Monday, Nov. 28, 2022

Cowboys smother on defense, and two other MBB takeaways

by, we don’t have to try and reach down before the guard tries to score because we he’s gonna come over and block it.”

Notebook

The Cowboys picked up their third win in a row on Sunday, defeating Prairie View A&M 78-53.

Here’s a few notes from the win.

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Cowboys struggle against WVU, lose rainy home game

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Likely because of the un ceasing rain, Bullet, OSU’s horse mascot who trots in an arc around the west end zone after Cowboy touchdowns, was absent from the game.

The demand for celebration was not too high, anyway.

OSU lost 24-19 to West Virginia on Saturday in Stillwater. Bullet was not the only

one absent from Boone Pickens Stadium. Attendance was spotty at best; an odd sight considering OSU had sold-out its four previ ous games. The streak ended Saturday. The 11 a.m. kick, cold temperatures and relentless rain formed an uninviting cocktail for the fans who half-filled the stadium to combat.

The Cowboys’ loss was their first at home since losing to Texas in 2020. OSU was without eight starters including senior quar terback Spencer Sanders. Coach Mike Gundy said it was indicative of the 2022 season.

“I’ve not ever had a season like this,” Gundy said. “I wish I knew what it was. I’m hoping it’s bad luck.”

The Mountaineers (5-7, 3-6 Big 12) completed just 10 passes but dominated the rushing game. WVU redshirt freshman run ning back Jaylen Anderson ran 15 times for 155 yards and two touchdowns. Mountaineer quar terback Garrett Greene, who was taken out of the game in the sec ond half because of injury, beat the OSU defense up the middle on a 36-yard quarterback keeper.

The Mountaineers had 250 rushing yards, something which OSU linebacker Mason Cobb made no excuses for.

“It sucks,” Cobb said. “We have a lot of good guys that are hurt. But like I said before, it’s

Defense again proving to be Cowboys’ strength Mike Boynton watched more than 70 college basketball teams play the past three weeks. Then the Cow boys coach watched his team’s performance on Sunday afternoon in Gal lagher-Iba Arena, where OSU held Prairie View A&M to an opponent season-low 53 points.

After watching those dozens of games and comparing them with his team, he said there aren’t many de fenses better.

“I think we have an elite defensive team,” Boynton said.

The Cowboy defense smothered the PVAMU offense, turn ing the Panthers over 15 times and computing those into 20 points.

Freshman guard Quion Williams brought energy to the defensive end and had two steals, and big man Moussa Cisse stayed true to his shot-blocking ways, picking up four more.

“He makes up for a lot of our mistakes,” guard Avery Anderson III said. “If we get blown

Success has come from the defense’s ability to guard without foul ing, too. Prairie View attempted just eight free throws – two days after Tulsa shot four – which has limited easy points. With a smaller backcourt than previous seasons, the Cowboys aren’t pressuring as much as normal, causing a change in philosophy.

“What we tell those guys now is contain a little bit more,” Boynton said. “But we want to funnel them into Moussa and Tyreek (Smith), where those shots are difficult to make, and I think for the most part those guys are doing that.”

Anderson off to great start at free throw line

Anderson, OSU’s senior point guard, made a team-high seven of his eight free throw attempts against the Panthers.

Three times he stepped up to the line and knocked down a pair. Coach Mike Boynton expects it.

“That’s his job,” Boynton said. “He’s a point guard, he’s supposed to make free throws. He is supposed to make all of them.”

Anderson entered the game shooting a career-high 86% from the line. He has attempted a team-high 37 free throws, so converting at a high

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OSU wide receiver Brennan Prelsey (No. 80) scored one of OSU’s two touchdowns in its 24-19 loss to West Virginia.

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clip is of heightened im portance. Anderson shot 76% last season.

“I feel like last year was a fluke,” Anderson said. “I shot pretty bad.”

Additionally, OSU’s JohnMichael Wright and Caleb Asber ry, both transfer additions, have yet to miss a free throw. They are a combined 23-for-23.

