The Oregon Ducks women’s basketball program might still be haunted by that 2020 season when a national championship was in their grasp before the pandemic hit.
Kelly Graves has brought in great recruiting classes since but hasn’t been able to find the same success he enjoyed when Sabrina Ionescu was playing. Oregon might still be a year or two away from seriously contending to make a deep run in March, but that doesn’t mean they can’t make some noise in the meantime.
In the last season of the Pac-12, the conference schedule is a huge gauntlet and the Ducks will have to maneuver their way through. The talent is there to beat anybody. The big question surrounding this team is how quickly they develop chemistry and put it to good use on the floor.
Oregon has three tremendous sophomores and they have a Top 5 recruiting class to play with. If the Ducks gel as a team, they will finish a lot higher than predicted.