When the Oregon men's basketball team went cold offensively in the second half of last week's loss at Stanford, it was an anomaly.
Entering Saturday's Civil War in Corvallis (7:30 p.m., Pac-12), the 14th-ranked Ducks are second in the Pac-12 Conference in scoring at 76.8 points per game, and second in field-goal shooting at 47.0 percent. On the analytics web site KenPom.com, Oregon ranks seventh in the entire country in adjusted offensive efficiency.
But the Ducks' second-half problems at Stanford went beyond their 3-of-18 shooting to close the game, which included eight straight misses during a 24-6 run by the Cardinal that tilted momentum decisively.