One more year: Sabrina Ionescu will be back for the senior season with Oregon Women's Basketball

EUGENE – Sabrina Ionescu will lead the Oregon Ducks for another year.

The US guard has announced that it will return for its senior season instead of participating in the WNBA draft.

"Yes, the trip was amazing," Ionescu wrote in a letter to the Players Tribune. "But no, it's NOT as good as it can be because people who say we've reached a peak – they do not know this program and they do not know me, and they do not know the mission to which we are, together, in a group. summer sure.

"I arrived at the University of Oregon as a freshman in 2016-17." We created the Elite Eight (and lost big). the University of Oregon in second year in 2017-2018 .We created the Elite Eight (and I came back to the University of Oregon as a junior in 2018-2019, we participated in the Final Four and I could not be happier to announce that I would be returning to the University of Oregon for the 2019-2020 season of basketball.

"I'm not going to predict exactly where we're going to go … but I'm just going to say this, we have some outstanding business.

The NCAA record holder in the career triple-double (18), Ionescu averaged 19.9 points, 8.2 assists and 7.4 rebounds this season.

Ionescu is the record holder of a season in Oregon for points (755) and aids (311) and the record holder of a match for assistants (17) and is the absolute leader of the program in career aids (792) and third in three career points. (269) and fourth in career (1,984).

Recipient of the Nancy Lieberman Award as a leader of the year, she won the WBCA Wade Trophy as the most outstanding player in the country and was named All-American by the AP, USBWA and WBCA.

His return guarantees Oregon four of five starters from 2019-2020 and places the Ducks in a position to open next season as the country's No. 1 team after losing to Baylor in the final on Friday.

"Ducks Nation – See you next year. Let's see packed halls, "writes Ionescu in the letter, which refers to Kobe Bryant's recent failure in his ESPN + room. "Kobe – I'll see you next year, too, I hope you keep looking, and WNBA – I'll see you soon, I promise you that soon.

"Just have a few things to settle first."