Saturday, November 18
Sioux Falls, SD
1:00 PM
Oregon State
vs
Nebraska
Beavers Headed to Sanford Pentagon for Matchup with Nebraska
November 15, 2023 | Men's Basketball
THE GAME:Â Oregon State will head to Sioux Falls, S.D. for a Saturday matchup with Nebraska at the Sanford Pentagon.
TELEVISION:Â The game will be carried on Peacock
RADIO:Â The game will air live on Beaver Sports Radio Network with Jon Warren calling the action.
LIVE STATS: Live stats will be available at this link
QUICKLY: Oregon State has opened the season with three-straight wins for the second consecutive year ... With a win Saturday, the Beavers would start the year with four-straight wins for the first time since 2015 ... Saturday will mark just the second Oregon State matchup with a Big 10 foe of the Wayne Tinke era - the Beavers previously faced Penn State on Nov. 27, 2021 ... Oregon State is 6-4 all-time against Nebraska. The two teams first met in the 1940-41 season, and last met in the 2009-10 campaign ... Oregon State has played three overtime periods over its last two games ... Jordan Pope and Dexter Akanno have both played over 40 minutes in back-to-back games, the first time Oregon State has had anyone surpass a total of 80 minutes over the course of two games since Stephen Thompson Jr. and Tres Tinkle did so vs. Washington and UCLA in 2018 ... Jordan Pope was named to the Preseason All-Pac-12 Second Team ... Oregon State returns a six-player sophomore classs, which combined for 64 games started and averaged a combined 33 points per game last season ... The Beavers were one of seven teams in the nation last season with three or more freshmen averaging 6.0 points or more per game (Pope, Bilodeau, Rataj) ... Prior to last season, the last Oregon State freshman trio to average over six points per contest was Tres Tinkle, Stephen Thompson Jr. and Drew Eubanks in 2015-16.
THE TEAM: Here are some quick-hitters about the 2023-24 Oregon State men's basketball team:
- Oregon State has scored first in all three games this season
- As of Wednesday morning, there have been a total of 14 overtime games in NCAA basketball this season, and the Beavers have competed in two of them
- Oregon State returns 62.5 percent of its minutes played from last season, the third highest total in the Pac-12
- Eleven of the Beavers' first 14 games of the season will be at Gill Coliseum, with the other three being neutral site games.
- Oregon State will not play its first true road game of the season until Jan. 4.
- The Beavers welcome four new scholarship players on to this year's squad - freshmen Gavin Marrs, Thomas Ndong and DaJohn Craig, along with junior-college transfer Nate Meithof. Meithof is expected to miss the season due to injury.
- Stephen Thompson is returning to an assistant coaching role this season, after spending last year as Assistant Athletic Director for Player Development. Former Beaver great Roberto Nelson is taking over Thompson's previous position.
- Oregon State will compete in a pair of prestigious neutral-site events during the nonconference season, as the Beavers will take on Nebraska at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D. before heading to Brooklyn for the NIT Season Tip-Off, which also features Baylor, Florida and Pittsburgh.
- Oregon State has held opponents to 69.1 points per game during the Wayne Tinkle era, and 67.2 points per contest at Gill Coliseum over that span.
- The Beavers are 94-57 at Gill Coliseum under Tinkle's leadership
- The Beavers will not play at Arizona or at home vs. California this season a part of the Pac-12 schedule rotation.
TUESDAY VS. APP STATE:Â
- Oregon State scored 81 points for the second-straight game
- Jordan Pope set a career-high with 25 points, and finished one 3-pointer shy of matching the program record with six longballs
- The Beavers made 10 3-pointers in the first half
- Oregon State's starting back-court of Jordan Pope, Dexter Akanno and Christian Wright did not commit a turnover in the game
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TELEVISION:Â The game will be carried on Peacock
RADIO:Â The game will air live on Beaver Sports Radio Network with Jon Warren calling the action.
LIVE STATS: Live stats will be available at this link
QUICKLY: Oregon State has opened the season with three-straight wins for the second consecutive year ... With a win Saturday, the Beavers would start the year with four-straight wins for the first time since 2015 ... Saturday will mark just the second Oregon State matchup with a Big 10 foe of the Wayne Tinke era - the Beavers previously faced Penn State on Nov. 27, 2021 ... Oregon State is 6-4 all-time against Nebraska. The two teams first met in the 1940-41 season, and last met in the 2009-10 campaign ... Oregon State has played three overtime periods over its last two games ... Jordan Pope and Dexter Akanno have both played over 40 minutes in back-to-back games, the first time Oregon State has had anyone surpass a total of 80 minutes over the course of two games since Stephen Thompson Jr. and Tres Tinkle did so vs. Washington and UCLA in 2018 ... Jordan Pope was named to the Preseason All-Pac-12 Second Team ... Oregon State returns a six-player sophomore classs, which combined for 64 games started and averaged a combined 33 points per game last season ... The Beavers were one of seven teams in the nation last season with three or more freshmen averaging 6.0 points or more per game (Pope, Bilodeau, Rataj) ... Prior to last season, the last Oregon State freshman trio to average over six points per contest was Tres Tinkle, Stephen Thompson Jr. and Drew Eubanks in 2015-16.
THE TEAM: Here are some quick-hitters about the 2023-24 Oregon State men's basketball team:
- Oregon State has scored first in all three games this season
- As of Wednesday morning, there have been a total of 14 overtime games in NCAA basketball this season, and the Beavers have competed in two of them
- Oregon State returns 62.5 percent of its minutes played from last season, the third highest total in the Pac-12
- Eleven of the Beavers' first 14 games of the season will be at Gill Coliseum, with the other three being neutral site games.
- Oregon State will not play its first true road game of the season until Jan. 4.
- The Beavers welcome four new scholarship players on to this year's squad - freshmen Gavin Marrs, Thomas Ndong and DaJohn Craig, along with junior-college transfer Nate Meithof. Meithof is expected to miss the season due to injury.
- Stephen Thompson is returning to an assistant coaching role this season, after spending last year as Assistant Athletic Director for Player Development. Former Beaver great Roberto Nelson is taking over Thompson's previous position.
- Oregon State will compete in a pair of prestigious neutral-site events during the nonconference season, as the Beavers will take on Nebraska at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D. before heading to Brooklyn for the NIT Season Tip-Off, which also features Baylor, Florida and Pittsburgh.
- Oregon State has held opponents to 69.1 points per game during the Wayne Tinkle era, and 67.2 points per contest at Gill Coliseum over that span.
- The Beavers are 94-57 at Gill Coliseum under Tinkle's leadership
- The Beavers will not play at Arizona or at home vs. California this season a part of the Pac-12 schedule rotation.
TUESDAY VS. APP STATE:Â
- Oregon State scored 81 points for the second-straight game
- Jordan Pope set a career-high with 25 points, and finished one 3-pointer shy of matching the program record with six longballs
- The Beavers made 10 3-pointers in the first half
- Oregon State's starting back-court of Jordan Pope, Dexter Akanno and Christian Wright did not commit a turnover in the game
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