Men's College Basketball

How to watch Iona vs. Oregon 2017 live online, plus start time, TV schedule, and odds

This opening round Midwest region matchup will feature two of the top three-point shooting teams in the country.

Mar 17, 2017, 2:00 PM UTC

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The Iona Gaels earned their second straight NCAA tournament berth, after toppling Siena in overtime of the MAAC Championship. As a No. 14 seed, they will face No. 3 seeded Oregon Ducks in the Midwest Region’s opening round. You can stream the game, set for 2 p.m. ET Friday, via March Madness Live.

The Ducks enter tournament play 29-5 (16-2 Pac-12), and made it to their own conference championship before falling to Arizona. Head coach Dana Altman has the team dancing for the fourth straight season; the Ducks were a No. 1 seed in last year’s tournament before falling to Oklahoma in the Elite Eight.

For a No. 14 seed, the Gaels didn’t draw too terrible a matchup. Oregon will be without its third-leading scorer and top shot-blocker all tournament, after senior forward Chris Boucher tore his ACL in the Pac-12 tournament. Boucher could stretch the floor with the three-ball and kept the basket clear, averaging 2.5 blocks per game. This is a big hit for a team that’s first in the country in block percentage, according to Kenpom.

The Ducks will still have the Pac-12 Player of the Year, junior forward Dillon Brooks. Brooks took it to another level during conference play, averaging almost 18 points a game over that 17-game stretch. While the Boucher loss hurts, Brooks will still have guards Tyler Dorsey and Dylan Ennis at his side, who averaged 24 points per game combined.

Oregon will have to figure out a way to slow down the Gael’s Jordan Washington, who owns the second-highest usage rate in the country. The 6’8 senior forward was a unanimous selection to the All-MAAC First team, after leading Iona in scoring and rebounding with 17.9 points and 7.4 rebounds per game.

Iona doesn’t have a true second scoring option, and instead relies on a squadron of role players to surround Washington. Three-point specialists Jon Severe, E.J. Crawford, and Schadrac Casimir all shoot over 40 percent from behind the arc. Sam Cassell Jr., obviously Sam Cassell’s son and a former UConn Husky, is the third-leading scorer for the Gaels, putting up almost 11 points per game.

This is a matchup of two of the top three-point shooting teams in the country, as both teams let it fly from deep. The Gaels hit from long-range at an unreal 42 percent clip in conference play, and 39.7 percent for the season. However, they face an Oregon team that is 21st in the country at defending the three ball, per Kenpom. The Ducks have held opponents to just about 31 percent from behind the arc and 40 percent from the field, while shooting 48 percent from the field and almost 38 percent from long range.