SPORTS
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Women’s College Basketball
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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
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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
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“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.
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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.
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scored 18 points, including
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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
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in 1982 and thanks to Cheryl
Miller USC won consec-
utive titles in 1983-84.
But then no one else in the
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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
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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
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of Maryland and Kentucky
just to reach the regional
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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
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Washington’s
roster
includes six in-state players,
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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.”
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