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Bittle scores career-high 36 points as Oregon wins 7th straight, tops Washington 80-73 in OT

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SEATTLE (AP) — Nate Bittle scored a career-high 36 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and Oregon hit 6 of 10 from the line in overtime to get past Washington 80-73 on Sunday in a regular-season finale.

The Ducks (23-8, 12-8 Big Ten) closed out the regular season with seven straight wins and completed a season-sweep of the rival Huskies (13-18, 4-16). Oregon advances to the second round as the No. 8 seed and faces ninth-seeded Indiana in the conference tournament on Thursday. Washington joins Penn State and Nebraska in falling short of reaching the 15-team tournament.

A finalist for the Kareem-Abdul Jabbar Award given to the nation's best center, Bittle scored 21 points in the first half and his 3-pointer a minute into the second gave him 26 to set a career high.