One year ago, it was Stanford that gave Oregon it's first conference win of a difficult season. This year, the Cardinal upended the Ducks in McArthur Court 72-65 for their first conference road win of the season.

Landry Fields led Stanford with 21 points and Jeremy Green added 18 as Oregon fell behind by as many as 17 points in the second half.

Jeremy Jacob's 19 paced the Ducks and E.J. Singler's 15 points was a career high.

Stanford took a 37-32 lead into the half after Oregon scored only one basket during a seven plus minute stretch. Another cold stretch in the second half saw the Ducks hit only one field goal in eight minutes, allowing the Cardinal to expand a one point lead into a 62-45 margin.

Although Oregon was able to whittle the lead back to four points on three occasions inside the final two minutes, the Cardinal hit five of six free throws down the stretch to send the Ducks to their fourth consecutive loss. With the loss, Oregon's season record fell below .500 at 12-13 (4-9 Pac-10).

As has been the case for most of this season, Oregon's three point shooting was horrible - 5-21 for 23.8% By contrast, the Cardinal hit for nine of their 18 attempts, guard Drew Shiller doing particular damage when the Ducks were slow to rotate defensively.

Oregon was without center Mike Dunigan (hip) and forward Jamil Wilson (ankle) due to injury.  Senior guard Tajuan Porter's struggles continued, scoring three points on 1-7 from the field.

If there was one Achilles heel for Oregon it was turnovers - 16 of them gave the Cardinal 16 points, more than the margin of error for this year's Ducks.

"We had a stretch there - I think it was 10 possessions with five turnovers," said head coach Ernie Kent. "The fouls and turnovers in the game really cost us."

"We just got bogged down offensively. We got bogged down because we were turning the ball over and they were taking advantage of it."

"When the game is over . it is so similar to so many other games - we play them for 26, 27, 28 minutes in the game but those other 12 or 13 minutes are just killing us right now. Those are coming with turnovers, they are coming with bad fouls that give them free throws or they are coming with missed lay-ups or bad basketball plays."

"We kind of go as our guards go. This is not blaming the game on them, but they just had a bad game."

"We are a team that is a little bit rattled right now."

Besides Porter's difficulties, point guard Malcolm Armstead was limited to eight points but committed four turnovers. His eight assists were tops for Oregon.

California is next for Oregon, Saturday's tip is set for 3:00 pm.