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Jersey Number 20
Sabrina Ionescu
- Position:
- Guard
- Height:
- 5-11
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- Miramonte HS
- Hometown:
- Walnut Creek, Calif.
Bio
PRONUNCIATION - Sabrina Yo-NESS-Coo
MEDIA
- The Legend of Sabrina Ionescu (ESPN Cover Story)
- Dear Oregon Basketball (Player's Tribune)
- The Ultimate Guide to Oregon Women's Basketball Star Sabrina Ionescu (ESPN)
- What Drives Sabrina Ionescu? (Athletic)
- The Hottest Player in College Basketball is Named Sabrina (The Wall Street Journal)
- What Sabrina Ionescu Means to Women's Sports (Forbes)
- Why Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu Is So Good (ESPNW)
- Mighty Duck - Sabrina Ionescu is Coming for the National Title (SLAM)
- A Letter to Ducks Nation (Players' Tribune)
- Sabrina's Obsession (ESPN.com, story and video)
- Sabrina Ionescu is Always On (Bleacher Report)
- The Making of Sabrina Ionescu: Oregon's Lean, Mean, Triple-Double Machine (Sports Illustrated)
CAREER
» First player (female or male) in NCAA history with 2,000 career points (2,562), 1,000 career rebounds (1,040) and 1,000 career assists (1,091).
» Only the second player in NCAA history (female or male) with 2,000+ points and 1,000+ assists, joining Courtney Vandersloot (Gonzaga).
» NCAA all-time leader (women's and men's) with 26 career triple-doubles; previous record was 12 by Kyle Collinsworth (BYU, 2012-16).
» NCAA single-season record eight triple-doubles in both 2018-19 and 2019-20.
» Finished career at No. 4 on NCAA women's all-time assists list.
» Only the fifth player in NCAA women's history to surpass 1,000 career assists, and the 12th to reach 900 career assists.
» Pac-12 women's and men's all-time assists leader (Previous: Gary Payton, 938).
» Oregon all-time leader in points, assists, three-point field goals (329) and double-figure scoring games (134).
» Tied for fifth in NCAA women's history with 134 double-figure scoring games.
» No. 2 in Pac-12 history in double-figure scoring games, No. 3 in three-pointers, No. 5 in points and No. 19 in rebounds.
» No. 2 in Oregon history in career free-throw percentage (85.1) and field goals made (905).
» No. 3 in Oregon history in career steals (207).
» No. 4 in Oregon history in double-doubles (58), three-point field-goal percentage (42.2) and games played (142).
» Pac-12 Tournament all-time leader in points (250), assists (86) and field goals made (90); two-time Pac-12 Tournament most outstanding player (2018, 2020).
» 48 career games of 20 points or more, and five of 30 points or more.
» 46 career games with double-digit assists and 40 games with double-digit rebounds.
2020 WNBA DRAFT
Selected by the New York Liberty with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft ... The first No. 1 overall pick in program history, and the third top overall pick in the history of Oregon athletics, joining George Shaw (Football, 1955) and Dave Roberts (Baseball, 1972) ... The first Oregon player ever to be taken in the first round of the WNBA Draft before being joined by teammates Satou Sabally (No. 2 overall) and Ruthy Hebard (No. 8) ... Went 1-2 with Sabally, becoming 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 SENIOR | 2019-20
- AAU James E. Sullivan Award Co-Winner (nation's most outstanding amateur athlete)
- Wade Trophy Winner (national player of the year)
- Naismith Trophy Winner (national player of the year)
- Wooden Award Winner (national player of the year)
- Associated Press National Player of the Year (unanimous)
- USBWA National Player of the Year
- ESPN.com National Player of the Year
- Nancy Lieberman Award Winner (nation's top point guard)
- Honda Sport Award Winner
- Senior CLASS Award Winner
- Associated Press First-Team All-America
- WBCA First-Team All-America
- Wooden Award All-America
- USBWA First-Team All-America
- Senior CLASS Award First-Team All-America
- Pac-12 Player of the Year (unanimous)
- All-Pac-12
- Pac-12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player
- Three-Time Pac-12 Player of the Week
