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Pac-12 women’s basketball standings: USC is in the NCAA Tournament mix, and every game is big

Now that #USC is a threat to make the NCAA Tournament, we’re going to pay closer attention to the #Pac12 WBB standings. USC faces Washington State on Friday.

The Pac-12 season is going well for the USC women’s basketball team.

The Trojan women’s team made headlines when they stunned No. 2 Stanford and went right into Charlie Creme’s latest ESPN bracketology. They are in the field according to Creme’s new projections.

Right now, Creme has eight teams from the Pac-12 being projected to make the NCAA Tournament, and the Stanford team USC just defeated is still one of the best women’s teams in the country, in line for a No. 1 seed in March.

With January halfway over and the college basketball season getting even more intense, let us examine the standings for the Pac-12 on the women’s side.

USC has a lot of room to make up, and the schedule in the next couple of weeks will be difficult. The difficulty of the slate makes every game vital. The Trojans face Washington State on Friday and then Washington on Sunday.

Oregon WBB recap: Poor shooting and turnovers dooms Ducks vs UCLA

Oregon had to get hot from the field to shoot 42 percent for the game and it cost them as the Bruins win 82-74.

Sometimes the game of basketball can be broken down into the simplest of things. When Team A shoots a lot better than Team B, Team A is going to win the majority of the time.

That was the case inside Matthew Knight Arena as No. 10 UCLA shot the lights out and Oregon did not as the Bruins defeated the Ducks 82-74.

Oregon falls to 10-3 overall and 1-1 in conference action. UCLA improved to 13-1 overall and 2-0 in Pac-12 play.

For the game, the Bruins shot 46 percent from the field, including 9-of-24 from three-point land. The Ducks were just 6-of-17 from long range.

Turning the ball over 20 times didn’t help Oregon’s cause either.

UCLA locked down Oregon on the defensive side of the floor and concentrated mainly on Te-Hina Paopao and Grace VanSlooten. The Ducks’ offense was out of whack for a lot of the game and even with a late rally, Oregon had dug itself too much of a hole to come all the way back.