Friday, March 12, 2021

Friday, March 12, 2021

365 days later Students recall the day COVID-19 disrupted their college expirience

One year ago, OSU first saw its virtual schedule due to COVID-19, leaving many confused and seniors without a proper ending.

By Ellen Slater Katie Drake was sitting at her spring break rental house in Gulf Shores, Alabama, without a care in the world –– or a mask in sight.

Then Oklahoma State sent out a message to students stating they would not be returning to campus after spring break.

“All the seniors that I was with started crying.

They were so upset that this was the end of their senior

year. Just like that,” Drake said.

She had been enjoying spring break at a beach house with her sorority sisters when they heard the news.

There were an additional two weeks put on the tail end of the break. Students had many emotions, both good and bad, that they would not be able to return to campus right away. Little did they know those three weeks would soon turn into months, with students not

returning to campus until the fall, and the Stillwater they knew and loved turning into a ghost town.

This week marks one year since the world flipped upside down as coronavirus swept the nation. At this point there were only a handful of cases in Oklahoma.

A typical spring semester at OSU was far different than this new change of pace. Restaurants had to close their doors, the Strip was empty on warm week-

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end nights, the Atherton Hotel was empty all of May, but would usually have been filled with reservations of proud parents on graduation weekend.

The past 365 days were filled with millions of coronavirus cases, with thousands of those cases impacting OSU students and the Stillwater community.

At that point, the semester was just postponed See One year on pg. 3

Have no fear, vaccine is here Students discuss getting the COVID-19 vaccine

Jared A’Latorre Get ready folks, the vaccines a ‘movin.

Phase three of the vaccine distribution process in Oklahoma began on Tuesday morning.

This phase includes 2.5 million Oklahomans across the state such as educational settings, like students in

preschool through 12th grade, daycares, early childhood facilities, collegiate universities and other post-secondary facilities.

Deputy Commissioner Keith Reed pleaded with the public that now is the real chance to end this nightmare.

“Now is the time to do your part to help stem the pandemic,” Reed said.

Mayor Will Joyce of Stillwater has been excited for the phase to move quickly.

Joyce said that now is the See Fear on pg. 2 Many at OSU are in Phase III of Oklahoma’s vaccine plan.

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“I hope the summer in Stillwater will be close to normal, and certainly by next fall, with students coming back and all the excitement around a new semester and all the fun fall things that we do here in Stillwater, I’m really hopeful that we’ll be able to do that pretty close to the way we’ve done it in the past,” Joyce said.

Junior Chloe Robinson is pumped to get back to normal, not just for herself but for the rest of the country.

“I’m so excited, I think that’s just going to get back to normal, and I’m so in support of it,” Robinson said.

“I think that the vaccine will really help and just get us back into normal life and just being able to get back into the community which I think we really need and we really miss out on a lot.”

While Robinson’s grandparents have gotten the vaccine, she wants to let time run the course and wait slightly longer.

John Ward, a computer science major, talked about his personal thoughts

An estimated 15% of people in the Unites States have received the full dosage of the COVID-19 vaccine.

about the vaccine and how fewer restrictions would help the public eye more.

“I feel like it will help open up campus,” Ward said.

Ashley Bruner was asked how she felt about the state moving into phase three.

She immediately said, “sounds great.”

As university

students are in the midst of their golden years, or for anybody for that matter, Bruner said that we shouldn’t panic because everybody will be OK, eventually.

“Being scared of it is not the solution, I think taking smart and logical steps towards going back to normal will be the solution,”

Kayla Ballero The COVID-19 vaccine is now available to all OSU students, faculty and staff.

DON’T STUMBLE! (Part #1) “Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.”

(Mt. 11:6) The words “fall away” are sometimes translated “offended” or “stumble.” Let me paraphrase; blessed is the man who does not stumble, get offended, or fall away because of the way I do things.

This is Jesus’ answer to a question from John the Baptist. Are you the one who should come or do we look for another? John was now in prison. He is the one who baptized Jesus and said “Behold the lamb of God.” John is the one who had given witness who Jesus was. Now John is asking, “Do we look for another?” John believed the messiah was coming, but in coming he expected him to come in a different way than Jesus came. It is so easy to stumble at God’s ways,

because his ways are not ours Notice Paul’s quotation from Isaiah: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that make them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.” (Is.8:14, 28:16 NIV) The Jewish leaders stumbled at Christ’s first coming because he did not come as they expected. They expected a conquering king, but he came as a servant in doing God’s will. (Phil.2:8) Peter almost stumbled and was very upset when Jesus began to tell his disciples what was going to happen to him: he was going to suffer.

