Tag: Oregon women’s basketball

Point guard Peyton Scott out for the season with knee injury

Oregon point guard Peyton Scott suffered a season-ending injury Monday night.

Oregon Ducks’ guard Peyton Scott will miss the remainder of the 2023-24 season after suffering a knee injury in Monday’s game against Northern Arizona, head women’s basketball coach Kelly Graves announced Wednesday.

The Oregon point guard was chasing down a loose ball early in the season opener with the Lumberjacks. Her knee twisted as Scott went down to the floor where she was later helped off.

A native of Lynchburg, Ohio, Scott spent four seasons at Miami (Ohio), leaving as the program’s No. 4 all-time scorer with 1,871 points. She earned all-MAC recognition four times, including second-team honors in back-to-back seasons (2020-21, 2021-22). Scott is fourth in Redhawks’ history with 36 20-point scoring efforts and 676 career-made field goals.

She’ll likely be able to receive a medical redshirt and return to the Duck program for 2024-25.

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Satou Sabally named as a WNBA All-Star once again

For just the second time in her four-year career, Satou Sabally is a WNBA All-Star.

The Unicorn strikes again.

Satou Sabally, the former Oregon Ducks women’s basketball standout and all-conference performer and current Dallas Wings starter, was named to the WNBA All-Star team for the second time in her short four-year career.

She was named an All-Star for the first time in 2021.

Sabally is having her best season as a WNBA player as she is averaging career-highs with 19.5 points and 10.5 rebounds a game. She is also shooting nearly 30 percent from the three-point stripe and 42 percent from the field.

The Wings are currently 6-7 in the young season and hovering around for a possible playoff spot.

This year’s WNBA All-Star Game will be held in Las Vegas on July 15.

Oregon’s Chance Gray named to Women’s Americup Roster

Oregon’s Chance Gray named to Women’s Americup Roster

Next month women’s basketball players from across the country will travel to Mexico to represent the US in the annual FIBA Women’s Americup. One of the 12 women headed to Mexico, is UO’s Chance Gray.

Gray is a 5’9″ guard who in her freshman season, averaged 10 points and 2 assists a game while shooting 33% from three and 87% from the line. While many of Oregon’s top players chose to leave for the transfer portal after a disappointing 2022, Gray opted to stay and try another year in Eugene.

The FIBA Women’s Americup is an annual event that is similar to soccer tournaments like Copa America that occur every year between North American national teams. In 2023, the Americup will celebrate its 30th anniversary, and the United States will try for its fifth gold medal.

The tournament will begin on July 1st, and on that day Chance Gray and the US will play their first game against Venezuela at 1:40 PT. The tournament will function in a group stage format — like the World Cup does in Soccer— with the elimination rounds beginning on July 7th, and the championship game on the 9th.

WBB recap: Ducks’ WNIT run ends in Seattle

Suspect second half shooting took Oregon down as the Ducks’ season ends in Seattle with a WNIT quarterfinal loss.

Of all places to see your season end, Seattle is one of the last places the Oregon Ducks women’s basketball team wanted to end the 2022-23 campaign.

Poor second-half shooting was Oregon’s ultimate downfall as the Ducks went down 63-59 to Washington in the WNIT quarterfinals. It was the first time the Huskies have defeated Oregon in four tries this season.

Washington will continue its season against Kansas in the semifinals while Oregon’s off-season officially begins.

The Ducks shot just 35 percent in the second half and the Huskies were able to erase an early double-digit deficit.

Te-Hina Paopao led Oregon with 14 points, but 11 of those points came in the first half. The Huskies’ defense concentrated on Paopao after halftime and the Duck point guard couldn’t get open.

Taya Hanson scored 12 points on four threes and Phillipina Kyei scored nine points and 11 rebounds.

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How Nyara Sabally will fit with New York Liberty in 2023

The Liberty inked Nyara Sabally to a rookie scale contract, but will the 2022 fifth overall pick make New York’s crowded roster out of training camp?

The New York Liberty announced that former Oregon forward Nyara Sabally signed her rookie scale contract, securing the 2022 fifth overall pick a $71,300 salary for 2023 if she makes the final roster.

Sabally was drafted last year by New York with the knowledge that she might end up sitting for the entire year, and that ended up being the case as she took a job as an assistant coach at Sacramento State while rehabbing and preparing to make her WNBA debut in 2023.

Now Sabally is ready to go, but she faces a New York roster that was completely overhauled this offseason. Former Oregon teammate Sabrina Ionescu is still in tow, but she is now joined by former MVP Jonquel Jones, former Seattle Storm superstar Breanna Stewart, and point guard Courtney Vandersloot – forming an absolute superteam in the Big Apple.

Sabally will compete for backup post minutes behind Jones, although she will face stiff competition from Stef Dolson and Han Xu – who emerged as a dynamic bench threat last season for the Liberty.

