GAMEDAY Mens Basketball
Oregon 87, Arizona 68
(AP Photo/Andy Nelson)
By STEVE MIMS
Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. - Jermaine Couisnard scored 27 points in his first start of the season as Oregon beat No. 9 Arizona 87-68.
Couisnard, a transfer from South Carolina who missed the first 14 games of the season due to injury, made six 3-pointers, including one that was intended to be an assist on an alley-oop.
Senior center N'Faly Dante added 22 points, including a highlight dunk early in the game, and 10 rebounds as the Ducks (10-8, 4-3 Pac-12) shot 54 percent from the field. Will Richardson added 14 points and Nate Bittle scored 10.
Kylan Boswell scored 15 points to pace the Wildcats (15-3, 4-3). Azuolas Tubelis had 14 points and six rebounds while Courtney Ramey made four 3-pointers for 12 points and Oumar Ballo added 10 points and seven rebounds.
Ramey opened the second half with consecutive 3-pointers to tie the game at 43 before Oregon followed with the next 10 points.
Rivaldo Soares pushed the lead to 61-48 on a 3-point play with 12:21 left in the game. Dante scored and added a free throw to extend the margin to 66-52 and Arizona never threatened again.
The two teams traded the lead six times in the first half before Oregon took a 43-37 lead to the locker room thanks to 50-percent shooting from the field.
Oregon led 7-5 before Bello had back-to-back dunks and Ramey added a 3-pointer. Tubelis followed with back-to-back buckets as Arizona went ahead 16-9.
Oregon followed with a 14-3 run highlighted by back-to-back 3-pointers from Couisnard to pull ahead 23-19. Kylan Boswell made back-to-back 3-pointers for Arizona and Kerr Kriisa added three free throws to put Arizona back ahead 28-26.
After Tubelis tied the game 33-33, Oregon scored seven straight points culminating with a 3-pointer from Keeshawn Barthelemy to pull ahead with 3:13 left in the first half.
BIG PICTURE
Arizona: The Wildcats will fall out of the top 10 after a third conference loss to an unranked foe. Arizona may not be able to afford another loss and still contend for the Pac-12 title, but two remaining games against UCLA gives the Wildcats a path to the championship.
Oregon: The Ducks resuscitated their NCAA Tournament hopes with a win over the Wildcats, their first win over a team in the top 15 of the NET rankings since last year. Oregon faces a key road trip next week at California and Stanford to try to build momentum toward a postseason run.
January 14, 2023
| Arizona | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| A. Tubelis | F | 36 | 5-13 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 2-6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
| O. Ballo | C | 35 | 5-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 5-7 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| C. Ramey | G | 32 | 4-12 | 0-0 | 4-8 | 0-4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| P. Larsson | G | 27 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| K. Kriisa | G | 24 | 2-10 | 3-3 | 2-9 | 1-5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| K. Boswell | 23 | 6-11 | 0-0 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 15 | |
| C. Henderson Jr. | 12 | 0-3 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| D. Anderson | 3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| H. Veesaar | 3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| A. Bal | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| F. Borovicanin | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| M. Lang | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| J. Mains | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 200 | 24-64 (.375) |
11-13 (.846) |
9-25 (.360) |
13-32 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 15 | 68 | |
| Oregon | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| N. Dante | C | 31 | 9-11 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 4-10 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 22 |
| N. Bittle | C | 12 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 1-4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| W. Richardson | G | 34 | 6-15 | 0-0 | 2-9 | 0-3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| J. Couisnard | G | 31 | 9-14 | 3-5 | 6-9 | 1-5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 27 |
| R. Soares | G | 15 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Q. Guerrier | 27 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 3-4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| K. Barthelemy | 26 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
| B. Rigsby | 13 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 2-4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| K. Ware | 9 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| G. Reichle | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| T. Williams | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| L. Wur | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 201 | 34-64 (.531) |
8-10 (.800) |
11-32 (.344) |
13-42 | 18 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 87 | |
