[4] Blume's path to the starting five was paved by the decision of previous starter Brian Hilliard not to return to OSU to play his junior season owing to a nagging injury and loss of focus.

[4] Blume took the keys to the car and never looked back, finishing the season shooting .500 en route to a scoring average of 13.4 points per game,[1] with his backcourt mate Radford putting up very comparable numbers.

[5] Together with 6'11 center Steve Johnson, another future NBA talent, OSU was tapped for post-season play in the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), bowing out in the first round.

[4] The 1979–80 season was a breakout year for Oregon State men's basketball — with the team winning the Pac-10 title with an overall record of 26–4, topping out at #2 in the national polls, and gaining a regional 2-seed in the 48-team NCAA postseason tournament.

During this first of two extremely successful seasons, Blume logged more than 1100 minutes of action, upping his scoring average to 15.4 points per game as well as his shooting percentage, which finally rested at .564.

[6] Ray Blume's senior campaign, 1980–81, is the legendary year of Ralph Miller's "Orange Express" — a season in which the team reeled off 26 consecutive victories, again winning the Pac-10 title with a record of 17–1, and sitting #1 in the polls for nearly 2 months.

[1] The dream season came to a bitter close, however, with the team dropping its home finale to Alton Lister, Fat Lever, and the potent Arizona State Sun Devils before a shocking first-round exit in the 1981 NCAA Division-I basketball tournament.