{"id":319278,"date":"2025-10-20T19:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319278\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:19:11","slug":"beavers-set-to-host-saturday-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319278\/","title":{"rendered":"Beavers Set to Host Saturday Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE GAME:<\/strong>\u00a0The Oregon State men&#8217;s basketball team will host Western Oregon in an exhibition game at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Gill Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TELEVISION:\u00a0<\/strong>The game will not be televised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RADIO:\u00a0<\/strong>The game will not be broadcasted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TICKETS:\u00a0<\/strong>Admission to Saturday&#8217;s exhibition is free. Season and single game tickets for the regular season are available now at BeaverTickets.com.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WHAT&#8217;S COMING UP:\u00a0Oregon State will open the 2025-26 regular season on Monday Nov. 3 when North Dakota State visits Gill Coliseum. The Beavers start the campaign with three consecutive home games, hosting UIC and North Texas following their game vs. NDSU.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER NOTABLES:\u00a0<\/strong>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Beavers are coming off their third 20-win season in the last 35 years, and their second during <a href=\"https:\/\/osubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/wayne-tinkle\/877\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"877\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne Tinkle<\/a>&#8216;s tenure as head coach.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>OSU earned a berth in the inaugural College Basketball Crown in 2024-25<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Beavers&#8217; 2024-25 season was highlighted by an overtime victory over No. 16 Gonzaga.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Oregon State finished the 2024-25 season 21st in the nation in field goal percentage and 14th in the nation in free throw percentage.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Beavers set the program record for free throw percentage last season, shooting 78.6 percent from the stripe. The Beavers have been over 75 percent as a team in four of the last six seasons<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Oregon State&#8217;s squad features 10 international student-athletes<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>As a team, the Beavers represent nine different nations, including the United States<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>As part of the 2025-26 unbalanced WCC schedule, the Beavers will not play road games at Gonzaga or Pepperdine and will not host Saint Mary&#8217;s or Portland.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Oregon State&#8217;s squad features a total of nine newcomers &#8211; seven transfers and two freshmen.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Among Oregon State&#8217;s notable additions is <a href=\"https:\/\/osubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/dez-white\/11467\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"11467\" target=\"_blank\">Dez White<\/a>, a junior guard from Missouri State. White averaged 14.0 points per game last season and scored in double-figures 23 times.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Highly touted junior college transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/osubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/keziah-ekissi\/11462\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"11462\" target=\"_blank\">Keziah Ekissi<\/a> averaged 12.3 points, 41. rebounds and 3.6 assists last season at Howard College.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Beavers earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award last season for the third-straight year<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Oregon State will continue its rivalry with Oregon on Nov. 17, the 366th all-time meeting between the two teams &#8211; the most often contested matchup in Division I men&#8217;s basketball.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Beavers will take part in the Paradise Jam Nov. 21-24 in the Virgin Islands<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<strong>OUR MISSION<\/strong><br \/>\nOregon State Athletics strives to\u00a0<strong>B<\/strong>uild\u00a0<strong>E<\/strong>xcellent\u00a0<strong>A<\/strong>uthentic\u00a0<strong>V<\/strong>isionary\u00a0<strong>S<\/strong>tudent-<strong>A<\/strong>thletes (Go BEAVS).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE GAME:\u00a0The Oregon State men&#8217;s basketball team will host Western Oregon in an exhibition game at 2 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":319279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-319278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115408113837642409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}