Beavers Make Way to Pac-12 Tournament
THE GAME: The No. 8/9 Oregon State women’s basketball team (26-3, 16-2 Pac-12) heads to Seattle for the Pac-12 Tournament this week. After a first-round bye, the Beavers wil face the winner of Thursday’s game between USC and Colorado at 6 p.m. on Friday.
FOLLOW ALONG: Oregon State will make its 19th consecutive appearance on the Pac-12 Networks Saturday. Krista Blunk and Mary Murphy will have the call. Live audio will also be available on KLOO AM 1340 in Corvallis, on KEX 1190 in Portland and online at OSUBeavers.com.
PAC-12 TITLE: The Beavers are looking to double-up on their Pac-12 titles this week, as they already locked down the regular season championship with their win over California on Saturday. The Pac-12 title is the first in Oregon State history, and the second conference title in school history, joining the 1982-83 NorPac champion squad. The Beavers have never finished higher than second in the Pac-12 Tournament.
RUECK NAMED COACH OF THE YEAR: Head Coach Scott Rueck was named the John R. Wooden Pac-12 Coach of the Year earlier this week. Rueck has helped engineer a Renaissance in the Oregon State women’s basketball program, building to the best season in school history this year, as the team set a school record with 26 wins and won the first Pac-12 title in school history. Rueck also earned Pac-12 Coach of the Year (Media) honors in 2012 and 2014 and was the WBCA Region 8 Coach of the Year last season. For his efforts, Rueck received a two-year contract extension in October, keeping him at Oregon State through the 2019-20 season.
ALL CONFERENCE HONORS: Oregon State has a trio of All-Pac-12 honorees this season, with Ruth Hamblin, Sydney Wiese and Jamie Weisner all earning all-conference plaudits. The three All-Pac-12 honors is the most in the conference and the most the Beavers have ever had in a single season. Hamblin also earned Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year honors, earning a spot on the All-Defensive team for the second year in a row.
POLL POSITION: Oregon State comes in at No. 8 in the Associated Press Poll and No. 9 in the USA Today/WBCA Coaches’ Poll this week.
OUT OF THE GATE: Oregon State has continued to build on its school record for wins, notching No. 26 Saturday against Cal. The previous OSU record was 24 victories.
WIESE HITS THREES: Tuesday’s All-Pac-12 honor was the latest in a long line of accolades for sophomore Sydney Wiese this season. The Phoenix, Ariz., native is one of 15 finalists for the Nancy Lieberman Award, which is given to the nation’s best point guard. Wiese, who is two weeks removed from Pac-12 Player of the Week honors, was also on the Naismith Award Mid-Season Watch List. Wiese became Oregon State’s all-time leader in career 3-pointers on Feb. 13, and has continued to build on her career total, moving up to 196 in her career. Wiese also set the Oregon State single-season record with 112 three-pointers last season. She will now set her sights on the Pac-12 3-pointers record of 295, held by Stanford’s Candice Wiggins.
VS. USC: Oregon State earned a sweep over the Women of Troy this season. The Beavers posted one of their better defensive performances against USC at Gill Coliseum in January, holding the Women of Troy to 35 points, the lowest total in program history. Weisner is averaging 18 points per game against USC and the Beavers have outrebounded the Women of Troy by an average of nine per game in their two meetings.
VS. COLORADO: The Beavers notched a 66-44 win over the Buffaloes on Feb. 20, their first win in Boulder in school history. Jamie Weisner put up a double-double in the contest, scoring 17 points to go with 10 rebounds. The teams entered the break tied at 26, before Oregon State went on to outscore Colorado 40-18 in the closing frame.
PAC-12 TOURNAMENT: The Beavers are looking for their first ever Pac-12 Tournament title this week. Oregon State made its first ever conference tournament final last season, falling to USC 71-63 in the championship game. The Beavers have reached the semifinals three times.
BOARD GAMES: The Beavers have shown their ability to crash the glass this season, sitting second in the nation in defensive rebounds and 15th in the country in rebounding margin. Deven Hunter and Ruth Hamblin are both in Oregon State’s top-10 for career rebounds. Hunter pulled down nine boards on Saturday to move within three of seventh with 658 in her career. Hamblin broke into the top-10 with 12 boards against Stanford, and has continued to build on her total from there, ending the weekend with 638.
