10 Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo!, Inc. All rights reserved. en-us 126 15 http://sports.yahoo.com http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sp/b/ysp_logo_rss.gif Latest news and information about the Oregon St. Beavers. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/teams/oak <p><p>The Beavers, it's fair to say, will have to deal with one thing next season they haven't faced in quite some time: Expectations.</p> <p>The Pac-10's most consistently downtrodden program for most of the past two decades, Oregon State reversed an 0-18 conference record in 2007-08 by actually winning a postseason tournament in coach Craig Robinson's debut campaign.</p> <p>Sure, it was the less-than-prestigious College Basketball Invitational, but OSU's 81-73 road victory over Texas-El Paso gave the Beavers an 18-18 record and more victories than they've had in a season since Gary Payton's senior season of 1989-90.</p> <p>OSU featured just one departing senior starter, and Robinson has stoked the fires of optimism by assembling an excellent recruiting class.</p> <p>He signed two... Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:10:34 PDT ncaab urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,sportsxchange:20080101:ncaab,article,teamreports-2009-ncaab-oak:1 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:10:34 PDT