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Oregon women’s basketball roster loses three big pieces to transfer portal

Grace VanSlooten, Chance Gray and Kennedy Basham all leave the Oregon programs and enter the transfer portal.

The Oregon Ducks women’s basketball team didn’t have the best of seasons, and this might make things worse before they get better.

Head coach Kelly Graves just saw three of his top players leave and enter the transfer portal in one day as forwards Grace VanSlooten and Kennedy Basham as well as shooting guard Chance Gray have all decided to go play elsewhere.

This was just a few days after guard Priscilla Williams announced her intentions to enter the portal.

That leaves four huge holes Graves will have to fill before next season and no doubt he will be perusing the portal the best he can in this new world of college athletics.

VanSlooten came to Oregon as a five-star recruit from Toledo, Ohio where she averaged 14.1 points and 6.4 rebounds in her two seasons. She was an All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention.

Gray was the No. 7 player in the nation when she committed to Oregon from Cincinnati. In her two years as a Duck, she averaged 12 point a game and was named to the All-Pac-12 Freshman team in 2022-23. She made 115 three-pointers last season.

Basham was one of the top post players to come out of high school when she committed to Oregon, but she suffered a knee injury that slowed her in her freshman season. In her two years, Basham played in 47 games, averaging 3.5 points and 2.8 rebounds a game.

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6-foot-7 center Kennedy Basham commits to Kelly Graves and Oregon Ducks

6-foot-7 center Kennedy Basham commits to Oregon and coach Kelly Graves for the 2022-23 season.

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Good luck to Pac-12 guards trying to go inside to score against Oregon in the coming years.

The Ducks women’s basketball team just got taller as they secured a commitment from 6-foot-7 center Kennedy Basham out of Arizona.

According to ESPN.com, Basham ranks as the 44th best prospect in the country and the No. 6 post. It helps to know fellow Oregon recruit Jennah Isai, also from Arizona, who has played with Basham on the prep level.

Basham joins one of the best-recruiting classes head coach Kelly Graves has ever assembled at Oregon as she joins not only Isai (No. 35), but guard Chance Gray (No. 7 overall).

Basham will be eligible to play at Oregon for the 2022-23 season where the Ducks could have a front line of 6-foot-5 Nyara Sabally, 6-foot-7 Sedona Prince and 6-foot-8 Phillipina Kyei.

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