Everyone said Oregon was going to be a dangerous team heading into the NCAA tournament. But talk can be cheap if you can’t back it up.
The Ducks backed up all that talk.
Thanks to a March Madness school record 40 points from Jermaine Couisnard, Oregon advanced to the third round of the tournament with an 87-73 win over 6-seed South Carolina.
Couisnard, who played for the Gamecocks for three seasons before coming to Oregon, lit up his former team on 14-of-22 shooting from the field, including 5-of-9 from the three-point line.
Oregon, an 11-seed, will now face 3-seed Creighton on Saturday. The Bluejays are of course head coach Dana Altman’s former team. Creighton defeated Akron 77-60 earlier in the day.
Here are the best pictures from Oregon’s 14-point win.