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Where Oregon women’s basketball stands in updated March Madness bracket predictions
Players Kyei, Kelly and coach Graves after the win over Iowa
Players Kyei, Kelly and coach Graves after the win over Iowa
The Oregon women’s basketball team’s position in most March Madness projections didn’t move following a dominant win over Purdue and a thrilling win over Iowa at home last week.
The Ducks (14-5, 5-3 Big Ten) are still seen as a bubble team and are in the midst of perhaps their most important stretch of the season midway through conference play.
Next up, Oregon will play just one game this week hosting Indiana at 6 p.m. Friday.
Here are the bracketology predictions.
Oregon women’s basketball NCAA Tournament projections
ESPN: No. 10 seed, facing No. 7 Vanderbilt in Manhattan, Kansas (listed among last four byes).
Her Hoop Stats: No. 10 seed, facing No. 7 Mississippi State in Fort Worth, Texas.
Oregon women’s basketball March Madness resume
Oregon’s No. 36 NCAA NET ranking corresponds to approximately a No. 9 seed. The Ducks are 1-4 in quadrant 1 games, but 13-1 in all other games, meaning they’ve beaten who they are supposed to and lost to most of the top teams in the country. Oregon’s lone quadrant 1 win came against Baylor (ranked No. 24 in NET) in November.
Oregon women’s basketball NCAA tournament history under Kelly Graves
Before Oregon coach Kelly Graves was hired in 2014, the Ducks hadn’t made the Big Dance in nine seasons. The former Gonzaga coach took the Ducks to the tournament in his third year, beginning an unprecedented golden run in Oregon women’s basketball history. The Ducks made the Elite Eight in back-to-back seasons starting in 2017 and made a run to their first ever Final Four in 2019.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the NCAA Tournament in 2020 to be cancelled, with Oregon the presumptive national title favorite with Sabrina Ionescu, Ruthy Hebard and Satou Sabally at the helm. The Ducks made the tournament in 2021 and 2022 but have missed each of the last two tournaments.
Alec Dietz covers University of Oregon football, volleyball, women’s basketball and baseball for The Register-Guard. You may reach him at adietz@registerguard.com and you can follow him on X @AlecDietz.