In a little over a month, Arizona State is going to come to McArthur Court and throw waves of players at Oregon in order to keep up a breakneck pace.

After Tuesday night, the Ducks know they can withstand a similar style of play and pull out a win. React a little quicker than they did against Marquette, and the Ducks might even be able to beat a team the caliber of the Sun Devils.

Despite making just one field goal in the first 10:42 of the game, and only one in the final 10:31, the Ducks did just enough to beat the Golden Eagles 57-56 before 2,164 in McArthur Court on Tuesday. Taylor Lilley’s driving layin with 58 seconds left was the game-winner, and senior Kaela Chapdelaine pulled down rebounds at each end after that to help the Ducks (2-1) hang on.

The Golden Eagles (2-1) aren’t nearly the same team that made the NCAA Tournament last season. Four starters have graduated, and the fifth, leading scorer Krystal Ellis, didn’t play Tuesday because of a sprained knee. Still, Marquette led 14-3 more than 10 minutes in, having established a frantic pace that Oregon didn’t respond to.

“I don’t think they had us back on our heels,” Chapdelaine said. “I just think we were excited and not really poised.”

The Ducks didn’t pull even again until Ellie Manou collected a loose ball and made it 35-35 with a layin early in the second half. Oregon eventually led 52-44 before a late shooting funk allowed Marquette to claw back into the lead.

A failure to box out on the defensive end nearly did the Ducks in, as four offensive rebounds kept alive the possession on which the Golden Eagles got two free throws to pull within 55-54. Two possessions later, Svetlana Kovalenko rebounded her own miss for the final two of her game-high 20 points, and Marquette had the lead.

But out of a timeout, Lilley drove into the heart of the defense and banked in a layin for the winner.

“The lane was wide open, so I just took it,” Lilley said.

On the other end, Erin Monfre missed a jumper while defended by Lilley, and the tenacious Chapdelaine came down with the rebound. Oregon called time out with 36.9 seconds left and 25 seconds on the shot clock. With about 10 seconds left, Lilley hoisted a three that missed, but Chapdelaine came down with another rebound and Marquette couldn’t get a foul to stop the clock.

“Classic Kaela,” UO coach Bev Smith said of Chapdelaine’s effort.

After going 0-of-12 in Thursday’s loss to South Dakota State, Lilley hit a three-pointer right off the bat to give the Ducks the first lead Tuesday. But Oregon didn’t score again for more than 10 minutes, committing 12 turnovers in that span. Three were offensive fouls, but there were also balls dribbled off feet, and passes into traffic.

“It felt like we had just kicked a field goal and that was going to be it for the first half,” Smith said.

The shooting drought ended on two jumpers by Micaela Cocks, who also teamed with freshman point guard Nia Jackson to ramp up UO’s defensive effort and answer Marquette’s pressure. Chapdelaine added a three-pointer, and that helped open up the Ducks’ high-low game, which led to back-to-back athletic scoring moves by Nicole Canepa late in the first half.

A backdoor layin by Lilley got the Ducks within 35-32 after halftime, and she hit three-pointers both before and after sneaking a pass to Canepa for a layin as the Ducks roared to a 43-40 lead. Lilley added one more driving basket to make it 47-42, Oregon’s last field goal until she hit the winner.

“They hit big shots down the stretch and we didn’t,” Marquette coach Terri Mitchell said. “That’s what it came down to.”

That, and a mature response to an early deficit by the youthful Ducks.