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SPORTS Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Women’s College Basketball Page 3B Washington, OSU new faces in Final Four Beavers celebrate, but UConn looms Associated Press East Oregonian By TIM BOOTH Associated Press seeded Beavers (32-4) a 60-57 victory over Baylor in the CORVALLIS — They’ve 'DOODV5HJLRQDO¿QDO Oregon State has won 22 still got at least one more game left this season, but the Oregon of its past 23 games and has State Beavers are already already set a school record for victories this season. The celebrating. The team arrived on campus Beavers won the Pac-12 on Tuesday afternoon fresh off Tournament and shared the an NCAA Tournament Elite regular-season title. Their Eight upset of Baylor in Dallas No. 2 seed was the highest in on Monday night. The Beavers program history. At the rally, senior Ruth get a few days at home before heading off to Indiana to face Hamblin grasped the regional trophy, the cut-down net Connecticut on Sunday. The top-seeded and unde- draped over her shoulders. The program has seen a feated Huskies are considered a clear favorite to win the title resurgence under Rueck, an this year, but Oregon State Oregon State alum who had took the moment to revel a bit WR KROG RSHQ WU\RXWV KLV ¿UVW LQWKHSURJUDP¶V¿UVWHYHUWULS season to build a roster. “We don’t do this just for to the Final Four. The Oregon State marching us. We understand who we band played “Don’t Stop represent and we take that seri- Believin”’ when the players ously,” Rueck told the cheering arrived at a campus rally Tuesday. crowd at Parker Plaza. %XW ¿UVW WKH %HDYHUV KDYH University President Ed Ray likened the team’s turn- to face undefeated UConn, around over the past six years the overwhelming favorite to under coach Scott Rueck and win a fourth straight NCAA his coaching staff to rebuilding championship this season. The Huskies, who have been a home. “They built it stronger, they to nine straight Final Fours — built it better and they built it have lost just one of their last to make history,” Ray told the 120 games. Ray noted UConn has cheering crowd of orange-clad beaten a lot of teams in the last fans. Junior Sydney Wiese 2½ years. “You know who they scored 18 points, including WKUHH IUHH WKURZV LQ WKH ¿QDO haven’t beaten?” Ray asked 33 seconds, giving the second- the crowd. “The Beavers!” SEATTLE — For three decades, any chatter about women’s basketball on the West Coast has usually started and ended with Stanford. While the Cardinal are still among the elite programs in the country — as evidenced by their run to the Elite Eight — it’s Oregon State and Wash- ington that are headed to the Final Four in Indianapolis and providing validation that women’s basketball out West is more than just what is happening at Stanford. “We’re all seeing how good the Pac-12 is. It surprises me a bit how surprised I think people are across the country,” Oregon State coach Scott Rueck said over the weekend. “You listen to just the general narrative of the Pac-12 and people are surprised, surprised Washington could beat Maryland. We’re not. We’ve played against them.” The runs by Oregon State and Washington to the Final Four mark the latest evolution of West Coast women’s basketball. USC was one of the dominant programs in the country when the women’s )LQDO)RXU¿UVWVWDUWHGEDFN in 1982 and thanks to Cheryl Miller USC won consec- utive titles in 1983-84. But then no one else in the Godofredo Vasquez/The Gazette-Times via AP Oregon State center Ruth Hamblin carries the re- gional championship trophy as the team is greeted by fans in Corvallis on Tuesday. Pac-10 at the time — now Pac-12 — emerged as a powerhouse program other than Stanford. Nearly every school in the conference took a turn being good for a year or two, but no one else could put together a team and an NCAA run good enough to reach the Final Four. Between USC’s losing in the title game in 1986 and the Beavers and Huskies both UHDFKLQJWKHQDWLRQDOVHPL¿- nals this year, the only other Pac-12 school to advance to the Final Four other than Stanford was California in 2013. The only other West Coast school to reach the Final Four was Long Beach State in 1987 and 1988. “I think for a number of years people were trying to get everybody to listen that the Pac-12 was really good, but they could never really prove it because there was always one team in the Final Four and that was Stanford. ... Even though people were saying it, you couldn’t really back it up,” Washington coach Mike Neighbors said Tuesday. “Now we’re saying it all year long, we’ve been saying it since Christmas and everybody is looking at us like ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf.’ We’ve heard this before. But now you get three teams in the Elite Eight, four in the Sweet 16 and two in the Final Four. That is that validation.” Oregon State and Wash- ington will bring stories of redemption to Indianapolis. Rueck inherited a shattered program when he returned to his alma mater in 2010 and most of his current roster went 10-21 in the 2012-13 season. But they followed up with 24 and 27 wins the following two seasons and this year earned a share of the Pac-12 regular-season title, won the Pac-12 tour- nament and upset Baylor to reach the Final Four. Washington’s run as a No. 7 seed is among the more unlikely in tourna- ment history and included ZLQV RQ WKH KRPH ÀRRUV of Maryland and Kentucky just to reach the regional ¿QDO DJDLQVW 6WDQIRUG 7KH Huskies had not won two games against the Cardinal in the same season since 1987 before beating them in the Pac-12 tournament and again for a Final Four berth. For Neighbors, one of the biggest impacts he hopes the runs by Oregon State and Washington provides is proof that top players don’t have to leave the :HVW&RDVWWR¿QGVXFFHVV Washington’s roster includes six in-state players, ¿YH IURP &DOLIRUQLD RQH from Arizona and one international. Oregon State is equally West-centric with 11 of its 13 players coming from Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona or British Columbia. “It validates these players staying home,” Neighbors said. “I hope sends a clear message to all these players out here that you can stay close to home … and you don’t have to leave to get to this stage.” CLASSIFIED M ARK ETPL A C E Pla ce cla ssified a d s on lin e a t w w w.ea storeg on m a rketp la ce.com or ca ll 5 4 1-278-26 78 Lost & Found 5 FOUND CALICO CAT Looks well fed. Lost and looking for its home. 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