“Never, Lord!” Peter said. He did not understand God’s plan!

Let’s be people of prayer and humility. Be open to God’s clear guidance in our lives!

Bruner said.

With the sporting events still continuing at limited capacity, Bruner said she’s been in attendance at nearly all the home football games but has been taking the precautions she needs.

With her family, Bruner has had family members get the vaccine with no negative side effects.

“If I were offered it, I probably would get it because I do get the flu shot and things like that, so, for me personally it makes sense, I know not for everyone, but I think I probably will get it,” Bruner said.

Dalton Graybeal knows people who have gotten the vaccine, but knowing his age and his risk, he doesn’t feel too worried.

“If there’s a giant spike in overall deaths, I would be more inclined to do it, but looking at the statistics, a one-third of 1% of mortality rate for anyone between 18 and 40, so I like my chances of not getting sick,” Graybeal said.

Graybeal pointed out that people should stay safe but still maintain their rights as citizens.

“I think the cur-

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rent climate we’re in now is not sustainable in terms of the expectations of us sacrificing some freedoms for security,” Graybeal said. “I’m glad to see us go back toward freedom, really.”

Emory Meursing thinks that the vaccine is great but especially for students in clubs, like fraternities and sororities.

Meursing is also a gamer, which has changed his abilities to interact since the pandemic.

“With the return of (events), I’m able to interact with my peers some more,” Meursing said. “It’d be a lot of fun to see all of them again, however, I can still do all of my stuff digitally, so regardless it doesn’t really affect me either way.”

Junior James Gibson didn’t feel as bothered with public events then or now.

“Honestly, I was comfortable with it either way, most people who are attending those events are younger and the side effects and the effects of COVID are less for people who are younger anyways,” Gibson said. news.ed@ocolly.com

News One year Continued from pg. 1 for two weeks. However, it was emotional for those that suspected that it would take more than a couple of weeks for America to recover.

Similar to Drake’s recollection of the day, many OSU students were already at their Spring Break destinations, because at the time there were still no travel restrictions or a stigma around traveling.

Will Hentges, an Oklahoma State student, was in Utah for the break.

“We were scared to go to the grocery store even though there were only three cases in the state,” said Hentges. “We got the message that we were not going back to school and we were like ‘well, maybe that is fine since it is just two weeks’ and now it is a whole year later.”

Some students were elated that there was an extra two weeks of spring break, thinking they would simply get more time on vacation. Others were correctly skeptical that they would not be returning to school.

Kendall Suess, an OSU student, says that she was not even too happy about having to leave Stillwater in the first place-- let alone two weeks, let alone the remainder of the semester.

“I was so mad. I really did not understand the severity of it at the time,” said Suess.

Nathan Kraemer was still on campus. He was in the library studying when he got the notification from OSU that students would not be returning.

“I’m a realist by experience, but I’m an idealist by heart,” said Kraemer. “I was hoping that the coronavirus wouldn’t be that big of a deal but, of course, I was wrong. I was a combination of frustrated, disappointed, and depressed. I wasn’t the only one either.

A lot of things were canceled which I believe contributed to the decline of students’ mental health.”

It is exactly one year later and this week OSU announced that the University Health Services can now vaccinate all students and staff. The pandemic is still not over, but many would consider this a light at the end of the tunnel.

Reflecting on a year ago brings back many emotions and stories for all who have been college students during this pandemic, who can only hope that by this time next year it is history. news.ed@ocolly.com

Joshua Cleary With vaccines rolling out, students and faculty alike are hopeful for a more normal fall semester.

OSU hopeful for maskless summer, fall 2021 semesters excitement around a new semester, and all the fun fall things we do here in Stillwater, I’m really hopeful that we’ll be able to do that pretty close to the way we’ve done it in the past.”

Maddison Farris Said Joyce.

