Pushed to the brink after No. 10 UCLA rallied back from a 19-point deficit, the No. 8 Oregon women’s basketball team responded to force overtime, then dominated the extra five minutes to win 101-94 on Monday in front of a raucous crowd of 7,098 in Matthew Knight Arena. The Ducks (25-4, 14-2) came into the night a game up on the Bruins and a half-game up on Stanford in the Pac-12, and now take a lead in the conference race into the final weekend of the regular season, coming up in Arizona. “This was a really sweet victory,” UO coach Kelly Graves said. “Arguably the biggest game in Oregon women’s basketball history — a national TV audience (on ESPN2), a lot to play for in terms of NCAA seeding, two elite teams. I’m just going to enjoy this tonight.”
