The Oregon State Beavers have been selected to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1990... and come in as a No. 7 seed.
Here's a look at how the streak-ending nucleus came together:
Oregon State's Derrick Bruce was an ESPN three-star recruit, but his AAU coach, "Kool-Aid," promised an impact player.
It took some time for Bruce to get going, but he found his groove in the Pac-12 Tournament and appears to be a big-time future Pac-12 point guard.