Sabally absolutely has the skills as a passing big to play real minutes in New York, but the significant talent influx this offseason could also push the Liberty to try dealing Sabally if they don’t believe she will secure one of the few available roster spots when training camp gets going this spring.

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Pac-12 honors four Duck women’s basketball hoopers

Four Oregon women’s basketball players were handed some Pac-12 awards for their regular season performance.

With the Pac-12 women’s basketball regular season in the history books, the conference came out with its awards and four Ducks were honored.

Senior Endyia Rogers was named as an All-Pac-12 performer with Chance Gray and Grace VanSlooten both named to the All-Freshmen team. Point guard Te-Hina Paopao is an honorable mention. VanSlooten was also an honorable mention and Gray is on Pac-12 All-Defensive Team Honorable Mention.

Rogers collects her second straight all-Pac-12 honor at Oregon while being voted to the team for the third straight season overall (once at USC). The Dallas, Texas, product is averaging a career-high and team-leading 16.1 points per game while finishing second in the Pac-12 in scoring during conference play at 18.2 points a contest.

Paopao was an all-conference pick for the third straight season, as she was a first-team selection in 2021 and 2022. The junior guard from Oceanside, Calif., is averaging 11.9 points, four rebounds, and three assists. She has scored at least 20 points in her last three games, including a season-high 23 with a career-best seven three-pointers in the regular-season finale against Arizona State.

The Ducks begin the post-season Wednesday afternoon with a date with Washington in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas. Oregon must most likely defeat the Huskies to get into the NCAA tournament.

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Former Oregon Ducks guard Jennah Isai transfers to BYU

The Oregon Ducks lost another talented player to the transfer portal, with guard Jennah Isai heading to BYU for the 2023-24 season.

Heralded point guard Jennah Isai is leaving the Oregon Ducks program and heading to BYU, where she will be enrolling in January and eligible to play starting in the 2023-24 season – BYU’s first in the Big 12 Conference.

Isai appeared in 10 games for Kelly Graves’ team this year, averaging seven points, 3.2 rebounds, and two assists per game before departing the program due to “personal reasons” before Oregon’s matchup against Ohio State on December 20.

Isai was the 36th ranked prospect in the class of 2022 by ESPN, coming to Eugene out of Valley Vista High School in Surprise, Arizona.

Isai’s departure will challenge Oregon’s depth in the backcourt, where the team is currently led by Endyia Rogers and Te-Hina Paopao who are averaging 14.4 and 12.8 points, respectively.

It also continues a disturbing trend of players leaving Graves program, following the exodus of Taylor Bigby, Maddie Scherr, Sydney Parrish, and Kylee Watson during the previous offseason.

Despite the hardships, Oregon is 10-2 heading into a big home matchup against No. 10 UCLA on December 30.

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Oregon WBB recap: Ducks take first SWAC legacy series matchup

Oregon’s size and talent overwhelmed Southern in a 37-point road win to improve to 3-0.

Kelly Graves’ halftime talk must have been about defense because the Oregon Ducks women’s basketball team’s effort on that end of the floor ratcheted up a notch or two in the third quarter.

The Ducks went on an 18-0 run to start the second half and cruised to an 83-46 win over Southern. The trip to Baton Rouge is part of the scheduling agreement between the Pac-12 and the SWAC in both men’s and women’s basketball.

Oregon’s size and overall talent overwhelmed the Jaguars, who fell to 0-3 this year. No one can accuse Southern in scheduling cupcakes. They lost to No. 4 Iowa and No. 8 Iowa State before this loss to the No. 21 Ducks.

Southern was held to just 34 percent from the field on 18-of-53 shooting. The Ducks had their best shooting night of the season going 29-of-56 (51.8 percent), including 11-of-30 from long range.

Ahlise Hurst led the Ducks with 15 points on five three-pointers.

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.

Kelly Graves lands commitment from 2023 4-star Samantha Wagner

The Oregon Ducks landed a commitment from 4-star wing Samantha Wagner, the No. 42 player in the 2023 class.

As of late, a lot of the narrative in Oregon sports is about the recruiting power that Dan Lanning and Dana Altman possess. Kelly Graves is here to let you know that he’s still got some of the best chops in the nation.

After landing the No. 2 ranked class in the nation in the 2022 cycle, Graves is quickly building up the 2023 class, landing a commitment from 4-star wing Samantha Wagner.

According to ESPN’s rankings, Wagner is the No. 42 ranked player in the 2023 class. She will join both 4-star Sofia Bell out of Jesuit, Oregon, and 4-star Sarah Rombus, out of IMG Academi in Florida.

This success for Graves on the recruiting trail is coming a year after he signed 5-star Chance Gray, the No. 7 player and No. 2 PG in the nation, as well as 5-star Grace VanSlooten, the No. 13 player and No. 4 PF in the nation. Oregon also added 4-star Jennah Assai and 4-star Kennedy Basham to the 2022 class as well.

The Ducks will get their season started next week with a home opener against the Northwestern Wildcats at 3 p.m. PT.

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