TUCSON, Ariz. – The Arizona Wildcats (14-15, 5-13 Pac-12) were slotted in the 11 seed at the Pac-12 Tournament, which puts them up against the sixth-seeded Oregon Ducks (18-12, 8-9), which is an exact rematch of last year's first round where the Wildcats defeated the Ducks. Tipoff is set for 9:30 p.m. MST in KeyArena on the Pac-12 Networks.
 
On the Ducks
The Oregon Ducks finished the regular season with a record of 18-12 and a Pac-12 record of 8-10, giving them the six seed in the Pac-12 Tournament. The Ducks are coming off a pair of home losses at the hands of California and Stanford. Freshmen Ruthy Hebard and Sabrina Ionescu have been a two-headed monster for the Ducks this season. Hebard averages 14.7 points and 8.4 rebounds on 63% shooting. Ionescu does it all as she scores 13.9 points, grabs 6.8 rebounds and dishes out 4.9 assists per game. Lexi Bando also scores 10.4 points per game and makes just over two three-pointers per game.
 
Last 5 vs. Oregon
2/3/17: Oregon 79, at Arizona 65
3/3/16: Arizona 74, Oregon 68
1/31/16: at Oregon 76, Arizona 54
2/13/15: at Oregon 75, Arizona 61
1/25/15: at Arizona 81, Oregon 78 (OT)
 
Jones Joins the 1K Club
Senior LaBrittney Jones will go down as one of the great Wildcats in school history. Jones scored her 1,000th career point in the fourth quarter on Friday, Jan 6 against Colorado on a fast break layup to make her Arizona's 19th 1,000-point scorer in school history. Since then, she has climbed up to 12th all-time with 1,240 career points. She moved into 12th against USC on senior day after scoring 18 points, passing Aimee Grzyb. She needs 21 more points to pass Resha Bristol to be 11th all-time. Jones is also 11th in Arizona history with 457 made field goals and needs three more to move into the top 10. The senior forward is averaging a career-high 15.3 points per game this season on 44% shooting. She has also made 12 threes this season after only making 14 in the previous three seasons and has made a career-high 104 free throws while attempting a career-high 146 free throw attempts. Jones owns four of the top-five scoring efforts on the season for Arizona. Against the L.A. schools in the final weekend of the regular season, Jones averaged 22 points per game, including a season-high 26 against UCLA.
 
Arizona Career Scoring Leaders
8. Timi Brown (1987-91), 1,315
9. Dana Patterson (1985-88), 1,299
10. Kirsten Smith (1983-86), 1,264
11. Resha Bristol (1998-01), 1,260
12. LaBrittney Jones (2013-pres.), 1,240
 
It's a Block Party and LB is Hosting
LaBrittney Jones has 160 career blocks through 113 games, which is good for an average of 1.4 swats per game and is now third on the Arizona all-time shot blocking list and is six behind Ify Ibekwe. After blocking four shots against Washington State on Feb. 12, she passed Elizabeth Pickney. Last year, she blocked 23 shots in 21 games and has a total of 61 this season, which is her career high for one season and is the fourth-most any Wildcat has blocked in a single season in school history. Shawntinice Polk owns the top three spots as she blocked 80 shots twice in a season and 62 in the other. Throughout her career, she has posted 43 games where she has blocked multiple shots and has blocked 3+ shots in 22 games. Just this year, Jones has blocked at least three shots in nine games. She set a new career-high on Sunday as she blocked seven shots against USC.
 
Arizona Career Blocked Shots Leaders
1. Shawntinice Polk (2003-05), 222
2. Ify Ibekwe (2008-10), 166
3. LaBrittney Jones (2013-pres.), 160
 
Cleaning the Glass with LaBrittney
After recording 11 rebounds against Washington on Jan. 13, senior LaBrittney Jones moved into the top 10 in Arizona history in career rebounds. Jones is currently eighth all-time with 682 career boards. She needs nine more to move into seventh place. She is also seventh in Arizona history as she averages 6.0 rebounds per game for her career.
 
Arizona Career Rebounding Leaders
4. Elizabeth Pickney (1999-02), 736
5. Dana Patterson (1985-88), 723
6. Davellyn Whyte (2009-13), 691
7. Amina Njonkou (2006-09), 690
8. LaBrittney Jones (2013-pres.), 682
 
Jones in the Pac-12
Jones is eighth in the Pac-12 with 15.3 points per game and 11th with 6.8 rebounds per game. Additionally, 2.1 blocks per game for the senior is ranked second in the Pac-12. Jones' 5.1 defensive rebounds per game is eighth in the conference. In her last seven games, Jones has shot 79% from the free throw line, which has moved her up to 13th in the Pac-12 at a 71.2% clip. The senior has led the Wildcats in scoring 16 times this season and has led the team in rebounds 15 times. Jones is one of four Pac-12 players to be in the top 11 in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots per game. On Tuesday, Jones was named honorable mention on the All-Pac-12 team and the All-Defense team as well.
 
Washington's World
Although she is a senior, Malena Washington is entering just her third season as a Wildcat as she started her career at Tyler Junior College, where she was named a JC All-American. Washington broke out of her slump against Washington State on Jan. 12 as she poured in 21 points against the Cougars. 13 of those points came in the third quarter alone. Since that game, Washington has scored 12.4 points per game after scoring five points per game in her previous three contests. The senior is 18th in the conference in scoring with a career-high 12.2 points per game and is eighth in free throw shooting (79.3%). She is tied for 14th in the Pac-12 in assists per game as she dishes out just about three per contest.
 
Give 'em that Work
After scoring a combined five points in a combined 30 minutes on the Washington trip, Workman played very well in both Arizona State games. On Friday, she scored 15 points and had seven rebounds in 33 minutes and followed that up with seven points, a career-high 11 rebounds and a career-high five steals. Workman recorded her third double-double of the season against USC on Sunday as she scored 12 points and grabbed 10 rebounds.
 
