Hailey Van Lith is in Corvallis for the OSU Team Camp

Haley Van Lith - - YES.
This is good news on 2 counts...
First, Haley is on campus, once again....A good sign.
Second, her high school team is with her, which means that OSU is not only in touch with Van Lith, but her entire h.s. program. Good connective links !!

If we step back for a second and take a look at the players who are connected in one way or another with WBB it is obvious that OSU is now a national destination for Elite players.

Elite players don't show up in your gym by accident.
This is not to say Haley is a done deal. Far from it. It is to say that the very best players in the country are giving the Beavers a close, close look.

Very impressive.

P.S. Haley has been playing a lot of ball the past 4 months - which always takes a toll in one way or another. I imagine it would have been easy for her to take a pass on Corvallis if she were inclined to do so...Just thinking out loud here.

I wouldn't get too excited just yet. Both Van Lith and Brink are being courted by UCONN and many other top programs. Fun to dream, but....

Checking out Van Lith on video and her picture and it's kind of funny. About the most extreme example of sweet innocent looking kid and hard nosed player as I've ever seen.


And about "UCONN and many other top programs. Fun to dream, but....", you do realize that OSU IS one of those top programs now right?

One could argue top 12 or even top 10 based on several recent end of year rankings, but not top 5.  More than 1 final 4 appearance is needed to.

Being an Oregon State fan, I'd love to consider the Beavers as an elite team. Truth is though, for most people, the four year run just isn't long enough. Keep winning and landing players like Destiny Slocum and Taylor Jones, and it won't be long until everyone considers the Beavers an elite program. The Beavers have been good long enough now, (Three straight Pac12 titles and then the elite eight this year), that most high school girls that follow college basketball are going to know the Beavers are among the best in the country, especially anyone who follows the Pac 12, most in Texas (because of beating Baylor twice), and now most who follow Tennessee.

Interesting enough, to show a little lack of belief in the Beavers being elite, look at the preseason polls the past 4 years:
2014-2015---AP 20, USA coaches 21-------------ESPN postseason final 13
2015-2016---AP 10, USA coaches 9--------------ESPN postseason final 2
2016-2017---AP 25, USA coaches 17-------------ESPN postseason final 9
2017-2018---AP 19, USA coaches 17-------------ESPN postseason final 8

I agree 411500. No matter what the 'experts' may consider the Beavers, girls that are currently considering college choices know how good the Beavers are. A girl like Hailey Van Lith, a west coast girl, who no doubt knows the Pac12, has seen this the last few years:

When she was in 7th grade, the Beavers won the Pac12
When she was in 8th grade, the Beavers won the Pac12 and made it to the final four
When she was a freshman, the Beavers won the Pac12 and had a first round draft pick.
When she was a sophomore, the Beavers came in 3rd in the Pac12, but advanced to the elite eight, and had a first round draft pick.

There are not a lot of teams with a recent history as good as that, and that is what the 2019 and 2020 girls are seeing in Oregon State.

I would also point out that players like Van Lith and Brink are not just aware of what has been happening here; thanks to the PAC 12 Network, they SEE IT WITH THEIR OWN EYES every weekend. They SEE players like Pivec, Weisner, and Corosdale from the Northwest, just like them, come to Corvallis and become stars. They SEE the crowds that we draw, just as they SEE the crowds that other programs don't draw. They SEE Notre Dame coming to play at Gill. They SEE the excitement this program has created.

And, as was pointed out in other posts, they've been seeing this since about the time they were old enough to really get serious about basketball. They only have an active memory that goes back 4 or 5 years for college basketball, and we've accomplished more in that time period than any other team in the conference. We've also led the conference in attendance by a wide margin each of the last 4 years.

What will they SEE this year, their all important junior year? More of the same. We're going to lead the conference in attendance again. If Scott chooses to, they're going to see a 5 star recruit starting at every position, with plenty of 4 stars backing them up. They're going to see that the team is only losing one of those 5 star players, with at least one more coming in to fill those shoes. They're going to see a program that has been loaded, and will continue to be loaded for the foreseeable future.

And let's not forget - Tennessee, Connecticut, Notre Dame, South Carolina, Baylor, the closest one is probably 1,500 miles from home. How often can friends or family come to your games? Or even see you on TV? I'd speculate that 'Three Fingers' Brown could count on one hand the number of times Westbrook's family saw her on TV last year - and one of them was when we beat them at their gym in the tournament.

Don't sell us short recruiting against anybody based on reputation, particularly here in the Northwest. We have 2 top ten recruits in the program right now. There's no reason in the world we couldn't add a few more.