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Final Four News: Oregon State Beavers on a New Level and Hope to Take it Higher

The Oregon State Beavers play Sunday in the Final Four against the defending champion Huskies from UConn.

The Lady Beavers from Oregon State are where no team from the university has been before: The Final Four.

On Sunday, the Pac-12 champion Beavers are going up against the three-time defending champion UConn Huskies.

The Huskies have been almost unstoppable.

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Besides their three straight national championships, the Huskies have 22 straight games in the tournament. They have won 73 straight games overall. Their victories over the past two season has been by an average of 40 points.

They also have, in Breanna Stewart, the three-time national Player of the Year.

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The 32-4 Beavers, while underdogs, have been playing championship basketball at a new level.

They have won or shared the past two Pac-12 regular season titles and this year won the post-season tournament outright, earning an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

The Beavers have three All-Pac 12 players. They had the nation's stingiest defense when it came to limiting opponent's field goal percentage (31.7 percent).

They have faced down tough opponents, most recently top-ranked Baylor in the Elite Eight.

As the team tweeted out to followers Saturday, the team is "on a new level."

They hope to take it even higher

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