Beavers to Take on Aggies Thursday Evening

THE GAME: The Oregon State men's basketball team returns home this week to host UC Davis. The game will take place Thursday at 7 p.m.

TELEVISION: The game will be carried on Pac-12 Oregon

RADIO: The game will air live on Beaver Sports Radio Network with Mike Parker calling the action.

LIVE STATS: Live stats will be available at this link

QUICKLY: Oregon State is 3-0 at home this season, and has won six-straight nonconference home games ... Oregon State is 1-1 all-time against UC Davis. The Aggies won the last meeting, which came in the 2021-22 season ... Oregon State has three of the top-nine sophomore scorers in the Pac-12 - Jordan Pope (1st), Tyler Bilodeau (4th) and KC Ibekwe (ninth) ... Pope is tied for 12th in the nation in sophomore scoring ... Oregon State has held its opponents to 34.8 percent shooting in its three wins, as opposed to 46.3 percent in its three losses ... Thursday's game will mark the first in a string of seven-straight home games for the Beavers ... 73 percent of Oregon State total points this season have come from freshmen and sophomores ... 57 percent of the Beavers' total scoring has come from the team's sophomore class ... Pope was named to the Preseason All-Pac-12 Second Team ... Oregon State returns a six-player sophomore classs, which combined for 64 games started and averaged a combined 33 points per game last season ... The Beavers were one of seven teams in the nation last season with three or more freshmen averaging 6.0 points or more per game (Pope, Bilodeau, Rataj)

THE TEAM: Here are some quick-hitters about the 2023-24 Oregon State men's basketball team:
- Oregon State has scored first in five of its six games this season
- The Beavers have held opponents to 37.8 percent shooting in the first half of games this season.
- Oregon State returns 62.5 percent of its minutes played from last season, the third highest total in the Pac-12
- Eleven of the Beavers' first 14 games of the season will be at Gill Coliseum, with the other three being neutral site games.
- Oregon State will not play its first true road game of the season until Jan. 4.
- The Beavers welcome four new scholarship players on to this year's squad - freshmen Gavin Marrs, Thomas Ndong and DaJohn Craig, along with junior-college transfer Nate Meithof. Meithof is expected to miss the season due to injury.
- Stephen Thompson is returning to an assistant coaching role this season, after spending last year as Assistant Athletic Director for Player Development. Former Beaver great Roberto Nelson is taking over Thompson's previous position.
- Oregon State competed in a pair of prestigious neutral-site events during the nonconference season, as the Beavers took on Nebraska at the Sanford Pentagon Saturday in Sioux Falls, S.D. before heading to Brooklyn for the NIT Season Tip-Off, which also featured Baylor, Florida and Pittsburgh.
- Oregon State has held opponents to 69.3 points per game during the Wayne Tinkle era, and 67.2 points per contest at Gill Coliseum over that span.
- The Beavers are 94-57 at Gill Coliseum under Tinkle's leadership
- The Beavers will not play at Arizona or at home vs. California this season a part of the Pac-12 schedule rotation.

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Players Mentioned

Tyler Bilodeau

DaJohn Craig

KC Ibekwe

Nate Kingz

Gavin Marrs

Thomas Ndong

Jordan Pope