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Co-winner of the 90th annual AAU James E. Sullivan Award, which is presented to the nation's most outstanding athlete ... Shared the Sullivan Award with University of Iowa wrestler Spencer Lee ... The first Oregon student-athlete ever to win the Sullivan Award ... The unanimous national player of the year for the 2019-20 season after winning the Wade Trophy, Naismith Trophy and Wooden Award while also being named the national player of the year by the Associated Press, USBWA and ESPN.com ... Won the Wade Trophy and the Wooden Award for the second year in a row, becoming the sixth two-time winner of each honor ... The first Oregon player ever to win the Naismith Trophy ... Only the second player in history to unanimously win AP national player of the year, joining Breanna Stewart (2016), and just the eighth player ever to earn AP first-team all-America honors for the third time ... Unanimous first-team all-American for the third straight year ... Joined Sue Bird as the only players ever to win the Nancy Lieberman Award three times as the national point guard of the year ... Named the Pac-12 player of the year for the third year in a row while earning a fourth straight all-Pac-12 selection ... Led the Ducks to a third straight Pac-12 regular-season title as well as the Pac-12 Tournament championship ... Missed out on one final run in the NCAA Tournament, which was cancelled due to COVID-19 ... Matched her own NCAA single-season record with eight triple-doubles, extending her NCAA all-time record for both women and men to 26 to finish her career ... Became the first player in NCAA history (women and men) to surpass 2,000 career points, 1,000 career rebounds and 1,000 career assists, eclipsing that mark on 2/24/20 in a win at No. 4 Stanford while also recording the final triple-double of her career with 21 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists ... Historic performance at Stanford came on the same day she delivered a heartfelt speech at the memorial for Kobe and Gianna Bryant, while also battling the flu ... Led the NCAA with a career-high 9.1 assists per game while ranking fourth nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.05) ... Shot a career-best 51.8 percent from the floor while shooting 39.2 percent from three-point range ... Ranked fourth in the Pac-12 with a team-high 17.5 points per game ... Third in the Pac-12 with a career-high 8.6 rebounds per game while leading the conference with 6.7 defensive rebounds per game ... Led the Pac-12 in free-throw percentage with a career-best mark of 92.1, including a 96.4 percent mark in conference play ... Broke the UO record for consecutive free throws made with 34 straight from 12/21/19 to 2/3/20 ... Racked up a career-high 20 double-doubles as a senior to finish with 58 in her career, fourth-most in program history ... Named the Pac-12 Tournament most outstanding player for the second time in her career after averaging 23.3 points, 9.3 rebounds and 9.0 assists per game in three games, headlined by a 31-point performance in the semifinals vs. No. 13 Arizona ... Erupted for a career-high 37 points while going 14-of-26 from the floor on 1/16/20 against No. 3 Stanford, breaking the UO all-time scoring record in the process ... Led Oregon to a historic exhibition win over the USA Women’s National Team on 11/9/19 with 30 points, seven assists and four rebounds ... Recorded the first triple-double of her senior season on 11/16/19 vs. Texas Southern with 10 points, 13 rebounds and 14 assists, matching her career-high for assists in a triple-double ... Broke the UO all-time records for both three-pointers and double-figure scoring games on 12/8/19 vs. South Dakota State ... Hauled down a career-high 18 rebounds while adding 16 points and 12 assists for career triple-double No. 20 on 12/16/19 vs. UC Riverside ... Recorded a triple-double in back-to-back games with 21 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists on 12/21/19 vs. Kansas State ... First triple-double in Pac-12 play and fourth of the season came on 1/12/20 at No. 18 Arizona, finishing with 17 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists ... Passed Gary Payton (938, OSU) as the Pac-12 all-time assists leader for both women and men on 1/24/20 vs. Oregon State with nine while adding 23 points ... Needed just three quarters to notch her fifth triple-double of the year on 2/1/20 at Colorado, recording 24 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds ... Helped lead Oregon to a historic road win at No. 4 UConn on 2/3/20 with 10 points, nine rebounds and nine assists ... Moved into the top five on the NCAA all-time women's assists list on 2/7/20 vs. No. 12 Arizona while recording triple-double No. 24 with 15 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists ... Surpassed 1,000 career assists with eight on 2/14/20 at No. 7 UCLA to become just the second player ever with 2,000 points and 1,000 assists ... Recorded triple-double No. 25 in front of family and friends in the Bay Area on 2/21/20 at California with 17 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists, before following up with another triple-double on 2/24/20 at Stanford in historic performance ... Started all 33 games, finishing career with 142 career appearances to rank fourth in program history.
