Oregon Ducks Took Down The USC Trojans last night

Ducks Edge USC For Third Straight Pac-12 Victory

Oregon's Garrett Sim scored 20 points and the Ducks made five 3-pointers in the second half to hold off USC, 65-62, Thursday.

Devoe Joseph also scored 16 points and Olu Ashaolu added 11 points - nine in the first half - for Oregon (14-5, 5-2 Pac-12), which is off to its best start since going 18-1 in 2006-07.

Maurice Jones scored 20 points for the Trojans (5-14, 0-6), who haven't been winless this deep into conference play since opening 0-12 in 1989.

Oregon improved to 13-1 this season when having a better shooting percentage than the opponent.

The Ducks are 12-1 when they hold a halftime advantage. UO is 11-0 when dishing out more assists than the opponent.

Oregon is 9-0 in games decided by fewer than 10 points.

Olu Ashaolu scored nine of his 11 points in the first half.