As the Stillwater comOklahoma State has munity as a whole continbeen mask-to-mask for the ues to heal, much pressure past year, but students and is placed on the school in faculty are hopeful for a regards to masking and disface-to-face fall semester. tancing, as students make After one year of up a reasonable portion of mandates, ordinances and Stillwater residents. other health protocols, “When we have herd Oklahoma is beginning to immunity, I think masks see a twinkle at the end of will be optional,” said Paul the tunnel. On Monday, the Tikalsky, dean and professtate announced that phase sor of structural engineer3 of the vaccine distribuing. “If faculty, staff and tion plan would take effect students complete their vacon Tuesday. cinations, we will be maskThe current presiless within a few months.” dential administration has Tikalsky also commade a plan for all eligible mented on class settings adults in the U.S. to be for the new semester, sayfully vaccinated by the end ing “I think the physical of May. The CDC has also classrooms will be close recently announced new to normal during the fall safety guidelines regarding semester. We have learned vaccinated adults, saying a lot during the pandemic. that they are fine to gather Ventilation systems might without masks or socially continue with HEPA filtradistancing two weeks after tion and faculty might use their second dose, or single more electronic technolodose of the Johnson and gies where the technoloJohnson vaccine. gies improved learning. I Stillwater Mayor Will believe laboratories, interJoyce is hopeful for a sum- disciplinary group projects mer reminiscent of the and the physical lectures of warm days in years past. great faculty will be back “I hope this summer in the fall.” in Stillwater will be close Tikalsky also says that to normal, and certainly a lot of professors bring joy by next fall with students to a classroom, and he is coming back and all the excited for them to return

to their element.

Dean of Arts and Sciences, Glen Krutz, is expectant of class sizes that will make good use of the lecture halls that have gathered dust over the past year.

“I’m hopeful that things will be more back to normal for the fall,” Krutz said. “We certainly, in terms of the class sizes and the number of students in the classes, as enrollment windows open up, we’ve got a lot of our traditionally packed classes planned for the fall. So the hope is that things will continue to improve such that we can have more students in the classroom.”

OSU continues to move towards normalcy as vaccines become available for students and faculty.

Many professors and students are hopeful for the fall semester as larger percentages of the Oklahoma population gain immunity each day.

“My biggest encouragement to everybody right now would be to go get vaccinated,” Joyce said.

“The best way to get us back to normal is to get as many people vaccinated as we can as quickly as we can.”

“Stay the course, hang in there, we’re so close,” Tikalsky said in encouragement to the students of OSU. news.ed@ocolly.com

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Art of adaptation How the OSU Museum of Art adapted to COVID-19 pandemic

Sheyenne Mitchell-Brown

After months of interviewing, she had made up her mind: Oklahoma State University would be her new home.

Christina Elliott moved over a thousand miles away to live in Stillwater, and by the time she had finally settled into her new job at the OSU Museum of Art, the COVID-19 pandemic had the world fully in its grasp.

“We moved all the way across the country from upstate New York,” Elliott said.

“And I told myself I wasn’t going to go out gallivanting until our apartment was unpacked. Then everything shut down as soon as the last boxes were unpacked.”

The museum was not immune from the shutting down of public spaces all around the state and country. Elliott would have to be an associate curator of education from her desk at home just like all her other colleagues would have to fulfill their roles from their at-home offices.

Like so many other businesses and public services, the OSU Museum of Arts was forced out of its comfort zone abruptly and into the digital realm.

The museum’s marketing and communications specialist Kristen Duncan said it was always the plan to take more advantage of technology eventually, but Covid really pushed them to make that thought a

OSU Museum of Art The OSU Museum of Art’s doors are open. Schedule a tour or see what they have to offer at their website https://museum.okstate.edu/.

reality as quickly as possible.

“We were already doing a little bit of stuff on digital channels prior to the pandemic, but when everything shut down, our doors also closed because we are associated with the campus, and everything went virtual,” Duncan said. “And so it became a huge priority for us to just start producing digital content as soon as we could.”

What that meant for them initially was staff started to produce content based on the museum’s permanent collection. From there, they started putting together educational shorts and videos on items around the museum. It wasn’t long before the student staff stepped in to help produce more content, and many of them learned how to edit video to contribute more that way.

Soon, Kristen said, their digital presence had progressed and the focus was to

Saturday as the name suggests. As Covid took over, gatherings for these activities couldn’t continue, but the spirit could. Through the generosity of the OSU Museum of Art Advocates, the museum offered free art kits to the Stillwater community by partnering with many popular locations like the farmers’ market, 4Kids and Community and Our Daily Bread.

Shelton said she liked the idea of offering something physical rather than on a screen.

“I think we’re all struggling with this. Like too many Zoom meetings, too much virtual, I want something real,” Shelton said. “[It’s] some sort of interaction, you know, to kind of keep our minds busy and distracts us from what is going on that we can kind of have fun and concentrate on something.”

Elliott, Duncan and Shelton all agree that the OSU Museum of Art has no plans of slowing down anytime soon. Events and exhibits are available often, and they all recommend checking out their website for upcoming services the museum offers.

