Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022

OSU suffers historic college football loss

against the No. 9 team in the country, it may have been concerning.

In actuality, he played to complete a historic game.

On Saturday, OSU received an all-time beatdown from K-State. The Wildcats won 48-0 at Bill Snyder Fam ily Memorial Stadium in Manhattan.

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Jake Rubley had taken snaps before, but for the opposite reason.

The third string quarterback threw one pass — an interception — in Kansas State’s loss to TCU a week ago after both starter Adrian Martinez and backup Will Howard went down. If viewers who had not watched the prior three quarters on Saturday saw Rubley

OSU-COM at Cherokee Nation dean earns national awards

Adam Engel Co-Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Natasha Bray’s work is on national notice.

Bray, dean of the OSU Col lege of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation, recently earned two national awards.

One award, the Internist of the Year from the American College of Osteopathic In ternists, recognizes those who under stand the impor tance of their role as a physician.

“We have a responsibility to care for the patients in our office, but also, how do we care for society and improve health on a larger scale,” Bray said. “We have systems that make it easy to make bad health choices. How do we make it easier for them to make good health choices.”

Bray said the award isn’t just for physician-patient relationships but re lationships between physicians and the community.

She also won Educator of the Year from the American Osteo pathic Foundation. Bray’s students at the OSU-COM at the Cherokee Na tion nominated her.

“You want

to make a differ ence in the lives of students. There are so many outstand ing educators — not just at OSU but across the country. To be recognized as Educator of the Year is extremely humbling,” she said.

Bray graduat ed from OSU-COM in 2003.

“We work in a system where there are hundreds of faculty, staff and students who are doing their abso lute best. No one is succeeding in a vacuum,” she said. “It’s an environ ment that promotes progress and allows people to pursue their passions. OSU allows us to do our best, and it pulls the best out of us.”

Bray received the Internist of the Year award in Baltimore. A week later, she received the Educator of the Year award in Boston.

“Education is an opportunity to amplify our voice,” she said. “At OSU College of Osteo pathic Medicine, and particularly here at our Chero kee Nation campus, we choose to use that voice to edu cate students who will go into rural and underserved communities that need access to care.”

No team in the top 10 has ever lost by more of a margin than OSU on Saturday. In 2010, No. 3 TCU beat No. 5 Utah 47-7. No. 10 Clemson received a similar loss by No. 4 Florida State 54-7 in 2000. But both of these losses were to higher-ranked teams. TCU went on to win the Rose Bowl in 2010, and Florida State played in the national champion ship game in 2000.

A perfect storm of bad

speak of.

But there was a storm brewing. OSU’s defense forced a fourthand-10 on the game’s opening drive. KSU quarterback Will Howard threw a perfect strike for a 38-yard touch down.

Ben Hutchens Assistant Sports Editor

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Head referee Scott Campbell cordially greeted the captains in the purple Wildcat logo at the middle of the field. He flipped on his microphone and said he couldn’t ask for a better day to play football. He was right, in late October it was 65 degrees and slightly overcast with no wind to

Later in the first quarter, Spen cer Sanders, OSU quarterback, drove a perfect pass through a zone defense on third-and-eight. Freshman wide receiver Stephon Johnson Jr. dropped the pass and the Cowboys failed their fourth down attempt.

In the second quarter, receiver Brennan Presley caught a pass for 29 yards and continued juking defenders and fighting for yards entering the red zone. KSU linebacker Austin Moore caught up to Presley and swung his arm at the ball forcing a fumble.

Even when the Cowboys did good in their 48-0 loss to Kansas State, it was accompanied by bad. The perfect storm of badness blew in on a wonderful day for football.

Like when Spencer Sanders threw his interception early in the sec ond quarter, it wasn’t a poor throw, or an error forced by unblocked defend ers. Johnson Jr. inexplicably stumbled at the top of his route, slipping on the green and purple turf that held Cow boy blood, sweat and today, maybe even a few tears.

But a category-five storm like the largest defeat during OSU coach Mike Gundy’s time as a head coach doesn’t whip up just because of an untimely fumble and dropped passes. There were more ingredients involved.

Mackenzie Janish

Kansas State demolished OSU and gave coach Mike Gundy the worst loss of his coaching career.