SEASON OF FIRSTS: The Beavers notched their first win over Cal since 2005 on Saturday. Oregon State has already set a number of firsts this season. Here’s a brief list:
- First road sweep of USC and UCLA since 2000-01
- First ever road sweep of Colorado and Utah
-First season-sweep of the Arizona schools since 1994-95
- First win over Cal since 2005
WOW WEISNER: Junior Jamie Weisner has been on fire over the last few weeks. The Clarkston, Wash. native is averaging 16.4 points per game over the last 14 games, including four 20+point performances and 12 double-digit outings in that span.
A PAIR OF THOUSANDS: Weisner joined teammate Ali Gibson in the 1,000 point club earlier this season, making them the first teammates in OSU history with 1,000 career points since Hollye Chapman and Leilani Estavan in 2004.
MORE MILESTONES FOR GIBSON: Senior Ali Gibson is not only a member of the 1,000-point club, but one of Oregon State’s top-10 career scorers as well. Gibson currently sits seventh with 1,226 points. The senior has started all 128 games Oregon State has played over the last four seasons.
HUNTING BIG GAMES: Oregon State has earned three wins this season over top-15 opponents, going 3-1 in contests against top-ranked teams. OSU stepped onto the national stage with a win over No. 6/6 North Carolina on Dec. 16, and has since followed that up with two wins over No. 12/12 Arizona State. The Beavers could notch another top-level win this weekend at the Pac-12 Tournament.
DOMINANT DEFENSE: The Beavers have held 16 teams below 60 points this season, and have held nine opponents below 30 percent shooting, including containing then-No. 6/6 North Carolina to 27.6 percent, holding UCLA to 25 percent and limiting Oregon to 24.1 percent. Oregon State is fourth in the nation and first in the Pac-12 in field goal percentage defense (34.1 percent). One of OSU’s best defensive outings of the season came against the Women of Troy, when the Beavers held USC to just 35 points, the lowest total in USC history. Oregon State has held four of its last five opponents below 55 points.
HAMMER TIME: Junior Ruth Hamblin has quickly thrust herself into the All-America race this season, leading the Beavers with an average of 12.8 points and 8.9 rebounds per game. She has also proven to be a force defensively, blocking a Pac-12 leading 111 shots this season, a higher total than seven Pac-12 teams. Hamblin, who was nicknamed the “Canadian Hammer” by former Oregon State men’s basketball player Joe Burton, set a Pac-12 single-season record for blocks with 141 last season. Hamblin had blocked at least one shot in 16-consecutive games prior ot Feb. 2’s game against UCLA. Hamblin blocked eight shots against Cal on Saturday, her 12th game this season with five or more blocks, and her fourth in OSU’s last seven games.
DUAL THREAT: Hamblin is a force in the classroom as well as on the court. The junior was named Capital One Academic All-America Second Team last week. Hamblin has mainitained a 3.86 GPA as a Mechanical Engineering major.
PACKING THE HOUSE: Oregon State leads the Pac-12 in attendance this season, averaging 4,167 fans per game overall and 4,785 in pac-12 games. The Beavers hosted 7,652 spectators at Jan. 9’s Civil War, the third highest attendance total in school history, surpassing their total of 7,537 against Idaho in December. Thursday’s crowd of 6,157 was the Beavers’ fourth of over 5,000 this year. During Saturday’s game against California, sound on the floor was recorded as high as 109 decibels, roughly the same volume as a loud rock concert.
WEEKLY AWARDS: Oregon State leads the Pac-12 with four Player of the Week honors this season, earned by three different players. Ruth Hamblin has earned the honor twice, while Jamie Weisner and Sydney Wiese have each been named Player of the Week once.
BIG THREE: This year’s Oregon State squad features three of the top five three-point shooters in school history. Sydney Wiese is first in school history with 196 longballs, while Ali Gibson sits fourth with 172. Jamie Weisner has converted 171 three-point attempts, good for fifth. Wiese and Weisner are also one and two on Oregon State’s career 3-point percentage list at 43.0 and 40.2 percent, respectively. Sophomore Gabriella Hanson joined Wiese and Weisner in the OSU top-10 three weeks ago, when she recorded her 125th career three-point attempt, the minimum threshold to make the three-point percentage list. Hanson is fifth with a 35.9 three-point percentage.
