2017-18 Basketball - W Roster
Roster
Sabally, Satou

Jersey Number 0
Satou Sabally
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 6-4
- Class:
- Freshman
- High School:
- Rotteck Gymnasium
- Hometown:
- Berlin, Germany
Bio
PRONUNCIATION - SAH-too SAH-buh-lee
2020 WNBA DRAFT
Selected by the Dallas Wings with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft after electing to forego her senior season of eligibility at Oregon ... Joined in the top 10 by teammates Sabrina Ionescu (No. 1 overall) and Ruthy Hebard (No. 8), marking the first three first-round picks in UO history ... Selected directly after Ionescu to become the fourth pair of teammates ever to be taken with the first two picks of the Draft and the first since 2016 ... Hebard was selected eighth overall, making Oregon's "Big Three" the seventh trio of players from the same team to all be selected in the top 10.
AS A JUNIOR | 2019-20
- Cheryl Miller Award Winner (nation's top small forward)
- WBCA First-Team All-America
- Associated Press Second-Team All-America
- USBWA Second-Team All-America
- All-Pac-12
- Wooden Award National Ballot
- Naismith Trophy Watch List
- Wade Trophy Watch List
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Winner of the Cheryl Miller Award as the top small forward in the nation ... A consensus all-American after a terrific junior season, landing on the 10-player WBCA all-America team while earning second-team honors from the AP and USBWA ... An all-Pac-12 selection for the second year in a row after averaging 16.2 points with a career-high 6.9 rebounds per game while making 29 starts ... Helped lead the Ducks to a third straight Pac-12 regular-season title as well as the Pac-12 Tournament championship ... Announced midseason that she would forego her senior year and enter the 2020 WNBA Draft ... Missed out on one final run in the NCAA Tournament, which was cancelled due to COVID-19 ... Finished career at No. 7 on the Oregon all-time scoring list with 1,508 career points ... Shined during Oregon's 19-game win streak to finish this season, averaging 17.4 points and 7.4 rebounds per game during that stretch ... Racked up a career-high seven double-doubles, with six coming against ranked teams ... Finished career with 11 double-doubles ... Scored in double digits in 23 of her 29 games played, finishing her career tied for No. 9 in Oregon history with 77 double-figure scoring games ... Also No. 9 in program history with 180 career three-pointers ... Scored 20 or more points on seven different occasions, headlined by a season-high 31 points on 1/19/20 vs. California while going 11-of-14 from the floor ... Oregon's most frequent visitor to the free-throw line by a large margin, shooting 79.2 percent (114-of-144) from the stripe ... Went a career-best 10-of-11 from the free-throw line on 1/24/20 vs. No. 7 Oregon State ... Helped lead the Ducks to a historic exhibition win over the USA Women's National Team on 11/9/19 with 25 points on 10-of-18 shooting ... Scored a game-high 23 points on 11/24/19 at No. 17 Syracuse, the first game of her junior season after she missed opening week while playing overseas with the German Women's National Team ... Finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds in a historic road win at No. 4 UConn on 2/3/20 ... Led the Ducks to a huge road win at No. 4 Stanford on 2/24/20 with a game-high 27 points on 10-of-17 shooting ... Scored 22 and 20 points against Washington State (2/28/20) and Washington (3/1/20), respectively, in final two career games at Matthew Knight Arena, earning Pac-12 player of the week honors ... Opened the Pac-12 Tournament with 17 points in the quarterfinals against Utah.
AS A SOPHOMORE | 2018-19
- WBCA Honorable Mention All-America
- All-Pac-12
- Cheryl Miller Award Final Five Finalist (nation's top small forward)
- Naismith Trophy Watch List
- Wade Trophy Watch List
Started all 38 games for the Ducks in her sophomore season...Was the third most efficient player in the NCAA, according to Synergy Sports, scoring 1.09 points on her possessions, behind only Iowa's Megan Gustafson (1.35 pts/pos) and UConn's Napheesa Collier (1.15 pts/pos)...Ranked second on the team and ninth in the Pac-12, averaging 16.6 points per game on 50.5 percent shooting from the field and 41.1 percent shooting from three...One of just three players in the Pac-12 (Maite Cazorla, Mikayla Pivec) to shoot over 50 percent on field goals, 40 percent on threes and 70 percent from the line...Ranked 23rd in the NCAA in three-point percentage (41.1%)...Grabbed 6.2 rebounds per game...Led the team with 35 blocked shots and 54 steals...Had two 30+ point games, scoring a season-high 33 points with eight three-pointers in a win at Washington State on Jan. 25...Scored 31 points with six three-pointers four games later in a win at California on Feb. 8...Had 14+ points in all five of Oregon's NCAA Tournament games, including 22 points in an Elite Eight win over Mississippi State...Had a double-double against Portland State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament with 21 points and a season-high 16 rebounds...Had four double-doubles total in her sophomore season...Blocked a season-high four shots on two occasions - Jan. 18 vs. Arizona State and March 24 vs. Indiana in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
AS A FRESHMAN | 2017-18
- Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
- Pac-12 all-Freshman Team
Made 29 starts while appearing in all 38 games for the Ducks in a standout rookie season...Averaged 10.7 points, the best among freshmen in the Pac-12, and 3.8 rebounds per game while shooting 46.1 percent from the field and 37.0 percent from three...Scored a season-high 25 points in 40 minutes during UO's thrilling overtime win over No. 10 UCLA on Feb. 19, shooting 9-of-15 overall and 7-of-9 from three...Also had a big game against No. 18 Oregon State on Jan. 21, with 21 points on 9-of-15 shooting plus five rebounds...Named Pac-12 freshman of the week four times (Nov. 13, Dec. 4, Jan. 2 and Jan. 29)...Made her first career start against Weber State on Dec. 2, the eighth game of the season, and scored 22 points in just 26 minutes on 8-of-11 shooting...Started UO's last 28 games...Had 12 points in Oregon's Pac-12 Tournament title win over Stanford, including a trio of three-pointers...Averaged 11.7 points over three Pac-12 Tournament games...Sabally is the second straight Duck to earn Pac-12 freshman of the year honors, after Sabrina Ionescu did it in 2016-17.
