Sometimes the portal giveth and sometimes it can taketh away.
In the case of former Oregon Duck women’s basketball player Te-Hina Paopao, the portal tooketh away.
Paopao was recruited to be the heir apparent to Sabrina Ionescu and while she had three good seasons at Oregon, they were marred by injuries and she found out the hard way that filling Ionescu’s shoes turned out to be an impossible task.
She has moved across the country to South Carolina where she is flourishing for a team that has the potential to win a national title.
Paopao has been included in the latest Top 25 women’s basketball players that was put together by ESPN. Unfortunately, no current Ducks have been listed, but there are several Pac-12 athletes in there as well as Paopao. Here is the Top 25 with their current stats and we included what ESPN had to say about the former Oregon point guard.