STILLWATER – Oklahoma State is strengthening its position within the national landscape of college athletics with the unveiling of the athletics facilities vision plan that was announced by Athletic Director Chad Weiberg today.
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STILLWATER – Oklahoma State is strengthening its position within the national landscape of college athletics with the unveiling of the athletics facilities vision plan that was announced by Athletic Director Chad Weiberg today.
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The Cowboys have another big chance on Big Monday to improve their resume ahead of Selection Sunday. Oklahoma State hosts a Baylor squad that will be without leading scorer Keyonte George Monday on Eddie Sutton Court. Here is a preview of the matchup. Viewing InfoTime: 8 p.m. Monday Team Stats
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Senior Night in Stillwater tonight for the Pokes’ game – beat the Bears. OSU BulletsSoftball: Cowgirls 10, UTEP 6 OSU Bullets• OSU Athletics is making a major announcement today (PFB) • Cowgirls lost at Kansas yesterday but hold onto third place in the Big 12 (O’Colly) • No Keyonte George for Baylor tonight – Bears are without their leading scorer (Twitter) • Been wondering why OSU hasn’t signed a premium quarterback – defined as touted/ranked as high as Spencer Sanders since him – but this article really cleared that up:
• Flattering words from K-State’s head man about the Pokes:
• Getting to know senior (!) Kalib Boone – terrific profile from The Oklahoman (NewsOK) • Incoming Cowboy wrestler won his fourth state title (O’Colly) Non-OSU Bullets• Your attention span is dying
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OSU on Sunday night teased what is expected to be a major announcement coming Monday related to possible facilities upgrades on the Stillwater campus in a viral tweet that has OSU Twitter abuzz. The post, shared by OSU’s main athletics account, is a brief 11-second video of drone footage that oversees Boone Pickens Stadium, Gallagher-Iba and the OSU campus’ myriad athletic facilities. The replies are full of responses that read, “We’re all in,” from the basketball account, the softball account, the football account, the wrestling account, the golf account, the equestrian account, and the track and field account. “Oklahoma State athletic director Chad Weiberg will host a news conference at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the football team room inside the west end zone of Boone Pickens Stadium to discuss the OSU Athletics Vision Plan for the future,” OSU said Sunday night shortly after releasing the following clip: I don’t want to speculate too much because it’s pretty clear OSU has some big news it wants to share for itself, but as an expert internet troll, I watched the clip in slow-mo and if you stop it at various points, it appears to show holograms of what would be new structures on the campus. Those structures would appear to be related to softball and the football practice facility as well as something attached (possibly?) to Gallagher-Iba and another building that may accommodate track and field. Since we’re speculating here, one would guess whatever announcement is coming down the pike would also involve golf, wrestling, equestrian and hoops. (Just guessing it won’t involve baseball, because baseball’s already got brand-new digs.) 
Only those at OSU know the exact details of whatever is to be unveiled Monday, but OSU athletic director Chad Weiberg has for years been talking about plans to upgrade facilities for the wrestling team, softball and track, so upgrades for all those would track. “We do have a facilities master plan and will continue to work on that plan,” Weiberg said two years ago. “I’m not going to stand up here and tell you exactly the order of it, but we have been public with the fact that a wrestling training facility is one of our priorities. Because of the success we’ve had in softball, we know we need and want to address that facility as well. One of the final major pieces of the master plan is an indoor track. We’ve got to have a facility where our track student athletes can train when it is cold and raining. “We will be looking at all of those things and what the timing of that looks like, we don’t know yet. Part of it will depend on the support we get for those projects.”
