I still the the Ducks are a top-10 team. They bring in a top-2 recruiting class, and Sedona Prince and Nyara Sabally should make a really solid backcourt. Two unique players and athletes.
PaoPao is also the most underrated player in 2020. I think she’s a top-10 talent.
They’ll be young and likely more inconsistent, but still really talented. McDonald coming back could influence whether or not they’re a top-2 squad in the Pac-12 with Stanford.
Wouldn’t be surprised to see a top grad transfer land there as well if Graves recruits one.
Top 10 would be great, but I'd take top 20 at this point given all of the unknowns. Prince has been practicing full speed since January and going against both Hebard and Sabally on a daily basis. In Graves's words--and he generally gives accurate assessments--she has been "unstoppable" (a "game changer" in another quote). Nyara Sabally remains a question mark, but if she becomes the player she was prior to her injuries, they will be a very formidable duo up front, with, I suspect, one of the freshmen (Kylie Watson) as a primary backup along with Lydia Giomi.
Boley has said the will be back. (She has a double major in Product Design and Architecture and needs another year to complete both degrees after transferring.) I imagine that Shelly and Chavez will start at guard initially with some serious competition form PaoPao, who has finally been getting her due (Naismith finalist, among other things) after a couple of injuries early in her high school career. She is indeed, as
@DaBball says, a top-10 talent, with another incoming guard (Maddie Scher) not far behind imo. Given all the talent (there are two other quite talented incoming freshmen, one of whom--Angela Dugalic--is my pick for "sleeper" of the class), and the challenge of finding minutes for everyone, I'd be very surprised if Graves went after a grad transfer. So--lots of very young/untested talent and likely a lot of inconsistent play early on, but the team could be very good by the time March rolls around.
