U of O women

Basketball team won both conference and tournament and will go into March Madness with higher hopes than any past teams, I expect. How far can they go? I'd like to see them make the final four but frankly, Connecticut looks to me like a team in a different universe, so I will be shocked if the Huskies don't go all the way. Again. In women's MM, there are fewer upsets historically, less of a run by a Cinderella  team. But I hope U of O and UCLA women go deep. We'll see.

SEATTLE — The Oregon women's basketball team followed up its regular-season Pac-12 title by winning the Pac-12 Tournament in dominant fashion Sunday, getting a title-game record 36 points from conference player of the yearSabrina Ionescu and knocking off perennial Pac-12 power Stanford, 77-57, in KeyArena.

The sixth-ranked and top-seeded Ducks (30-4) avenged one of their only two conference losses this season, and turned into into a rout after squandering a halftime lead against the Cardinal in the regular season. Oregon seems all but assured of earning at least a No. 2 seed into the NCAA Tournament when pairings are announced March 12, and of hosting the first two rounds of tournament play the following weekend.