AS A JUNIOR | 2018-19
- Wade Trophy Winner (national player of the year)
- Wooden Award Winner (most outstanding player in women’s college basketball)
- WBCA First-Team All-America
- ESPNW First-Team All-America
- Associated Press First-Team All-America
- Wooden All-America
- USBWA First-Team All-America
- Nancy Lieberman Award Winner (second straight season, nation's top point guard)
- Honda Sport Award Finalist
- Pac-12 Player of the Year
- All-Pac-12
- Naismith Trophy finalist
- Dawn Staley Award finalist
- NCAA Portland Regional MVP
- Pac-12 All-Tournament Team
Was eligible to declare for the 2019 WNBA draft but chose to return for her senior season, announced in a Players' Tribune article (link above)...Helped the Ducks to their first ever Final Four...Started all 38 games, averaging 19.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and 8.2 assists in 35.9 minutes per game...Broke the NCAA all-time (men's and women's) triple-double record with the 13th of her career on Dec. 20, 2018 against Air Force with 17 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists...Finished junior year with 18 career triple-doubles and an NCAA record eight in 2018-19...Broke the UO single-game assists record with 17 dimes on Dec. 2, 2018 against Long Beach State...Broke the previous record of 14 - which she had matched twice previously - midway through the third quarter of a 110-48 win over the 49ers...Matched her own Pac-12 Tournament single-game record with 13 assists against Arizona on March 8...Owns the UO NCAA Tournament record with 31 points against Mississippi State in the Elite Eight...Led the Pac-12 and ranked third in the NCAA in assists per game (8.2)...Led the nation with 311 total assists....Second in the Pac-12 and eighth in the NCAA with 755 total points...Fourth in the Pac-12 in scoring (19.9 ppg)...Second in the Pac-12 and 14th in the NCAA in three-point percentage (42.9)...Played 1,369 minutes, the most in the NCAA.
AS A SOPHOMORE | 2017-18
- WBCA First-Team All-America
- Associated Press First-Team All-America
- Wooden Award All-America
- USBWA First-Team All-America
- USA Today First-Team All-America
- ESPNW First-Team All-America
- Nancy Lieberman Award Winner (National Point Guard of the Year)
- Pac-12 Player of the Year
- All-Pac-12
- Pac-12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player
- Wade Trophy finalist (WBCA national player of the year)
- Wooden Award finalist (National player of the year)
- Honda Sport Award finalist
- Bleacher Report's "50 Most Influential People in Sports Culture" (Link)
- NCAA all-Spokane Regional Team
Started all 38 of Oregon's games as a sophomore as the Ducks won both the Pac-12 regular season and tournament titles and advanced to the Elite Eight for the second straight year...Named the Pac-12 player of the year in both the coach and media vote...The third player in UO history to win the award (Shaquala Williams in 2000, Lauri Landerholm in 1987) and the first sophomore to win Pac-12 player of the year since Stanford's Candice Wiggins in 2005...Set UO single-season record for both total points (748) and total assists (298)...Broke the Pac-12 single-season record with 298 total assists...Led the conference with both 19.7 points per game and 7.8 assists per game...Ranked 10th in the NCAA and second in the Pac-12, shooting 43.8 percent from three-point range...Scored a career-high 36 points to beat Stanford in the Pac-12 Tournament title game on March 4, a league championship game record...Named Pac-12 Tournament MVP after averaging 21.0 points, 7.3 assists and 5.0 rebounds over three wins while shooting 51.0 percent from the floor...Set the NCAA career record with her eighth career triple-double on Dec. 31 against Washington in just her 48th career game...In the same game head coach Kelly Graves won his 500th career game, scored 24 points to go with 14 rebounds and 10 assists vs. the Huskies to break the NCAA career record of seven previously shared by Penn State's Suzie McConnell (128 games, 1985-88) and Louella Tomlinson of Saint Mary's (125 games, 2008-11)...Posted her ninth triple-double on Jan. 28 at Utah with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 13 assists...Recorded her 10th career triple-double in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Seattle U with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, the 16th triple-double in NCAA Tournament history.
