Where does ESPN women's bracketologist Charlie Creme have Oregon after two top-10 victories?

Oregon women's basketball team is arguably coming off one of its best regular-season weeks in program history.

The Ducks defeated then-No. 7 Arizona in overtime Saturday, and followed that up with a statement 13-point win over No. 9 Connecticut.

So where do the Ducks stand after two monumental victories?

According to the NET Rankings, Oregon (9-5, 2-1 Pac-12) is 12th overall after victories against two teams who are rated higher. ESPN women's basketball bracketologist Charlie Creme previously had Oregon placed as a 10th seed coming into last week's action.

Now the Ducks are eighth in his latest bracket released this week, and they could move up as high as a sixth in Creme's next round of brackets.

"They're going to move up considerably now," Creme told The Register-Guard. "With the idea of bracketology, injuries are obviously something that comes into consideration. It isn't as cut and dry as in season's past.

"The way they've gotten so whole so quickly, this does look like the team that we thought they were going to be. We had them spotted as a top-10 team in the beginning, and it looks like they're close to that. They're definitely climbing with the team that they have now, and that was a resounding win against a pretty good team (UConn)."

While Oregon had a memorable week, it always hasn't been that way. Early this season, three of the Ducks' best players (Endyia Rogers, Te-Hina Paopao and Nyara Sabally) missed time due to injury. Without them Oregon was 6-4 and considered an NCAA Tournament bubble team.

Since then, Oregon is 4-1 with its only loss coming to Stanford, which is ranked second in the country. What has helped is Oregon got all three players back, though Sabally suffered an apparent knee injury against UConn.

If Sabally isn't out a significant amount of time, Creme said he believes the Ducks could be the second-best team in the Pac-12.

"Now that everyone is healthy, we've seen what they've done in the last five days," Creme said. "It's been a little bit of a roller coaster for the coaching staff and the players who have been healthy. I imagine it has been difficult for them with fingers crossed the entire time.

"It appears they've weathered that and the talent is there to be the second-best team in the Pac-12 that could challenge Stanford, perhaps. The fact that they got these three players back and how they will fit again so quickly was something I did not expect."

Much like last year, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected just about every Division I team and Oregon isn't any different. This season, five of the Ducks' games have either been postponed or canceled due to COVID protocols affecting other teams. Also, one of the Ducks' best players, Sedona Prince, missed games against Stanford and California after testing positive for COVID.

The country continues to battle the omicron variant — which caused 99.5% of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. last week, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As the season moves along, more games will continue to be postponed and possibly canceled because of the variant. Creme said those games have to be under consideration for him and possibly the NCAA selection committee.

"The individual players missing games is going to be so difficult for the committee to weed through because it's so rampant," Creme said. "In some cases, they play as well or better without certain players.

"It's extra, extra subjective this year. Where Oregon kind of benefits is the fact that it is a straight line of when players were out and when players were playing."

Oregon at Washington

Projected Oregon (10-5) starters

Guard, Endyia Rodgers, Jr., 13.0 ppg, 3.5 rpg

Guard, Maddie Scherr, So., 7.3 ppg, 3.9 rpg

Guard Sydney Parrish, So.,12.4 ppg, 3.7 rpg

Forward, Nyara Sabally, r-Jr., 15.8 ppg, 6.7 rpg

Forward, Sedona Prince, Jr., 11.6 ppg, 5.0 rpg

Projected Washington (5-5) starters

Center, Nancy Mulkey, Sr., 9.7 ppg, 6.3 rpg

Guard, Missy Peterson, Sr., 6.1 ppg, 4.3 rpg

Guard, Trinity Oliver Jr., 4.2 ppg, 3.9 rpg

Foward, Haley Van Dyke, Jr., 12.4 ppg, 8.0 rpg

Forward, Lauren Schwartz, Soph., 8.1 ppg, 2.1 rpg

Time: 7 p.m. at Alaska Airlines Arena

TV: Pac-12 Network. Radio: KUGN-AM (590)

Contact Register-Guard sportswriter Antwan Staley at astaley@gannett.com and follow him on Twitter @antwanstaley.

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