Five days after Oregon State won the West Coast Conference women’s basketball tournament and claimed an NCAA Tournament berth, you’d think the Beavers might have settled down. You’d be wrong. “My mind is literally blown away.

Oregon State was coming off a 27-win season that ended in the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA Tournament last March when the Beavers lost most of their team and most of their conference.

You know the story: an exodus of transfers, and a program in disarray. Eleven months later, they're planning to play North Carolina in the first round of the NCAA tournament. How did they get here?