Idaho State came into Matthew Knight Arena with most of a roster intact that finished 22-4 last season, winners of the Big Sky Conference and an NCAA tournament team.
But against the No. 10 team in the nation, none of those facts mattered.
The Oregon Ducks women’s basketball team jumped on the Bengals early and never let up as Kelly Graves’ squad came away with a 91-34 victory to begin their season.
Oregon led 27-6 after one quarter and 50-20 at halftime. Sedona Prince led the way with 18 points. Nyara Sabally added 14 points with Maddie Scherr knocking down six of her 9 shot attempts on her way to 14 points.
It was an impressive opening act considering the Ducks weren’t playing without two of their best players. Te-Hina Paopao is expected to miss a couple of weeks with an undisclosed injury and Endyia Rogers suffered a broken arm that should keep her out 4-6 weeks.
Hopefully, that’s all the injury news Oregon has to deal with down the road as Sabally went down in the middle of the third quarter. Her status was not immediately known after the game.