A quick explosion in the 3rd quarter assisted relieve the pain of the ultimate rating, but the Bruins’ shooting woes sank them on their journey to Eugene.
UCLA women’s basketball (11-9, 6-6 Pac-12) shed to Oregon (17-8, 9-4) by a rating of 67-53 on Wednesday night, generating up a video game that was beforehand scheduled for Jan. 28 in advance of the Bruins were pressured to back again out owing to an prolonged list of injuries. The two sides have been at last able to face off a handful of months later on, with the Ducks receiving the better of their healed-up opponents from start to end.
Even though Oregon shot 47.1{362bf5cdc35eddfb2532d3c23e83b41deb229c4410d15cb1127c60150cbd4488} from the subject and boasted three scorers in double-digits, UCLA had its next-worst taking pictures night of the time at 31.3{362bf5cdc35eddfb2532d3c23e83b41deb229c4410d15cb1127c60150cbd4488} with just two gamers scoring far more than six points. Guard Charisma Osborne and Dominique Onu each place up 16 details, but the relaxation of their teammates merged to shoot 9-of-41 from the field and -of-10 from deep.
The offensive struggles strike early, even although the Bruins have been equipped to maintain it to an 8-7 game via the first 4 minutes. The Ducks then went on a 10- operate, many thanks to back-to-again 3-ideas by guards Endyia Rogers, and by the time the 1st quarter had occur to a near, Osborne was the only player on her team with extra than two details.
Oregon ongoing to strike 3 after 3 in the next quarter, though Onu was virtually UCLA’s overall offense. It would have been a 26-2 run from the midpoint of the 1st quarter to the halfway mark in the next if not for Onu’s 7 details in that subsequent body.
Down 40-20 at the 50 percent, the Bruins failed to have a solitary place from guard Natalie Chou or forward IImar’I Thomas, and guard Chantel Horvat only experienced two. Thomas, the team’s next-leading scorer, had only attempted one particular shot throughout the to start with two quarters – a skipped 3-pointer at the finish of the shot clock 90 seconds into the game.
Thomas bought concerned a minimal a lot more on the other facet of halftime, trying 6 pictures in the third quarter and finding up 4 much more details to exhibit for it, but it was once yet again Osborne and Onu who commanded the offense. Osborne scored 11 points in the third quarter by itself, taking part in the whole period, when Onu scored four of her 6 factors from the free toss line.
A good deal of those people opportunities were being set up by 10 offensive rebounds – 3 of which arrived from Thomas and four were being from Horvat. 15 of the 24 details UCLA scored in the 3rd quarter came from second-chance opportunities, and Oregon experienced permit the Bruins sneak back into it for a bit.
Thomas strike a layup to start off the fourth quarter, reducing the Ducks’ guide to 54-46, but that was as far as the Bruins would get.
A 3-pointer from Onu and a couple of jumpers from ahead Angela Dugalic prior to she fouled out helped make it a 10-stage recreation, it is really just that there were much less than four minutes left at that stage. UCLA went scoreless from that issue on, lacking its closing seven photographs while Oregon hit its absolutely free throws and cruised to the gain.
The Bruins may well have essentially gotten to face off with the Ducks after a couple weeks of delay Wednesday night, but the outcome was no distinctive than the forfeit they had been stuck with at the finish of January.
UCLA, now obtaining lost 5 out of its very last seven, will get back again on the courtroom Friday night at Pauley Pavilion vs . Colorado. That game will tip-off at 7 p.m. and be broadcast by Pac-12 Networks.
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