The college basketball season may still sit almost half a year away but already, ESPN resident bracketologist Joe Lunardi has been hard at work trying to project who will make the “big dance” at the end of the 2017-2018 regular season. However, despite an overwhelming wave of optimism surrounding the Beavers program heading into next season, Lunardi doesn’t see Oregon State as one of the teams projected to make the final cut for the “Field of 68”.
While the outlook is not necessarily stunning, considering on a national front, the Beavers still have a lot to prove coming off last year’s tumultuous 5-27 campaign, the belief around the Pac-12 Conference is that Oregon State may be a surprise team, considering the league’s top-heavy projection for next season.