- (TUCSON, AZ) The Arizona women’s basketball team will play their second-straight top-10 opponent on Friday night as they will take on No. 10 Oregon State at 8 p.m. MST in Corvallis, Ore. Friday’s game will be live streamed on ArizonaWildcats.com and can be heard on 1400 AM.
Friday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. MST vs. No. 10 Oregon State
Live Stream: ArizonaWildcats.com
Radio: 1400 AM (Derrick Palmer)
Twitter: @ArizonaWBB
FROM THE TIP
Arizona will face their second-straight top-10 opponent when the head to Corvallis to face No. 10 Oregon State on Friday night.
Aari McDonald was named to the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 on Jan. 9 and is the first player in school history to make the list since Shawntinice Polk (2003-04).
McDonald, the nation’s third-leading scorer, had her three-game 30-point streak broken against Stanford, but has still scored at least 15 points in all 16 games this season, making her the first Wildcat to do so.
Arizona is looking to break a nine-game losing streak vs. the Beavers and will go for their first win over a top-10 team since beating No. 7 Stanford in 2004.
McDonald is the first player since Adia Barnes (97-98) to score 30 points in five games in one season.
Last Five vs. Oregon State
2/23/18: Oregon State 65, at Arizona 40
1/14/18: at Oregon State 88, Arizona 48
2/5/17: Oregon State 65, at Arizona 57
1/29/16: at Oregon State 71, Arizona 43
2/15/15: at Oregon State 73, Arizona 48
Scouting the Beavers
Oregon State is riding a six-game winning streak and is one of the three teams in the Pac-12 to start off the conference slate 4-0. They are led by Destiny Slocum, who was the WBCA National Freshman of the Year while playing for Maryland during the 2016-17 season. She was forced to sit out last year due to NCAA transfer rules. Slocum averages a team-high 14.9 points and 5.8 assists while shooting 42% from three. Mikayla Pivec has also been good for the Beavers, scoring 14.8 points and grabbing 8.5 rebounds per game on 57% shooting. Oregon State recently lost three-point specialist Kat Tudor to a season-ending knee injury.
Courtesy of Arizona Communication Services
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