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USC women’s basketball smothers Oregon with elite defense

USC women’s basketball has an elite defense. That defense showed up against Oregon, holding UO to 3-of-20 shooting from 3-point range.

The USC women’s basketball team played a Big Ten game in a longtime Pac-12 location. USC-Oregon should be a Pac-12 game, but this is the new world we live in. The Trojans felt very much at home in Eugene on Saturday afternoon. So did the players who transferred to USC in the offseason and were familiar with the Ducks.

Kiki Iriafen, the transfer from Stanford, scored 17 points and pulled down 12 rebounds. Talia von Oelhoffen, the transfer from Oregon State, scored 11 points and hit three 3-pointers to help JuJu Watkins, who led the Trojans with 21 points. All three players — and the rest of the Trojans — made their biggest contributions at the defensive end of the floor. USC held Oregon to just six points in the second quarter, outscoring the Ducks 28-6 in that 10-minute stretch to blow the game open before halftime. USC held Oregon to 13 or fewer points in three of the game’s four quarters and cruised to a 66-53 win on the road.

USC reaffirmed the best part of its identity: Its defense is always good. It was good in the narrow win over Ole Miss in France. It was good against Notre Dame. As long as USC’s offense doesn’t collapse, the Trojans will be tough to beat in any game they play.

Oregon finished 3 of 20 on 3-point shots. The Ducks committed 16 turnovers and earned only eight free throw attempts. Oregon finished just under 36 percent shooting from the field for the game. This was a complete defensive showing by USC, which took an important step forward this season.

USC vs Oregon Prediction, Game Preview: NCAA Tournament Sweet 16

NCAA Tournament Sweet 16: (6) USC (24-7) vs (7) Oregon (21-6) prediction and college basketball game preview.

NCAA Tournament Sweet 16: (6) USC (24-7) vs (7) Oregon (21-6) prediction and college basketball game preview.

USC vs Oregon Broadcast

Date: Sunday, March 28
Game Time: 9:45 pm ET
Venue: Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN
Network: TBS

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Why Oregon Will Win

The Ducks are back to being themselves.

It’s a very athletic, very fun team that showed the heart and toughness to hold up against Luka Garza and the big Iowa squad in a 95-80 blasting in the second around.

The threes were falling, the team made more than 52% of their shots for the fifth time in seven games, and the offense was wonderful with assist after assist leading to easy points.

Oregon has the offense that USC doesn’t. The Trojans would prefer to play in a shell, rely on their defense, and grind this thing down to a dead stop at times. They can’t hit free throws, and …

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Why USC Will Win

Yeah, that whole no offense thing with USC? Hanging up 85 on Kansas worked just fine.

In general, the Trojans would love to play this in the 60s while maintaining control throughout. There’s a great inside presence, the defense hold just about everyone to under 40%, and even though they don’t make them, they take them – they’re among the best teams in college basketball at getting to the line.

There aren’t a whole lot of wasted possessions, nailing well over half of their shots over the last six games to keep the pressure on teams to push.

It comes down to this – can Oregon hit enough threes to do this? USC is 17-2 when allowing seven or fewer made threes, and that includes ….

What’s Going To Happen

USC 72, Oregon 58. That’s what happened in late February when the Ducks were okay from three, were fine everywhere else, and … they couldn’t seem to stop the Trojans from scoring. Oregon made just seven threes and never got comfortable down by 21 at halftime.

USC won two games against teams that did nothing but jack up threes – UC Riverside and Cal Baptist combined to take 73 threes – but it’s 5-5 against everyone else who made eight or more from the outside, including dropping three to Colorado.

Here’s the flip side to the three thing. Oregon is 15-1 when it makes eight or more threes, and 6-5 when it doesn’t.

Oregon will make eight threes as it draws USC into a bit of an offensive fight.

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USC vs Oregon Prediction, Line

Oregon 76, USC 72
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