Daily Bullets (Mar. 7): Pokes Close in on Big 12 Championship in Tulsa, Kelvin Sampson Comes to Stillwater

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Thanks for stopping by – here’s your daily dose of Oklahoma State sports news. Scores WBB: K-State 74, Cowgirls 73 Wrestling: Cowboys 154.5 – closest opponent Iowa State at 122.5 Softball: UCF 4, Cowgirls 1 Baseball: Gardner-Webb 19, Cowboys 4 Three Thoughts • What a showing by the Cowboys during the first two rounds of the Big 12 Championships in Tulsa – it’s hard to be more dominant than eight wrestlers in the championship match The Cowboys won the Big 12 last year with 153.5 team points. Through the opening day of the tournament this year, they have 154.5. [PFB] • On the court – the Cowgirls didn’t do themselves any favors for seeding in the NCAA Tournament, losing in a 4 vs. 12 upset in Kansas City, while the Cowboys close out the regular season with a shot at Kelvin Sampson’s squad at home today (PFB + HCS) • Berry Tramel is saying out loud what OSU diehards have been living the last two years: All of which means if football could return to the level of the Mike Gundy glory years, and basketball could get within a Big Country half-courter of Eddie Sutton’s standard, this would be the…

“If you were the athletic director at Oklahoma State and could encourage investment in any program (other than football), what would you pick?”

It would probably be Men’s Basketball as it’s generally the second largest revenue generator for a university (#1 being football).

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