“A great team effort from top to bottom. Everybody played well, everybody contributed,” Stevie Thompson said.

Tres Tinkle reached 1,500 career points, becoming the eighth Oregon State player to do that. He joined Stevie Thompson, who accomplished it earlier this season.

Louis King had 20 points and eight rebounds for Oregon (15-10, 6-6), which after winning four of the previous five had put itself squarely in the conversation for a first-round bye at next month’s Pac-12 tournament with a top-four conference finish.

The Beavers themselves have now won four of five and are alone in second place in the conference standings — a half-game ahead of Arizona State and Utah — heading into this week’s games at UCLA and USC.

With the game still up for grabs and about eight minutes left, the Beavers put some different players — Tres Tinkle, Kylor Kelley and Rakocevic — on the back end of their press-breaking alignment, “guys that we thought could maybe finish some plays,” coach Tinkle said.

“The guys in the backcourt did a great job of getting it through their pressure, up the floor and we were getting shots at the rim or getting to the free-throw line. Then we hit some timely 3s,” he added.