Sabrina Ionescu Wants to Win the Whole Damn Thing

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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University of Oregon senior guard Sabrina Ionescu is a generational college basketball talent. She is the frontrunner for National Player of the Year, the projected No. 1 pick in April's WNBA Draft, and last week, became just the second player in NCAA basketball history - male or female - to record over 2,000 points and 1,000 assists. ESPN Senior Writer Liz Merrill joins us to discuss Ionescu's run of triple-doubles, her relationship with Kobe Bryant, and her ultimate quest to deliver the Ducks their first-ever NCAA women's basketball championship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, I knew losing that last game, I had something that, you know, I wanted to achieve coming back my senior year.
0:06.0	And so, you know, the goals that we have of winning a national championship, winning a Pact-12 title, and just everything that kind of comes along with it is something that I want to achieve and our team wants to achieve.
0:18.0	Sabrina Yinescu could have joined the WNBA last year.
0:21.6	But instead, she returned for her senior season at Oregon with one goal in mind to win a national championship.
0:29.6	Today, how a girl who grew up hustling older kids on the court for slurpy money became the NCAA's all-time leader in triple doubles,
0:39.3	and whether she can win it all come March.
0:43.4	I'm Mina Kimes. It's Wednesday, February 19th.
0:47.3	This is ESPN Daily, presented by ADT. Hi, Liz.
1:00.2	Mina, how are you?
1:02.1	Liz Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN and spent time with Sabrina Yanescu in her family last year for an in-depth profile.
1:09.8	Liz, Sabrina Yanescu gets called generational talent.
1:13.7	Now, sometimes it feels like every top prospect every year gets called a generational talent.
1:18.8	But with her, it does not seem like hyperbole.
1:22.9	No, it's not.
1:24.4	She's the real deal.
1:26.1	She is sort of the Serena Williams of women's basketball.
1:31.5	She can shoot the ball.
1:33.5	Yidescu, three out top.
1:35.3	Good. The net barely moved.
1:41.3	She can dish out passes with relative ease.
1:46.3	It looks like she's not even trying.
1:48.4	Nice back cut by Aaron Bowley, who's into double figures and a great pass by Yinescu.
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