“It was interesting sort of getting grounded here and starting to make connections and then everything immediately closing up,” Elliott said.

“But the silver lining of Covid is that it did encourage us to move fast in our digital initiatives than we had planned to, and it was really a time when the students and the staff and the faculty needed it, and so they’ve really responded to our efforts, and we’ve seen a lot of success there.”

supplement all the services they were providing before Covid. Their audience was now larger than ever, and people from all over were able to enjoy everything the museum had to offer from home or wherever they were.

The museum did everything from online tours, interviews with artists, historical videos and more. They made sure to have something for everyone at any age or stage in life. The museum’s faculty and staff did everything they could to still share the beauty of art in a bleak pandemic.

Carla Shelton, the museum’s associate director, museum collection and chief registrar, said she is proud of the efforts the museum made to make a digital transition, but what she thinks is even more special is their continuation of Second Saturday.

Second Saturday is a entertainment.ed@ocolly.com monthly activity event the museum offers every second

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On the corner of McElroy Road and Main Street sits this abandoned building that was once a Chuck’s Paint & Paper.

Emmett McKeel

Hard Work Soon-To-Be Destroyed

By Emmett McKeel On the corner of McElroy Road and Main Street sits an abandoned building that was once a Chuck’s Paint & Paper.

While many may not recognize this name, they have likely noticed the ocean mural that faces the sloping hill of McElroy. This mural was created by Oklahoma State alumni and known tattoo artist Daniel Gulick with his best friend Tony Carrera nearly two decades ago.

I had the privilege of talking to these two about everything: murals, tattoos, anecdotes and Vegas bathrooms.

Gulick graduated from OSU in 2005 with a degree in studio art and a concentration in oil painting. From this, he got a job at the Philbrook museum where he stayed for a few years, and learned how to handle artwork and set up art shows. He describes it as the best few years of his life.

During his college years, Gulick was also working on murals around Oklahoma. He met Carrera in an advanced drawing class at Tulsa Community College one summer

and upon noticing his art style, asked if he did murals. They’ve been working together ever since, and now describe their relationship as brothers, not friends.

The mural that currently towers over the road was painted by the two sometime in either 2003 or 2004 — “It’s been so long now I don’t even remember the exact date”— for Chucks Paper & Paint. Gulick said without the two men who hired them for this, Chuck and AJ, he likely wouldn’t have been sitting in the seat next to me.

“I don’t even know if they’re alive anymore, I don’t think they are, but those two men, they gave me my start and entrusted me with that wall,” Gulick said.

The inspiration behind the wall lies in a fish Carrera had drawn up. He had thought he would love to paint it and from there the idea of the entire underwater scene was born. Chuck and AJ had given no parameters aside from ‘nothing inappropriate’ so the ball was completely in their court. They scored.

If you look closely into the TV of the mural you’ll see the words ‘art for the

Photo provided by Daniel Gulick Gulick painting his first mural in the early 2000s.

masses.’ This is a reference to Diego Rivera, who was Gulick’s inspiration. Rivera had the belief that everyone deserved to enjoy art, not just the rich, and stopped doing murals for the rich and began doing them for the common man. Gulick said that if you look around Stillwater for his paintings, you’ll see this phrase in every single one.

Painting the mural was a journey of its own. Between being badgered by police, harassed by frat guys and sponsorships from neighboring restaurants the stories are endless.

Gulick talks about a time a truck of frat guys

Emmett McKeel Daniel Gulick (Right) and Tony Carrera (Left) pose for a picture at their tattoo shop, Colour Studios Tattoo.

threw a beer bottle at his ladder that nearly left him dangling 20 feet up on a roof, while Carrera talks about having actually fallen off of a ladder and comically rolling down the sloped hill. They also talk about how they’d work at night because it was the only time they had. Large studio lights pointed at the building and ladders ready, they had “cops surround us all the time, pull their guns on us.”

While this isn’t the only mural the pair have done in Stillwater, it’s the most known. Unfortunately, the lifespan of this painting is waning, as Chuck’s is expected to be torn down at an undecided date. When asked how they felt about their favorite mural coming down, Gulick said he’s definitely sad about it but hopes that they have the opportunity and sponsorship to do another large painting here in Stillwater in the future.

For more information about Daniel, Tony and their shop, you can visit their Facebook page Colorstudiotulsa, as well as @daniel_gulick and @carreratatoo on Instagram. For more in-depth stories and anecdotes, you can visit Artists of Oklahoma featuring Daniel Gulick and Tony Carrera on SoundCloud.

