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Oregon WBB recap: The Ducks send Northwestern packing in season opener

It was successful season opener for Kelly Graves’ Oregon women’s basketball team with a 43-point win over Northwestern.

Oregon women’s basketball coach Kelly Graves keeps saying that he’s really excited for the 2022-23 season. Now we know why.

The Ducks completely dismantled a fairly decent Northwestern team out of the Big Ten 100-57 in the season opener for both teams. Freshman Grace VanSlooten led Oregon with 20 points.

The 6-foot-3 forward surely didn’t look like she was playing her very first college game. VanSlooten was 10-of-16 from the field. Fellow freshman Jennah Isai also wasn’t exactly shy in her debut. She added 15 points and Te-Hina Paopao lit up the stat sheet with 15 points, six rebounds and three assists.

Freshman guard Chance Gray, a five-star and top-10 recruit, scored 14 points in her Duck debut.

Oregon is still adjusting without its power forward Sedona Prince, who injured her elbow and has decided to move on to a professional career. That means players such as 6-foot-8 Phillipina Kyei will see more playing time and so far, so good for the sophomore center. She added eight points and eight boards.

The Ducks shot 36-of-68 (53 percent) from the field and held the Wildcats to just 36 percent on 22-of-61 shooting. Caleigh Walsh led Northwestern with 15 points.

5-star Oregon standouts Kel’el Ware, Grace VanSlooten named to USA national teams

Both Kel’el Ware and Grave VanSlooten, a pair of Oregon commits, have been named to the USA Basketball Junior National Teams.

A pair of incoming Oregon Duck stars have made it to the big stage, getting named to the USA Basketball Junior National Teams.

5-star Oregon commits Grace VanSlooten was named to the 2022 USA Women’s U18 national team. VanSlooten is a 6-foot-3 forward who is ranked by ESPN as the No. 13 player in the 2022 class and No. 4 F in her class as well.

The other Duck to be named to the Men’s U18 National Team is 5-star C Kel’el Ware, who is ranked by 247Sports as the No. 6 player in the 2022 class, and No. 3 center.

The 2022 FIBA Americas U18 Championship tips off June 6 in Tijuana, Mexico.

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Pair of 5-star Oregon signees, Chance Gray and Grace Vanslooten, named to McDonald’s All-American team

Add both Chance Gray and Grace Vanslooten to the list of McDonald’s All-Americans who have signed with the Oregon Ducks. So much talent coming in the 2022 class.

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Both the men’s and women’s McDonald’s All-American teams were announced on Tuesday afternoon, and a number of future Oregon Ducks were included.

Namely, both Chance Gray and Grace Vanslooten were named to the All-American team. Gray and Vanslooten both committed to Kelly Graves and the Ducks midway through last year, and then made it official by signing with the Ducks late in the fall.

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Gray is a 5-foot-9 guard from Lakota West High School who picked Oregon over the likes of Ohio State, Louisville, UCLA, and Arizona. She is rated by ESPN as the No. 2 point guard in the country.

Vanslooten comes from IMG Academy and is the No. 13 prospect in the 2022 class. She is a five-star prospect who stands 6-foot-3 and is the 4th-ranked forward in the nation. She chose the Ducks over schools like Gonzaga, LSU, Arizona, Baylor, Duke, and UCLA.

The Ducks also learned on Tuesday that Kel’el Ware, a 7-foot center, was named to the men’s McDonald’s All-American team as well.

The 2022 McDonald’s All-American game will take place on March 29 in Wintrsut Arena.

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Kelly Graves close to nation’s top recruiting class after No. 13-ranked Grace VanSlooten commits to Ducks

With the addition of 5-star Grace VanSlooten, the Ducks are well on their way to securing another No. 1 ranked recruiting class in 2022.

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The Oregon Ducks scored a huge win on Thursday afternoon, with Grace VanSlooten, the nation’s No. 13 prospect in the 2022-23 recruiting class, committing to come to Eugene.

VanSlooten is a five-star prospect who stands 6-foot-3 and is the 4th-ranked forward in the nation. She chose the Ducks over schools like Gonzaga, LSU, Arizona, Baylor, Duke, and UCLA.

In her junior season at the Notre Dame Academy in Ohio, VanSlooten averaged 21.8 points, 12.5 rebounds, 1.9 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. She will now join a 2022 recruiting class in Oregon that already includes Chance Gray, who is the No. 7 rated player in the nation. According to The Oregonian’s Andrew Nemec, the addition of VanSlooten could put the Ducks ahead of the rest of the nation when it comes to recruiting rankings.

Oregon’s class is led by the dynamic duo of Gray and VanSlooten, two of the highest-rated pledges in program history, but it is significantly bolstered by elite wing Jennah Isai (No. 35 nationally) and 6-foot-7 post Kennedy Basham (No. 58), both of whom are on the bubble for five-star status.

The only other program with that level of firepower in its 2022 recruiting class is arguably UCLA, which has also has four top-50 pledges – Nos. 19, 21, 22 and 48.

In 2020, Kelly Graves finished the recruiting year with the No. 1 class in the nation, which featured 5 five-star players, in Sydney Parrish, Kylee Watson, Te-Hina Paopao, Maddie Scherr, and Angela Dugalic.

The year is far from over, but it looks like Graves is well on his way to doing the same thing again.

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