Just three days after taking No. 2 Stanford to the brink of an upset, the Oregon Ducks women’s basketball team went to Colorado played a bad 38 minutes.
Thankfully the Ducks showed up for the last two minutes of regulation, went on a 13-2 run in the last 90 seconds of the fourth quarter to force overtime.
The Ducks fell to the Buffaloes 86-83 in double overtime. Nyara Sabally had a chance to tie the game at the free throw line, but missed one and Colorado was able to win it. Oregon is now 18-10 overall and 10-6 in conference play. Any hopes the Ducks had of hosting the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament most likely were erased with this loss.
Colorado led 55-41 in the fourth quarter and that’s when Ahlise Hurst did her very best to shoot the Ducks back in it. She nailed four treys in the fourth quarter alone.
Oregon was able to put together a late rally thanks to turnovers and Sabally deciding to dominate the key. She scored nine of her 22 points in the final quarter.
Endyia Rogers, who led all scorers with 28 points, scored with 28 seconds left tied the game at 80 to forcer double overtime. But Oregon ran out of gas in the second overtime.