CORVALLIS — Minutes before tipoff against Arizona State, the numbers 11, 15, 24, 32 and 44 appeared on the Gill Coliseum scoreboard.
They represented the jersey numbers of Oregon State's normal starting lineup — Gabby Hanson, Jamie Weisner, Sydney Wiese, Deven Hunter and Ruth Hamblin. It was a group that had not been on the floor together to start a game in more than a month, first because of Wiese's broken hand and then because of Weisner's absence in Friday's win against Arizona due to an undisclosed injury.
But on a night dubbed "Big Monday" by ESPN2, the No.