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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.

(Eric Evans photo/GoDucks.com)

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.

— Tyson

Tyson Alger covered the Ducks for The Oregonian and The Athletic before branching out on his own to create and run The I-5 Corridor. He brings more than a decade of experience on the University of Oregon sports beat. He has covered everything from Marcus Mariota’s Heisman Trophy-winning season to the Ducks’ first year in the Big 10.

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