HOT RUN: Oregon State has won 38 of its last 43 games, in a stretch that began on Feb. 2, 2014 against Arizona. The five losses in that span have come to USC in the 2014 Pac-12 Championship game, South Carolina in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, No. 8/11 Tennessee earlier this season, Washington two weeks ago. and Stanford last Thursday
BEAVER STREAKERS: Oregon State has recorded two 10-game winning streaks this season.
WELL TRAVELED: Oregon State has played in five different time zones this season. The Beavers have played 19 games in the Pacific Time Zone, one in the Eastern Time Zone (North Carolina), three in the Central Time Zone (Tennessee, two games in New Orleans), four in the Mountain Time Zone (Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Arizona State) and two in the Hawaiian Time Zone (two games in Laie).
KEEP HAMMERING: Hamblin turned a corner midway through her sophomore campaign. After scoring in double figures four times in her first 39 collegiate games, Hamblin has reached double-digits 34 times in her last 52 games, including five 20-point performances.
SPREADING IT AROUND: Last Sunday’s game against Utah marked the only time this season the Beavers have not played at least nine players. OSU faced the Utes with an eight-player rotation. Ten different Beavers have scored in double figures at least once this season.
HELPING OUT: Oregon State is fifth in the nation in assists per game with 19.0. The Beavers smashed the school assist record with 40 helpers on 45 baskets against Sacramento State on Dec. 6, en-route to a 109-61 victory. OSU has 550 assists on the season. The school record for assists in a season is 579, set back in 1980-81. Wiese leads the Beavers with 163 assists.
WEISNER WINS BATTLES: Junior Jamie Weisner is second in rebounds among Pac-12 guards this season. The native of Clarkston, Wash. is pulling down 6.6 boards per-game, second only to Brittany Boyd’s 7.6, and has four double-digit rebounding games.
NEW SEASON, SAME FIVE: Oregon State returns all five starters from a last season, a group that helped the Beavers to a 24-11 record. The quintet of Sydney Wiese, Jamie Weisner, Ali Gibson, Deven Hunter and Ruth Hamblin started 26 games together last season, and have started all 23 games this year. This season marks the first time since 2003-04 that the Beavers have returned all five starters.
ALL SHE DOES IS WIN: Junior transfer Jen’Von’Ta Hill boasts an impressive win-loss record of 97-6 over the course of her collegiate career, which is currently in its third season. The point guard started her career at Hutchinson Community College, where she went a combined 71-3 and made a pair of NJCAA Final Four appearances.
SO INTERNATIONAL: Five Oregon State players competed for their national teams this summer, traveling to different continents and continuing to build their games. Ruth Hamblin played for the Canadian Senior Women’s National Team at the Zafer Cup in Turkey in August. Her best game was against the host Turks, when she scored four points and grabbed seven rebounds. She later made the 14-player practice squad for FIBA World Championships camp, but was not selected for the final 12-player roster. Jamie Weisner played for the Canadian Senior B National team at the William Jones International Cup in Taiwan in August. She led Canada’s 5-0 run to the title by averaging 10.8 points and 6.6 rebounds. Ali Gibson played for the Puerto Rican national team, which placed second to Cuba at the FIBA Americas Centrobasket Femenino in Monterrey, Mexico, in July. She was the team’s third-leading scorer and averaged 8.4 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.0 steals. Gabriella Hanson played for the Swedish U-20 team at the FIBA Euro ‘A” Championships at Udine, Italy, in July. She averaged 9.3 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 30.3 minutes per game. Marie Gülich played for Germany’s U-20 team at the FIBA Euro ‘B’ Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, in July. She averaged a team-leading 11.6 points and 1.4 blocks in helping Germany win the event with an 8-1 record6
STANDOUT CLASS: Oregon State welcomed in an outstanding class of signees earlier this month, as a trio of high school seniors signed national letters of intent. Katie McWilliams highlights the exciting group, coming to the Beavers with a five-star rating from ESPN. The 6-foot-2 guard is the No. 40 ranked player overall and is eighth in ESPN’s guard rankings. Taylor Kalmer will join McWilliams in the back-court. The 5-foot-7 point guard received a three-star rating from ESPN, and is listed as the No. 31 point guard in this year’s recruiting class. Tarea Green is a 6-foot-4 post player, with a three-star rating from ESPN, and is listed as the No. 45 post player in this year’s class.
