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EUGENE, Ore. -- Oregon has not lived up to its hype.The Ducks were picked to win the NCAA basketball title by Sports Illustrated and ranked No. 5 in the nation by one major poll, but have fallen to No. 23 after a pair of early-season losses.I think we are still getting it, senior guard Dylan Ennis said. Because we were ranked No. 5 to start the season, everyone expected us to be this monster team and we are still learning what to do. It is a new team with a lot of new guys meshing in. We will get it. Last year, we had a few growing pains and at the end of the year we got it right, so I think that will happen again this year.Oregon (5-2) has won three straight games heading into a matchup with Division II Western Oregon (3-3) on Wednesday night at Matthew Knight Arena.Oregons preseason hype was based on returning four starters from last year when the Ducks reached the Elite Eight before losing to Oklahoma. However, preseason All-American Dillon Brooks missed the first three games of the season following foot surgery and is coming off the bench to average 9.8 points in his first four games back.The 6-foot-7 junior was 1-for-9 from the field in a 68-63 win over Boise State on Monday while scoring five points in 21 minutes.He was sped up and had a bad game, Oregon coach Dana Altman said. He was trying too hard and going too fast and had a tough night. We know he is a good player, we have seen it the last two years. He has to slow down.Ennis, a senior transfer from Villanova who missed all but two games last season due to foot surgery, has picked up his play in recent weeks, scoring a team-high 18 points against Boise State after scoring 15 in the previous win over Connecticut. He had 39 points in his first five games.Coach talked to me as one of the leaders of this team and told me to relax, he said. I was really giddy the first couple games back. I needed to relax and play my game and coach kept confidence in me.Guard Tyler Dorsey has also played better lately with a team-high 19 points against UConn followed by 17 against Boise State. Dorsey had four straight games scoring in single digits before combining to go 13-for-23 from the field and 6-of-13 on three-pointers in the last two games.Oregon is in the middle of a nine-game stretch of games in its home state that includes the final seven nonconference games before opening Pac-12 play against UCLA and USC in Eugene.Weve just got to win, at the end of the day that is the biggest thing, junior guard Casey Benson said. We have to take care of business at home. These nonconference games are just as big so we need to step up and get some wins.Western Oregon is led by guard Ali Faruq-Bey with 13.7 points per game while forward Tanner Omlid averages 12.8 points and 7.7 rebounds. Dennis Johnson Jersey . 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Match factsOctober 21-25, 2016 Start time 10am local time (0600 GMT)Big PictureAfter lop-sided T20 and ODI series, West Indies fought to make the day-night Test in Dubai a thriller. While Pakistan eventually won in the last hour of play on the fifth day, they had to work hard for the 1-0 lead as West Indies showed resilience for two long days, thanks to Darren Bravos plucky 116. Bravo held the sides chase together, taking the team to within 83 runs of the target of 346 before being dismissed.West Indies also had other strong performances - Devendra Bishoos record 8 for 49, and Marlon Samuels 76 in the first innings - and through their performance in the second innings appeared to have regrouped as a team after the limited-overs losses.The attention on the day-night Test and the pink ball will now shift to the traditional day game and the red ball. For Pakistan, the likely return of Younis Khan, who was added to the squad after recovering from dengue fever, will be a boost to a batting line-up that floundered without his calming influence in the second innings in Dubai. Azhar Alis form at the top of the order will be important, as will Yasir Shah, but West Indies can look at Bravos innings in Dubai for lessons on how to tackle Yasir. A 3-0 scoreline is not unlikely for Pakistan but they will probably have to work harder for it than they had to in the limited-overs series.Form guidePakistan: WWLLW (last five completed matches, most recent first)West Indies: LDLDLIn the spotlightInducted into the opening slot, Sami Aslam has struggled to convert his starts into big runs in the five Tests he has played in. In Dubai, he scored 90 in the first innings and 44 in the second but couldnt go on and reach a century. Similarly, on the tour of England, he scored 82 and 70 in the Edgbaston Test.The conditions in the UAE make it tough for fast bowlers to get wickets, and West Indies troubles have been compounded by the lack of effectiveness of frontline bowler Shannon Gabriel. Although he consistently bowled at speeds of over 140kph in Dubai, Gabriel couldnt find the wickets while also struggling to control the run rate as much as his Pakistan counterpart Wahab Riaz. His trouble with no-balls in the first innings - he bowled 10 - was also an issue for West Indies. He will have to step up for them to fare better.Team newsBabar Azam, who made his debut in Dubai, may make way for Younis Khan in the playing XI. Pakistan may also look at bringing in left-arm spinner Zulfiqarr Babar in place of Mohammad Nawaz, who also made his debut in Dubai.ddddddddddddPakistan (possible): 1 Sami Aslam, 2 Azhar Ali, 3 Younis Khan, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), 5 Asad Shafiq, 6 Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), 7 Mohammad Nawaz, 8 Wahab Riaz, 9 Yasir Shah, 10 Mohammad Amir, 11 Sohail Khan.While there are a few weak links, West Indies may not want to tamper too much with a combination that fought hard in the first Test.West Indies (possible): 1 Kraigg Brathwaite, 2 Leon Johnson, 3 Darren Bravo, 4 Marlon Samuels, 5 Jermaine Blackwood, 6 Roston Chase, 7 Shane Dowrich (wk), 8 Jason Holder (capt), 9 Devendra Bishoo, 10 Miguel Cummins, 11 Shannon Gabriel.Pitch and conditionsThe pitch for the previous Test in Abu Dhabi, between England and Pakistan in October last year, drew criticism for its unresponsive nature. In matches prior to that one, however, the pitch offered some assistance to seamers and spinners. The weather is expected to be clear in Abu Dhabi for the course of the game.Stats and triviaDarren Bravo has made 1507 runs in Asia at an average of 60.28, the third-best for any overseas batsman with at least 1500 runs in Asia. Bravo has hit five hundreds and seven fifties in just 15 Tests in AsiaMisbah-ul-Haq is set to equal Imran Khans record of captaining Pakistan in the most Tests. The Abu Dhabi match will be Misbahs 48th Test as captainPakistan have a 4-0 win-loss record from eight Tests in Abu Dhabi - the most they have played and won at any venue without losing a matchMarlon Samuels made his debut in 2000 and has played 69 Tests. He needs another 146 runs to complete 4000 runs in the formatQuotesI am very happy the way Pakistan won the Test, the way Azhar scored a triple hundred and joined that elite group. I was watching the match and was very excited when on the last day there were ups and downs. The way West Indies fought and Darren Bravo scored that fighting hundred, its pleasing when youngsters play like this.Younis Khan was watching the Dubai Test closely from the sidelines, and was happy to see a good contestWe are accustomed to the conditions, only pink ball was new to us. Our body needed to get accustomed to the clock, bowling in the night and the afternoon start. Now we have the whole day, and it is a small adjustment.Jason Holder on the challenges of going back to day cricket after five days of playing in the night ' ' '