Oregon Ducks learn women's Pac-12 basketball weekend schedule

The Oregon women's basketball team, coming off its fourth straight NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearance, will open the Pac-12 Conference season the weekend of Dec. 31-Jan. 2 hosting Colorado and Utah.

The Pac-12 released the weekend matchup and site designations Thursday with exact opponent date and times to be announced at a later day.

Oregon's second weekend of conference play is a trip to the Bay Area on Jan. 7-9 to play California and defending national champion Stanford. Stanford and California will visit Matthew Knight Arena on Feb. 18-20.

Arizona, which lost to Stanford in last season's national title game, and Arizona State come to Eugene on Jan. 14-16 with the Ducks visiting those two schools Feb. 4-6.

Games with Oregon State will be Feb. 11 and Feb. 13.

The Ducks also will play at Washington and Washington State on Jan. 21-23, but the Washington schools will not visit Eugene during the 20-game conference slate.

Oregon will host USC and UCLA on Jan. 28-30, but will not play in Los Angeles this season.

The Ducks will open the season Nov. 9 against Idaho. Oregon's nonconference slate includes a trip to the Bahamas to play in the Battle 4 Atlantis on Nov. 20-22 where the Ducks will open against Oklahoma and play Buffalo or South Carolina on the second day.

Oregon will hit the road for games at Kansas State and Northwestern on Dec. 18 and Dec. 21, respectively. The Ducks also will host UConn on Jan. 17. The Huskies lost to Arizona in the Final Four last season.

The Ducks return six players from last season for coach Kelly Graves, led by junior Sedona Prince and sophomores Nyara Sabally and Te-Hina Papao.

Oregon also will welcome seven new players to the roster, including USC transfer Endyia Rogers.

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