THE GAME: The Oregon State women's basketball team will heads to Las Vegas this week to compete in the #Play4Kay Shootout at T-Mobile Arena. The Beavers will start things off by taking on UNLV at 8 p.m. on Monday, and will follow that up with a Tuesday game vs. either Quinnipiac or New Mexico State.
FOLLOW ALONG: A live stream of the game will be available at OSUBeavers.com, and fans can find live audio online via TuneIn or on the Beaver Radio Network with Ron Callan. Live stats will also be available.
WHAT'S COMING UP: The Beavers will return to Corvallis for a matchup with Arkansas Pine Bluff on Dec. 27. Oregon State is slated to begin Pac-12 play against Washington State on Dec. 30, and will take on Washington in a matchup of Final Four teams on New Year's Day.
TICKETS: Tickets for all Oregon State women's basketball games can be purchased at BeaverTickets.com.
SERIES HISTORY: Oregon State is 6-2 all-time against UNLV, and has won five-straight matchups in the series. The Beavers last took on the Lady Rebels in 2013, taking a 68-60 win in the contest. Then-freshman Sydney Wiese led the Beavers with 17 points and hit four 3-pointers, as Oregon State shot 51 percent from the floor.
Quick Hitters:
- The Beavers were picked to finish fifth in the Pac-12 in both the league's coaches and media poll.
- Oregon State has not lost back-to-back games since it fell to USC and UCLA on Jan. 17 and 20 of 2014.
- Oregon State's senior class of Sydney Wiese, Gabriella Hanson, Kolbie Orum and Breanna Brown (redshirt junior) has an .804 winning percentage in their three-plus seasons with the team (90-22).
- The Beavers' freshman class is the highest rated in program history, tabbed at No. 12 in the nation.
- Oregon State has one of the tallest teams in the Pac-12, featuring nine players listed at 6-foot or above. UCLA is the only Pac-12 squad to have more 6-footers, checking in with 10.
- The Beavers' 2016-17 squad has much more balance between classes than the 2015-16 OSU team. Oregon State enters the season with four seniors, two juniors, two sophomores and five freshmen (by eligibility)
- This year's team is the first team to have more freshmen players (by eligibility) than any other class since Scott Rueck took over as head coach in 2010-11.
- The Beavers have held opponents below 35 percent shooting in 34 of their last 46 games
- After holding UC Davis to 31.1 percent from the field on Wednesday, Oregon State now sits third in the nation in defensive field goal percentage at 31.0.
- Marquette is the only team to score more than 56 points against the Beavers this season
- The women's basketball team won the annual Oregon State Athletics "Other Side" Talent Show in October. The team performed a dance and singing routine set to music by Beyonce.
- Oregon State helped decorate the Boys and Girls Club for the holidays two weeks ago.
Flashback: A Look Back at 2015-16
- Oregon State is coming off its first ever appearance in the NCAA Final Four
- The Beavers won a share of the Pac-12 regular season title for the second-consecutive season, and notched their first ever Pac-12 Tournament championship.
- The Beavers are the first team other than Stanford to win back-to-back Pac-12 crowns since Oregon accomplished the feat in 1998-99 and 1999-2000.
- Oregon State set a school record with 32 wins in 2015-16, topping their mark of 27 in 2014-15. The Beavers have gone 16-2 in each of their last two Pac-12 seasons.
- Oregon State ended last season ranked No. 2 in the WBCA Coaches' Poll. The Beavers have been ranked in the Top-25 every week since cracking the rankings in the 2013-14 year-end poll.
DISHIN' AND SWISHIN': Sydney Wiese Quick Hitters
- Wiese is third in Pac-12 history and first in Oregon State history with 289 career 3-pointers. Candice Wiggins (Stanford, 2005-08) holds the Pac-12 mark with 295 career longballs.
- Is second among active players in career 3-pointers, trailing Ohio State's Kelsey Mitchell by one longball
- Is one of 36 players in Pac-12 history to make the All-Pac-12 First Team three times. Should she make the all-conference team again this season, Wiese would become just the 13th player in conference history, and second player in Oregon State history (Tanja Kostic - 1993-96) to earn All-Pac-12 honors all four years.
- Made the Pac-12 All-Tournament and Dallas All-Region Teams last season.
- Ranked No. 16 in ESPNW's Preseason Top-25 Players list.
- Preseason All-Pac-12 honoree for the second-straight season.
- Currently sits eighth in Oregon State history with 1,398 career points, good for 32nd nationally among active players.
- Is third in Oregon State history with 506 career assists, and fifth in the nation among active players
- Has 398 career rebounds, 364 of which have come on the defensive end
- Has made the Pac-12 All-Academic Team the last two seasons, and hopes to begin a career in broadcasting once her playing career comes to an end.
DISHIN' AND SWISHIN' (AND REBOUNDIN'): Sydney Wiese Triple-Double Quick Hitters
- Sydney Wiese netted the fourth triple-double in Oregon State women's basketball history, going for 27 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists vs. UC Davis on Wednesday.
- Wiese was also incredibly efficient from the floor in the outing, hitting 10 of her 12 shots, and six of her seven 3-point attempts.
- The 27 points was a career-high for Wiese
- Ruth Hamblin had the most recent Oregon State triple-double prior to Wiese (1/13/14). Lisa Channel (2/11/84) and Judy Spoelstra (1/7/83) had the other two.
- After the game, Wiese said she was most proud of her rebounding in the game, because "It will make my dad really happy to see that I pulled down 10 boards."