Cowboys wear turquoise N7 jerseys

Orange, black and white were merely accents on OSU’s jerseys.

To celebrate Native Ameri can Heritage Month, the Cowboys wore special turquoise N7 uni forms. It has become a tradition since OSU partnered with Nike in

2015.

Anderson, who played with Native American Lindy Waters in 2019-20, said he enjoyed the de parture from the standard colors.

“These are my favorite jer seys, I would say,” Anderson said. “I like the blue and the orange. It’s nice that we could support them. And Lindy, just supporting him and his culture.”

Freshman Quion Williams said the blue caught his eye on his two visits as a recruit. He took pictures in them while visiting and said he enjoyed playing in them.

“There’s always a smile on my face when we get to play in a new jersey,” Williams said. “Dur ing the summer, we didn’t have (different) jerseys. I was wearing the same orange jerseys. Now every game it’s a different jersey. It’s always exciting.”

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Boynton’s “Nice” halftime words spur Cowboy win

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next man up. That’s just how the game goes. If you’re not ready, you’ve got to get ready.”

The Cowboys (7-5, 4-5) offense did enough to make the game inter esting. Freshman quar terback Garret Rangel, who made his second start in Sanders’ stead, was 18-for-42 passing for 178 yards. He had no touchdowns, but despite the soaking conditions that picked up as the game went on, Rangel did not throw an inter ception.

“In the third quarter and the fourth quarter, it wasn’t much fun for passing,” Gundy said. “You can do it, but it’s not real easy.”

The Cowboys opted to pass deep on their last-chance drive late.

Down five with 1:50 remaining, OSU’s defense forced West Virginia to go three-andout. Using their timeouts wisely, the Cowboys forced a punt with 1:29 left. WVU punter Oliver Straw mishandled the snap but cleanly scooped the ball off the turf from near his end zone and booted it to the OSU 46.

The Cowboys tried four consecutive passes, including two deep shots to receiver Braydon Johnson, that all splashed incomplete on the turf. Slightly er

rant passes and uncaught catchable passes seemed to crop up when OSU needed big plays the most.

Gundy said he thought OSU was close to connecting on its deep passes.

“We had chances,” Gundy said. “Close doesn’t do you any good, but part of it is you offset it to balance for the run. And you take your shots…four or five times we had a chance.”

The Cowboys fin ished the regular season with their worst record since 2018.

“Whether it’s injuries or anything else we could point to, things just happen,” junior receiver Brennan Presley said. “We can’t look back on those and overthink about it or sulk about it. It hap pened. We can’t look in the past. You’ve got to keep looking forward. All we’ve got right now is one more game.”

The Cowboys will play in a far less sig nificant bowl than last year’s Fiesta Bowl-win ning team, but Gundy said considering the injuries that have sur rounded his team, he is not disappointed.

“The only time that I would get frustrat ed is if our guys weren’t competing and playing hard,” Gundy said. “I have not seen that this year, and I’m fairly certain I did not see that today.”

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Coach Mike Boyn ton said at halftime he asked his team nicely to play better.

It’s hard to be nice, though, when the Cowboys focused on rebounding the ball in preparation for their game against Prairie View A&M only to go into the locker room down on the offensive and defensive glass. In the most important stat, the score, OSU led the Panthers by only one.

Boynton’s words, which he confessed may not have been as G-rated as some in his family would have liked, deliv ered a message in OSU’s 78-53 win.

“It’s Sunday, so I’m going to have to go back to church again,” Boynton said. “I’m going to call my grandmother because she watches every game, and she lets me know when I say bad words and I’m going to have to tell her because I know she didn’t see it on the court.”

The Cowboys dominated the second half in almost every pos sible way. OSU made 10 more shots, grabbed nine more rebounds and had five less turnovers in the second half than it did in the first.

Anderson said re grouping and focusing at

halftime was the reason OSU scored the first 12 points after the break and lit up the second half.

