Originally published at: Kansas Overwhelms Slow-Starting Cowboys to Hand OSU Fourth Straight Loss
STILLWATER — The last time a ranked Big 12 opponent with an NBA Draft lottery pick showed up in Gallagher-Iba Arena, Oklahoma State entered the NCAA Tournament conversation for the first time under Steve Lutz with a 7-point win over BYU. History did not repeat itself in Wednesday night’s loss to No. 8 Kansas and expected lottery pick Darryn Peterson (23 points), which likely pushed the Cowboys not just out of the picture, but out of the adjacent photo as well. It sounds a bit harsh for a team that has a relatively winnable schedule coming up by Big 12 standards—at Colorado (14-12 overall), vs West Virginia (16-9), at Cincinnati (14-12) at UCF (18-7). Winning those four would likely put the Cowboys (16-10, 4-9 Big 12) within striking distance when the conference tournament begins. Still, such a run feels hard to imagine considering Kansas threatened to run the Cowboys out of their own building in the first half, amassing a 23-point lead in the first 15 minutes before OSU responded with an 11-0 run over the next four minutes. The Cowboys picked back up where they left off early in the second, as Parsa Fallah outscored the Jayhawks 7-3 by…
Perhaps you could consider putting the final score of the game in the article. Journalism 101.
I didn’t get to see this game because I refuse to pay for stupid streaming services that I’ll never use again. So judging from the final score (as well as the halftime score and the box score) it doesn’t look like I missed much. I have a few questions. Rhetorical, perhaps, but whatever.
How are we looking for next year? Wonder which players will be returning? (We can’t bank everything on three phenom freshmen.) Will the numbers of defections to the portal be indicative of unrest behind the scenes? Will our defense suck again? Why did it suck so bad this year? It didn’t suck this bad last year.
That’s all I’ve got. This team is sucking the life from my marrow.