CORVALLIS — It wasn't that something magically clicked with Oregon State's offense during practice earlier this week. The Beavers' new-look offense without All-Pac-12 point guard Sydney Wiese had been gradually building toward something like Friday night.
Building toward a performance where they could keep pace during a first-quarter scoring flurry. Building toward possessions where the ball crisply moved around the floor in a half-court set but never bounced before falling through the net. Building toward a second half where coach Scott Rueck did not even need to call plays because everything was flowing so effortlessly.
The result was OSU's highest scoring output during Pac-12 play, as the the 12th-ranked Beavers rolled past California 70-48 at Gill Coliseum.