Senior experience and tournament experience led Stanford to beat the Ducks.  The Ducks have better talent,  albeit inexperienced in big game mental ability to prevail,  to not lose,  that Stanford showed.  It looks to me like Ducks,   and every other team in the conference,  are on a rising trajectory.  The PAC 12 looks to be a season long series of close games and  upsets,  and if the league  gets a better grade of pre season opponents from top to bottom,  the PAC 12 will become dominant in the country.  The basic basketball is just so good.  Strange that the highest ranked high school kids from Oregon seem to attend SEC schools,  where Tennessee isn't even ranked at this time.  I haven't paid attention to Vanderbilt.  South Carolina is the power this year,  and that will present some PAC 12 team with a chance to prove otherwise.  Nevertheless,  Oregon high school girls go elsewhere, with one at UO and two at OSU.