AS A FRESHMAN | 2016-17
- USBWA National Freshman of the Year
- ESPNW National Freshman of the Year
- Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
- All-Pac-12
- Pac-12 All-Freshman
- Pac-12 All-Tournament Team
- NCAA All-Bridgeport Regional Team
Tallied four triple-doubles, more than any other freshman in NCAA single-season history, and also broke the UO career record for triple-doubles...Her first game against San Jose State on Nov. 27 with 11 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists...Her second triple-double came two games later at Clemson on Dec. 12 with 23 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists...Third was against Utah on Jan. 22 with 14 points, 10 rebounds and a season-high 13 assists...Fourth came in an upset win over No. 15 UCLA with 11 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists...Also posted seven double-doubles...Ranked third in the Pac-12 and 29th in the NCAA with 183 assists on the year...Her 1.93-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio was second-best in the Pac-12...Averaged 14.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game in her first season with the Ducks...Second on the team in scoring, second in rebounding, first in assists...Hit a game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer to win at No. 20 Cal on Jan. 8 near her hometown of Walnut Creek...Hit game-winning free throws to beat No. 11 Washington in the second round of the Pac-12 Tournament in front of a sold out crowd at KeyArena on March 3...Scored 20+ points six times with a season-high 26 in a win over UT San Antonio on Nov. 20...Tallied 21 points, seven assists and six rebounds in Oregon's Elite Eight win over Maryland on March 25...Averaged 16.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game in the NCAA Tournament while shooting 45.8 percent from the floor and 45.0 percent from three...Named Pac-12 freshman of the week four times, USBWA national freshman of the week once and Pac-12 player of the week once...On Feb. 13, after posting a double-double in a win over USC and a triple-double in a win over UCLA, she swept the Pac-12 freshman and player of the week honors...Just the 17th player in Pac-12 history to be named both All-Pac-12 and Pac-12 all-Freshman...Oregon was the only team in the 2017 NCAA Tournament to start three freshmen - Mallory McGwire, Ionescu and Ruthy Hebard.
CAREER HIGHS (final)
USA NATIONAL TEAM
Won a second straight USA Basketball 3x3 national title in 2019, winning the event in Las Vegas with Ruthy Hebard, Oti Gildon and Lydia Giomi...Invited to USA Basketball senior team training camp in South Carolina on Sept. 1, 2018...Along with fellow UO teammates Erin Boley, Hebard and Gildon, represented the USA at the FIBA 3x3 World Cup in the Phillipines during the summer of 2018, finishing fifth with a 4-1 record...Earned the bid after going undefeated at the USA Basketball 3x3 national championship in the spring...Named to the USA U23 national team in the summer of 2017... Won gold at the 2017 Four Nations Tournament in Tokyo, Japan, averaging 10.3 points over three games...Also won gold medals with the U16 and U17 USA national teams...Helped the USA to a championship at the 2013 U16 FIBA Americas Championship in Cancun, Mexico and the 2014 U17 FIBA World Championships in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
HIGH SCHOOL
Named the national player of the year by both USA Today and Maxpreps following her senior season...Played in both the McDonald's All-America and Jordan Brand All-America games...Named the McDonald's All-America game MVP after scoring a record 25 points, including seven three-pointers, with 10 rebounds...Rated the No. 4 recruit in the nation by ESPNW…California's Gatorade state player of the year as a senior...Part of Oregon's seven-player recruiting class ranked No. 3 in the nation...Led Miramonte HS to the CIF open division title game in her senior season after averaging 25.3 points, 8.8 assists, 7.6 rebounds, 4.5 steals and 1.3 blocks per game...Posted a triple-double in the championship game loss to Chaminade with 24 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds..Averaged 18.7 points, 7.7 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 4.7 steals per game in her junior season, helping Miramonte HS to a 30-2 record and an appearance in the CIF open division semifinals.
CLUB
Played for head coach Kelly Sopak and the Cal Stars AAU team...Won a Nike EYBL championship in the summer of 2015...AAU teammates with Minyon Moore and former Duck Mallory McGwire.
PERSONAL
Has a twin brother, Eddy, who played basketball at City College of San Francisco before joining his sister at Oregon.
