Hampton: Worst loss ever Comments
Blowout losses happen.
Fifty-one point losses in Gill Coliseum had never happened to Oregon State until Seattle University (yes, Seattle) came to town on Wednesday and laid a 99-48 pounding on OSU.
It was the worst home loss in school history and was the same final score of the 1997 loss at Arizona.
Those, however, were the Wildcats. This was Seattle, just getting back into the swing of things at the Division I level.
OSU coach Craig Robinson said he ran the gamut of emotions during the game.
“As a coach, the first thing you get when you see the kind of effort we gave, is anger because we don’t normally have that kind of effort,” Robinson said. “No matter who we play and how we play, we’re always tough and remain fighters. And I didn’t see that (Wednesday). So you hit the anger button first and then you hit thewhat the heck’s going on button and then you hit the let me try something completely different button and then you hit the disappointed button. So I think it ran the gamut where I had to press all of those and none of them left me feeling any better than before.”
As bad as it got, Robinson said the Beavers did not quit.
“I would say you can get punched in the face so hard that you’re dazed and by the time you snap out of it the game’s over,” he said. “I just think that we took a punch in the mouth and standing eight-count and we’re trying to get our legs for the rest of it and lost by points or a TKO later on.”
Why did it happen?
It’s hard to say. Although the Beavers have made a bad habit of playing down to the level of competition in some games, they played far below the level of Seattle on Wednesday.
The team will just have to use it as a learning experience and move on. It’s a long season and the Beavers don’t want to make it longer by obsessing over a bad game.
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