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East Oregonian
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Ionescu returns to Oregon for fi nal season to chase title
depth of excellence. I think we’re
going to have eight teams vying
to be in the NCAA Tournament
and maybe more than that,” UCLA
coach Cori Close said.
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Sabrina
Ionescu has no doubts she did the
right thing returning to Oregon
for her fi nal season and working
toward her master’s degree rather
than turning pro.
“One hundred percent, I feel like
it was the right decision for me,”
she said. “I couldn’t imagine not
being here, not being with my team
and being overseas or playing pro.”
Ionescu and the Ducks have
some unfi nished business after
reaching the program’s fi rst Final
Four and losing to eventual cham-
pion Baylor in the national semifi -
nals, not that you will hear coach
Kelly Graves or his group talking
national championships at this
early stage.
“There’s just so much that goes
into getting to a Final Four, get-
ting a Pac-12 championship, get-
ting a national championship, that
if you lose sight of everything that
happens along the way you usually
don’t end up reaching those goals,”
Ionescu said. “We really just try
to get better every day individu-
ally and collectively, and focus on
what’s next to come.”
Everyone will be looking to
dethrone the Ducks, though peren-
nial power Stanford captured the
Pac-12 tournament championship.
Oregon is coming off consecu-
tive 33-win seasons and went 16-2
in Pac-12 play to capture its second
straight regular-season crown.
“I’m eating right, I’m happy, and
quite frankly I’m feeling none of
the pressure,” said Graves, begin-
ning his sixth season in Eugene.
“We’ve been in this situation
before. The whole team has been
really good about managing expec-
tations and ignoring the noise that
we get. It’s funny the way we talk
goals, it’s never, ‘Hey, we want to
win the national championship, we
want to win the Pac-12.’ That’s not
who we are. Our true goal is that we
Striving for Final Four
Pac-12 teams have reached the
Final Four in 10 of the last 12 years.
Commissioner Larry Scott is
eager to see how the conference
continues to shine on a national
stage in the nonconference sched-
ule and come NCAA Tournament
time.
“I think this is the strongest
we’ve certainly been in our mod-
ern history. As you say, certainly at
the top. We’re going to have teams
that are expected to be competing
for Final Fours this year,” Scott
said. “The last few years we’ve had
at least half the league make the
NCAA Tournament, so there’s a
nice momentum that’s built.”
AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron, File
Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu, left, and Satou Sabally speak to reporters during the Pac-12 Conference women’s
NCAA college basketball media day on Oct. 7, 2019, in San Francisco.
want to get better each and every
day. We want to keep our heads
down, work hard. We know we’re
good enough to do those things, but
that’s not something that we focus
on. It doesn’t permeate everything
surrounding our program.”
Ionescu, who already holds the
NCAA career record for triple-dou-
bles with 18, is the veteran star in
the league while Stanford freshman
Francesca Belibi will be a top new-
comer to watch.
She can dunk
All eyes will be on Stanford
freshman sensation Belibi, well
known as Fran.
Oh, yeah, she can dunk.
Hall of Fame coach Tara
VanDerveer wants the situation to
be right for slammin’.
“I think it’s just going to hap-
pen organically. Maybe we’ll have
to run like a lob play. Talk to (War-
riors coach) Steve Kerr about
some good lob plays that he runs,”
VanDerveer said. “But you know,
I just want her to not put pres-
sure on herself. Maybe just do it in
warm-up and get it over with. But
obviously we know she can dunk.
But I don’t want her getting hurt
doing it, either.”
Poised leader
Pac-12 Player of the Year
Ionescu seems unfazed by the con-
stant attention, such as regular
shout-outs from NBA stars, such as
Stephen Curry.
“She’s so used to being a star
and she handles it so well, always
with poise, grace,” Graves said. “I
know deep down inside she’s got to
get tired of signing autographs, tak-
ing pictures. It happens all the time
in a smaller community.”
Ionescu begins her senior sea-
son with 1,984 points, 792 assists
and 756 rebounds with a chance to
become the fi rst player in NCAA
women’s basketball history to reach
at least 2,000 career points, 1,000
assists and 1,000 rebounds.
PAC-12 depth
Oregon was picked to win the
Pac-12 for the third straight sea-
son in a poll of the conference
coaches, followed by perennial
power and defending Pac-12 Tour-
nament champion Stanford and
Oregon State in third. UCLA was
fourth, followed by Arizona State,
Arizona, Utah, USC, Washington,
Washington State, California and
Colorado.
Everybody expects another
year where every win will be hard-
fought given the depth of talent
throughout the league.
“We’ve had really good teams in
the past at the top. What differenti-
ates our conference this year is the
New face
Charmin Smith takes over
coaching Cal after Lindsay Gottlieb
departed to become an assistant
coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Smith left Berkeley briefl y this
spring to join the New York Lib-
erty as an assistant coach, then
returned to the Bay Area to lead the
Golden Bears — providing conti-
nuity and familiarity given she had
been on Gottlieb’s staff and played
for VanDerveer at Stanford.
“It’s been a really good transi-
tion. Charmin has always been that
consistent coach that we’ve had,
and she always comes in ready to
work, like knows what we should
be doing. And we want to work
for her and all the other coaches,”
senior guard Sara Anastasieska
said.
“I think it was probably the best
possible thing that could happen for
us because we know Charmin, we
love Charmin, we’ve always loved
her. So for her to come back, it was
incredible, and we couldn’t have
thought of anything better.”
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