ESPN College GameDay announced Oregon women’s basketball alum and WNBA champion Sabrina Ionescu will be the celebrity guest picker for Week 7’s show in Eugene, Oregon. That show comes ahead of Saturday’s Top 10 showdown between the third-ranked Ducks and No. 7 Indiana.
This will be Ionescu’s second appearance as College GameDay’s guest picker after joining the show in 2022 ahead of that season’s Top 10 game between Oregon and UCLA. The 27-year-old Ionescu is among the most prolific and iconic Oregon alumni still playing after a stellar four-year career in Eugene (2016-2020), where she was a two-time Wooden Award winner and consensus national Player of the Year as a senior in 2020. A lights-out 3-point shooter, Ionescu still holds the NCAA record for career triple-doubles.
After being the No. 1 overall pick of the 2020 WNBA Draft, Ionescu has gone on to become a four-time WNBA All-Star, a two-time WNBA 3-point Shootout champion, and a WNBA champion. She helped lead the New York Liberty to the 2024 title last season.
Sabrina Ionescu catches fire, wins second WNBA three-point contest
Ionescu dropped 30 points and made 11 straight shots at one point in the final round to claim victory in the 2025 WNBA 3-point Shootout in July. The win put her alongside Allie Quigley as the WNBA’s only multiple-time winners.
While she didn’t necessarily reach the 37 points she put up in her first WNBA three-point competition victory in 2023, Ionescu still put on a show at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. The Oregon great also had some extra motivation after losing her last three-point contest in Indianapolis at the 2024 NBA All-Star Game when she went against Stephen Curry. As a result, she was out for revenge.
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“It means everything,” Ionescu told ESPN’s Holly Rowe. “The last time I was here in Indy against Steph, I lost. So I feel like I had to come back and redeem myself.”
In 2023, Ionescu set the WNBA record with 37 points in the three-point contest as she brought home her first title. She then had 29 points against Curry at Lucas Oil Stadium last year, and got to 30 points this time around at Gainbridge.
However, Ionescu still wasn’t satisfied with her performance. Still, she was happy to complete a Liberty sweep after Natasha Cloud won the skills competition.
“Well, I’m pretty disappointed. I feel like I missed a few easy ones there that I definitely could’ve made, so I’m sorry about that. But just happy to be here and obviously, happy to have won with my teammate Natasha Cloud, who won the skills competition, as well.”