See Loss on page 3

Mackenzie Janish

22 Kansas State throttled No. 9 Oklahoma State, 48-0, Saturday afternoon at Bill Snyder Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas.

OSU Center for Health Sciences

Dr. Natasha Bray, dean of the OSU College of Os teopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation, recently received two national awards.

Gabriel Trevino Sports Editor

Gundy said he al tered the way OSU prac ticed this week. There was less hitting and less 11-on-11 than normal.

Why? So many Cowboys were banged up entering the matchup, Gundy didn’t want to risk any more damage to the depth chart.

The lack of physi cality in the week car ried over to Bill Snyder Family Stadium. KSU out-rushed the Cowboys 296 yards to 163.

“I learned and made a mistake,” Gundy said. “I certainly thought it was the best thing to do or I wouldn’t have done it, but obviously sometimes I’m not al ways right.

As the Cowboys switched sides of the field at the end of the first quarter, they were down 14. When they ran into the tunnel after the second quarter, they were down 35.

Even the most

unreliable weatherman could have forecasted the blowout to continue. In the second half, OSU was forced to press, while the Wildcats could pin their ears back.

“As we went on and couldn’t establish anything offensively, you get your back to the wall and you become a little one-dimensional which can be an issue and then what that does is that allows the play caller for the other team to dial up plays much more comfortably than in a situation where it’s a one or two score game,” Gundy said.

OSU receiver John Paul Richardson said he felt it was a game where everything went wrong.

“That’s kind of how I feel about it. We beat ourselves I feel like. Obviously we’ve made a lot of mistakes and I just feel like it was one of those days. Stuff wouldn’t click in and we make some big mistakes here and there, but at the end of the day, that’s football.”

It was just one of those days, a lot of bad.

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Gundy regrets altering practice ahead of blowout: ‘That is my fault’

MANHATTAN, Kan. — When coach Mike Gundy spoke to his team after the biggest loss of his 18-year head coaching career, he didn’t chew his players out.

Gundy told them he was sorry.

“I apologized to the team,” Gundy said. “I didn’t handle our team very well this week.”

Kansas State beat OSU 48-0 on Saturday. And while the Cowboys started off in abysmal fashion when KSU’s Deuce Vaughn ran 62 yards untouched to take a 14-0 lead less than seven minutes into the game, Gundy said OSU’s struggles started earlier. Much earlier.

Gundy changed how OSU practiced lead ing up to the game, and he regretted it.

“I didn’t do a good job this week,” Gundy said. “I was concerned about a variety of things this week. We didn’t practice like we normally practice, and that is my fault. That’s what you get.”

Injuries were the reason Gundy said he altered practice. Junior running back Dominic Richardson, who was ruled out, and fresh man running back Ollie Gordon were both on the injury report. Offensive coordinator Kasey Dunn said OSU’s interior line man are banged up.

Gundy noted hav

ing limited numbers in certain position groups made him change OSU’s routine. He opted to ramp down contact in practices and reduced the amount of time the offensive starters squared off against the defensive starters.

It wasn’t a rogue decision.

“There’s no way around it, coach Gundy did exactly what he needed to do,” Dunn said.

“My opinion. He may come in and say some thing else. But I mean with where we were just physically, he absolutely did the right thing. We had enough guys show up today to put ourselves in a position and again, we just didn’t make the play.”

Junior reciever Brennan Presley said he did not believe the altered game week prepa

ration had a big impact in OSU’s defeat. He said he was different, but he trusted the process.

“Whenever you don’t go against each other and do 11-on-11, of course you don’t feel that same physicality and things,” Presley said. “We all stand behind him with whatever decision he makes. He knows people are banged up, so he was just trying to do whatever he could to accommodate the team.”

In a game filled with stark contrasts, the rushing totals stand out. KSU outgained OSU 199 to 54 on the ground.

Backup quarterback Gun nar Gundy was OSU’s leading rusher with 27 yards.

Defensive line man Tyler Lacy said not practicing against the Cowboys starters as often was different, but not an excuse.

“It wasn’t the norm, you know, the fast pace,” Lacy said. “Keeping up with the speed. But our scout team, they do a pretty good job trying to get us right. It’s not on them.”

