The 2019-2020 season will, most unfortunately, always live in infamy for Oregon women’s basketball.
So complete, so in-sync was that group that by the time they had bulldosed their way through the Pac-12 Tournament and secured a 1 seed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament that it began to look like a foregone conclusion that they would end up duking it out with top-ranked South Carolina for the national championship.
However, worldwide pandemics wait for no one, and we never got to see that heavyweight bout to decide who really was the nation’s best.
That certainly didn’t stop Oregon from capitalizing on the momentum of such an iconic season, as head coach Kelly Graves reeled in the undisputed No.