CAREER HIGHS (final)
GERMAN NATIONAL TEAM
Shined for the German Women’s National Team in the FIBA women’s Eurobasket 2021 qualifiers, scoring 23 points, nine rebounds and six assists in a win over North Macedonia before going an astounding 21-of-21 from the free-throw line for 33 points while adding 10 rebounds in a narrow loss to Croatia...Averaged 20.7 points, 10.0 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.6 steals for Germany during the FIBA U20 European Div. A Championship in the summer of 2018...Named MVP of the FIBA U20 European Div. B Championship in the summer of 2017...Helped Germany to a gold in the tournament while averaging 16.9 points, 7.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.4 steals while shooting 48.2 percent from the field over seven games...Played for the German national team in the FIBA U16 and U18 European Championships.
DBBL
Played for Eisvogel USC Freiburg in 2017, a first division team in the German Damen Basketball Bundesliga (DBBL).
2020 WNBA DRAFT
Selected by the Dallas Wings with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft after electing to forego her senior season of eligibility at Oregon ... Joined in the top 10 by teammates Sabrina Ionescu (No. 1 overall) and Ruthy Hebard (No. 8), marking the first three first-round picks in UO history ... Selected directly after Ionescu to become the fourth pair of teammates ever to be taken with the first two picks of the Draft and the first since 2016 ... Hebard was selected eighth overall, making Oregon's "Big Three" the seventh trio of players from the same team to all be selected in the top 10.
AS A JUNIOR | 2019-20
- Cheryl Miller Award Winner (nation's top small forward)
- WBCA First-Team All-America
- Associated Press Second-Team All-America
- USBWA Second-Team All-America
- All-Pac-12
- Wooden Award National Ballot
- Naismith Trophy Watch List
- Wade Trophy Watch List
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Winner of the Cheryl Miller Award as the top small forward in the nation ... A consensus all-American after a terrific junior season, landing on the 10-player WBCA all-America team while earning second-team honors from the AP and USBWA ... An all-Pac-12 selection for the second year in a row after averaging 16.2 points with a career-high 6.9 rebounds per game while making 29 starts ... Helped lead the Ducks to a third straight Pac-12 regular-season title as well as the Pac-12 Tournament championship ... Announced midseason that she would forego her senior year and enter the 2020 WNBA Draft ... Missed out on one final run in the NCAA Tournament, which was cancelled due to COVID-19 ... Finished career at No. 7 on the Oregon all-time scoring list with 1,508 career points ... Shined during Oregon's 19-game win streak to finish this season, averaging 17.4 points and 7.4 rebounds per game during that stretch ... Racked up a career-high seven double-doubles, with six coming against ranked teams ... Finished career with 11 double-doubles ... Scored in double digits in 23 of her 29 games played, finishing her career tied for No. 9 in Oregon history with 77 double-figure scoring games ... Also No. 9 in program history with 180 career three-pointers ... Scored 20 or more points on seven different occasions, headlined by a season-high 31 points on 1/19/20 vs. California while going 11-of-14 from the floor ... Oregon's most frequent visitor to the free-throw line by a large margin, shooting 79.2 percent (114-of-144) from the stripe ... Went a career-best 10-of-11 from the free-throw line on 1/24/20 vs. No. 7 Oregon State ... Helped lead the Ducks to a historic exhibition win over the USA Women's National Team on 11/9/19 with 25 points on 10-of-18 shooting ... Scored a game-high 23 points on 11/24/19 at No. 17 Syracuse, the first game of her junior season after she missed opening week while playing overseas with the German Women's National Team ... Finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds in a historic road win at No. 4 UConn on 2/3/20 ... Led the Ducks to a huge road win at No. 4 Stanford on 2/24/20 with a game-high 27 points on 10-of-17 shooting ... Scored 22 and 20 points against Washington State (2/28/20) and Washington (3/1/20), respectively, in final two career games at Matthew Knight Arena, earning Pac-12 player of the week honors ... Opened the Pac-12 Tournament with 17 points in the quarterfinals against Utah.