And make sure to take a good look at the mural before it’s taken down! entertainment.ed@ocolly.com

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Sexual violence in Village E leaves residents shocked, concerned

On Jan. 30, 2021, a sexual assault took place in the Village E student housing facility on OSU campus.

By Anna Pope Over a month ago a student reported a serious sexual assault in Village E, sparking conversations of safety among parents and students.

For nine months of the year, many students call dorms their home, and housing facilities like Village E are a place for students to develop a sense of indepen-

dence. However, it is difficult to feel easy when a sexual assault has been reported in on-campus housing.

According to Oklahoma State University’s national data and statistics, one in five female students and one in twenty male students will experience sexual assault while in college. While statistically sexual altercations are a commonality, Rebecca Hale, sophomore English major and

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Village E resident, said it is still incredibly shocking.

This is Hale’s second year living on-campus and she said last year it seemed as though she did not hear of these things happening on campus, let alone in her own dorm. Hale said she is vigilant about taking extra safety precautions but as a woman, there is always the fear of sexual assault.

Mandy Psencik, a fresh-

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man in merchandising, said she was in the dorm when the sexual assault took place and didn’t know anything was happening. It was only when she saw the notification, she discovered what happened and felt sick to her stomach.

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News Violence Continued from pg. 7A things like pepper spray and talked with her about measures she could take to be safer anywhere, not just on campus.

Psencik said she feels safe on campus but the parking situation, especially at night, is intimidating.

“If you don’t get in at a certain time you have to park in the way back, like all the way by the Testing Center and I would say that’s a scary walk,” Psenick said. “I don’t want to talk on like sex but as a woman, for me, for sure it’s super scary to walk home.”

Four hours away Psencik’s mother, Jami Psencik, said when she heard from her daughter about the assault taking place in Village E, she took action.

Jami Psencik said this occurrence shows it can happen anywhere and is an opportunity to have meaningful conversations about safety and taking advantage of campus amenities like the OSU police department’s SafeWalk and self-defense classes.

Like Hale and Mandy Psencik, Jami Psencik said the possibility of sexual assault is always in the back of women’s minds. As a mother of two, she

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said worrying about her children is part of what she does as a mom and while campuses are safety-oriented, it’s impossible for her not to worry.

“Campus is tough

because, even as parents, we send our kids and we kind of think they’re in a bubble, you know what I mean?” Psencik said.

“We kind of think you’re in the walls or

in the proverbial gates of college. Because nobody is going to mess with you because everybody is there but that’s just not true.”

Psencik said while it’s difficult to

have her kids away from home, they are learning independence and she is learning to step back which is how it should be. news.ed@ocolly.com

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NOT ’neer-ly Cowboys use another run, down WVU Ryan Breeden KANSAS CITY, Mo. -Oklahoma State did it again.

In a rematch and near repeat of Saturday’s matchup, the Cowboys used a secondhalf 21-3 run, turning an eight-point deficit into a 10-point lead over the course of five minutes to eventually beat West Virginia, 72-69, Thursday in a Big 12 Tournament thriller.

“I thought today was a prime example of what you see in March, two teams duking it out,” coach Mike Boynton said. “I don’t think either

one of the coaches would say they played well. I certainly don’t believe we played well, but we kept finding ways to get easy buckets.”

The first half was backand-forth most of the way, before the Cowboys collapsed in the final minute.

OSU held a 30-29 lead with under 40 seconds to go, then a WVU 3, followed by back-to-back turnovers led to easy Miles McBride layups, putting the Mountaineers up 36-30 at the half.

“I know I’m a better player than to get the ball picked at half court,” Cowboys star Cade Cunningham said. “We were just kind of shocked how we performed See ’Neerly on pg. 2B

Big 12 Conference The Cowboys advance to the semifinals of the Big 12 Tournament with a win over West Virginia.

Tim Corbin, Vanderbilt, and Josh Holliday are long time friends, but became foes this weekend when their teams square off.

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Friendly foes OSU’s Holliday, Vandy’s Corbin carry rich relationship into meeting

By Ben Hutchens Josh Holliday was an observant bat boy.

He was also a wise bat boy, because decades ago when Holliday traveled with the Oklahoma State baseball team retrieving foul balls and stray bats, he picked a good person to watch closely.

Holliday’s focus was

on coach Tim Corbin, who at the time was an assistant coach for Clemson University. Corbin has since become one of the most successful baseball coaches of all time.

He owns the highest winning percentage in college baseball history (.667) and has won two national championships.

He has also become a friend and a mentor to Holliday.