Buenos Dias, Lucia
Freshman guard Lucia Alonso started in the first 26 games of her college career at the point guard position, but did come off the bench against UCLA and USC this last weekend. Alonso dished out a career-high nine assists against Washington on Jan. 13 and turned the ball over just two times. In Pac-12 play, Alonso turned the ball over just 25 times, which equates to 1.4 turnovers per game. As a freshman point guard in the best conference in the country that has a plethora of elite point guards, 1.4 turnovers per game isn't so bad. There have been five Pac-12 games this season where she hasn't turned the ball over and averaged 26.4 minutes per game in those five contests. The Spaniard leads the team in three-point shooting (39%), is second in minutes played (29.5) and is second in made three-pointers (21).
 
We See Ya JaLea
Bennett has been seeing a lot of action in the last month as she has averaged 7.3 points on 50% shooting in 22 minutes per game in her last 12 games. In her previous five games, she averaged just 10.2 minutes per game and scored 3.2 points per game1. Against Arizona State on Feb. 17, Bennett cracked the starting lineup for the third time this season against Arizona State on Feb. 17 and started the next two as well. The junior came off the bench against USC in favor of Dejza James. She averages 7.6 points in her five starts.
 
Go DJ, That's My DJ
Senior Dejza James had a career night on Feb. 3 against Oregon as she scored a career-high 18 points on 8-12 shooting in 25 minutes off the bench. James also added in eight boards, four on the offensive end. Against Washington, James was a menace on the defensive end as she had a team-high 10 rebounds, blocked a career-high three shots and had a career-high three steals. She followed that performance up with 11 boards against Washington State. That is the first time in her career that she has posted back-to-back double-digit rebounding efforts. Against the L.A. schools on senior weekend, James averaged 12.5 points and 8.5 rebounds. She scored 14 points and had 12 boards in her first start of the season against USC.  
 
It's Been a While
Arizona has 14 wins on the season, which is the most since 2011-12 season when they Wildcats went 15-17. Additionally, five conference wins is the most since Colorado and Utah joined the Pac-10 to create the Pac-12. The last time Arizona had at least five conference wins was in 2011 when the Wildcats went 10-8 in the last year of the Pac-10.
 
Comparing Barnes to Other First-Year Coaches
With 14 wins this season, head coach Adia Barnes has won the second-most game of any other first-year coach at Arizona. Wendy Larry had a record of 19-9 in the 1985-86 season.
 
Like Clockwork
It's inevitable that Arizona will have at least one big quarter in a game, it just depends on when. Arizona's best quarter of all time though came last game against San Diego as the Wildcats scored 33 points in the third period, which is the most points scored in one quarter in Arizona history. They also hit 12 of their 16 shots, which is the most made shots in one quarter as well. 12 of the last 14 highest scoring quarters have come in the fourth period for the Wildcats. Arizona got off to their best start of the season against USC as they scored 26 first-quarter points.
 
List of Arizona's highest scoring periods (game-by-game)
Alcorn State: 21 (3rd/4th qtrs.)
George Mason: 28 (4th qtr.)
North Texas: 19 (2nd/4th qtrs.)
Southern Utah: 23 (4th qtr.)
Florida Atlantic: 26 (3rd qtr.)
New Mexico State: 18 (OT)
San Diego: 33 (3rd qtr.)
Grambling State: 24 (3rd qtr.)
Kansas: 16 (4th qtr.)
Utah State: 21 (3rd qtr.)
Portland State: 29 (3rd qtr.)
California: 22 (3rd qtr.)
Stanford: 21 (1st qtr.)
Colorado: 18 (3rd qtr.)
Utah: 27 (3rd qtr.)
Washington: 21 (3rd+4th qtrs.)
Washington State: 19 (4th qtr.)
Stanford: 17 (2nd qtr.)
California: 22 (4th qtr.)
USC: 24 (4th qtr.)
UCLA: 14 (4th qtr.)
Oregon: 27 (4th qtr.)
Oregon State: 19 (4th qtr.)
Washington: 21 (4th qtr.)
Washington State: 22 (4th qtr.)
Arizona State: 18 (4th qtr.)
Arizona State: 22 (4th qtr.)
UCLA: 18 (4th qtr.)
USC: 26 (1st qtr.)
 
One Last Go Around
Of the 12 players on the roster, five of them are seniors, which is the most in the Pac-12 as no other team has more than four seniors on their roster. Those five seniors include LaBrittney Jones, Malena Washington, Breanna Workman, Lauren Evans and Dejza James. They have combined to play in 460 games. The five seniors got the start against USC and scored 62 of Arizona's 67 points. They were also on the floor together for 13 minutes and had a +/- of +11.
 
Barnes is Back
Adia Barnes is back in Wildcat Country, and this time it's as the head coach of the University of Arizona. Barnes is known as one of, if not the best women's basketball player to come through Tucson. As a player, she is the program's leading scorer as she finished with 2,237 career points (18.5 ppg). She is also second all-time in career rebounds (921). During Barnes' freshman year in the 1994-95 season, the Cats finished with a record of 11-19. The next three years were a complete turnaround as the Wildcats won at least 22 games in each season and made a three-straight postseason appearances. Over those three years, Arizona was 68-23, which is still the best three-year stretch in Arizona history.
 
FOLLOW WOMEN'S HOOPS ON SOCIAL MEDIA!
Fans can keep up with the latest in Arizona women's basketball by following us on Facebook (Facebook.com/ArizonaWomensBasketball), Twitter (@ArizonaWBBall) Instagram (@arizonawbball) and Snapchat (arizonawbball).