EUGENE, Ore. — Joseph Young scored 11 of his 27 points in the first five minutes of the second half to help Oregon pull away to 71-59 victory over Oregon State on Saturday night.
Elgin Cook added 18 points and eight rebounds for the Ducks (11-3, 1-0 Pac-12), and Dillon Brooks had 10 points. Langston Morris-Walker scored 16 points to lead the Beavers (9-4, 0-1), and Gary Payton II had 12.
Young hit two free throws and three of his five three-pointers as Oregon pushed a two-point lead to 44-35 early in the second half. The Ducks led by as many as 17 points on their way to their sixth consecutive win.
Oregon’s Jordan Bell proved effective off the bench with eight points, nine rebounds and five blocked shots. He’s now within three of the school’s single-season record for blocks with 48 in just 14 games.
Oregon State made its last run at the Ducks with five straight points to cut the deficit to 60-52 on Morris-Walker’s layup with 7:26 left to play. Then the Beavers switched to a 1-3-1 zone that pressured Oregon to find a good shot.
Young provided the dagger, hitting his final 3 with 3 seconds on the shot clock to lift the Ducks back to an 11-point lead, and the Beavers would get no closer than nine points the rest of the way.
Oregon enjoyed a 35-28 rebounding advantage behind Cook and Bell. The Ducks finished the game shooting 48.9 percent from the field after going 11 of 20 (55.0 percent) in the second half.
Oregon State was 19 of 54 (35.2 percent) from the field, its poorest shooting effort in the last nine games.
With Young, Cook and Bell doing all their early scoring, the Ducks broke to a 10-0 lead and were up 20-9 with seven minutes left in the first half. The Beavers, who made only two of their first 18 shots from the field, stayed that close only because Oregon kept putting them on the foul line.
But Oregon State closed the half on an 18-9 run, pulling even at 27 on Morris-Walker’s banked 20-footer with less than a minute to go.
If Jarmal Reid hadn’t missed two point-blank shots in the final five seconds, the Beavers would have left the floor tied instead of down 29-27 despite shooting just 29.6 percent.
TIP-INS
Oregon State: The Payton family is now 9-2 against the Ducks after Saturday’s loss. The elder Payton, a consensus all-American in 1990 and a Naismith Hall of Fame inductee in 2013, went 9-1 against Oregon in four seasons (1986-90) as a Beaver.
Oregon: Young’s 27 points were the most he’s scored since he went for 32 in the Ducks’ season-opening win over Coppin State. It was Young’s eighth game with 20 or more points this season and raised his Pac-12 leading average to 20.1 points per game.
UP NEXT
Oregon State hosts Arizona State on Thursday night.
Oregon hosts No. 8 Arizona on Thursday night.
