Sabrina Ionescu is doing something women's basketball has never seen.
Oregon鈥檚 Sabrina Ionescu plays basketball with the versatility of a Swiss army knife, and she鈥檚 doing it in a way the sport has never seen.
Ionescu closed out 2017 on Sunday with her eighth career triple-double, dropping 24 points, grabbing 14 rebounds and dishing out 10 assists on her way to breaking the women's Division I record for career triple-doubles. It took her just 48 games with the Ducks to make history.
Sabrina Ionescu has broken the women's Division I record with her eighth career triple-double.
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The sophomore has played fewer than half as many games as the previous record-holders.
You might notice something pretty substantial in those numbers.
The former record-holders, Suzie McConnell of Penn State and Louella Tomlinson of Saint Mary鈥檚, each racked up seven triple-doubles鈥 in at least 125 games.
If you do a little math, you鈥檒l realize Ionescu has recorded more triple-doubles than either of the former leaders while playing under 40 percent of their career games.
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Right now, Ionescu is averaging a triple-double every six games for her career. If she were to play 125 games for Oregon, at that pace, she would finish with 20 triple-doubles, nearly triple (!) any other player in women鈥檚 DI history.
And get this: last year, Ionescu tallied four triple-doubles, more than any other freshman in 红杏视频 single-season history, in 33 games. She already has four this year in 14 games. That means she鈥檚 picking up speed, and her pace.
It鈥檚 only been four dozen games, but the Walnut Creek, Calif., native is already re-writing the history books, and she鈥檚 just getting started.
