to an end in the WNIT Great 8 Sunday, as Washington earned a 63-59 victory at Alaska Airlines...
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