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- It’s college basketball transfer season and the Beavers are no exception to the regular comings-and-goings, having already signed UMASS grad transfer, Seth Berger, earlier this spring. However, over the weekend, Robert Lundeberg, a reporter for the Mid-Valley Media Group, added another potential option to the mix for Oregon State’s 2017-2018 season, when he first spotted a mysterious man in an Illinois State basketball shirt at a Beavers baseball game, alongside head basketball coach Wayne Tinkle. After a bit more digging, the man in question turned out to be Redbirds graduate transfer, MiKyle McIntosh, a 6’ 7”, 235 pound forward from Pickering, Ontario. McIntosh would be a strong pick-up for the Beavers, as he’s coming off a season in which he averaged 12.5 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game for a 28-7 Illinois State squad. We’ll closely monitor this situation as more details become available.
- A bit more recruiting news (this time on the gridiron), Oregon State recently snagged the third commit of their 2018 class in three-star safety/linebacker Halid Djibril, who announced his pledge to the Beavers on Saturday. Yet, Djibril was fairly candid in an interview with Beaversedge.com, in which he stated that he’s still open to hearing from any other school that contacts him in his recruiting process. Besides his lack of a cold shoulder to other schools, Djibril also discusses why he chose Oregon State and how much of a role 2017 Beavers commits, Arex Flemings and Jeffrey Manning, played in his recruiting process.
- Courtesy of the Pac-12 website, this quick little “by the numbers” breakdown gives a solid look around the league’s baseball circuit, most notably making another remark about how this is now the sixth straight week that Oregon State is the top team in the country. Man, hearing that just somehow never gets old. Currently sitting at 38-4 on the season after another weekend sweep of California, the Beavers “magic number” now sits at 2, with a Civil War battle at Oregon upcoming later this week. If all goes according to plan, Oregon State could clinch the Pac-12 regular season title on Friday night against the Ducks, at PK Park in Eugene.
- Finally, if you needed just one more reason why Oregon State is the greatest place in the known universe, look no further than this piece from Fortune.com, in which chemist Mas Subramanian and other researchers at the school, accidentally discovered a brand new blue pigment in 2009, that will now become the next color in Crayola’s box of crayons. If that’s not cool enough, Crayola is also letting fans give input to a potential name for the “YInMn Blue” color, which at the moment is just a collection of letters from the main chemical elements in the color of Yttrium, Indium and Manganese.