After stacking deep tournament runs and recruiting classes, Scott Rueck and Kelly Graves have women’s basketball’s best rivalry primed for the long run.
The Ducks and Beavers haven’t been their typically dominant selves during the 2021-22 women’s basketball season, with Oregon State hanging out in the middle of the pack and Oregon treading water with conference-leading Stanford, who the Ducks host Sunday in Eugene.
But there’s few who doubt the future of either program. Scott Rueck just signed a new 10-year deal in Corvallis and Kelly Graves is stacking top-ranked classes in Eugene.
“On signing day this fall I texted (both) to say how excited I was to watch some fantastic basketball in the state for years to come,” said Lindsay Schnell, long-time Oregon sports writer and this week’s guest on The I-5 Corridor podcast.
We talk the future of this era’s rivalry — which already has a Final Four run from both programs — along with what’s going wrong with the OSU men on this subscriber-podcast.
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