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Oregon State closes out men’s basketball regular season with a monster comeback and a 69-66 win over California
Oregon State, on the ropes for greater than a half towards last-place California, rallied from a 16-point deficit to beat the Bears 69-66 Saturday in Gill Coliseum.
Trailing 66-65, Michael Rataj gave OSU the lead on a layup with 15 seconds left. A fast turnover allowed Rataj so as to add some insurance coverage factors with a dunk.
Oregon State (11-20, 5-15) closed out the common season by ending a four-game shedding streak. Subsequent up for the Beavers is the Pac-12 event in Las Vegas. The 11-seed Beavers play No. 6 seed Washington State at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in a first-round sport.
Oregon State’s Glenn Taylor Jr. scored a career-high 28 factors, producing greater than half his factors on the free throw line. The sophomore guard was 15 of 16 from the free throw line. Taylor was 14 of 14 with an opportunity to tie the single-game faculty report of 15 of 15 when he missed the primary of two free throws.
Jordan Pope scored 17 factors and Tyler Bilodeau 11 for the Beavers. Taylor, Pope and Bilodeau mixed 56 of OSU’s 69 factors.
Nevertheless it was Rataj, who had six factors, who scored two of a very powerful baskets for the Beavers.
California took a 66-65 lead with 28 seconds left on a brief jumper by Grant Newell. OSU, passing on taking a timeout, instantly labored the ball up the ground. Rataj took the ball on the prime of the important thing, drove to the basket and simply scored to place the Beavers on prime 67-66.
Oregon State pressured a turnover seven seconds later, which changed into a dunk off a quick break by Rataj.
Joel Brown scored 22 factors to steer California (3-28, 2-18), which heads to the convention event because the No. 12 seed.
Oregon State’s Senior Day – Rodrigue Andela and Dzmitry Ryuny had been honored earlier than the sport – didn’t begin properly. California jumped the Beavers, hitting eight of its first 9 pictures to take a 17-5 lead.
It received worse earlier than Oregon State began getting management. Again-to-back three-pointers by Joel Brown and Newell gave the Bears a 32-16 lead with 3:44 left within the first half.
OSU whittled the deficit in half by halftime, trailing 36-28. The Beavers continued the comeback early within the second half, pulling even at 45 on a three-pointer by Pope with 13:34 remaining.
It was a battle for the ultimate 13 minutes. The groups traded the lead six instances down the stretch in a sport that turned a parade to the free throw line. Cal and OSU mixed for 41 fouls and 54 free throws.
Dexter Akanno scored his first factors of the sport when he hit a 3 with 4:27 left to present OSU a 61-60 lead. The Beavers managed to take advantage of the lead for 3 minutes, when Lars Thiemann’s brief jumper with 1:24 left tied the sport at 64.
OSU briefly had the lead at 65-64 on a Taylor free throw, setting the stage for a wild closing 30 seconds.
–Nick Daschel | ndaschel@oregonian.com | @nickdaschel