Oregon State Athletic Communications • Women’s Basketball Contact: Melody Stockwell [email protected] • 541-737-3720 — Office • 541-737-3072 — Fax 2011-12 WOMEN’S GAME 14 — CALIFORNIA BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Game 14 • California • Thursday, Jan. 5 • 7:00 p.m. • Haas Pavilion All-Time Series: 28-33 Radio: 1340 KLOO-AM (Corvallis) DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT Current Streak: California W10 1550 KKOV-AM (Portland) 11.08 Pacific (Ore.) EXH W, 83-34 Last Meeting: February 26, 2011 osubeavers.com 11.11 Western Oregon W, 96-32 2011-12 Record: 9-5, 0-2 Pac-12 TV: None 11.13 Montana State W, 83-53 Current Ranking: NR Gametracker: osubeavers.com 11.17 Cal State Northridge W, 83-63 Live Video: osubeavers.com 11.20 Southern Utah W, 90-40 11.22 Eastern Washington W, 74-60 LOOKING AHEAD — Oregon State (10-3, 1-1 tests, defeating Dartmouth, 80-39, to close out 12.02 North Texas! L, 53-60 Pac-12) heads to the Bay Area for a Thursday non-conference play. Redshirt sophomore forward 12.03 Rice! W, 63-57 match-up against the California Golden Bears (9-5, Gennifer Brandon leads California on both sides of 12.10 Pepperdine W, 63-52 0-2 Pac-12) at 7:00 p.m. the ball in conference play, averaging 12.0 points 12.13 CSU Bakersfield W, 85-62 per game and 11.5 rebounds per game, while ju- 12.16 Corban W, 79-47 TRACKING THE BEAVS — Full results from nior guard Layshia Clarendon is close behind with 12.19 Saint Mary’s L, 61-81 Thursday’s game can be found through osubea- a 11.5 point per game average. Lindsay Gottlieb, 12.29 Washington* W, 60-55 vers.com. Gametracker is available, and all but a former associate head coach of the California 12.31 Washington State* L, 54-61 (2OT) one home game (Jan. 28 - Oregon) will also be women’s basketball team, is in her first season at 01.05 California* 7:00 p.m. streamed live through osubeavers.com. the helm. The Golden Bears are 6-1 in Haas Pavil- 01.07 Stanford* 2:00 p.m. ion this season. 01.12 Arizona State* 7:00 p.m. Free live video will be available for Thursday’s con- 01.14 Arizona* 2:00 p.m. test. The game will be broadcast in the Corvallis THINGS TO WATCH FOR — California’s Mi- 01.19 UCLA* 7:00 p.m. area on 1340 KLOO-AM and also in Portland by kayla Lyles and Alexis Bostick played together 01.21 USC* 2:00 p.m. 1550 KKOV-AM. at Bishop O’Dowd High School ... With a win, the 01.28 Oregon* (FSN) 4:00 p.m. Beavers will tie their total number of conference 02.02 Colorado* 7:00 p.m. SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATES — Follow Oregon wins from last season ... Junior Sage Indendi has 02.04 Utah* 2:00 p.m. State women’s basketball on Twitter (@oregon- 89 career three-pointers, which ranks eighth all- 02.09 Washington State* 7:00 p.m. statewbb) and Facebook (Oregon State Women’s time. She needs one more to move to seventh ... 02.11 Washington* 8:00 p.m. Basketball) for in-game updates, pictures, videos The team is second in the Pac-12 in steals, aver- 02.16 Stanford* 7:00 p.m. and other inside information in Beaver women’s aging 11.0 per game, while freshman Ali Gibson is 02.18 California* 2:00 p.m. basketball. also second individually with 2.7 steals per game 02.25 Oregon* 2:00 p.m. ... Junior Patricia Bright is leading the Pac-12, av- 03.01 Utah* 6:00 p.m. GAME 14: CALIFORNIA — Thursday, Jan. 5 eraging 3.5 blocks per game this season with 46 03.03 Colorado* 3:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m.): Oregon State is 28-33 all-time against total, which ties for 10th in a single season and it 03.07-10 Pac-12 Tournament California. The Golden Bears have won the last 10 challenges the record set last season by El Sara straight meetings, including a 58-49 decision in Greer. She needs to average 2.8 blocks per game ! — Gene Hackerman Invitational; Berkeley and 60-47 contest in Corvallis last sea- to break Greer’s record. Houston, Texas son. * — Pac-12 Conference Game LOOKING BACK AT SATURDAY — After a # — Pac-12 Conference Tournament; California got off to a rough start in LA last week- back and forth battle, the Oregon State women’s Los Angeles, Calif. end, falling to UCLA, 60-55, and USC, 74-54. The basketball team wasn’t able to hold on as it fell 61- Golden Bears have lost three of their last four con- 54 to Washington State in double overtime in Gill Home games are in bold. All times Pacific. OREGON STATE PROBABLE