Gundy cited overall physicality as a factor in his team’s loss. Don’t expect any extra-light practice in the future to contribute to a physical ity deficit in the future.

“We weren’t very physical up front,” Gundy said. “We couldn’t do much to balance ourself offensively. We weren’t prepared. It’s really pretty simple. And I’ll take responsibility for that. I learned a good les son. I tried to do a couple things different. Obvi ously I’m not going to do that again”

Mackenzie Janish

OSU’s 48-0 loss to Kansas State is the largest loss in the Mike Gundy era.

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With Saturday’s loss at Kansas State, Oklahoma State was shut out for the for the first time since 2009.

Sam Hutchens Staff Reporter

Loss...

OSU lost by more points to a team 13 rankings lower than it.

What went wrong?

“Everything,” said OSU coach Mike Gundy.

The mental damage a calamitous loss can influence on a college football player may be taxing. Gundy has lost 71 games in his career as a head coach. He knows the feeling after a loss. But this 71st defeat may be the biggest toll in any OSU player or coach’s career.

“We really haven’t had to do a lot of mental recovery,” Gundy said. “We’ve played good football for a long time. The challenge will be to come back and work tomorrow, and that will

be difficult. It won’t be much fun.”

Well, here’s how it happened, and how the Cowboys plan on recovering.

The Cowboys offense mustered 217 yards and coughed up three turn overs. OSU entered the game as the No. 3 scoring offense, averaging 44.7 points per game, and the 24th best total offensive team, averaging 466.9 yards per game this season. Those Cowboys statistically didn’t show up to Manhat tan.

In the first quarter, with OSU al ready trailing 14-0, quarterback Spen cer Sanders connected with Brennan Presley, who traveled 28 yards until KState linebacker Austin Moore punched the ball out at the Wildcat 18.

That would be the farthest the OSU offense would travel for the entire game.

“You have to keep this loss in the back of your mind,” Presley said. “It’s kinda like getting your heart broken

by a girl. You just have to remember that every time you see her. Every time we practice or are in the film room we have to think, ‘I don’t want that to ever happen again.’”

The defensive side of the ball wasn’t much better.

Howard became the starting quarterback for K-State with Martinez on the sideline, still dealing with his injury from the week prior.

He tied a program record four passing touchdowns — all of which in the first half — and 299 total yards. Running back Deuce Vaughn touched the ball 26 times for 166 total yards and two total touchdowns.

OSU’s defense, which entered the game as the 117th (out of 131) defense in the country, suffered another dis mantling in an all ready catastrophic season. Junior linebacker Mason Cobb knows what he must do to avoid an equivalent fate.

“F***ing grind,” Cobb said.

A bad start became a worse middle and ended with a historic final score. OSU now finds itself without control of its own destiny for the Big 12 championship game. TCU and KState, the two teams to beat OSU in conference play thus far, would need to lose multiple games in the last month of the season for the Cowboys to return to Arlington.

Gundy even stated there’s no silver lining in Saturday’s loss. Only to use it as motivation.

“Sometimes things go your way, sometimes they don’t,” Gundy said.

“The good news is, it only counts as one loss. Am I concerned? Yeah, for 24 hours. College football is a great teaching tool for loss. We need to learn to fight back after not playing in a good game.”

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Mackenzie Janish

After Brennan Presley’s fumble in the first half, OSU’s didn’t run a play inside the K-State 30 yard line. Kansas State fully contained OSU’s offense which ranked No. 3 nationally with 44.7 points a game.

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takeaways: Cowgirls suffer loss in Big 12 tournament

Daniel Allen Staff Reporter

A week-long event shifted to a quick bus ride back to Stillwater for the Cowgirl soccer team.

OSU (11-4-4) was already a bubble team in the latest NCAA tournament projections. Coach Colin Carmichael wasn’t coy about how imperative Sunday’s match against West Virginia (8-4-7) was regarding the Cowgirls’ postseason implications. Yet, the Mountaineers ended OSU’s trip to Round Rock, Texas, for the Big 12 Tournament earlier than expected. Here are three takeaways from OSU’s 2-1 loss to West Virginia.

Prolonged slow starts:

While injuries have plagued the Cowgirls for the greater portion of the 2022 season, at this point, it’s no longer an excuse.

