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BOX SCORE PHOTOS Support PFB with a PFB+ membership — $8 a month or $50 for a year. STILLWATER — Well, that’s certainly not the ideal start to hoops in Gallagher-Iba Arena this school year. Oklahoma State opened its exhibition schedule with an early game against New Mexico on Sunday afternoon. The Lobos beat the Cowboys 99-89. Here are five takeaways from the game. 1. It Looked Like Early October Basketball If this game was streaming anywhere, it’d have to come with a viewer discretion is advised warning. The contest featured 63 personal fouls, 82 attempted free throws and 27 total turnovers. All of a sudden a game that was labeled an exhibition took two and a half hours. 2. A Lobo Went Loco Three freshmen have made the All-Mountain West First Team — Kahwi Leonard, No. 1 NBA Draft pick Anthony Bennett and New Mexico’s Jake Hall. It doesn’t seem as if Hall, now a sophomore Lobo, is slowing down, as he had 20 points less than 10 minutes into this game. Hall finished with 31 on just nine shots, going 8-for-9 from the field, 6-for-7 from 3 and 9-for-10 from the stripe. Not an ideal start in shutting down an opposing…
Exhibition = practice. We’re talking about practice? 
Press conference looked like deja vu all over again… with all due respect to Yogi.
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Parsa Fallah attended the UCF game. He was walking around the stadium. He looked fine. I know “getting around” and pushing your body to its physical limits are two different things, but I’d guess him not playing was mostly precautionary.