EUGENE, Ore. — When he was growing up in West Linn, Jackson Shelstad dreamed of hitting big shots for the Oregon men's basketball team. Saturday afternoon, in the freshman's first career start for the Ducks, his dream became reality.
Shelstad hit a deep three-pointer with less than 2 seconds left in overtime to give the UO men an 86-83 victory over Michigan before 11,241 fans in Matthew Knight Arena. Four years after fellow West Linn native Payton Pritchard — also an Oregon point guard who wore No. 3 — scored 15 of the Ducks' last 17 points in an overtime win at Michigan, Shelstad created his own clutch memory against the Wolverines.