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Arizona 90, Oregon 56
Jeff Hawkins is an award-winning sportswriter with more than four decades in the industry (print and digital media). A freelance writer/stay-at-home dad since 2008, Hawkins started his career with newspaper stints in Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Upstate New York and Illinois, where he earned the 2004 APSE first-place award for column writing (under 40,000 circulation). As a beat writer, he covered NASCAR Winston Cup events at NHIS (1999-2003), the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks (2003-06) and the NFL's Carolina Panthers (2011-12). Hawkins penned four youth sports books, including a Michael Jordan biography. Hawkins' main hobbies include mountain bike riding, 5k trail runs at the Whitewater Center in Charlotte, N.C., and live music.
All posts by Jeff HawkinsUpdated15 Oct 2021
TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona broke the game open with a 17-1 second-half run, and the sixth-ranked Wildcats routed Oregon 90-56 to sweep the regular-season series.
The Wildcats won 80-62 when the teams met in Eugene, Ore., on Jan. 8.
After Oregon used an 8-0 run to trim Arizona’s lead to 56-46 with 13:06 to play, Wildcats junior guard Gabe York scored the first nine points of the 17-1 surge to quash the comeback. York knocked down two 3-pointers and added a transition three-point play to push the lead back to 19. He added a jumper late in the run.
Thirteen of York’s team-high 16 points came in the second half.
Oregon (14-7, 4-4 Pac-12) opened the second half by scoring eight of the first 10 points thanks to a pair of 3-pointers from guard Jalil Abdul-Bassit.
Arizona (19-2, 7-1) countered by attacking the paint, going on a 13-3 run with all 13 coming in the lane. Center Kaleb Tarczewski started things off with a hook shot that led to a three-point play, and forwards Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and Stanley Johnson got to the rim for the Wildcats’ next three field goals.
Wildcats forward Brandon Ashley scored 13 points, and Johnson contributed 12 points, six rebounds and five assists. Tarczewski and Hollis-Jefferson had 11 points apiece, and guard T.J. McConnell scored 10 points.
Forward Elgin Cook paced Oregon with 16 points. Guard Joseph Young scored 12, and forward Dillon Brooks finished with 11.
The Wildcats outrebounded the Ducks 34-20 and outshot them from the floor, 59.3 percent to 40.4 percent.