“Really just fo cusing and regroup ing at halftime. Coach had came in and really preached we can’t let teams play harder than us and I take full respon sibility of that because as a captain, I’m supposed to address that as soon as I see it happen.”

In the postgame press conference, when Boynton walked in and calmly digested the box score before answering questions in his usual measured tone, he said

he probably shouldn’t have said some of the things he did at halftime.

But it was what the Cowboys needed to hear.

“Our team needed it and our job is to make sure that we give our selves the best chance to win,” Boynton said.

“So, whatever message is necessary is the one I’ll try to deliver.”

Anderson led OSU with an efficient 16 points. Guard Bryce Thompson and forward Moussa Cisse both scored 13.

It was the first time in four games OSU hasn’t had a doubledigit lead at the half.

“The only thing I feel like we’re having trouble with is playing 20 minutes,” Anderson said. “The first couple of games we’ll get off to a good start, play a good 20 minutes in the first half. And then now we’re not playing a good 20 minutes in the first half but playing a great 20 minutes in the second half. So, offense is good, I would just say we got to play a whole 40 min utes.”

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OSU guard Avery Anderson III led the Cow boys with 16 points in their 78-53 win over Prairie View A&M on Sunday afternoon.

The Cowboys are still searching for consistency with a bout against No. 20 UConn upcoming Thursday.

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OSU coach Mike Boynton is stressing free-throw shooting to his team.

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OSU wide receiver Brennan Presley led the Cowboys in receiving in their soggy 24-19 loss to West Virginia.

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Cowboys exhaust list of shots, come up empty

Ben Hutchens Assistant Sports Editor

Two referees came together deep in West Virginia territory to discuss the most talked-about flag in Stillwater.

All the cheering OSU fans did when it was thrown, seemingly indicat ing a pass interference call, was negat ed with all the boos that came when the flag was picked up. No penalty on the deep pass quarterback Garret Rangel intended for receiver Braydon Johnson.

Rangel went right back to John son, running an identical route to the one before, the next play. The ball went in and out of Johnson’s grasp. Same thing happened on a couple of deep balls thrown Johnson’s way in the first half.

Rangel and the Cowboys offense just couldn’t connect on the play in OSU’s 24-19 loss to West Virginia.

“Hit one of them and we win, hit one of them and we win,” OSU offen sive coordinator Kasey Dunn repeated. “It felt like that pretty much throughout the day. I had a list of shots that we were going to take, and we got through ‘em.”

Dunn said there were a variety of reasons why OSU, while close on al most every shot down the field, couldn’t get one to fall into place. He said maybe one was called and the Moun taineers were in a cover two protection, maybe there was a missed protection, or a drop, or a missed throw.

“We all just took our turn as an offense and just didn’t hit one of them,” Dunn said. “And if we do I think it’s a different story, a different game. I’m feeling a whole lot better about right now.”

WVU had three of those big plays the Cowboys sought so hard to find. Mountaineer touchdown runs of 57, 54 and 36 yards were the difference.

The connection problem extended beyond Rangel and Johnson, who caught four-of-11 targets. In two of the most critical plays for OSU, a two-point conversion and a 4th-and-3, Rangel

twice missed on passes to running back Ollie Gordon.

Dunn said the plays weren’t spe cifically drawn up intended for Gordon, that’s just how Rangel read the cover age. It’s forgivable, considering it was just Rangel’s second-career start.

“It’s just one of those things, a veteran QB probably moves through it,” Dunn said. “A younger guy says,

‘OK the coaches have told me in man coverage it’s going to get here.’ So, it’s neither here nor there really, but I thought that was a good number and in my mind was really trying to get it to BP (receiver Brennan Presley).”

Johnson said coming up so close and losing was frustrating.

“It’s difficult but we don’t point fingers, we’re a team, we don’t point

fingers,” Johnson said. “We just come together even closer collectively and know that we got to go back to work and fix the little things that maybe made us come up short.”

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OSU had many opportunities to beat West Virginia but many passes fell incomplete in the Cowboys’ 24-19 loss.