FOLLOW ALONG: Oregon State will make its 19th consecutive appearance on the Pac-12 Networks Saturday. Krista Blunk and Mary Murphy will have the call. Live audio will also be available on KLOO AM 1340 in Corvallis, on KEX 1190 in Portland and online at OSUBeavers.com.
PAC-12 TITLE: The Beavers are looking to double-up on their Pac-12 titles this week, as they already locked down the regular season championship with their win over California on Saturday. The Pac-12 title is the first in Oregon State history, and the second conference title in school history, joining the 1982-83 NorPac champion squad. The Beavers have never finished higher than second in the Pac-12 Tournament.
RUECK NAMED COACH OF THE YEAR: Head Coach Scott Rueck was named the John R. Wooden Pac-12 Coach of the Year earlier this week. Rueck has helped engineer a Renaissance in the Oregon State women’s basketball program, building to the best season in school history this year, as the team set a school record with 26 wins and won the first Pac-12 title in school history. Rueck also earned Pac-12 Coach of the Year (Media) honors in 2012 and 2014 and was the WBCA Region 8 Coach of the Year last season. For his efforts, Rueck received a two-year contract extension in October, keeping him at Oregon State through the 2019-20 season.
ALL CONFERENCE HONORS: Oregon State has a trio of All-Pac-12 honorees this season, with Ruth Hamblin, Sydney Wiese and Jamie Weisner all earning all-conference plaudits. The three All-Pac-12 honors is the most in the conference and the most the Beavers have ever had in a single season. Hamblin also earned Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year honors, earning a spot on the All-Defensive team for the second year in a row.
POLL POSITION: Oregon State comes in at No. 8 in the Associated Press Poll and No. 9 in the USA Today/WBCA Coaches’ Poll this week.
OUT OF THE GATE: Oregon State has continued to build on its school record for wins, notching No. 26 Saturday against Cal. The previous OSU record was 24 victories.
WIESE HITS THREES: Tuesday’s All-Pac-12 honor was the latest in a long line of accolades for sophomore Sydney Wiese this season. The Phoenix, Ariz., native is one of 15 finalists for the Nancy Lieberman Award, which is given to the nation’s best point guard. Wiese, who is two weeks removed from Pac-12 Player of the Week honors, was also on the Naismith Award Mid-Season Watch List. Wiese became Oregon State’s all-time leader in career 3-pointers on Feb. 13, and has continued to build on her career total, moving up to 196 in her career. Wiese also set the Oregon State single-season record with 112 three-pointers last season. She will now set her sights on the Pac-12 3-pointers record of 295, held by Stanford’s Candice Wiggins.
VS. USC: Oregon State earned a sweep over the Women of Troy this season. The Beavers posted one of their better defensive performances against USC at Gill Coliseum in January, holding the Women of Troy to 35 points, the lowest total in program history. Weisner is averaging 18 points per game against USC and the Beavers have outrebounded the Women of Troy by an average of nine per game in their two meetings.
VS. COLORADO: The Beavers notched a 66-44 win over the Buffaloes on Feb. 20, their first win in Boulder in school history. Jamie Weisner put up a double-double in the contest, scoring 17 points to go with 10 rebounds. The teams entered the break tied at 26, before Oregon State went on to outscore Colorado 40-18 in the closing frame.
PAC-12 TOURNAMENT: The Beavers are looking for their first ever Pac-12 Tournament title this week. Oregon State made its first ever conference tournament final last season, falling to USC 71-63 in the championship game. The Beavers have reached the semifinals three times.
BOARD GAMES: The Beavers have shown their ability to crash the glass this season, sitting second in the nation in defensive rebounds and 15th in the country in rebounding margin. Deven Hunter and Ruth Hamblin are both in Oregon State’s top-10 for career rebounds. Hunter pulled down nine boards on Saturday to move within three of seventh with 658 in her career. Hamblin broke into the top-10 with 12 boards against Stanford, and has continued to build on her total from there, ending the weekend with 638.