OSU has been notorious for its sluggish starts in matches this season, depending on last-minute heroics from star players Grace Yochum or Olyvia Dowell.

The trend of sluggish starts came into fruition on Sunday, as OSU was held to just one shot the first 45 min utes of play, while losing the time of possession battle. A turnover-filled first half carried over into the second half, and led to the Cowgirls being scoreless through the first 85 minutes of play until Dowell put a ball into the back of the net with a shot taken at the upper right hand corner of the penalty box.

Nytes good, not perfect: True freshman goalkeeper Jordy Nytes has been nothing short of impressive in her first season at the college level.

All seemed well for the star freshman on Sunday after she recorded first half shutout. However, West Virginia managed to tally two goals in the second half of play. The first came on a header from Mountaineer forward Lauren Segalla set up on a corner kick. The second came on a penalty kick from Jordan Brewster.

Far-fetched tournament chanc es:

The Cowgirls’ NCAA tourna ment chances were dim heading into their conference tournament opener on Sunday.

Carmichael was adamant that with a win, his team would likely earn a spot in the tournament. Fast forward,

his team came out on the losing end of the match, and now a second consecu tive season missing the NCAA tourna ment seems probable.

OSU’s RPI heading into the Big 12 tournament was dead set at No. 40. That put the Cowgirls in bubble terri tory when accounting for the surplus of automatic bids that have to be taken

into account for other conference tournaments that have yet to be played. A win probably would have made the Cowgirls a probable tournament team. However, with the early exit, the team’s fate is up in the air until Nov. 7 when the selection show takes place.

Chase Davis

The Cowgirls season may be over with a first round exit from the Big 12 Tournament on Sunday.

OSU business analytics team places top-5 in national competition

the competition,” Mitra said. “It was a result of hard work and dedication of the team to develop a competitive analysis. I am particularly thankful to my teammates, Mihir, Bhakti and Tanushree. We are thankful to the MS BAnDS program at OSU for having provided us the learning to succeed in this nationwide competition.”

OSU has done it again.

A group of students in the busi ness analytics department teamed up and placed in the top five at the sixth annual Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Case Competition, beating out nearly 700 teams from across the country.

Amartya Mitra, Tanushree Ghosh, Bhakti Saoji and Mihir Shinde, master’s students in the business analytics and data science program at OSU, were announced as a top-five team.

Washington University in St. Louis, two teams from the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Connecticut joined OSU in competing for the $50,000 firstplace prize.

“We feel really excited and hon ored to be one of the top five teams in

Humana and the Mays Busi ness School at Texas A&M University partnered to host the competition. It offers master’s students an opportunity to showcase their analytical skills and solve a real-world business problem for Humana utilizing real data.

Not only did Mitra and his col leagues place in the top five, but OSU also had 13 other groups of business analytics students that were recognized in the top 50 during the first round of competition. They were: No. 5: Joe Austin Athimala Ma ria and team members No. 7: Tejaswi Maruthi and team members No. 13: Palash Gupta and team members, No. 15: Kalbe Agharia and team members, No. 16: Vishal Tyagi and team members, No. 20: Rafae Abdullah and

team members, No. 25: Kailey Wilson and team members, No. 26: Shubhi Gupta and team members, No. 29: Zach Miller and team members, No. 30: Sai Sreeshma Thupakula and team members, No. 32: Daniel Marchese and team members, No. 42: Bharath Raj Muppalla and team members, No. 44: Ayush Mohan and team members.

“We faced a challenging real-life healthcare dataset and were tasked with predicting members that may be housing insecurity,” Saoji said. “We found ourselves researching the prob lem statement thoroughly and brain stormed as a team to provide tailored recommendations to various segments of the members that were housing insecure. We learned to answer the ‘so what’ question which is critical for get ting impactful insights that add to the business value.”

The students and competitors said the annual competition is good preparation for their future careers in analytics.

“The competition posed a steep

learning curve for the team,” Mitra said. “This project was a great oppor tunity to challenge us and work with a large real-world dataset. Competitions such as these really expand the horizon of our thinking abilities and compel us to look for radical ways to tackle real world problems.”

Goutam Chakraborty is the director of the master’s in business analytics and data science program and is a professor of marketing analytics at OSU. He talked about the prestige that comes with placing in the competition.

