Ducks Garner Pac-12 Awards, March 5

UO release – EUGENE, Ore. – Led by a third straight Pac-12 player of the year honor for Sabrina Ionescu, the Oregon women’s basketball team dominated the end-of-season all-conference awards released by the league office on Tuesday morning. Ionescu – a unanimous selection by the conference’s coaches – joins Stanford’s Candice Wiggins (2005, 06, 08) as the only players in conference history to win player of the year three times, and she is the first player ever to take home the honor three years in a row. Head coach Kelly Graves was voted the John R. Wooden coach of the year by his peers for the second straight season, and sophomore Taylor Chavez was named the Pac-12 sixth player of the year. Oregon’s entire “Big Three” of Ionescu, Ruthy Hebard and Satou Sabally landed on the 15-player all-Pac-12 team – making the Ducks the only team with three all-conference picks – and senior Minyon Moore earned a spot on the Pac-12 all-defensive team. Jaz Shelley received all-freshman honorable mention.