SEASON OF FIRSTS: The Beavers notched their first win over Cal since 2005 on Saturday. Oregon State has already set a number of firsts this season. Here’s a brief list:
- First road sweep of USC and UCLA since 2000-01
- First ever road sweep of Colorado and Utah
-First season-sweep of the Arizona schools since 1994-95
- First win over Cal since 2005
WOW WEISNER: Junior Jamie Weisner has been on fire over the last few weeks. The Clarkston, Wash. native is averaging 16.4 points per game over the last 14 games, including four 20+point performances and 12 double-digit outings in that span.
A PAIR OF THOUSANDS: Weisner joined teammate Ali Gibson in the 1,000 point club earlier this season, making them the first teammates in OSU history with 1,000 career points since Hollye Chapman and Leilani Estavan in 2004.
MORE MILESTONES FOR GIBSON: Senior Ali Gibson is not only a member of the 1,000-point club, but one of Oregon State’s top-10 career scorers as well. Gibson currently sits seventh with 1,226 points. The senior has started all 128 games Oregon State has played over the last four seasons.
HUNTING BIG GAMES: Oregon State has earned three wins this season over top-15 opponents, going 3-1 in contests against top-ranked teams. OSU stepped onto the national stage with a win over No. 6/6 North Carolina on Dec. 16, and has since followed that up with two wins over No. 12/12 Arizona State. The Beavers could notch another top-level win this weekend at the Pac-12 Tournament.
DOMINANT DEFENSE: The Beavers have held 16 teams below 60 points this season, and have held nine opponents below 30 percent shooting, including containing then-No. 6/6 North Carolina to 27.6 percent, holding UCLA to 25 percent and limiting Oregon to 24.1 percent. Oregon State is fourth in the nation and first in the Pac-12 in field goal percentage defense (34.1 percent). One of OSU’s best defensive outings of the season came against the Women of Troy, when the Beavers held USC to just 35 points, the lowest total in USC history. Oregon State has held four of its last five opponents below 55 points.
HAMMER TIME: Junior Ruth Hamblin has quickly thrust herself into the All-America race this season, leading the Beavers with an average of 12.8 points and 8.9 rebounds per game. She has also proven to be a force defensively, blocking a Pac-12 leading 111 shots this season, a higher total than seven Pac-12 teams. Hamblin, who was nicknamed the “Canadian Hammer” by former Oregon State men’s basketball player Joe Burton, set a Pac-12 single-season record for blocks with 141 last season. Hamblin had blocked at least one shot in 16-consecutive games prior ot Feb. 2’s game against UCLA. Hamblin blocked eight shots against Cal on Saturday, her 12th game this season with five or more blocks, and her fourth in OSU’s last seven games.
DUAL THREAT: Hamblin is a force in the classroom as well as on the court. The junior was named Capital One Academic All-America Second Team last week. Hamblin has mainitained a 3.86 GPA as a Mechanical Engineering major.
PACKING THE HOUSE: Oregon State leads the Pac-12 in attendance this season, averaging 4,167 fans per game overall and 4,785 in pac-12 games. The Beavers hosted 7,652 spectators at Jan. 9’s Civil War, the third highest attendance total in school history, surpassing their total of 7,537 against Idaho in December. Thursday’s crowd of 6,157 was the Beavers’ fourth of over 5,000 this year. During Saturday’s game against California, sound on the floor was recorded as high as 109 decibels, roughly the same volume as a loud rock concert.
WEEKLY AWARDS: Oregon State leads the Pac-12 with four Player of the Week honors this season, earned by three different players. Ruth Hamblin has earned the honor twice, while Jamie Weisner and Sydney Wiese have each been named Player of the Week once.
BIG THREE: This year’s Oregon State squad features three of the top five three-point shooters in school history. Sydney Wiese is first in school history with 196 longballs, while Ali Gibson sits fourth with 172. Jamie Weisner has converted 171 three-point attempts, good for fifth. Wiese and Weisner are also one and two on Oregon State’s career 3-point percentage list at 43.0 and 40.2 percent, respectively. Sophomore Gabriella Hanson joined Wiese and Weisner in the OSU top-10 three weeks ago, when she recorded her 125th career three-point attempt, the minimum threshold to make the three-point percentage list. Hanson is fifth with a 35.9 three-point percentage.
