Kylan Boswell scored a career-high 19 points, all in the first half, and Caleb Love, Pelle Larsson and Keshad Johnson each reached at least 20 points in No. 6 Arizona’s 103-83 victory Saturday over Oregon at Tucson, Ariz.
Arizona (23-6, 14-4 Pac-12) has a half-game lead in the conference standings heading into the last week of the regular season.
Washington State (23-7, 14-5) defeated UCLA at Pullman, Wash., on Saturday night and will host Washington on Thursday.
Arizona plays at UCLA and USC next week.
Love had 22 points while tying his season-high of seven assists. Larsson finished with 22 points and six assists. Johnson’s 21 points gives him 1,003 in his career at San Diego State and Arizona. Oumar Ballo’s 11 points and 12 rebounds gives him nine consecutive double-doubles, one shy of the school record of Al Fleming in 1974-75.
Oregon (19-10, 11-7) was led by Jermaine Couisnard’s 39 points, including 33 in the second half. His scoring total in the second half matches the McKale Center record in a half set by Fleming against Detroit on Jan. 10, 1976.
Boswell’s career-high scoring total in the first half helped Arizona take a 51-30 halftime lead. Love contributed 12 points in the half, allowing Boswell and Love to outscore Oregon at halftime with 31 points.
Arizona outscored Oregon 38-11 from 16:19 remaining to 4:56 left in the first half to build a 43-18 lead.
Within that stretch, Arizona had runs of 9-0, 12-0 and 11-2.
Love scored seven consecutive points after Oregon took its last lead of 7-5 with 16:34 remaining in the half.
Boswell later produced seven unanswered points within the 12-0 run.
Oregon cut the lead to 73-58 with 10:28 left after Couisnard scored seven unanswered points.
A 12-3 run by Arizona allowed the Wildcats to pull away for good, taking a 94-67 lead with 5:59 remaining.
Arizona shot 60.9 percent from the field, including 14 of 25 from 3-point range.
Oregon finished shooting 52.2 percent after going 22 of 33 (66.7 percent) from the field in the second half.
Couisnard made 12 of 16 field-goal attempts in the second half.
–Field Level Media