Their relationship will not be fazed, even when they become opponents this weekend, when Corbin’s Vanderbilt visits O’Brate Stadium.

The beginning Holliday’s first memory of Corbin was not from when Holliday was a coach or player, but a bat boy.

“I remember him as well from being a bat boy for the Cowboys, and being on the road once with my dad’s team and playing against Clemson,” Holliday said. “So I remembered who he was, and what he looked like and that was kind of my first interaction with him.”

It wasn’t long before the Cowboys bat boy grew up and drew interest from col-

lege coaches, and Corbin was one of them.

“Josh, I actually got to know when I was recruiting him when I was at Clemson,” Corbin said. “He was a Stillwater High School kid, but I saw him a lot at national events and certainly knew his dad.”

Holliday said he remembered Corbin for always being right up against the fence when there was anything worth watching.

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West Virginia’s lead remained steady for the first eight minutes of the half, but things changed at the under-12 media timeout. Eventually though, the experience that Cunningham was talking about showed up.

It was go time.

“I told the team, ‘Let’s move forward,’” Boynton said. “‘I want to be tied or ahead (with less than eight minutes remaining.)’”

They did just that. With 7:40 left, the OSU lead was five, 57-52.

Avery Anderson III followed his 31-point performance from Saturday with 17 points in the rematch. Seven of those points came consecutively during the run.

“It’s huge for us,” Cunningham said.

“I knew he could do it. Big plays after big plays, those don’t happen by accident.

He works every day, and it shows on the court.”

Cunningham also scored 17 after missing Saturday’s game with an ankle sprain. Isaac Likekele had 10 points, seven rebounds and three assists in his first game since playing Texas Tech on Feb. 22.

OSU got up by as much as 10 during its run, but just when it looked like WVU was finished, Mountaineers guard Taz Sherman made back-to-back 3s and suddenly the Cowboy lead was one.

With 54 seconds left, another 3-pointer put the Mountaineers up 69-68.

That’s when Avery Anderson responded with a clutch layup to retake the lead, Likekele hit two clutch free-throws and what would have been a WVU game-tying 3 was waved off for going in after the buzzer.

The game was over.

With this win, Joe Lunardi moved Oklahoma State up to a No. 3 seed in his ESPN Bracketology projection. The Cowboys will be tested again tomorrow in a semifinal matchup with Baylor. A win against the No. 2-ranked Bears could see the Cowboys rise even more.

“We’ve got everybody back, so I think everybody’s ready to play them again,” Anderson said. “I’m ready at least.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

By Grant Ramirez It wasn’t Cade Cunningham scoring the goahead bucket Thursday.

The star freshman has been the one to take those shots all season long, but another capable option has emerged for Oklahoma State.

In the final minute, it was Avery Anderson with the ball, darting to his left for a layup to take the lead and helping clinch OSU’s 72-69 victory against West Virginia in the Big 12 Tournament quarterfinals.

He scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half.

Just days ago, Anderson dropped 31 on those same Mountaineers in Morgantown.

He has scored the ball efficiently all season, but his confidence has appeared to reach another level over the past couple of weeks. Anderson has turned into a legitimate high-level scoring threat that opposing teams have to account for.

That development makes the Cowboys a much more dangerous team in March OSU coach Mike Boynton said he has tried to ease Anderson’s playmaking load, allowing him to focus on the thing he does best - put the ball in the hoop.

“If someone is putting their best defender on Cade and their second best defender on Ice, who is guarding him?,” Boynton said. “The third best defender, I don’t think is good enough to stop him.

And he doesn’t think the best defender is good

gave maybe his best minutes of the year in the biggest game of the year and was a big part of turning the game around.

Turnover woes

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enough to stop him. He’s got supreme confidence.”

Big Bern, big minutes

The Cowboys may have won, but it wasn’t pretty.

OSU committed 20 turnovers leading to 22 West Virginia points, a total the Cowboys were lucky it wasn’t worse.

Many of the mistakes weren’t as a result of being aggressive, they were just careless passes and headscratching decisions.

Cunningham in particular made a number of poor passes out of double teams and got his pocket picked at the end of the first half leading to a Miles McBride score.

“I know I’m a better player than getting my ball taken at half court,” Cunningham said. “But I’m gonna stay confident. I have a short-term memory.’

While it could be looked at as encouraging that the Cowboys have found ways to win despite sloppy play, it’s something OSU will have to clean up as it moves further into March.