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Thanks for stopping by – here’s your daily dose of Oklahoma State sports news. Three Thoughts• The first thought comes from Marshall’s Five Thoughts on the K-State loss: With just two games left in the regular season, it’s crunch time. Monday night feels like a must-win. [PFB] • The Cowgirls’ bats were blazing in Las Cruces. OSU run-ruled three of four games at the Troy Cox Classic. [PFB] • The OSU women won their first Big 12 indoor championship in program history. And both the men’s and women’s high point winners hailed from Stillwater. Two Quotes• Mike Boynton after the Cowboys’ missed opportunity to bolster their March resume. “We had an opportunity today to take a step forward in that regard [the NCAA Tournament picture] and didn’t do it,” OSU coach Mike Boynton said. “So it does us no good to talk about what may happen two weeks from now. If we don’t get ready for Baylor, it doesn’t really matter.” • Kalib Boone with some strong words on the Pokes’ recent defensive struggles. “I’m frustrated because that’s the one thing that no matter what team we’ve had at this school we’ve been known for is defense. When we don’t guard, it’s like we don’t care about the history and everything that came with it. Everybody used to tell me all the time Coach (Eddie) Sutton and Coach (Henry) Iba, they loved defense. Defense was the key. When we don’t do that, it’s like we don’t care about it. The last few games we haven’t guarded to the best of our abilities.” One Question• How much confidence do you have in the Cowboys’ NCAA Tournament bid, right now? Non-OSU Bullets• On AI is writing books faster than humans can. As someone who creates content in both of my jobs, the topic is a tad bit scary. And as someone who has started using AI in my day job, I’ve learned that it definitely has its limits when it comes to creativity. [Yahoo] • A shorty but a goody. [Seth’s Blog]
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The Cowgirls made short order of the competition on Day 2 of the Troy Cox Classic. Like, the games were shorter. No. 4 Oklahoma State finished 4-0 in the weekend tournament, dispatching CSU Bakersfield 11-0 before thumping New Mexico State 13-0 immediately after. Both games ended in a mercy rule. On Friday, the Cowgirls started the exhibition with a 12-1 win over New Mexico (also a run rule) and a 3-1 win over Nebraska. Going the full count with the Cowgirls is an achievement all its own. Including last weekend’s TaxAct Clearwater Invitational, OSU has won seven of the last nine games in early innings. The Cowgirls are 12-1 on the year. OSU 11, CSU Bakersfield 0Things escalated quickly on Saturday morning. In the early game, Kansas transfer Micaela Wark got things going with a three-RBI double in the first and scored herself when Katelynn Carwile doubled and sent her home on the next at-bat. The Cowgirls poured on five more runs in the second putting the thing out of reach at 9-0. Katie Lott’s two-run homer in the fourth set up the run rule at 11-0. Virginia Tech transfer Ivy Rosenberry earned her first win of the year allowing just two hits in five innings and striking out three. OSU 13, New Mexico State 0With the quick turnaround, there wasn’t enough time for the Cowgirls’ bats to cool down between games. The Cowgirls scored five runs in each of the first two innings and then three more in the fourth to win this one. Rachel Becker scored on a Tallen Edwards bunt (yes, that’s right) in the first to get the Cowgirls on the board. Then Chyenne Factor had a two-run single before Morgan Wynne’s fourth home run of the early season made it 5-0. It put her in a tie with Kiley Naomi for the team lead. Not to be outdone, Naomi hit a three-run moonshot of her own in the second to take back the team home run lead. She has five on the year. Alabama transfer Megan Bloodworth threw her bat into the ring as well. She added a solo homer in the second and a three-run bomb in the fourth, her first two homers as a Cowgirl. Freshman Kyra Aycock moved to 3-0 in the circle, allowing three hits and walking two while striking out three in her own complete game. Next up, the Cowgirls will look to make it 5-0 on the weekend. They’ll take the short trip across state lines from Lac Cruces, New Mexico to El Paso, Texas for a matchup against UTEP at 1 p.m. Sunday.
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STILLWATER — The Oklahoma State basketball team lost to No. 14 Kansas State 73-68 on Saturday in Gallagher-Iba Arena. After the game, Mike Boynton, Caleb Asberry and Kalib Boone met with reporters to discuss the loss.
