Oregon State Beavers NCAA Basketball News

TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 7 -- Arizona State University issued the following press release: UP NEXT The Arizona State women's basketball team will make its first road trip in Pac-10 play this week when it travels to the state of Oregon to face the Beavers and the Oregon Ducks .

Houston , March 15 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: The University of Houston men's basketball team accepted a bid to play in the 2009 College Basketball Invitational, director of athletics Dave Maggard and head coach Tom Penders announced late Sunday night.

SATURDAY, before we attend Trans Am qualifying at the Rose Cup races ... UCLA's Jrue Holiday is the latest top-end Pac-10 player who wants to leave for the NBA.

Eight of nine players who averaged at least 5.3 points will be back. Robinson's first recruiting class features four-star guards Jared Cunningham and Roberto Nelson, center Joe Burton, and Australians Angus Brandt and Rhys Murphy, which will help the Beavers build good depth.

With the NBA draft lottery now completed and the conference finals in full swing, basketball is on the brain.

STARTERS LOST: G Rickey Claitt . RECRUITS SIGNED: F Joe Burton , G Roberto Nelson .

Former Baylor defensive back Kyle Woods, paralyzed from the neck down during a practice in 1979, has died.

South Florida 75, Kansas 71: Jazmine Sepulveda scored 18 points and Shantia Grace had 16, leading South Florida to a victory over Kansas yesterday in the WNIT finals in Lawrence, Kan., giving the school its first postseason championship of any kind.

Tim Floyd announced at a Thursday news conference that he would stay at USC. You could call the big news in Pac-10 basketball no news as Tim Floyd holds a news conference to announce he will stay as USC coach after interviewing with Arizona on Wednesday.

Oregon State is one win from the College Basketball Invitational championship, but consider what the Beavers will face tonight in Game 2 of the best-of-three championship series: * A hostile crowd of 8,000-plus at the Don Haskins Center on the Texas-El Paso campus.

The CBI champion will be crowned at the Don Haskins Center tonight, as the Texas-El Paso Miners host the Oregon State Beavers in the rubber match of the three-game series.

Dean Wormer is REALLY p.o.'d . ... we can't help but point out that in the hours after OSU shot 60 percent from the floor to beat UTEP Monday night, three U. of Oregon freshmen - Josh Crittle, Michael Dunigan, and Teondre Williams - were caught trying to shoot at ducks and geese with BB guns at Alton Baker Park in Eugene.

TEAMS: Oregon State vs. UTEP, game two in the best-of-three College Basketball Invitational championship series WHEN/where: 7 tonight, El Paso, Texas RECORDS: OSU , UTEP ON THE AIR: TV: HDNet channel 79 and/or 306 , or channel 9422 UPDATE: The Beavers prevailed 75-69 in game one Monday at Gill Coliseum.

The College Basketball Invitational Championship Series begins this evening in Corvallis, as the Oregon State Beavers play host to the Texas-El-Paso Miners in Game One of the second-annual event.

What more do you want? Ryan White I didn't want this, not for me and not for you.

UTEP is hoping to end this season with an exclamation point, hoping to set the table for next season, and hoping to send senior Stefon Jackson out in a special way.

SUMMARY: OSU outlasts the Cardinal in overtime to earn a matchup against UTEP in the best-of-three championship series Beavers still rolling along 'This is just phenomenal for us' PAUL BUKER CORVALLIS --As Oregon State public address announcer Mike Stone so eloquently put it, following the Beavers' 65-62 overtime win over Stanford in the College ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. : Roeland Schaftenaar sparked an 8-0 overtime run and Oregon State rallied to beat Stanford 65-62 on Wednesday night in the College Basketball Invitational semifinals.

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It may be madness that Oregon State --with its sub-.500 record --is still playing in late March, but this improbable basketball season seemingly has no end.