INDIANAPOLIS — They are the party guest who just keeps hanging round. They weren’t invited, have cleaned the buffet, kicked the keg and taken over your guest room.
They are the Oregon State Beavers, and they had about as good of a chance of merely making the NCAA tournament three weeks ago as Donald Trump does getting elected mayor of Bend.
But they showed up at the Pac-12 tournament and simply haven’t found a team with the mettle to force them to leave. In Las Vegas, they beat three teams that went on to advance in the NCAA tournament — UCLA, Oregon and Colorado.