Sabrina Ionescu scores career-best 36 points and Oregon smashes Stanford 77-57 at KeyArena to capture first Pac-12 women’s tournament title.
Through Oregon’s charmed season that yielded a regular season Pac-12 championship, the Ducks beat every Pac-12 team, save one: Stanford.
In Eugene, Ore. on Feb. 4, the blue blood team of Pac-12 women’s basketball defeated Kelly Graves’ upstart Oregon youngsters 78-65 to snap the Ducks’ bid for a school-record 15-straight home wins, and force a three-way tie – Oregon, Stanford, UCLA – for first place in the Pac-12.
That loss weighed on the top-seeded Ducks’ minds as they took the floor against second-seeded Stanford Sunday night at Key Arena in their first-ever appearance in a Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament championship game.