The UW women’s basketball team will be traveling to the Oregon schools this weekend in search of a winning record against the Pac-10.

Washington (7-10, 2-3 Pac-10) is on the road after a home series split against the L.A. schools, which they lost, 59-57, to UCLA and defeated USC, 60-45 last weekend.

The Husky women will face off against Oregon State (8-8, 1-4 Pac-10) and the Pac-10’s leading scorer, senior guard Ashley Allen, Thursday. They will follow-up at Oregon (8-8, 2-3 Pac-10) in Eugene on Saturday.

“We’re coming off of a pretty good weekend,” UW coach Tia Jackson said Tuesday. “[It was] a great foundation to build on defensively, leading us into Oregon State and Oregon.”

Allen is averaging 19.7 points per game and has scored in the double-digits in 14 of the Beavers’ 16 games.

Jackson noted that the Huskies will have to try to put pressure on Allen and other Oregon State players to eliminate the threatening Beaver offense.

“We’ll have to get creative defensively,” Jackson said.

One such offensive threat is junior guard Brittany Davis, who is averaging 12.7 points per game. By comparison, the Husky women’s leading scorer is freshman Katelan Redmon who averages 12.4 points per game.

The Husky women own the all-time series against the Beavers, 46-24, and are 19-12 when playing in Corvallis, Ore.

The Washington women will also have to take on the Oregon Ducks, whose sophomore guard Taylor Lilley is also averaging 12.4 points per game. Jackson said that in addition to Lilley, the Huskies will have to watch out for freshman forward Ellie Manou.

“Number four [Manou] is an absolute brute on the inside,” Jackson said. “She’s going to cause some problems for us.”

Manou, as a freshman, is averaging 7.3 points and 5.1 rebounds per game.

The Pac-10 has three clear leaders in No. 6 Stanford, No. 9 California, and No. 25 Arizona State, while five teams are stuck in the middle and looking to break away from the pack.

Washington, Oregon State and Oregon are all part of that middle pack and a couple of road victories would go a long way for the Huskies, who are looking to slingshot themselves forward from their current 7-10, 2-3 Pac-10 record to a more respectable position in the Pac-10.

Victories against Oregon State and Oregon would give the Husky women a 4-3 Pac-10 record with three straight home games to follow against the Arizona schools and lowly Washington State.

[Reach reporter Allen Wagner at sports@thedaily.washington.edu.]