The Oregon women’s basketball team saw its four game winning streak come to a close with a 68-59 loss to Fresno State on Sunday. The Ducks tied the game up at 55 in the second half after trailing by as much as 15 points. However, Fresno State finished the game on a 13-4 run to end Oregon’s bid at a comeback victory.
“I think that we can definitely use this game as a lesson that we need to come out and start better and play better from the jump,” junior guard Lexi Petersen told GoDucks.com. “We can’t keep digging ourselves holes and expecting to come back. We learned a lot from this game.”
Fresno State (8-3) senior guard Alex Sheedy led the Bulldogs with 25 points.
Oregon forced the Bulldogs into 17 turnovers, but struggled to take advantage of them.
“We forced 17 turnovers but only got 3 points off of them, we weren’t very aggressive,” head coach Kelly Graves told GoDucks.com. “We only shot 26% from the field in the second half, I thought we had some pretty good looks by in large, not great but good enough. Forty six percent from the free throw line jumps out at you, we have to make baskets.”
Not going unnoticed in the loss, Oregon (6-4) junior Jillian Alleyne set the Pac-12 record for consecutive games with a double-double at 19. She finished with a game-high of 26 points and 16 rebounds against Fresno State. Alleyne tied the record with Cheryl Miller last season when she recorded 18 straight double-doubles.
“To have the record now just shows me that I can be this player that everyone believes that I can be,” Alleyne told GoDucks.com. “Now I just have to believe in myself.”
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