MEDIA
- The Legend of Sabrina Ionescu (ESPN Cover Story)
- Dear Oregon Basketball (Player's Tribune)
- The Ultimate Guide to Oregon Women's Basketball Star Sabrina Ionescu (ESPN)
- What Drives Sabrina Ionescu? (Athletic)
- The Hottest Player in College Basketball is Named Sabrina (The Wall Street Journal)
- What Sabrina Ionescu Means to Women's Sports (Forbes)
- Why Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu Is So Good (ESPNW)
- Mighty Duck - Sabrina Ionescu is Coming for the National Title (SLAM)
- A Letter to Ducks Nation (Players' Tribune)
- Sabrina's Obsession (ESPN.com, story and video)
- Sabrina Ionescu is Always On (Bleacher Report)
- The Making of Sabrina Ionescu: Oregon's Lean, Mean, Triple-Double Machine (Sports Illustrated)
CAREER
» First player (female or male) in NCAA history with 2,000 career points (2,562), 1,000 career rebounds (1,040) and 1,000 career assists (1,091).
» Only the second player in NCAA history (female or male) with 2,000+ points and 1,000+ assists, joining Courtney Vandersloot (Gonzaga).
» NCAA all-time leader (women's and men's) with 26 career triple-doubles; previous record was 12 by Kyle Collinsworth (BYU, 2012-16).
» NCAA single-season record eight triple-doubles in both 2018-19 and 2019-20.
» Finished career at No. 4 on NCAA women's all-time assists list.
» Only the fifth player in NCAA women's history to surpass 1,000 career assists, and the 12th to reach 900 career assists.
» Pac-12 women's and men's all-time assists leader (Previous: Gary Payton, 938).
» Oregon all-time leader in points, assists, three-point field goals (329) and double-figure scoring games (134).
» Tied for fifth in NCAA women's history with 134 double-figure scoring games.
» No. 2 in Pac-12 history in double-figure scoring games, No. 3 in three-pointers, No. 5 in points and No. 19 in rebounds.
» No. 2 in Oregon history in career free-throw percentage (85.1) and field goals made (905).
» No. 3 in Oregon history in career steals (207).
» No. 4 in Oregon history in double-doubles (58), three-point field-goal percentage (42.2) and games played (142).
» Pac-12 Tournament all-time leader in points (250), assists (86) and field goals made (90); two-time Pac-12 Tournament most outstanding player (2018, 2020).
» 48 career games of 20 points or more, and five of 30 points or more.
» 46 career games with double-digit assists and 40 games with double-digit rebounds.
2020 WNBA DRAFT
Selected by the New York Liberty with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft ... The first No. 1 overall pick in program history, and the third top overall pick in the history of Oregon athletics, joining George Shaw (Football, 1955) and Dave Roberts (Baseball, 1972) ... The first Oregon player ever to be taken in the first round of the WNBA Draft before being joined by teammates Satou Sabally (No. 2 overall) and Ruthy Hebard (No. 8) ... Went 1-2 with Sabally, becoming 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 SENIOR | 2019-20
- AAU James E. Sullivan Award Co-Winner (nation's most outstanding amateur athlete)
- Wade Trophy Winner (national player of the year)
- Naismith Trophy Winner (national player of the year)
- Wooden Award Winner (national player of the year)
- Associated Press National Player of the Year (unanimous)
- USBWA National Player of the Year
- ESPN.com National Player of the Year
- Nancy Lieberman Award Winner (nation's top point guard)
- Honda Sport Award Winner
- Senior CLASS Award Winner
- Associated Press First-Team All-America
- WBCA First-Team All-America
- Wooden Award All-America
- USBWA First-Team All-America
- Senior CLASS Award First-Team All-America
- Pac-12 Player of the Year (unanimous)
- All-Pac-12
- Pac-12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player
- Three-Time Pac-12 Player of the Week
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Co-winner of the 90th annual AAU James E. Sullivan Award, which is presented to the nation's most outstanding athlete ... Shared the Sullivan Award with University of Iowa wrestler Spencer Lee ... The first Oregon student-athlete ever to win the Sullivan Award ... The unanimous national player of the year for the 2019-20 season after winning the Wade Trophy, Naismith Trophy and Wooden Award while also being named the national player of the year by the Associated Press, USBWA and ESPN.com ... Won the Wade Trophy and the Wooden Award for the second year in a row, becoming the sixth two-time winner of each honor ... The first Oregon player ever to win the Naismith Trophy ... Only the second player in history to unanimously