Oregon women’s basketball leading scorer Grace VanSlooten hurts right foot in loss to Arizona

Oregon Geese ahead Grace VanSlooten twice left Sunday’s loss at Arizona with foot accidents and didn’t return from the second. It was not instantly clear the severity of the freshman’s harm, although VanSlooten didn’t have a big limp when she walked out of the Oregon locker room with the group’s athletic coach following the 79-71 loss.

VanSlooten, who scored a game-high 18 factors, got here off the courtroom limping with a left leg harm with 2:30 remaining within the third quarter. Geese coach Erica Bellamy gave the impression to be stretching VanSlooten’s left foot and she or he later checked again in with 27.6 seconds left.

VanSlooten drove to the ring for a layup to get Oregon inside 73-71 with 29.6 seconds left, however went down with an obvious proper foot harm and was helped to the bench by Bellamy and Oregon coach Kelly Graves.

Graves in contrast VanSlooten, who made 8 of 13 pictures from the sphere, to Larry Chicken due to how laborious she performs.

“She performs her (tail) off,” Graves mentioned. “She’s had a troublesome week. She’s been crushed up and she or he’s simply discovering a method to get by means of it. So I hope she’s OK, as a result of rattling she performed nicely tonight.”

VanSlooten, who leads Oregon in scoring, is averaging 15.5 factors and 6.5 rebounds per sport, whereas capturing 51.1% from the sphere.

“She’s an ideal participant, robust particular person, she’s very aggressive,” guard Te-Hina Paopao mentioned. “We’ve the subsequent couple of days to get her rested and get her going, no matter’s happening, and we started working with who we obtained.”

– James Crepea reported from Tucson, Ariz.