“You can’t keep turning it over 20 times, not against the competition we’re playing,” Boynton said. “So you gotta be honest about... let’s be intentional about cutting those down. But we’re an aggressive team. We want high possession games which leans to more turnovers.”

Ten minutes is enough to make a difference.

Sophomore center Bernard Kouma played sparingly, but his second half effort played a big part in sparking the Cowboys 18-3 scoring run.

“Bern played some big minutes for us,” Anderson said. “He really got us going with the rebounds and the free throws, and that’s really how we picked up our energy in the second half.”

Kouma finished with only two points and four rebounds, but for a stretch it seemed like he was a menace on the glass. He sports.ed@ocolly.com

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To prepare for the Big 12 Tournament, there is only one way to combat the effects of a two-week stretch of inactivity.

Practice, and practice hard.

The Oklahoma State Cowgirls have not played since February 24. Although their online schedule has had plenty of blank spaces of late, OSU is staying busy.

“We were practicing about an hour before, and now we’ve lengthened practice anywhere from an hour to two hours,” coach Jim Littell said.

“And worked our kids hard because we didn’t have to worry about that quick turnaround of a game.”

The extended practices will serve to replace the condition that the Cowgirls would normally get elsewhere.

“We knew that we weren’t going to get the factor of being in shape from a game, so we had to lengthen our practices and concentrate on getting up and down the floor more than what we had when we were in a one- or- two-day prep,” Littell said.

OSU is entering what Littell calls ,“The third season.”

The nonconference slate and Big 12 play are seasons one and two, and the conference and NCAA Tournaments are the third and fourth ‘seasons’ inside the season.

While the rigorous schedule of the postseason may be exhausting, the third and fourth seasons are what college basketball is all about.

The extra work is worth it.

“That’s what the kids work for, from August on, is a chance to compete for a Big 12 Championship and then get a chance to play in the Big dance,” Littell said. sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Dealing with the ‘Dores Cowboys face two top pitching prospects in Vanderbilt series Rocker and Leiter are projected to go No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in the next MLB First Year Player Draft, which proves the challenge facing Cowboy hitters this Chris Becker series.

However, OSU hitters Coming to the pitcher’s have had a solid season in mound in O’Brate stadium the box with both power and this weekend, will be two scoring. Cowboy hitters have pitchers who have coma batting average of .242 and bined to start the season 6-0 an on base percentage of with 51 strikeouts, only one .356. In 11 games the Cowearned run and 11 hits in 30 boys have sent 11 balls over innings of work. the fences led by third baseKumar Rocker and Jack man Christian EncarnacionLeiter are the Vanderbilt 1-2 Strand with five home runs. punch on the mound, and “We’ve been able to put both are expected to start for together some big innings the Commodores in a game on offense,” Holliday said. during the weekend series “We’ve hit some home runs, against Oklahoma State. so that shows strength. We OSU will have a tall task would like to become a little in order to keep its undemore efficient in our offense.” feated record intact against Rocker and Leiter are the No. 2 team in the nation. the biggest challenge to face OSU is one of only three the Cowboys lineup.

Power 5 teams that remain “I don’t think there’s any undefeated, and the only one direct preparation for those in the Big 12. two guys, they’re very tough “We faced Vanderbilt in general,” right fielder Cade last fall in Kansas City, and Cabbiness said. “We kind saw Kumar and Jack Leiter of approach every team and for an inning or two each, their staff the same way. That they were both impressive at being said, those two guys the time,” coach Josh Holover there, their stuff they’re liday said. “Both are very throwing some balls up there proven kids along with a at a pretty high level.” number of other players on Sharing the mound their team. We’re familiar with Rocker and Leiter will with them. They’re pretty be pitching coach Rob Walwell known and established ton’s OSU staff that has been kids, and rightfully so.” equally as dominant. The

Vanderbilt Athletics Two of the best pitchers in the country travel to Stillwater to face OSU.

Cowboy starting rotation has combined for 83 strikeouts in their 11 games.

“This year we’re very dominant,” OSU closer Brett Standlee said. “It’s almost pick and choose who comes out of the pen, but everyone’s gone out there and done a good job.”

Of the four pitchers who have started games for the Cowboys three of them have allowed two or less earned runs in their starts. Sharing the mound with two elite

level prospects will be a great opportunity for the OSU staff to prove themselves.

“For me it’s kind of not a chance to just prove myself, but to get up there and compete with guys like that because you always want to compete against the best,” Standlee said. “If you’re going against (Rocker) or Leiter it’s kind of you have to step up in the big spot.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

self, or take things a little too seriously.”