win AP national player of the year, joining Breanna Stewart (2016), and just the eighth player ever to earn AP first-team all-America honors for the third time ... Unanimous first-team all-American for the third straight year ... Joined Sue Bird as the only players ever to win the Nancy Lieberman Award three times as the national point guard of the year ... Named the Pac-12 player of the year for the third year in a row while earning a fourth straight all-Pac-12 selection ... Led the Ducks to a third straight Pac-12 regular-season title as well as the Pac-12 Tournament championship ... Missed out on one final run in the NCAA Tournament, which was cancelled due to COVID-19 ... Matched her own NCAA single-season record with eight triple-doubles, extending her NCAA all-time record for both women and men to 26 to finish her career ... Became the first player in NCAA history (women and men) to surpass 2,000 career points, 1,000 career rebounds and 1,000 career assists, eclipsing that mark on 2/24/20 in a win at No. 4 Stanford while also recording the final triple-double of her career with 21 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists ... Historic performance at Stanford came on the same day she delivered a heartfelt speech at the memorial for Kobe and Gianna Bryant, while also battling the flu ... Led the NCAA with a career-high 9.1 assists per game while ranking fourth nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.05) ... Shot a career-best 51.8 percent from the floor while shooting 39.2 percent from three-point range ... Ranked fourth in the Pac-12 with a team-high 17.5 points per game ... Third in the Pac-12 with a career-high 8.6 rebounds per game while leading the conference with 6.7 defensive rebounds per game ... Led the Pac-12 in free-throw percentage with a career-best mark of 92.1, including a 96.4 percent mark in conference play ... Broke the UO record for consecutive free throws made with 34 straight from 12/21/19 to 2/3/20 ... Racked up a career-high 20 double-doubles as a senior to finish with 58 in her career, fourth-most in program history ... Named the Pac-12 Tournament most outstanding player for the second time in her career after averaging 23.3 points, 9.3 rebounds and 9.0 assists per game in three games, headlined by a 31-point performance in the semifinals vs. No. 13 Arizona ... Erupted for a career-high 37 points while going 14-of-26 from the floor on 1/16/20 against No. 3 Stanford, breaking the UO all-time scoring record in the process ... Led Oregon to a historic exhibition win over the USA Women’s National Team on 11/9/19 with 30 points, seven assists and four rebounds ... Recorded the first triple-double of her senior season on 11/16/19 vs. Texas Southern with 10 points, 13 rebounds and 14 assists, matching her career-high for assists in a triple-double ... Broke the UO all-time records for both three-pointers and double-figure scoring games on 12/8/19 vs. South Dakota State ... Hauled down a career-high 18 rebounds while adding 16 points and 12 assists for career triple-double No. 20 on 12/16/19 vs. UC Riverside ... Recorded a triple-double in back-to-back games with 21 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists on 12/21/19 vs. Kansas State ... First triple-double in Pac-12 play and fourth of the season came on 1/12/20 at No. 18 Arizona, finishing with 17 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists ... Passed Gary Payton (938, OSU) as the Pac-12 all-time assists leader for both women and men on 1/24/20 vs. Oregon State with nine while adding 23 points ... Needed just three quarters to notch her fifth triple-double of the year on 2/1/20 at Colorado, recording 24 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds ... Helped lead Oregon to a historic road win at No. 4 UConn on 2/3/20 with 10 points, nine rebounds and nine assists ... Moved into the top five on the NCAA all-time women's assists list on 2/7/20 vs. No. 12 Arizona while recording triple-double No. 24 with 15 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists ... Surpassed 1,000 career assists with eight on 2/14/20 at No. 7 UCLA to become just the second player ever with 2,000 points and 1,000 assists ... Recorded triple-double No. 25 in front of family and friends in the Bay Area on 2/21/20 at California with 17 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists, before following up with another triple-double on 2/24/20 at Stanford in historic performance ... Started all 33 games, finishing career with 142 career appearances to rank fourth in program history.
