A year of progress ended Friday in Las Vegas.
But the lingering questions as to whether Oregon State men’s basketball can get back to the NCAA Tournament will be answered in the offseason.
The Beavers finished the 2017-18 season with a 16-16 record, declining a potential invite to the CBI and going without a postseason appearance for the second consecutive season after breaking their 26-year NCAA Tournament drought in 2016.
An up-and-down season did not surpass preseason expectations, yet promising signs emerged behind Stephen Thompson Jr., Drew Eubanks and Tres Tinkle, who returned from a broken wrist to earn first team all-Pac-12 honors.