CORVALLIS – Fans waited for over an hour outside Reser Stadium on Tuesday afternoon as the Oregon State women's basketball team landed in Eugene after advancing to the first Final Four in program history the previous night.
After the bus arrived in Corvallis, university president Ed Ray, athletic director Todd Stansbury and head coach Scott Rueck each addressed the crowd and primarily focused on how far the program had come in the six years since Rueck took over.
"When you turn around a program, it's like renovating a house," Ray said. "What Scott and the coaches and players and staff have done in the last six years is basically a total rebuild.