On Wednesday, the Atlanta Tip-Off Club announced the names of the 50 players who will be placed on the “Naismith Trophy Watch-List”, an accolade given at the end of each season to the best player in all of women’s college basketball. And just as now-WNBA guard Sydney Wiese scooped up countless awards for the Beavers a season ago, the lineage of Oregon State talent being considered for these prestigious accolades seems to be continuing under head coach Scott Rueck.
For the 2017-2018 edition of the award, Oregon State’s Marie Gulich has been named to the trophy watch-list, after helping the Beavers to a 3-2 start, which has included hard-fought losses to national powerhouses Notre Dame and Duke.