“It is amazing to see our MS BAnDS students teams perform so well in national and worldwide com petitions,” Chakraborty said. “Being placed in top-5 in such a prestigious tournament is a fantastic achievement by our students. Also, having 14 teams in the top-50 shows the bench strength of our program, the dedication of our faculty and the hard work of our students. I am very proud of all the students.”

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Amartya Mitra, Tanushree Ghosh, Bhakti Saoji and Mihir Shinde teamed up to receive top five recognition at the sixth annual Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Case Competition.

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Pickleball, parking tickets and perseverance The Cowgirl tennis pickleball pro-am experience

for the average college stu dent.

Payton Little Staff Reporter

We waited for what seemed like hours, but we finally got our chance to shine on the court.

The Cowgirl tennis Pickleball Pro-Am returned to the Greenwood Tennis Center on Friday, and I was dead set on playing a match during the festivities. Coach Chris Young had a few spots open for people to participate, and I attempted to secure one before it got snatched up. While I was not one of the first ones to claim the position, I was listed as the first alternate for the bracket. All I needed was a double’s partner.

Baylor Bryant, fellow tennis writer and colleague, joined me for the event. We were determined to be the best pickleball duo campus has ever seen, yet one problem stood in our way.

I had never played pick leball.

My father is an elite racketball player. I have been to multiple tennis matches covering the Cowgirl tennis team and I know a thing or two about table tennis, but I had never picked up the paddle to play pickleball.

Baylor, on the other hand, claimed to be talented at pickleball, so my nerves began to ease ever so slightly.

We arrived at the event around 1 p.m., and we were greeted to free food from Fuzzy’s Taco Shop upstairs in the seating area. Free food is always welcome, especially

After enjoying the food and taking a look at the view from upstairs, Baylor and I decided to head downstairs to scope out the pickleball scene. There we were greeted with pickleball courts spread across the tennis center, a Game Day Iron Works booth, a free Eskimo Joe’s merchandise tent and free refreshments.

A bit of time passed then the brackets were set. Pool play began, five matches each, and Baylor and I pa tiently awaited our turn to run the board. As the hours went on, I was hit with a troubling surprise.

Having not thought about where I parked, I re ceived an email stating I was issued a parking citation. Af ter a phone call and payment later, I had another motivation to win in pickleball that day.

Once bracket play began, Baylor and I received our time to shine. We were substituted into the recreation al bracket. Our opponent? Young’s daughter and her friend. Knowing full well the odds were stacked against us, we came into the match in full swing… and that’s about all we had going for us.

After Baylor fell over, I nearly fell, countless missed serves and whiffed swings, we lost 11-3. All the work and waiting just to be dealt a crushing defeat.

When asked if he real ized his daughter was the good one, Young was none the wiser.

“I didn’t,” Young said. “Looks like we’re learning something new here today.”

After the match, I asked senior tennis player Alana Wolfberg for tips on how to improve in pickleball. We

tried to apply the advice, but we came up a bit short.

“I think you fake it till you make it,” Wolfberg said. “Go right outside of the kitch en (front of the court), and you slap one. Then you make one, and another one and all of a sudden you can play pickleball and you didn’t even know it.”

Baylor and I were not satisfied with how we played. We had to play another match before leaving.

We played a singles match to five points, and one that would be remembered. I started to figure out just how the game works, and Bay lor was getting better each second. We battled back and forth, both not wanting to give up another point.

In pickleball, a player must win by two points for the game to conclude. Baylor and I were at a score of 7-6, with the advantage leaning my way. I had him on the ropes, until an unpredictable event happened. We were using borrowed paddles from the registration table, and I just so happened to be using the paddle of Matt Holliday, a coach for the OSU baseball team. He looked for it, for he was trying to leave the event, and he found it in my hands. Just like that, the legendary match was over. We decided to call it a draw.

Overall, the Cowgirl Tennis Pickleball Pro-Am saw a great turn out and loads of pickleball being played. While our run through the tourna ment may have been short lived, our pickleball careers may not be over just yet.

But as far as the Pro-Am goes, we totally got served.

Jax Thompson

OSU women’s tennis writers Baylor Bryant and Payton Little participated in the Cowgirl tennis pro-am pickleball tournament.

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