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The Beavers have a new challenge in Craig Robinson's second season: Expectations.

That's something that hasn't visited Corvallis, Ore., since the days of Gary Payton. But the Beavers no longer are a Pac-10 afterthought. With virtually the entire roster back from a team that won 18 games—most by an OSU team since 1989-90—suddenly it's a fair question:

How high can the Beavers climb this season?

From winless in the Pac-10 the year before to America's college hoops darling last season, Oregon State now wants to demonstrate its success wasn't all some sort of charmed fallout from the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, Robinson's brother-in-law.

"The entire year was sort of a national media tour, which is a good thing because it's nice to be...]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:06:05 PDT ncaab urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,sportsxchange:20080101:ncaab,article,teamreports-2009-ncaab-oak:1 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:06:05 PDT