SPOKANE, Wash. — Florida or bust?

“Well, I wouldn’t make predictions,” Oregon women’s basketball coach Kelly Graves said after the Ducks’ season ended with an 84-74 loss to top-seeded Notre Dame on Monday in the Spokane Regional final.

On paper, the Pac-12 regular-season and tournament champion Ducks (33-5) should be even stronger next season and will be one of the preseason favorites to make it to the 2019 women’s Final Four in Tampa, Florida.

Oregon will return four starters, including first-team All-American Sabrina Ionescu and honorable mention All-American Ruthy Hebard, and adds Notre Dame transfer Erin Boley to a deep roster.

Lexi Bando was hoping for another shot at UConn in the national semifinals Friday in Columbus, Ohio. Despite coming up short in NCAA Tournament regional finals the past two seasons, the program’s all-time leader in 3-pointers still believes the Ducks can eventually compete with the Huskies, who beat Oregon in the Elite Eight last season and are headed to the Final Four for the 11th consecutive time.

“UConn’s a program I feel Oregon is going to become,” Bando said. “We’re going to become a dynasty here. We’re going to continue to get better each year, bring in really great recruits. I think it was a really good learning experience for us.”

Boley, who played in 37 games for Notre Dame last season with 10 starts, is the leading candidate to replace Bando’s perimeter firepower next season.

“I’m going to do whatever they need me to do, whatever it takes to be on the floor,” said Boley, the co-national high school player of the year with Ionescu in 2016, who redshirted this season while practicing with the Ducks. “I feel like I’m pretty versatile and I have a lot to offer. We’ll see as that comes around next year.

“I’m hoping I’ll be able to fit right in and bring some 3s where we’re missing it from Bando.”

Oregon graduates Bando and fellow senior guard Justine Hall but will welcome incoming freshmen Nyara Sabally and Taylor Chavez.

“I think we only continue to get better, I truly do,” Graves said. “I mean, Bando is hard to replace because she’s been here and she’s that senior. But if anybody can fill those shoes, it can be Erin. And Erin is 6 (feet) 2, so it makes us better defensively and on the boards.”

Sabally, a 6-foot-3 prospect, is the younger sister of the Ducks’ Pac-12 freshman of the year, Satou Sabally. Chavez, the prep player of the year in Arizona, is another elite guard recruit whose competitive “DNA is the same as Sabrina’s,” according to Graves.

The elder Sabally and classmates Aina Ayuso and Anneli Maley are expected to develop and improve their games significantly between now and the start of their sophomore seasons.

“Our freshmen this year are going to continue to get better like we got better last offseason,” Ionescu said. “We’re going to be able to lead our freshmen coming in who are going to be great pieces for us. Chavez is such a great guard and versatile, and Nyara is a big post player and she can also play the stretch four (position).”

The Ducks have a wealth of NCAA Tournament experience with Ionescu and Hebard leading the program to back-to-back Elite Eights as underclassmen.

Next year’s team will also have only two seniors — steady point guard Maite Cazorla and backup forward Oti Gildon.

“Obviously it hurts because we were so close and we could have definitely gotten to the Final Four, but I think we’re going to learn from it and play harder,” Cazorla said inside a somber locker room as the Irish were celebrating under the confetti at Spokane Arena. “We’ll see next year. We’re losing two great teammates and players, but we have players coming in.

“Erin Boley is going to be great, too. She’s amazing, she’s a great shooter. I mean, she shoots so fast. I’ve never seen someone shoot so fast, and then she’s also a good teammate.”

Oregon already has the skill and scoring ability to match up with any team in the country not coached by Geno Auriemma.

But the Ducks were outmuscled by Notre Dame, which dominated the second half and finished with 22 more rebounds than Graves’ team.

“Our posts are still sophomores and freshmen,” noted Ionescu, who was the team’s second-leading rebounder this season behind Hebard. “So give them a few years to get stronger and they will be doing that to other teams.”

A list of touted players from the program-changing 2016 recruiting class — Mallory McGwire, Sierra Campisano, Lydia Giomi, Morgan Yaeger — must improve and stay healthy to increase their role next season.

They would be wise to follow Ionescu’s lead.

When the Pac-12 player of the year was asked how much time she would take off before getting back to work, the hyper-competitive Ionescu said she would be in the practice gym on Tuesday.

“People compete for playing time every day,” Ionescu said. “Coach tells us nothing’s given and we have to earn everything. So regardless if you’ve started all your games, if you’re not going to come out and contribute and work hard and do your job, someone else is going to beat you.

“So I think that definitely motivates us in practice — and knowing that freshmen are coming in next year that have started their whole lives, so they can take anyone’s spot if they’re going to slack off.”