STARTERS No. Player Pos. Ht. Year Last Game vs. Washington State 14 Ali Gibson G 5-11 Fr. 3-8 (37.5%) fg, 7 reb, 10 pts 15 Earlysia Marchbanks G/F 5-11 Sr. 2-12 (16.7%) fg, 7 reb, 6 asst, 8 pts 20 Patricia Bright F/C 6-4 Jr. 4-5 (80.0%) fg, 9 reb, 3 blk, 13 pts 22 Sage Indendi G 5-9 Jr. 2-10 (20.0%) fg, 2 asst, 7 pts 24 Alyssa Martin G 6-0 So. 3-9 (33.3%) fg, 4 reb, 2 stl, 9 pts CALIFORNIA PROBABLE STARTERS No. Player Pos. Ht. Year Last Game vs. USC 2 Afure Jemerigbe G 6-0 So. 0-7 fg, 2 reb, 2 stl, 2 pts 15 Brittany Boyd G 5-9 Fr. 5-14 (35.7%) fg, 3 reb, 2 stl, 14 pts 23 Layshia Clarendon G 5-9 Jr. 4-10 (40.0%) fg, 2 reb, 11 pts 25 Gennifer Brandon F 6-2 RSo. 3-10 (30.0%) fg, 12 reb, 7 pts 33 Talia Caldwell C 6-3 Jr. 2-7 (28.6%) fg, 8 reb, 5 pts January 3, 2012 • Oregon State Women’s Basketball Game Notes • Page 1 Coliseum. Junior Patricia Bright led the Beavers set the Gill Coliseum record for most rebounds with OREGON STATE with 13 points and nine rebounds, while freshman 55. The previous record was 53, set on March 11, QUICK FACTS Ali Gibson added 10 points. The overtime contest 1995 against USC. marked the first time since the 2009-10 season Location . Corvallis, Ore. SWINGING OVER — Founded . .1868 that a game had gone into overtime for Oregon Freshman Arica Nassar Enrollment . 23,761 State. joins the women’s basketball team after a success- Nickname . Beavers ful season with the Oregon State volleyball team. Colors . .Orange and Black GARNERING NATIONAL ATTENTION — Or- Nassar netted All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention and Conference . Pacific-10 egon State ranks in the top 25 in five categories as Pac-12 All-Freshman Team accolades, while also Home Facility . Gill Coliseum (10,400) a team, while one player is ranked in a category as being named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Week President . Dr. Edward Ray of the NCAA rankings released on January 2. The twice. Director of Athletics . .Bob De Carolis Beavers eighth for blocked shots per game (6.5), Athletic Faculty Rep. .Dr. Joseph Spatafora OVER .500 — SWA/Associate A.D. Marianne Vydra 13th for assist/turnover ratio (1.09), 21st for field Oregon State’s win over Western Ticket Office . 1-800-GO-BEAVS goal percentage (44.8), 22nd for assists per game Oregon tied up the all-time record with the 500th (17.2) and 23rd for personal fouls per game (13.8). win in the program’s history. Currently the Beavers WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Junior Patricia Bright is currently ranked fifth for are two wins over the .500 mark. CONTACT INFO blocked shots (3.5). SCORING SURPRISE — The Beavers currently Head Coach . Scott Rueck BRIGHT IN THE RECORD BOOKS — Junior average 72.6 points per game, a big jump from last Alma Mater . .Oregon State, 1991 Patricia Bright etched her name in the Oregon year, when they only posted a 53.9 average. The OSU Record . Second State record books at Pepperdine on Dec. 10. team’s 96 points against Western Oregon ties for Career Record . .297-109 (.732) /15 Seasons (14 D-III) Bright blocked nine shots, resetting the record that the 19th highest scoring game by Oregon State in Assistant Coach . .Mark Campbell Brina Chaney and Sissel Pierce set in 2003 and school history. The team’s scoring margin of +17.0 Assistant Coach . .Eric Ely 2000 of eight blocked shots. The single-game re- currently is second in the Pac-12. Assistant Coach . .Megan Dickerson Director of Operations . Ashley Shearer cord is only the fourth in the overall single-game Assistant Director of Operations . .Elise Trask records that occurred away from Gill Coliseum. 300 REACHED — Head coach Scott Rueck Women’s Basketball Office . .(541) 737-2800 earned his 300th career win over Cal State North- BRIGHT GETS RECOGNITION — Junior Pa- ridge on November 17. He achieved his first 288 at RETURNERS tricia Bright was named the Pac-12 Player of the George Fox in his 14 seasons as head coach. Week after her play at Pepperdine by both the Player Position Year conference office and by College Sports Madness. SEASON OPENERS — Oregon State is now Sage Indendi G Jr. Bright nearly earned a triple-double with 16 points, 30-6 record in season openers.. The Beavers have • 2010-11: (113-283) 39.9% FG, 3.5 RPG, 10 rebounds and a school-record nine blocked won the last 14 straight season openers, last seven 2.5 APG, 1.9 SPG, 10.7 PPG shots.