Beavers Release Pac-12 Schedule, TV Games
September 21, 2015 | Women's Basketball
CORVALLIS – The 2015-16 Oregon State women's basketball schedule will feature 18 television appearances, including games on ESPN2 and Fox Sports 1, the Pac-12 Conference announced today. The league also announced the schedule for all conference games.
The Beavers' first TV matchup of the season will come on Dec. 3, when Oregon State travels to Marquette for a game that will air on Fox Sports 1. The Beavers will follow that up with its Pac-12 Networks debut, when OSU faces off with Tennessee at 6 p.m. on Saturday Dec. 19.
Sixteen of Oregon State's 18 Pac-12 matchups will be televised, including 15 on Pac-12 Networks. The Beavers will open conference play against the Los Angeles schools for the second consecutive season, playing at USC on Jan. 2 and at UCLA on Jan. 4 in games that will be televised by Pac-12 Networks. OSU swept the LA schools in all four of their matchups last season.
The Beavers will follow that up with back-to-back Civil War matchups, as Oregon State looks to extend its streak of nine consecutive wins over the Ducks. The series will begin in Corvallis on Jan. 8 before shifting to Eugene on Jan. 10, with both games airing on Pac-12 Networks.
Oregon State will continue its run of nine-straight Pac-12 Networks games by hosting California and Stanford on Jan. 15 and 17, respectively. The Beavers will then head to the mountain schools, facing Utah on Jan. 22 and Colorado on Jan. 24.
OSU will return home for a matchup with Arizona on Jan. 29, as it looks to extend its winning streak to six-straight over the Wildcats. Oregon State will then welcome in the month of February by hosting Arizona State, in a game that will be carried on ESPN2 as part of ESPN's “Big Monday” coverage.
The Beavers' only matchups with the Washington schools will come in the Evergreen State, when Oregon State heads north for the first weekend in February. OSU will face off with the Huskies Feb. 5 on Pac-12 Networks, before heading to Pullman to face Washington State on Feb. 7.
A four-game home stand will close out the Beavers' 2015-16 regular season home slate. Oregon State will play host to Colorado on Pac-12 Networks on Friday, Feb. 12, before taking on Utah on Sunday, Feb. 14. The Beavers will wrap up their Gill Coliseum schedule against USC and UCLA on Feb. 19 and 21, respectively.
OSU ends its 2015-16 Pac-12 season with a challenging road trip to Stanford and California Feb. 26 and 28, with both games being carried by Pac-12 Networks.
Oregon State is coming off the best season in school history, a 27-5 campaign that featured a pair of wins over Arizona State and a Pac-12 title. For their efforts, the Beavers earned numerous conference and national awards. Ruth Hamblin was named an AP All-American and Pac-12 Player of the Year (Media). Head coach Scott Rueck earned Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors, while Jamie Weisner and Sydney Wiese joined Hamblin on the Pac-12 First Team.
OSU brings another strong squad into the 2015-16 season, as the Beavers return four starters, and a core group of eight upperclassmen. The team will also welcome in an excellent signing class, made up of Katie McWilliams (Salem, Ore.), Taylor Kalmer (Phoenix, Ariz.) and Tarea Green (Hillsboro, Ore.).
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