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It's 32-10 Oregon mid way through the 2nd quarter so I'm calling the game for the Ducks.
Oregon lost one home game this season, 65-78, to Stanford after losing a 9 point half time lead.
Here's Voepel on Oregon and especially Sabrina Ionescu:
It was a few hours before one of Oregon's biggest games of the season. Coach Kelly Graves, whose team tends to play calmly confident in a reflection of him, was multi-tasking. As he wrote the Ducks' focus points and objectives for that night on a large dry erase board, he also talked about spectacular sophomore Sabrina Ionescu.
"She's so much fun to watch," Graves said.
He's experienced something like this before: A close-knit, successful team that had an especially skilled guard whom viewers' eyes were inevitably drawn toward. That was at his previous program, Gonzaga, with Courtney Vandersloot, now one of the top playmakers in the WNBA...
..."Her overall skill is incredible in every phase of the game," Graves said. "And I see what she's done for our crowds. They're coming out because we have a really good team and other good players. But it's like at Gonzaga, when we started to grow, grow and grow because of Courtney. She was such an iconic player for our program, and people wanted to see her...
...The 5-foot-11 Ionescu is the key ingredient that has made Oregon's offense so potent. The Ducks are third in the nation, behind UConn and Baylor, in points per 100 possessions (117.20) and have the second-best true shooting percentage (59.7) behind UConn, according to herhoopstats.com. All five starters -- Ionescu, Ruthy Hebard, Maite Cazorla, Satou Sabally and Lexi Bando -- average in double-figures scoring.
It's 32-10 Oregon mid way through the 2nd quarter so I'm calling the game for the Ducks.
Oregon lost one home game this season, 65-78, to Stanford after losing a 9 point half time lead.
Here's Voepel on Oregon and especially Sabrina Ionescu:
It was a few hours before one of Oregon's biggest games of the season. Coach Kelly Graves, whose team tends to play calmly confident in a reflection of him, was multi-tasking. As he wrote the Ducks' focus points and objectives for that night on a large dry erase board, he also talked about spectacular sophomore Sabrina Ionescu.
"She's so much fun to watch," Graves said.
He's experienced something like this before: A close-knit, successful team that had an especially skilled guard whom viewers' eyes were inevitably drawn toward. That was at his previous program, Gonzaga, with Courtney Vandersloot, now one of the top playmakers in the WNBA...
..."Her overall skill is incredible in every phase of the game," Graves said. "And I see what she's done for our crowds. They're coming out because we have a really good team and other good players. But it's like at Gonzaga, when we started to grow, grow and grow because of Courtney. She was such an iconic player for our program, and people wanted to see her...
...The 5-foot-11 Ionescu is the key ingredient that has made Oregon's offense so potent. The Ducks are third in the nation, behind UConn and Baylor, in points per 100 possessions (117.20) and have the second-best true shooting percentage (59.7) behind UConn, according to herhoopstats.com. All five starters -- Ionescu, Ruthy Hebard, Maite Cazorla, Satou Sabally and Lexi Bando -- average in double-figures scoring.