Beavers Prepared For Pac-12 Tournament

THE GAME: After earning a bye in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament, Oregon State will face the winner of Colorado-California in the quarterfinals at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

TELEVISION: The game will be televised on Pac-12 Network with Roxy Bernstein and Don MacLean calling the action and Jill Savage reporting from the sideline.

For information on how to watch the game online or on a mobile device, click on this link. If you live overseas and want to watch the game, it is available via YouTube at this link.

RADIO: The game will air live on Beaver Sports Radio Network with Mike Parker calling the action. It can also be heard online at this link.

LIVE STATS: There will be live stats at this link.

SOCIAL MEDIA: Live updates will be available on Twitter and Facebook.

QUICKLY: Oregon State finished with its best conference record (10-8) since the 1989-90 team went 15-3 and won a share of the Pac-10 title ... Oregon State will have a winning season for the third time in five years under Wayne Tinkle; the Beavers had two winning seasons in the 24 years before Tinkle became the head coach ... Tres Tinkle was selected to the All-Pac-12 First Team for the second straight year ... Tinkle has posted four double-doubles in the last six games ... Stephen Thompson Jr. was selected to the All-Pac-12 Second Team and named the 2018-19 Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... Kylor Kelley was selected to the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team ... Kelley is tied for sixth on the Pac-12 single-season blocked shots list with 102 ... Ethan Thompson is averaging 15.3 points, 6.7 rebounds and 8.3 assists over the last three games ... Thompson dished out a career-high 11 assists at Washington State ... In five seasons under Wayne Tinkle, Oregon State is 56-14 (13-2 this season) when leading at halftime and 63-7 (16-1 this season) when leading with five minutes to play.

Pac-12 Tournament Notes: Oregon State is the No. 4 seed and will face the winner of No. 5-seed Colorado and No. 12-seed California at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday.

This is Oregon State's highest seed in the Pac-12 Tournament since being the No. 1 seed in 1990.
Since the conference expanded to 12 teams in 2011-12, Oregon State's previous highest seed was No. 6 in Wayne Tinkle's second season.
Oregon State is 10-19 all-time in the Pac-12 Tournament; Colorado is 11-6 and California is 16-21.
Oregon State was the No. 4 seed in 1989 and went 1-1 (defeated No. 5 California 79-66 in the quarterfinals; lost to No. 1 Arizona 98-87 in the semifinals).
Oregon State is 0-2 all-time against Colorado in the Pac-12 Tournament:
- March 13, 2013: No. 5 Colorado 74, No. 12 Oregon State 68
- March 11, 2015: No. 10 Colorado 78, No. 7 Oregon State 71
Oregon State is 1-5 all-time against California in the Pac-12 Tournament:
- March 6, 1987: No. 4 California 64, No. 5 Oregon State 57
- March 10, 1989: No. Oregon State 79, No. 5 California 66
- March 13, 2003: No. 3 California 69, No. 6 Oregon State 46
- March 7, 2007: No. 8 California 70, No. 9 Oregon State 51
- March 10, 2016: No. 3 California 76, No. 6 Oregon State 68
- March 8, 2017: No. 5 California 67, No. 12 Oregon State 62
The No. 4 seed is 14-6 all-time against the No. 5 seed and 1-0 all-time against the No. 12 seed.
Oregon State is 8-14 all-time against Colorado.
Oregon State played Colorado one time this season and won 76-74 on Jan. 31 in Boulder.
Oregon State is 63-88 all-time against California.
Oregon State played California one time this season and won 79-71 on Feb. 9 in Corvallis.

THE TEAM: There have been several "first since" this season for the Oregon State men's basketball team:

First winning season in conference play (10-8) since the 1989-90 team finished 15-3 and won a share of the Pac-10 title.
First time winning five conference road games in a season since the 1989-90 team finished 6-3 on the road.
First time sweeping a two-game conference road swing (at Colorado, at Utah) since 2008-09.
First win over Colorado in Boulder since 2013.
First win over Utah in Salt Lake City since 2012.
First time sweeping Oregon in a season since 2009-10.
First win over Oregon in Eugene since 2012.
First time sweeping USC in a season since 2013-14.

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Players Mentioned

Kylor Kelley

Ethan Thompson

Stephen Thompson Jr.

Tres Tinkle