AS A JUNIOR | 2018-19
- Wade Trophy Winner (national player of the year)
- Wooden Award Winner (most outstanding player in women’s college basketball)
- WBCA First-Team All-America
- ESPNW First-Team All-America
- Associated Press First-Team All-America
- Wooden All-America
- USBWA First-Team All-America
- Nancy Lieberman Award Winner (second straight season, nation's top point guard)
- Honda Sport Award Finalist
- Pac-12 Player of the Year
- All-Pac-12
- Naismith Trophy finalist
- Dawn Staley Award finalist
- NCAA Portland Regional MVP
- Pac-12 All-Tournament Team
Was eligible to declare for the 2019 WNBA draft but chose to return for her senior season, announced in a Players' Tribune article (link above)...Helped the Ducks to their first ever Final Four...Started all 38 games, averaging 19.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and 8.2 assists in 35.9 minutes per game...Broke the NCAA all-time (men's and women's) triple-double record with the 13th of her career on Dec. 20, 2018 against Air Force with 17 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists...Finished junior year with 18 career triple-doubles and an NCAA record eight in 2018-19...Broke the UO single-game assists record with 17 dimes on Dec. 2, 2018 against Long Beach State...Broke the previous record of 14 - which she had matched twice previously - midway through the third quarter of a 110-48 win over the 49ers...Matched her own Pac-12 Tournament single-game record with 13 assists against Arizona on March 8...Owns the UO NCAA Tournament record with 31 points against Mississippi State in the Elite Eight...Led the Pac-12 and ranked third in the NCAA in assists per game (8.2)...Led the nation with 311 total assists....Second in the Pac-12 and eighth in the NCAA with 755 total points...Fourth in the Pac-12 in scoring (19.9 ppg)...Second in the Pac-12 and 14th in the NCAA in three-point percentage (42.9)...Played 1,369 minutes, the most in the NCAA.
AS A SOPHOMORE | 2017-18
- WBCA First-Team All-America
- Associated Press First-Team All-America
- Wooden Award All-America
- USBWA First-Team All-America
- USA Today First-Team All-America
- ESPNW First-Team All-America
- Nancy Lieberman Award Winner (National Point Guard of the Year)
- Pac-12 Player of the Year
- All-Pac-12
- Pac-12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player
- Wade Trophy finalist (WBCA national player of the year)
- Wooden Award finalist (National player of the year)
- Honda Sport Award finalist
- Bleacher Report's "50 Most Influential People in Sports Culture" (Link)
- NCAA all-Spokane Regional Team
Started all 38 of Oregon's games as a sophomore as the Ducks won both the Pac-12 regular season and tournament titles and advanced to the Elite Eight for the second straight year...Named the Pac-12 player of the year in both the coach and media vote...The third player in UO history to win the award (Shaquala Williams in 2000, Lauri Landerholm in 1987) and the first sophomore to win Pac-12 player of the year since Stanford's Candice Wiggins in 2005...Set UO single-season record for both total points (748) and total assists (298)...Broke the Pac-12 single-season record with 298 total assists...Led the conference with both 19.7 points per game and 7.8 assists per game...Ranked 10th in the NCAA and second in the Pac-12, shooting 43.8 percent from three-point range...Scored a career-high 36 points to beat Stanford in the Pac-12 Tournament title game on March 4, a league championship game record...Named Pac-12 Tournament MVP after averaging 21.0 points, 7.3 assists and 5.0 rebounds over three wins while shooting 51.0 percent from the floor...Set the NCAA career record with her eighth career triple-double on Dec. 31 against Washington in just her 48th career game...In the same game head coach Kelly Graves won his 500th career game, scored 24 points to go with 14 rebounds and 10 assists vs. the Huskies to break the NCAA career record of seven previously shared by Penn State's Suzie McConnell (128 games, 1985-88) and Louella Tomlinson of Saint Mary's (125 games, 2008-11)...Posted her ninth triple-double on Jan. 28 at Utah with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 13 assists...Recorded her 10th career triple-double in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Seattle U with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, the 16th triple-double in NCAA Tournament history.
