COLLEGE BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK

Corvallis Gazette-Times

There will be 66 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball games on national or regional television this season, the conference announced.

Five Oregon State games are already chosen, with the possibility of the season-ending Civil War on March 4 being picked up if there's more on the line than pride.

There will be 44 games on Fox Sports Net, three on ABC and six on CBS, including the Pac-10 Tournament title game in the Los Angeles Staples Center. At least 11 games will be on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and CSTV.

"It's an attractive television package that affords the Pac-10's fans many opportunities to see their favorite teams in action," commissioner Tom Hansen said. "We credit our institutions for their aggressive scheduling which allowed for FSN, our long-time television partner, to add some marquee nonconference matchups to its inventory of telecasts."

More games may be shown locally. For the Beavers, that's through Fox Sports Northwest and the Beaver Sports Network.

The OSU games already on television are Fox Sports Net games. They are against Georgia (Dec. 17 at the Rose Garden), California (Jan. 7 and Feb. 2), Washington State (Jan. 21) and UCLA (Jan. 28).

W. Oregon fills staff

MONMOUTH — Former Philomath High assistant coach Everett Hartman has been hired to as the lead assistant basketball coach at Western Oregon University.

Hartman, who was the head coach at West Albany for five years, spent the past two years at Linn-Benton as an assistant. He is a 1977 Crescent Valley graduate.

WOU coach Craig Stanger also hired Jerod Gibson, a 1977 Corvallis High graduate, who had been an assistant at Portland State, Roosevelt, Corvallis and Beaverton high schools.