Ducks Drop Close Road Game to Cal, 86-83

[The Q]

The Oregon Ducks can kiss the Pac-12 regular season championship goodbye.

Devoe Joseph scored a career-high 33 points but it wasn’t enough as California defeated the University of Oregon men’s basketball team by a score of 86-83 on Thursday night. The Ducks dropped 18-8 overall and 9-5 in Pac-12 play.

The Golden Bears improved to 21-6 overall and 11-3 in league action.

Oregon shot 54.1 percent on field goals, going 33-of-61 from the field. Cal hit 55.7 percent of its field goal attempts (34-of-61), despite going just 2-of-10 from behind the 3-point arc.

Joseph and the rest of the Ducks can't turn the ball over at Stanford if they hope to win in Maples.