OSU Hosts Wildcats and Sun Devils in Final Home Weekend

Thursday, February 23

Corvallis, OR

7:00 PM

Oregon State

Arizona State

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OSU Hosts Wildcats and Sun Devils in Final Home Weekend

February 23, 2023 | Women's Basketball

Game Notes

By: Athletic Communications

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State hosts Arizona State on Thursday and no. 14 Arizona on Saturday for its final two home games of the regular season.

Saturday's game will be Senior Day as OSU honors the contributions of graduates Bendu Yeaney, Noelle Mannen and Jelena Mitrovic. The ceremony is set to begin around 11:40 as radio play-by-play Ron Callan sings the Serbian national anthem preceding the American national anthem.

GAME INFO – Arizona State (Thursday)
Time: 7 p.m.
Watch: Pac-12 Arizona / Pac-12 Now
Listen: Beaver Sports Radio Network
Live Stats: oregonstate.statbroadcast.com
Social Media: @BeaverWBB

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

DEFENSIVE GAMECHANGER
Bendu Yeaney's arrival in Corvallis gave the Beavers a powerful on-ball defender they haven't had since the days of Gabby Hansen. Yeaney, a transfer from Arizona, has racked up 21 three-steal games over the last three seasons with her team going 14-7 in those contests. The senior has also had at least one steal and one block in 42 games in her career. Her team is 32-10 in those games.

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 2022-23

One of three Pac-12 players with 5+ blocks in multiple games this year (Brink, Marshall)
Ranks in the top-10 in the Pac-12 in rebounds (7.9) and blocks (1.5) 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

SHE'S THE MANNEN
Noelle Mannen transferred to OSU four years ago and walked on after not playing basketball for a year at San Francisco. Since then, she's become an important on and off-court leader for the Beavs, earning a scholarship before last season and getting her first start against Hawai'i. Mannen is second on the team in plus-minus (+94).

OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).