Oregon has 30 NCAA Tournament games under the belts, so Friday morning's 11 a.m. game against No. 14 seed Iona won't come with too many nerves. The Ducks saying they are prepared and ready.

"Two years ago I was shaking before my first game, I was nervous," said Jordan Bell. "Now, I think we are used to this. This is just another game for us."

But Friday's game will not be just another game. The Ducks will be without senior forward Chris Boucher after the 6-foot-10 post tore his ACL Friday. They'll continue to learn to play without Boucher, and this time, should Oregon lose, their season is over.

"I have to try to be even more aggressive on the defensive end and offensive end knowing that he's not coming into sub me out or come play with me during the game," said Bell. "Just trying to stay out of foul trouble, me and Dillon Brooks being smart on the floor."

The Ducks will lean more towards Bell and Brooks to play major minutes without Boucher, but junior Kavell Bigby-Williams will also play more. Head coach Dana Altman said the Ducks hope to get him 15 or 20 minutes moving forward. Against Arizona on Saturday, Bigby-Williams held his own in 14 minutes of play and finished with three points, six rebounds, and two big blocks.

"Kavell, we see him do that in practice every day that you all saw in the Pac-12 tournament," Tyler Dorsey said. "So he's going to be ready to hit the glass and hit the plays for us and hit that jump shot or that hook he has down low. He has been effective for us and I think he's going to step us for us and be ready."

In Friday's matchup against the Gaels, the Ducks will square off against a team who will remind them and Oregon's fans of another Pac-12 team.

"They play for out and one in most of the time, and most of their guards shoot 40 percent from the field," said Dorsey. "Watching them, they are pretty similar to Arizona State, who we played in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament. They shoot a lot of contested shots and tough shots and hit a lot of threes.

This season, five Iona Gaels have made 41 or more three-pointers and four Gaels shoot above 40 percent from three. Nine players play 10 or more minutes and seven or more players score nine or more points a game.

"We need to make sure to get out on the shooters and make sure we rebound," said Bell. "If we do that, play sound defense, we should be fine."

"Our perimeter defense is going to be challenged and we don't have Chris there to protect the rim and push out like we traditionally do," said Dana Altman. "We've had a very good defensive team on the three-point line and a big part of that is the guys' security to go out and run at shooters knowing that somebody was protecting the rim."

Blocking shots and controlling the boards will be tougher without Boucher, and that's going to be the toughest adjustment without him in the eyes of Altman.

"He led the conference in shot blocking and three a game, and that's not counting the number of shots he altered," said Altman. "So you take the three that he blocked and another three or four that he altered, that's seven shots in the paint that he had a great effect on. This will be the biggest thing. The second biggest thing is the rebounding. His three-point shooting, we've got a lot of volunteers to shoot threes, so that's not much of a problem, but the shot blocking and rebounding and his personality."

Projected Starters

No. 3 seed Oregon (29-5)

G - Payton Pritchard 6-2 FR 7.5 ppg, 3.9 apg, 3.3 rpg

G - Dylan Ennis 6-2 SR 11.0 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 3.1 apg

G - Tyler Dorsey 6-4 SO 13.3 ppg, 3.3 rpg

F - Dillon Brooks 6-7 JR 16.3 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 2.7 apg

F - Jordan Bell 6-9 JR 10.7 ppg, 8.1 rpg

No. 14 seed Iona (22-12)

G - Schadrac Casimir 5-10 SO 7.0 ppg, 1.4 rpg

G - Rickey McGill 6-1 SO 10.8 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 5.2 apg

G - Deyshonee Much 6-5 JR 9.3 ppg, 3.6 rpg

G - EJ Crawford 6-6 FR 9.4 ppg, 3.1 rpg

F - Jordan Washington 6-8 SR 17.9 ppg, 7.4 rpg