Scott Rueck’s mission in the new college sports world: ‘Go to work and keep doing what we do’
Scott Rueck hasn’t been in hibernation since the end of Oregon State’s heralded 2023-24 season, though it may seem that way.
Those bronze statues? On second thought …
Had the news come on April 1, I would have laughed it off as an April Fool’s joke.
For the Beavers, how Sweet (Sixteen) it is
CORVALLIS — That trip to Albany, N.Y.? It’s happening now.
Beers’ glass is overflowing with good stuff
CORVALLIS — Whether it’s a career in basketball or pottery or teaching in elementary school, you get the sense that Raegan Beers won’t be short-changed.
Scott Rueck on his 2022-23 Beavers: ‘We’ll have a chance to win every night’
The Oregon State women’s basketball team is in the midst a near complete makeover, with seven new players and only four returnees from the 2021-22 team that went 17-14 and lost to UCLA in the NIT quarterfinals.
Rueck: ‘We’re confident, we’re gritty. That’s what it takes this time of year’
Patience, a poet once wrote, “is a companion of wisdom.”
I’ve grown to appreciate Scott Rueck’s wisdom since our paths first crossed more than a decade ago.
It has taken me until this year to understand his patience.
In late January, the Oregon State women’s basketball team was 3-5 and had lost more games to COVID-19 than it had played. Having lost three top players from the previous season to graduation (Mikayla Pivec), transfer (Destiny Slocum) and injury (Kennedy Brown) and dealing with an almost entirely new lineup, it would have been easy for a coach to write this off as a building year and starting thinking about next season.