HOT RUN: Oregon State has won 38 of its last 43 games, in a stretch that began on Feb. 2, 2014 against Arizona. The five losses in that span have come to USC in the 2014 Pac-12 Championship game, South Carolina in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, No. 8/11 Tennessee earlier this season, Washington two weeks ago. and Stanford last Thursday
BEAVER STREAKERS: Oregon State has recorded two 10-game winning streaks this season.
WELL TRAVELED: Oregon State has played in five different time zones this season. The Beavers have played 19 games in the Pacific Time Zone, one in the Eastern Time Zone (North Carolina), three in the Central Time Zone (Tennessee, two games in New Orleans), four in the Mountain Time Zone (Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Arizona State) and two in the Hawaiian Time Zone (two games in Laie).
KEEP HAMMERING: Hamblin turned a corner midway through her sophomore campaign. After scoring in double figures four times in her first 39 collegiate games, Hamblin has reached double-digits 34 times in her last 52 games, including five 20-point performances.
SPREADING IT AROUND: Last Sunday’s game against Utah marked the only time this season the Beavers have not played at least nine players. OSU faced the Utes with an eight-player rotation. Ten different Beavers have scored in double figures at least once this season.
HELPING OUT: Oregon State is fifth in the nation in assists per game with 19.0. The Beavers smashed the school assist record with 40 helpers on 45 baskets against Sacramento State on Dec. 6, en-route to a 109-61 victory. OSU has 550 assists on the season. The school record for assists in a season is 579, set back in 1980-81. Wiese leads the Beavers with 163 assists.
WEISNER WINS BATTLES: Junior Jamie Weisner is second in rebounds among Pac-12 guards this season. The native of Clarkston, Wash. is pulling down 6.6 boards per-game, second only to Brittany Boyd’s 7.6, and has four double-digit rebounding games.
NEW SEASON, SAME FIVE: Oregon State returns all five starters from a last season, a group that helped the Beavers to a 24-11 record. The quintet of Sydney Wiese, Jamie Weisner, Ali Gibson, Deven Hunter and Ruth Hamblin started 26 games together last season, and have started all 23 games this year. This season marks the first time since 2003-04 that the Beavers have returned all five starters.
ALL SHE DOES IS WIN: Junior transfer Jen’Von’Ta Hill boasts an impressive win-loss record of 97-6 over the course of her collegiate career, which is currently in its third season. The point guard started her career at Hutchinson Community College, where she went a combined 71-3 and made a pair of NJCAA Final Four appearances.
SO INTERNATIONAL: Five Oregon State players competed for their national teams this summer, traveling to different continents and continuing to build their games. Ruth Hamblin played for the Canadian Senior Women’s National Team at the Zafer Cup in Turkey in August. Her best game was against the host Turks, when she scored four points and grabbed seven rebounds. She later made the 14-player practice squad for FIBA World Championships camp, but was not selected for the final 12-player roster. Jamie Weisner played for the Canadian Senior B National team at the William Jones International Cup in Taiwan in August. She led Canada’s 5-0 run to the title by averaging 10.8 points and 6.6 rebounds. Ali Gibson played for the Puerto Rican national team, which placed second to Cuba at the FIBA Americas Centrobasket Femenino in Monterrey, Mexico, in July. She was the team’s third-leading scorer and averaged 8.4 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.0 steals. Gabriella Hanson played for the Swedish U-20 team at the FIBA Euro ‘A” Championships at Udine, Italy, in July. She averaged 9.3 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 30.3 minutes per game. Marie Gülich played for Germany’s U-20 team at the FIBA Euro ‘B’ Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, in July. She averaged a team-leading 11.6 points and 1.4 blocks in helping Germany win the event with an 8-1 record6
STANDOUT CLASS: Oregon State welcomed in an outstanding class of signees earlier this month, as a trio of high school seniors signed national letters of intent. Katie McWilliams highlights the exciting group, coming to the Beavers with a five-star rating from ESPN. The 6-foot-2 guard is the No. 40 ranked player overall and is eighth in ESPN’s guard rankings. Taylor Kalmer will join McWilliams in the back-court. The 5-foot-7 point guard received a three-star rating from ESPN, and is listed as the No. 31 point guard in this year’s recruiting class. Tarea Green is a 6-foot-4 post player, with a three-star rating from ESPN, and is listed as the No. 45 post player in this year’s class.
