OK not really, the inaugural season begins in 3 months but it’s time to get started if I review a team a week and throw in some other newsworthy, to me at least, editorials.
Oregon State went through the worst of all possible scenarios last year before Scott Rueck arrived to bring at least some happiness and respectability back to the Beavers. Thanks to a very easy but very appropriate weak preseason schedule the Beavers went 7-5 in their non conference schedule and 9-21 overall. Of course with their depleted team they paid the price in Pac 10 conference play going 2-16. However that was also their record the previous year before losing so many players who transferred away. A very good stat, home attendance increased 30% to 1500 per game.
Losses:
El Sara Greer graduated and was probably their best player last season averaging 9 points and 8 rebounds in 34 minutes per game. She shot 56%.
Angela Misa was a Soph this past season, averaging 4 points and 5 rebounds in 16 minutes per game. Ironically she was the first player rumored to be leaving under former Coach Wagner, and did leave the team but returned for this past season. However she is not on the roster for this coming season.
Classye James was a frosh from Mitty High School who averaged 2 points in 13 minutes of play and she is not on the roster.
Returning Players:
Alyssa Martin is a 6-0 Soph Guard who was the leading scorer last season as a Frosh with 12 points per game and a Pac 10 best 38 minutes per game. Martin shot 34% from three, making 60.
Sage Indendi is a great story. The 5-9 Jr played for Coach Rueck at George Fox and had a great season but transferred to Oregon State and did not play basketball 2 years ago. Then she returns to the game and hits 75 threes at 41% scoring nearly 11 points per game while playing 34 minutes per game. She’s a very good Pac 12 level Point Guard.
Earlysia Marchbanks is a 5-11 Sr Guard who was a starter last season while averaging 9 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.
Alexis Bostick is a 5-8 Soph Guard who like the other 3 returnees above, started every game for the Beavers. Bostick averaged 5 points per game and was the only Beaver with a plus assist to turnover ratio.
Jenna Dixon is a 5-8 Soph Guard who walked on to average 3 points in 10 minutes per game.
Katie Schrock is the 3rd former walk on to return. She is a 5-11 Soph who saw limited action this past season.
Newcomers:
Last season the Beavers were short an Assistant Coach, understandable given the late hiring of their Head Coach. Megan Dickerson joined the program as an Assistant at the end of March. She coached the previous 5 years at George Fox, the first 4 with Coach Rueck.
Ali Gibson is the only High School recruit in the class of 6. The other 5 are JC transfers. Gibson played for State Champ St Mary’s of Stockton, CA. Gibson is a very active 5-11 Guard who should see playing time right away. Her High School team last year started 5 Division I prospects.
Patricia Bright is a 6-4 Forward/Center JC transfer from the state of Florida but went there from an Arizona High School. She’s pretty much of an unknown, didn’t score much either last year at JC or as a High School Sr.
Thais Pinto is a 6-7 JC transfer from the state of Nebraska by way of Brazil. She averaged 11 points and 6 rebounds last season at the JC.
Quortni Fambro is a 5-8 Guard from a Florida JC who played High School in Georgia and as a Frosh at Alabama State. She averaged 4 points a game at Alabama State and last year 10 points per game.
Mollee Schwegler is a 5-6 Guard who played High School in Oregon and JC in the state of Washington. She is the all time leading scorer at lower Columbia College with 910points in 2 years. She averaged 17 points, 6 assists and 5 ½ rebounds per game as a Point Guard.
ShaKiana Edwards-Teasley is a 6-2 Forward from Idaho. She averaged 9 points and 5 rebounds per game last year at JC.
The Schedule:
The non conference schedule isn’t out yet. In the Pac 12 schedule where each team plays 7 teams home and away, and 4 either home or away, Oregon State doesn’t play at Arizona and USC and UCLA don’t come to Corvallis.
The Season:
It will be very hard to escape the Cellar once again. The Beavers have added height and depth but this is only Year 2 of Starting Over. On the plus side they return 4 starters and only one of them is a Sr.
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