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OSU VS WEST VIRGINIA

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Congressman Lucas to speak at OSU fall graduation ceremonies

chairman.

In a special election in 1994, Lucas ran for the U.S. House of Rep resentatives and has been in that role for nearly 30 years, recently winning reelection through 2024.

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U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas has kept the rural Oklahoman in mind throughout his entire career in Congress.

Because of this, it is only fitting that Lucas is the first commence ment speaker after OSU and President Kayse Shrum announced the strategy for OSU to become the preeminent land-grant institution.

Lucas is an OSU agricultural economics alumni and graduated in 1982. He will speak at the fall 2022 graduation ceremonies on Dec. 16 and 17 inside Gallagher-Iba Arena.

“As an alumnus of Oklahoma State University, it’s a privilege to have the opportunity to address the graduat ing class of 2022,” Lucas said. “For generations, OSU’s mission as a landgrant institution has served Oklahoma and our country for the better. Through the teaching, research and stewardship instilled in each and every graduate, the class of 2022 will soon join the ranks of previous Cowboy graduating classes ensuring OSU’s orange continues to shine across every corner of the globe. The class of 2022 has a bright future ahead of itself.”

Lucas, who grew up in Cheyenne, began his career in politics in 1988 when he was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He served three terms from 1989 to 1994. While he represented the Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills and Woodward counties in the Oklahoma State House, Lucas also served as the House Re publican Caucus secretary and caucus

Lucas represents Oklahoma’s Third Congressional District, which includes all or parts of 32 counties in northern and western Oklahoma. He covers the areas stretching from the Oklahoma Panhandle to parts of Tulsa, and from Yukon to Altus in the southwest.

This is roughly almost half of the state’s land mass and is one of the largest agricultural regions in the U.S.

Lucas has used his role to advocate for increased learn ing in the fields of science, technol ogy, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. He has also been at several of OSU’s major announcements and press conferences in the last year, including the launch of the new Counter-UAS Center of Excellence.

In 2011, Lucas made history as the first Oklahoman to be elected as chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture. He also currently serves as the ranking member on the House Com mittee on Science, Space and Technol ogy. He uses this position to advocate for Oklahoma’s energy, technology and aerospace industries. He also serves as a senior member on the House Commit tee on Financial Services.

Shrum said it is an honor to have Lucas come back to his alma mater for the ceremonies. Lucas was also present for Shrum’s inauguration ceremony in August.

“We are delighted to have Con gressman Frank Lucas, an alumni, speak to our graduating classes at the fall commencement ceremonies,” Shrum said. “Congressman Lucas has been a champion for rural Oklahoma and a tireless advocate for Oklahoma’s energy, technology and aerospace industries. We are honored he made the time in his schedule to share some

thoughts with our degree candidates.”

Members of the Graduate College will be the first to confer their degrees beginning at 7 p.m. on Dec. 16.

Undergraduate ceremonies will be Dec. 17, with the first slot starting at 10:30 a.m., which includes the Ferguson College of Agriculture, the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technol ogy and the College of Arts and Sci ences.

The Spears School of Business and the College of Education and Hu man Sciences ceremonies will wrap up the commencements, which will begin

at 1:30 p.m.

Doors on the east side of Galla gher-Iba Arena will open for guests one hour before the ceremony start time. Graduates should arrive 30 minutes prior to ceremony start time and enter through Boone Pickens Stadium’s Gate 1 South.

The commencement ceremonies can also be livestreamed on your TV through Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV using the Inside OSU app, and at insideosu.com/.

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Frank Lucas has represented Oklahoma’s Third Congressional District since 1994.

OSU wins bedlam blood battle

Isaac Terry Staff Reporter

OSU won the Bedlam Blood Battle against OU again this year with 551 donors, compared to OU’s 548.

The three-donor lead won it for the Cowboys, and it means that OSU will have the pleasure of hosting the blood bedlam trophy at the next home football game. For the week before Thanksgiving break, the Oklahoma Blood

Institute held donation spots at both the Student Union and the Kerr-Drummond mezzanine.