AS A SOPHOMORE | 2018-19
- WBCA Honorable Mention All-America
- All-Pac-12
- Cheryl Miller Award Final Five Finalist (nation's top small forward)
- Naismith Trophy Watch List
- Wade Trophy Watch List
Started all 38 games for the Ducks in her sophomore season...Was the third most efficient player in the NCAA, according to Synergy Sports, scoring 1.09 points on her possessions, behind only Iowa's Megan Gustafson (1.35 pts/pos) and UConn's Napheesa Collier (1.15 pts/pos)...Ranked second on the team and ninth in the Pac-12, averaging 16.6 points per game on 50.5 percent shooting from the field and 41.1 percent shooting from three...One of just three players in the Pac-12 (Maite Cazorla, Mikayla Pivec) to shoot over 50 percent on field goals, 40 percent on threes and 70 percent from the line...Ranked 23rd in the NCAA in three-point percentage (41.1%)...Grabbed 6.2 rebounds per game...Led the team with 35 blocked shots and 54 steals...Had two 30+ point games, scoring a season-high 33 points with eight three-pointers in a win at Washington State on Jan. 25...Scored 31 points with six three-pointers four games later in a win at California on Feb. 8...Had 14+ points in all five of Oregon's NCAA Tournament games, including 22 points in an Elite Eight win over Mississippi State...Had a double-double against Portland State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament with 21 points and a season-high 16 rebounds...Had four double-doubles total in her sophomore season...Blocked a season-high four shots on two occasions - Jan. 18 vs. Arizona State and March 24 vs. Indiana in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
AS A FRESHMAN | 2017-18
- Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
- Pac-12 all-Freshman Team
Made 29 starts while appearing in all 38 games for the Ducks in a standout rookie season...Averaged 10.7 points, the best among freshmen in the Pac-12, and 3.8 rebounds per game while shooting 46.1 percent from the field and 37.0 percent from three...Scored a season-high 25 points in 40 minutes during UO's thrilling overtime win over No. 10 UCLA on Feb. 19, shooting 9-of-15 overall and 7-of-9 from three...Also had a big game against No. 18 Oregon State on Jan. 21, with 21 points on 9-of-15 shooting plus five rebounds...Named Pac-12 freshman of the week four times (Nov. 13, Dec. 4, Jan. 2 and Jan. 29)...Made her first career start against Weber State on Dec. 2, the eighth game of the season, and scored 22 points in just 26 minutes on 8-of-11 shooting...Started UO's last 28 games...Had 12 points in Oregon's Pac-12 Tournament title win over Stanford, including a trio of three-pointers...Averaged 11.7 points over three Pac-12 Tournament games...Sabally is the second straight Duck to earn Pac-12 freshman of the year honors, after Sabrina Ionescu did it in 2016-17.
CAREER HIGHS (final)
Points: 33, at Washington State -- 1/25/19 | |
Rebounds: 16, vs. Portland State -- 3/22/19 | |
Assists: 7, 2x, last vs UCLA -- 3/09/19 | |
Steals: 6, at Saint Mary's (CA) -- 11/24/18 | |
Blocks: 4, 2x, last vs. Indiana -- 3/24/19 | |
FG made: 11, 3x, last vs. California -- 1/19/20 | |
FG attempts: 19, 2x, last vs. Louisville -- 11/30/19 | |
3FG made: 8, at Washington State -- 1/25/19 | |
3FG attempts: 11, at Washington State -- 1/25/19 | |
FT made: 10, vs. Oregon State -- 1/24/20 | |
FT attempts: 11, vs. Oregon State -- 1/24/20 |
GERMAN NATIONAL TEAM
Shined for the German Women’s National Team in the FIBA women’s Eurobasket 2021 qualifiers, scoring 23 points, nine rebounds and six assists in a win over North Macedonia before going an astounding 21-of-21 from the free-throw line for 33 points while adding 10 rebounds in a narrow loss to Croatia...Averaged 20.7 points, 10.0 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.6 steals for Germany during the FIBA U20 European Div. A Championship in the summer of 2018...Named MVP of the FIBA U20 European Div. B Championship in the summer of 2017...Helped Germany to a gold in the tournament while averaging 16.9 points, 7.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.4 steals while shooting 48.2 percent from the field over seven games...Played for the German national team in the FIBA U16 and U18 European Championships.
DBBL
Played for Eisvogel USC Freiburg in 2017, a first division team in the German Damen Basketball Bundesliga (DBBL).
Kelly Graves | Selection Sunday
Monday, March 17
Deja Kelly, Peyton Scott & Phillipina Kyei | Selection Sunday
Monday, March 17
Peyton Scott & Ari Long: "A good, competitive basketball game."
Thursday, February 27
Kelly Graves: "We've played really well."
Thursday, February 27