CORVALLIS — If last season was the appetizer, Oregon State women’s basketball is ready for the main course.

After major roster turnover, the Beavers rode a late-season turnaround to a West Coast Conference tournament championship last season, making the NCAA tournament despite their youth and a slow start to the year. OSU won 10 of its final 12 games before a first round NCAA tournament loss on the road at North Carolina.

The Beavers’ unexpected success isn’t creating complacency in coach Scott Rueck’s team, they say, and instead provides motivation and desire for a return to the Big Dance. OSU comes into 2025-26 as the favorites in the WCC , according to the preseason coaches’ poll, and returns nine players with zero outgoing transfers.

“There were a lot of low points,” Rueck said

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