Five years after hitting rock bottom with a 4-27 overall record, the Oregon women’s basketball program has completed an abrupt Pac-12 ascent.

The sixth-ranked Ducks (30-4) followed up their regular-season conference championship with a dominant 77-57 victory over Stanford, one of the sport’s blue-blood programs, in the Pac-12 Tournament title game this past Sunday night at Seattle’s KeyArena.

In the past year, Oregon has:

Ended a 12-year NCAA Tournament drought.

Reached the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight for the first time.

Set school records for overall wins (30) and conference wins (16).

Won an outright conference championship for the first time since 2000 and cut the nets down for the first time ever at the Pac-12 Tournament.

“I didn’t really think that far in advance,” said Sabrina Ionescu, the Pac-12 player of the year and conference tournament most outstanding player, when asked if she thought such a dramatic turnaround was possible. “But I knew that we could build something great here, and our coaches believed in us during the recruiting process and believed we could achieve something like this.

“It’s great, the fact that we achieved this so soon. The sky is the limit for us, and I’m excited to see what the future holds.”

The Ducks had a chance to exhale this week before finding out Monday what their seed is in the NCAA Tournament. Oregon will host first- and second-round games between March 16 and 19 at Matthew Knight Arena.

A recent ESPN bracket projection has Oregon as a No. 2 seed facing No. 15 Boise State in the Spokane Regional, with No. 7 Virginia and No. 10 Creighton also playing in Eugene.

“This has been a season of firsts for the Ducks,” coach Kelly Graves notes.

Graves still has a couple of more lofty long-term goals — a Final Four appearance and national championship — on the bucket list.

The path figures to be easier this March than last year’s improbable NCAA Tournament run to the regional final, where 10th-seeded Oregon lost to UConn after upsetting Temple, Duke and Maryland.

“Last year’s run we didn’t really know what we were doing,” Graves said. “We just kind of got hot and had some fun and stayed loose, had three tremendous games. I think this year, as you can tell by the record, we’ve stayed focused.”

After crushing Colorado (84-47) in the conference quarterfinals, scoring the final 10 points to stun UCLA (65-62) in the semifinals and avenging the Feb. 4 home loss to Stanford in the title-game rematch, the Ducks are 19-2 against Pac-12 teams this season.

Oregon’s other three defeats were at Mississippi State and Louisville, two teams projected to be No. 1 seeds, and to Civil War rival Oregon State in Corvallis.

Lexi Bando, the only senior in the Oregon starting lineup, is amazed by the maturity and poise her talented young teammates already possess.

“People don’t talk about how young we are, but we still are really young,” Bando said. “To have one senior in the starting lineup, it’s incredible what they’re doing. I think we can make a deep run if we play like we did in (the conference) tournament.”

Ionescu was spectacular during Oregon’s three-game sweep in Seattle. She set a single-game conference tournament record for assists with 13 against Colorado and set the record for most points in the championship game with a career-high 36 against Stanford.

“She was really orchestrating everything out there,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said of Ionescu, who leads the Pac-12 with 94 made three-pointers and has set Oregon’s single-season assists record with 264. “They did a really good job in their pick-and-rolls. She made long, long 3s.”

The team’s other super sophomore, Ruthy Hebard, averaged 12.3 points and 11.0 rebounds. Bando, who joined Ionescu and Hebard on the all-tournament team, became Oregon’s career leader in 3-pointers with a clutch shot against UCLA.

Freshman phenom Satou Sabally scored 21 points against Colorado, suffered a pelvis injury against UCLA and played through pain to contribute 12 key points against Stanford.

Junior Maite Cazorla continued her steady play at point guard with 10 points, six assists, two steals and one turnover in 38 minutes against the Cardinal.

“Oregon has a young team, too,” VanDerveer said. “Quite honestly, we lost to a better team. They are a very skilled offensive team.”