Beavers Head to Bay Area to Battle Stanford, Cal

Friday, January 27

Stanford, CA

8:00 PM

Oregon State

Stanford

January 26, 2023 | Women's Basketball

Game Notes

By: Athletic Communications

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Oregon State will look to build on the momentum from its second top 25 win of the season when it heads to the Bay Area to battle No. 3 Stanford and California.

The Beavs open the weekend with the Cardinal in a Friday night showdown before heading to Berkeley to take on the Golden Bears. This is the lone trip of the year where Oregon State will not be paid a return visit due to Pac-12 scheduling. Instead, the Beavs will welcome Utah and Colorado to Gill Coliseum next weekend.

GAME INFO – Stanford (Friday)
Time: 8 p.m.
Watch: Pac-12 Networks / Pac-12 Now
Listen: Beaver Sports Radio Network
Live Stats: oregonstate.statbroadcast.com
Social Media: @BeaverWBB

GAME INFO – California (Sunday)
Time: 1 p.m.
Watch: Pac-12 Oregon / Pac-12 Now
Listen: Beaver Sports Radio Network
Live Stats: oregonstate.statbroadcast.com
Social Media: @BeaverWBB

CONFERENCE OF CHAMPIONS
The Pac-12 has long been one of the top women's basketball leagues in the country. Since 2015-16, it leads all conferences in Final Four appearances (7), non-conference winning percentage (.799), NCAA Tournament wins (76), NCAA Tournament winning percentage (.685) and WBCA All-Americans (15).

This season, Pac-12 teams finished with a national-best .852 (115-20) non-conference winning percentage this season, ahead of the ACC (.818, 139-31), Big 12 (.802, 93-23), SEC (.794, 143-37), Big East (.760, 79-25) and Big Ten (.757, 115-37). The league's .852 clip is a new Pac-12 record, bettering the .848 mark (117-21) from 2016-17 when seven teams earned NCAA Tournament berths.

TIMEA'S TIME
Timea Gardiner is already showing the traits that made her one of the nation's most coveted recruits. The Ogden, Utah native earned Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors in just her second week playing college ball after totaling 15 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the floor against #23 Oregon. It was her second double-figure game after scoring 10 against Washington.

DEVELOPING IN THE POST
Jelena Mitrovic has experienced exponential growth since coming to Corvallis nearly four years ago. The redshirt sophomore sat all of her first season at Oregon State before playing sparingly as a redshirt freshman. She earned a spot in the rotation last season and gained a starting spot for the WNIT before carrying that spot into 2022 with 13 starts to begin the season.

Ranks in the top-10 in the Pac-12 in rebounds (8.1) and blocks (1.4) per game.
One of just two players 6-foot-9 or taller to record six assists in a game since 2000 (Nancy Mulkey, UW) with six dimes against Southern
Recorded a double-double in her second game of the year (14p, 13r, 6b)
Averaged 13.5 points and 8 reb. per game while shooting 70.6% from the field during last season's WNIT run (her first four collegiate starts)