{"id":480222,"date":"2025-12-18T06:55:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/480222\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:55:33","slug":"kwame-evans-jr-scores-21-as-oregon-rolls-past-portland-94-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/480222\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwame Evans Jr. scores 21 as Oregon rolls past Portland 94-69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765822753_906_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>EUGENE, Ore. (AP)  Kwame Evans Jr. scored 21 points to lead five Ducks in double figures and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/OREG\/oregon-ducks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon<\/a> cruised to a 94-69 victory over <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/PORT\/portland-pilots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Evans made 6 of 9 shots with a 3-pointer and 8 of 10 free throws for the Ducks (6-5), who improve to 6-1 at home. He added seven rebounds, four assists and three steals.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Bittle had 18 points for Oregon. Jackson Shelstad and reserve Dezdrick Lindsay both added 14 points and Sean Stewart scored 12.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Foxwell had 21 points and eight assists to pace the Pilots (7-5), who drop to 0-3 on the road. Mikah Ballew and reserve Timo George both scored 10. Cameron Williams grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds to go with six points before fouling out.<\/p>\n<p>Bittle and Evans both had 11 points by halftime to help Oregon take a 51-41 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Portland hung around with the Ducks until Evans had two dunks and a layup in a personal 6-0 run for a 33-25 lead with 7:09 left. Shelstad followed another Evans dunk with a 3-pointer in the final second for the 10-point advantage at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Ballew hit a 3-pointer to begin the second half for Portland, but Bittle answered with a 3 and the Pilots trailed by at least three possessions from there.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon: Hosts No. 7 Gonzaga on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Portland: At UC Santa Barbara on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Kwame Evans Jr. scored 21 points to lead five Ducks in double figures and Oregon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544,1825,17593],"class_list":{"0":"post-480222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab","13":"tag-oregon-ducks","14":"tag-portland-pilots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115739264546638623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}