Oregon State completes perfect season: 0-18

For the first time ever, a Pac-10 team has finished 0-18. Congrats to Oregon State for doing the unthinkable, falling to 0-18 after losing 77-64 to Arizona State on Saturday. And bless their hearts, Oregon State isn’t finished yet. As OSU guard Calvin Haynes told the Oregonian (emphasis and ellipsis mine):

“I don’t think any of us came into this thinking we would go 0-18. … Every time we lose, it hurts even more. But we’ve still got the tournament so it’s not over yet.”

So we’re not just looking at the first 0-18 team in Pac-10 history — we could be looking at the first 0-19 team since the Pac-10 tournament has expanded to include all 10 teams.

How bad did things get for Oregon State? Well, also in the Oregonian:

On Friday, (interim coach Kevin) Mouton said he would have called a timeout late in the game if Oregon State was ahead, just to let his players gaze at the scoreboard.

If only Oregon State had taken an early 2-0 lead. “Look guys, we’re ahead!”

Poor, poor Oregon State. While it won’t happen, the Beavers winning a game in the Pac-10 Tournament would be an amazing story. Hell, what if they won four games in a row to win the tournament? I’d say weirder things have happened. But they haven’t.

(I got the photo above at the Oregonian.)