Jessy Dershem, the ex ecutive director of the Okla homa Blood Institute in Enid, was one of the people helping draw in donors on campus. She stood out in the cold to convince every last student and staff to donate if they could.

“We’ve had a lot of local community members come out and donate,” Dershem said. “But we’ve seen young people donating less around

the country, especially since COVID-19. Only about 5% of those eligible to give blood actually do.”

This lack of youth dona tions is a worrying trend for Dershem and many others in the blood donation scene. OBI offered many incentives to help draw in campus donors on both the OSU and OU campuses. They teamed up with Field’s Pies, an Oklahoma-based pie corporation famous for their pecan pies.

Each blood donor got a

Field’s pecan pie, as well as a blood bedlam shirt. Other of ferings included an entry for a $250 raffle and volunteer hours for those who wished to help out.

If you missed out on donating or want to donate again, OBI will be hosting another blood drive on campus during the last week of Janu ary. The upcoming blood drive will have various rewards as well for those who wish to give blood. If you want to stay in touch and be notified when

a blood drive is coming near you in the future, you can text “OBI4OSU” to 999-777, follow the OBI Facebook page or visit www.obi.org.

According to the Okla homa Blood Institute Face book page, the total donations for the Bedlam Blood Battle came out to 1,099. That many donations reported saved 3,297 lives.

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OSU may not have beat OU in bedlam football this year, but it did win the annual Bedlam Blood Battle hosted by the OBI.

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Daily Horoscope

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Today’s Birthday (11/28/22). Lead with your heart to grow this year. Discover insights inspiring personal growth and development this autumn, before address ing a winter physical challenge. Your heart flutters into creativity, romance and family fun next spring, leading to a summer private planning phase. Love attracts goodness.

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Lifestyle

Christmas chaos Holiday events on campus

Adam Engel Co-Editor-in-Chief

The calendar turns to the December and the attention focuses on Christmas. Holiday music serenades storefronts and radio listeners.

Holiday fun begins this week at OSU with several Christmas-themed events.

Begin your holi day celebrations Tues day night with the Very Merry Mascot Party at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center.

Folks can celebrate the holiday with a winterthemed photoshoot with Pistol Pete starting at 5 p.m. This is a perfect opportunity for those Christmas card photos. Children can also play on indoor inflatables, eat cookies, and write letters to Pistol Pete. This is a free public event.

There will also be a holiday movie and many coloring activities. This event serves as a great appetizer to the annual Fanfare of Lights.

The campus’ Christmas lights will be turned on at 6:30 p.m. at the Edmond Low Library Fountain. Pokeapella, OSU’s acapella group, will perform a selection of holiday songs before the lighting ceremony.

There will be a photo opportunity with BB the mini horse in

the Student Union after the lighting ceremony.

Children and students can also make D.I.Y ornaments. This is a free public event.

Still want more Christmas fun on Tuesday night? A group of OSU music professors will per form Christmas at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. at 7:30 p.m. in the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall.

The professors will perform a selection of Christmas classics in many genres. Songs will be performed in genres such as Broadway, clas sical, smooth jazz, funk, swing and blues. This is also a free public event.

On Wednesday morning, students can decorate holiday crafts with Student Arts Alli ance’s DIY Wednesday. The event begins at 11 a.m. in the Student Union Plaza. Later, the Student

Union Activities Board will host hot cocoa bingo at North Dining. The fun begins at 6 p.m.

The annual OSU poinsettia sale begins Thursday morning at the Greenhouse Learn ing Center. The sale is open from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. or until sold out on Thursday and Friday.

A fan-favorite Christmas movie comes to life Thursday night in the McKnight Center for the Performing Arts. It’s Elf in Concert with the Tulsa Symphony. The show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets can be bought at the McKnight Center box office or online. Student Rush tickets, priced at $15 each, can be pur chased Thursday.

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OSU’s campus lights will be turned on Tuesday with the Fanfare of Lights. There are several other Christmas-themed events happening this week on campus.