Head Coach - Oregon Women's Basketball
Kelly Graves is in his sixth season at the helm of the Oregon women’s basketball program. He was named the seventh head coach in program history on April 7, 2014. On March 20, 2019, Graves and UO agreed to terms on a contract extension that will keep him in Eugene through the 2025-26 season. Graves enters the 2019-20 campaign with a record of 124-52 in his previous five seasons with the Ducks and a 551-254 overall head coaching mark over 25 seasons, which includes three years at Big Benc CC. He is 506-214 all-time as a Div. I head coach, with stops at Saint Mary's, Gonzaga and Oregon. As a head coach, Graves has won 12 regular season conference titles and reached the NCAA Tournament 11 times. In tournament play, he boasts one trip to the Final Four, four career trips to the Elite Eight and six total Sweet 16 appearances. His teams have won 20-plus games in 12 of the last 13 seasons and 17 total times. Graves has coached seven All-Americans, including three-time selections Courtney Vandersloot (Gonzaga) and Jillian Alleyne (Oregon). In 2018-19, Oregon won a second straight Pac-12 regular season title after going 16-2 in conference play. Graves and the Ducks were ranked as high as No. 2 in the AP poll and earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament for a second straight year. Sabrina Ionescu was named the Pac-12 player of the year for a second straight season as well before earning national player of the year recognition by the WBCA (Wade Trophy) and the Wooden Award. The Ducks went 33-5 for a second straight year in 2018-19, capped by the program's first-ever trip to the Final Four. UO upset No. 1 seed Mississippi State, 88-84, in the Elite Eight in front of a raucous crowd of 11,538 at the Moda Center in Portland, Ore. The Ducks are 10-3 in the NCAA Tournament over the last three seasons, after winning just five total NCAA Tournament games previously in program history. Oregon earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, hosted games in Eugene for the first time since 2000, and reached the Elite Eight for a second straight season before falling to eventual national champion and No. 1 seed Notre Dame in the Spokane regional final.