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STILLWATER — Another game has passed, and the Cowboys’ NCAA Tournament chances continue to dwindle. Oklahoma State lost to Kansas State 73-68 on Saturday in Gallagher-Iba Arena, the Cowboys’ fourth straight loss. Here are five thoughts from it. 1. A Missed OpportunityA win Saturday would’ve went a long way in booking the Cowboys’ ticket to the NCAA Tournament, and it was right there. The Cowboys led by eight with about 12 minutes to play against a team that hasn’t won on the road since Jan. 7. But from that point on, OSU went on a field-goal drought of 5:45. The Cowboys got four points from the foul line in that span, but no field goals. When crunch time game, the Cowboys faltered. “We had an opportunity today to take a step forward in that regard [the NCAA Tournament picture] and didn’t do it,” OSU coach Mike Boynton said. “So it does us no good to talk about what may happen two weeks from now. If we don’t get ready for Baylor, it doesn’t really matter.” 2. Two Losing PlaysIn a two-possession game, two plays stand out that really stung the Pokes. The first came at the end of the first half. With mere seconds to play in the half, a Chris Harris inbound pass got stolen, and Desi Sills took it all the way to the basket for a layup. OSU should’ve, at worst, had a 35-31 lead in the locker room. Instead, that lead was 35-33 with the Wildcats having the momentum of four straight points. Then with about two minutes to play, K-State had an inbounds pass from under the basket with only two seconds left on the shot clock. Sills somehow got free under the basket, caught a pass and made a layup to give K-State a 69-64 lead. It’s easy to put those two plays under a microscope given how tightly contested the game was, but man, those seem extra rough given hindsight. 3. Defense Still SuspectAcross the past four games, OSU has allowed three teams to shoot 49% from the field or better. Before playing Kansas on Valentine’s Day, OSU had allowed only one team to shoot that well. The Wildcats went 24-for-49 (49%) against OSU and went 8-for-21 (38%) from 3. It’s a perplexing proposition considering the Cowboys’ defense was once thought of as one of the best in the country, much less the league. The Cowboys’ defense was so good before this rough patch that the Pokes still rank in the Top 15 nationally in KenPom’s adjusted defensive efficiency. Boynton said the defense was better in some areas Saturday than it had been over the past few games but that the defense faltered in some key moments. “We haven’t guarded to the standard that Coach Mike holds us to, but also we just got comfortable with where we were at defensively,” Kalib Boone said. “Now teams are making us pay for getting comfortable and that’s the thing that we gotta fix. “I’m frustrated because that’s the one thing that no matter what team we’ve had at this school we’ve been known for is defense. When we don’t guard, it’s like we don’t care about the history and everything that came with it. Everybody used to tell me all the time Coach (Eddie) Sutton and Coach (Henry) Iba, they loved defense. Defense was the key. When we don’t do that, it’s like we don’t care about it. The last few games we haven’t guarded to the best of our abilities.” 4. 3s Not FallingComing into today, OSU was shooting 30.8% from deep on the year. If the Cowboys would’ve shot that Saturday, they would’ve made two more 3s against K-State in a game they lose by five points — but they didn’t. OSU was just 5-for-23 (21.7% from deep). The 3-point shooting hasn’t been bad all year (it hasn’t been great, either). The Cowboys have shot 40% or better from deep in six games this season and have shot above 35% on 12 occasions. But here in these crucial situations down the stretch, the Pokes have gone cold again. “It can get frustrating at times because we’re in the gym all day shooting,” said Caleb Asberry who went 1-for-6 from deep. “But coach tells us to shoot them. Eventually they’re gonna fall. There not always gonna be off, but right now we just gotta stay locked in and just keep shooting wide open shots.” 5. Crunch TimeThe dance is coming, and the Cowboys are still waiting on a response from their would-be date. OSU’s NCAA Tournament destiny is still in the Cowboys’ hands, but it turns Monday’s game against a Top 10 Baylor squad into what feels like a must-win. It’s not totally a must win. The Cowboys try for some magical run at the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City, but beating one team is a whole lot simpler than having to win a 10-team tournament. And that’s not to say that one win against Baylor even gets them in for sure, but it might. If OSU fails to win Monday, the Pokes’ game in Lubbock against a surging Texas Tech squad suddenly carries even more weight if the Cowboys want to get to eight Big 12 wins. The avenues are still there, but it feels like this 10-lane highway has turned into a two-way dirt road. For what it’s worth, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi still has the Cowboys as the last team in even after Saturday’s loss. That could change with results throughout the evening, though. “There’s no magic bullet — there’s no special potion that we’re gonna rub on in the next 48 hours to get ready for another really good team that’s built differently, that you gotta play differently to beat than you had to play today,” Boynton said. “If you want to accomplish the goals to be relevant after next week, then you gotta find a way to get the job done.”
