Couisnard scores 27, leads Oregon over No. 9 Arizona 87-68

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Jermaine Couisnard scored 27 factors in his first begin of the season as Oregon beat No. 9 Arizona 87-68 on Saturday night time.

Couisnard, a switch from South Carolina who missed the primary 14 video games of the season attributable to damage, made six 3-pointers, together with one which was supposed to be an help on an alley-oop.

Senior heart N’Faly Dante added 22 factors, together with a spotlight dunk early within the recreation, and 10 rebounds because the Geese (10-8, 4-3 Pac-12) shot 53.1 p.c from the sphere. Will Richardson added 14 factors and Nate Bittle scored 10.

“It was an awesome effort,” Oregon coach Dana Altman stated. “The fellows actually responded, they usually confirmed their competitiveness, performed with large power and the gang was nice.”

Kylan Boswell scored 15 factors to tempo the Wildcats (15-3, 4-3) whereas Azuolas Tubelis had 14 factors and 6 rebounds. Courtney Ramey made 4 3-pointers for 12 factors, and Oumar Ballo added 10 factors and 7 rebounds.

“Whenever you play a staff like that that’s preventing for his or her season, attempting to get an announcement win, you need to match their power,” Ramey stated. “Within the first seven or eight minutes we did, however they saved swinging and we didn’t match it. They’re staff with a whole lot of good gamers they usually got here in determined. We’ve got to attempt to make each recreation like that for us.”

Oregon was coming off a 90-73 loss to Arizona State on Thursday earlier than registering its greatest win of the 12 months.

“We got here collectively as a staff,” Couisnard stated. “We knew we had been higher than we confirmed on Thursday. It was a staff effort for everyone.”

Ramey opened the second half with consecutive 3-pointers to tie the sport at 43 earlier than Oregon adopted with the subsequent 10 factors.

“Clearly it was good to hit these 3’s and also you hope to get a little bit momentum, however then you definately surrender a 10-0 run and we type of misplaced our thoughts after that,” Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd stated.

Rivaldo Soares pushed the result in 61-48 on a 3-point play with 12:21 left within the recreation. Dante scored and added a free throw to increase the margin to 66-52 and Arizona by no means threatened once more.

The 2 groups traded the lead six occasions within the first half earlier than Oregon took a 43-37 result in the locker room because of 50% taking pictures from the sphere.

Oregon led 7-5 earlier than Bello had back-to-back dunks and Ramey added a 3-pointer. Tubelis adopted with back-to-back buckets as Arizona took its largest lead at 16-9.

Oregon adopted with a 14-3 run highlighted by back-to-back 3-pointers from Couisnard to drag forward 23-19. Boswell made back-to-back 3-pointers for Arizona and Kerr Kriisa added three free throws to place Arizona again forward 28-26.

After Tubelis tied the sport 33-33, Oregon scored seven straight factors culminating with a 3-pointer from Keeshawn Barthelemy to drag forward with 3:13 left within the first half.

BIG PICTURE

Arizona: The Wildcats will seemingly fall out of the highest 10 after a 3rd convention loss to an unranked foe. Arizona could not be capable to afford one other loss and nonetheless contend for the Pac-12 title, however two remaining video games in opposition to UCLA provides the Wildcats a path to the championship.

Oregon: The Geese resuscitated their NCAA Match hopes with a win over the Wildcats, their first win over a staff within the prime 15 of the NET rankings since final 12 months. Oregon faces a key street journey subsequent week at California and Stanford to attempt to construct momentum towards a postseason run.

UP NEXT

Arizona: The Wildcats host USC on Thursday night time.

Oregon: The Geese go to California on Wednesday night time.

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