AS A FRESHMAN | 2016-17
- USBWA National Freshman of the Year
- ESPNW National Freshman of the Year
- Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
- All-Pac-12
- Pac-12 All-Freshman
- Pac-12 All-Tournament Team
- NCAA All-Bridgeport Regional Team
Tallied four triple-doubles, more than any other freshman in NCAA single-season history, and also broke the UO career record for triple-doubles...Her first game against San Jose State on Nov. 27 with 11 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists...Her second triple-double came two games later at Clemson on Dec. 12 with 23 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists...Third was against Utah on Jan. 22 with 14 points, 10 rebounds and a season-high 13 assists...Fourth came in an upset win over No. 15 UCLA with 11 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists...Also posted seven double-doubles...Ranked third in the Pac-12 and 29th in the NCAA with 183 assists on the year...Her 1.93-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio was second-best in the Pac-12...Averaged 14.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game in her first season with the Ducks...Second on the team in scoring, second in rebounding, first in assists...Hit a game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer to win at No. 20 Cal on Jan. 8 near her hometown of Walnut Creek...Hit game-winning free throws to beat No. 11 Washington in the second round of the Pac-12 Tournament in front of a sold out crowd at KeyArena on March 3...Scored 20+ points six times with a season-high 26 in a win over UT San Antonio on Nov. 20...Tallied 21 points, seven assists and six rebounds in Oregon's Elite Eight win over Maryland on March 25...Averaged 16.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game in the NCAA Tournament while shooting 45.8 percent from the floor and 45.0 percent from three...Named Pac-12 freshman of the week four times, USBWA national freshman of the week once and Pac-12 player of the week once...On Feb. 13, after posting a double-double in a win over USC and a triple-double in a win over UCLA, she swept the Pac-12 freshman and player of the week honors...Just the 17th player in Pac-12 history to be named both All-Pac-12 and Pac-12 all-Freshman...Oregon was the only team in the 2017 NCAA Tournament to start three freshmen - Mallory McGwire, Ionescu and Ruthy Hebard.
CAREER HIGHS (final)
| Points: 37, vs. Stanford -- 1/16/20 |
| Rebounds: 18, vs. UC Riverside -- 12/16/19 |
| Assists: 17, vs. Long Beach State -- 12/02/18 |
| Steals: 6, 2x, last vs. Hawaii -- 12/22/17 |
| Blocks: 2, 5x, last at Arizona State -- 2/23/18 |
| FG made: 14, 2x, last vs. Stanford -- 1/16/20 |
| FG attempts: 27, at Oregon State -- 1/19/18 |
| 3FG made: 6, 5x, last vs. Arizona -- 3/7/20 |
| 3FG attempts: 18, vs. Washington -- 12/31/17 |
| FT made: 17, vs. Mississippi State -- 12/18/18 |
| FT attempts: 17, vs. Mississippi State -- 12/18/18 |
USA NATIONAL TEAM
Won a second straight USA Basketball 3x3 national title in 2019, winning the event in Las Vegas with Ruthy Hebard, Oti Gildon and Lydia Giomi...Invited to USA Basketball senior team training camp in South Carolina on Sept. 1, 2018...Along with fellow UO teammates Erin Boley, Hebard and Gildon, represented the USA at the FIBA 3x3 World Cup in the Phillipines during the summer of 2018, finishing fifth with a 4-1 record...Earned the bid after going undefeated at the USA Basketball 3x3 national championship in the spring...Named to the USA U23 national team in the summer of 2017... Won gold at the 2017 Four Nations Tournament in Tokyo, Japan, averaging 10.3 points over three games...Also won gold medals with the U16 and U17 USA national teams...Helped the USA to a championship at the 2013 U16 FIBA Americas Championship in Cancun, Mexico and the 2014 U17 FIBA World Championships in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
HIGH SCHOOL
Named the national player of the year by both USA Today and Maxpreps following her senior season...Played in both the McDonald's All-America and Jordan Brand All-America games...Named the McDonald's All-America game MVP after scoring a record 25 points, including seven three-pointers, with 10 rebounds...Rated the No. 4 recruit in the nation by ESPNW…California's Gatorade state player of the year as a senior...Part of Oregon's seven-player recruiting class ranked No. 3 in the nation...Led Miramonte HS to the CIF open division title game in her senior season after averaging 25.3 points, 8.8 assists, 7.6 rebounds, 4.5 steals and 1.3 blocks per game...Posted a triple-double in the championship game loss to Chaminade with 24 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds..Averaged 18.7 points, 7.7 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 4.7 steals per game in her junior season, helping Miramonte HS to a 30-2 record and an appearance in the CIF open division semifinals.
CLUB
Played for head coach Kelly Sopak and the Cal Stars AAU team...Won a Nike EYBL championship in the summer of 2015...AAU teammates with Minyon Moore and former Duck Mallory McGwire.
PERSONAL
Has a twin brother, Eddy, who played basketball at City College of San Francisco before joining his sister at Oregon.
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