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The Cowboys came into Senior Day desperately needing a win to shore up their NCAA hopes. They had plenty of opportunities but let a few too many slip through their fingers. Oklahoma State fell to No. 14 Kansas State 73-68 on Saturday inside Gallagher-Iba Arena. The Cowboys held an eight-point lead with 12 minutes to go, but the Wildcats got hot and the Cowboys suffered through the type of scoring drought that’s become a little too common this season. Missed opportunities and turnovers were killers. The Cowboys’ 11 turnovers weren’t egregious, by their standard, but many of them were unforced and all were untimely, leading to 10 Kansas State points. OSU also came up empty far too many times in the paint. OSU missed 12 layups including five in the final 11 minutes of a game they lost by five. For the third straight game, Kalib Boone picked up his second foul but Tyreek Hill did yeoman’s work in his stead, scoring six in the first half. But unlike the last two games in which foul trouble took him out of the picture, Boone had a huge second half, scoring 14 of team-high 18 points on just eight shots. He kept the Cowboys in it late. In one stretch late in the game, Kalib Boone followed up back-to-back blocked shots with a bucket to pull OSU within two with 3:50 left. He also went 3-for-4 at the charity stripe over the last few minutes. Caleb Asberry added 13 points on nine shots and John-Michael Wright and Bryce Thompson scored 12 and 11, respectively. But once again, OSU had a hard time corralling Kansas State point guard Marquis Nowell. He dropped 20, making five 3s, in the Wildcats’ win in Manhattan and then dropped 22 in Stillwater, nailing three triples. Keyontae Johnson added 17 points and five boards for the Wildcats. The Cowboys used an 11-0 run at the end of the first to take a six-point lead with a minute and a half to play in the first but gave up four quick points to take a 35-33 lead into the break. Neither team led by more than two possessions until the Cowboys pushed their lead to eight, briefly, midway through the second. John-Michael Wright knocked down his second 3 of the game to give the Cowboys life, but OSU could not trade deep balls with the Wildcats’ shooters. K-State shot 5-of-11 from beyond the arc in the second half to OSU’s 2-for-12. After taking that lead, the Cowboys missed eight consecutive field goal attempts and went on a scoring drought of 2:27. Meanwhile, the Wildcats got hot, knocking down six of eight and orchestrating a 10-point swing to take a 57-55 lead with just under seven minutes to go. OSU was in the bonus for the final 14:18 of game time and in the double bounce from the 9:08 mark on. OSU went 11-of-15 from the line in the second half. Oklahoma State went on another drought, not making a field goal for nearly four straight minutes until Thompson’s too-little, too-late layup with nine seconds remaining pulled the Pokes within five. With the loss, Oklahoma State moves to 16-12 and 7-8 in the Big 12. They’ll have another opportunity to get that signature, albeit after a short turnaround, when they host No. 9 Baylor on Monday at 8 p.m.
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Big weekend for Cowboy Basketball – win and go ahead and get in. Starts by beating the Cats at 1pm today. Three Thoughts• As you gaze at OSU’s tournament resume, this is probably the right take: win two out of the next three and you take pressure off of the Big 12 Tournament • Terrific insights from new coordinator Bryan Nardo – loved how he simplifies things • I geek out over expansion concepts and mostly agree with Berry Tramel’s conclusion here – I think there’s an outside shot the Big 12 expands west without Pac schools.
Two Quotes• Eddie bobbleheads plus a top-15 team at GIA? Yes please. • Because we can’t dream about OSU getting back to the Big Dance enough: One Question• OU + Texas -> SEC, USC + UCLA -> Big Ten, Florida State -> ? Most Viewed of the Week• No. 1 Trace Ford <3’s OU • No. 2 Five thoughts on TCU loss • No. 3 Five thoughts on West Virginia loss • No. 4 Cowboys fall in dual to Iowa • No. 5 Three takeaways from the Cowgirls’ play at Clearwater Non-OSU Bullets• This is the 1950s of the smartphone era
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