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The Oregon Ducks women’s basketball team is losing players quicker than contestants getting voted off the island on Survivor.
Freshman guard Taylor Bigby is the latest to announce that she is entering the transfer portal, per a report from The Oregonian’s James Crepea. She follows former teammates Maddie Scherr, Sydney Parrish, and Kylee Watson out of Eugene as the mass exodus continues.
Bigby was the No. 29 ranked recruit in the nation according to ESPNW and was a two-time Nevada Gatorade State Player of the Year, winning the award following her junior and senior seasons.
But she was slowed by a hand injury in the middle of the year and her place in the rotation suffered because of it. Bigby appeared in just nine games and didn’t see action on the floor after the win over UConn Jan. 17.
Her best game came in the season opener against Idaho State where she scored seven points in 16 minutes.
(2/2) Graves said: "I think the program's fine. It's one of the things that happens nowadays. In this case, they all had different reasons. I don't think there's anything that's stinking within the program. All you can do as a coach is treat your players right."
— John Canzano (@johncanzanobft) April 1, 2022
With Bigby’s departure, along with Parrish, Oregon head coach Kelly Graves will be looking for a shooting guard or two in the portal. But he can sleep a little better at night in knowing he does bring in one of the top recruiting classes in the country with five-stars Chance Gray (Hamilton, Ohio) and Grace VanSlooten (Ottawa, Ohio) along with four-star prospects Jennah Isai (Surprise, Ari.) and Kennedy Basham (Phoenix).
Oregon’s star point guard Te-Hina Paopao also announced over the past week that she will be staying with the Ducks for the 2022 season.
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