Holliday keeps close tabs on how the Commodores are doing on the diamond. He said after he gets over the adrenaline rush of his own game, the Vanderbilt box score is the first one he always checks.

Friendly Continued from pg. 1B player you can kind of remember people’s faces who stood out in the crowd,” Holliday said. “He at the time was working at a university that all players were interested in, Clemson.”

Although Corbin’s pitch was undoubtedly tempting and Clemson had much to offer young ballplayers, it couldn’t replace home.

Holliday committed to play baseball at OSU, where his father, Tom, was head coach.

When friends become opponents

Together eventually After spending two years playing professional baseball in the Toronto Blue Jays organization, Holliday returned to OSU in 2001 as a student assistant coach. He coached with the Cowboys until 2004, then served stints coaching at North Carolina State, Georgia Tech, Arizona State… and Vanderbilt, under Corbin.

In the time Holliday spent on the Vanderbilt coaching staff, he said he learned much from Corbin. He said Corbin taught him how important it is to work hard, but also how important it is to love what you do.

“He’s very intense and very focused and extremely organized, he has a crazy amount of discipline and keeps a super serious routine,” Holliday said, “but every now and then you can tell he wants to take a deep breath.”

It was in those moments of relaxation

Joel Devick Josh Holliday will coach against a dear friend when Vanderbilt takes on OSU this weekend.

where the two coaches would swap stories late into the night, oftentimes over a pizza or a plate of nachos, where their friendship blossomed.

A family affair The story of the Hollidays and the Corbins doesn’t stop with Josh and Tim. Holliday said that he and his wife, Jenny, were fortunate to move to Nashville when they did, referring to their time at Vanderbilt as a wonderful family experience. “(Nashville) was a great environment for us to raise our young

children,” Holliday said. “At the time, Olivia was in elementary school, and Brady was a toddler. The way our program was run, our wives were able to be so much a part of what we were doing, and also our children.”

Keeping up When Holliday took over the Cowboys, he lost no respect for the program and people he left behind. In fact, he partially leans on Corbin to find success of his own.

“It’s safe to say that there is a standard that I think Vanderbilt baseball has worked

toward and achieved,” Holliday said, “Oklahoma State baseball is working towards and achieving. He does things the right way, and he’s a great example to everyone that plays for him or coaches with him on how to run an elite program.”

Holliday and Corbin speak regularly on the phone, sometimes three or four times a week.

“A lot of times they are fun,” Holliday said. “He’s very funny and humorous. He’s just got a great way of keeping what we do lighthearted cause sometimes you can put extra pressure on your-

In 2018 OSU traveled to Nashville for two fall exhibition games. The series didn’t count toward either team’s record.

The Cowboys host the Commodores for a three-game series this weekend in Stillwater, and this time it will count. It will be a showcase of two teams currently ranked inside the top 15 – Vanderbilt at No. 2 and OSU No. 13 – and a showdown between two dear friends.

“I’m going to go say hi to (Corbin) and stick around on Thursday when they get in town, welcome him, their program and the people inside their program who I’m friends with,” Holliday said.

Whatever happens on the field this weekend, no matter how heated or competitive the environment is bound to get with two men who want so badly for their team to succeed, their relationship will remain steady.

“We will compete hard between the lines, at the end of the day we’ll respect one another and move on down the road,” Holliday said. sports.ed@ocolly.com

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One year later The day the sports world stood still Marcus Trevino Isaac Likekele took the in-bound pass, drove the length of the court and dodged a defender before laying the ball in with his left hand with four seconds left in the game.

That play punctuated Oklahoma State ‘s rally past Iowa State, 72-71, in front of a sold-out crowd in Kansas City in a Big 12 Tournament opener.

One year ago.

The World Health Organization classified COVID-19 as a pandemic earlier that day and soon OSU’s sports seasons were classified as over. Finished. Complete, at least for the spring and summer.

The first domino Far from Kansas City, inside Chesapeake Energy Arena the same day, the Thunder and Jazz were ready for tip-off on March 11, 2020.

The fans in attendance, expecting spectacular theatre, raw emotion and an escape from “real-world” problems, were soon told none of that would happen.

Instead, the COVID19 story came to Oklahoma City, sending shock waves throughout the United States.

The virus didn’t infect its first person or take its first life that night, since it had been looming around for almost four months.

It wasn’t even real for many Americans. Until that night.

Thirty-seven minutes after the game was supposed to begin, more than 18-thousand fans were asked to orderly evacuate the building. Each one of them must’ve known it was COVID-related, many fearing they had been exposed to the virus.

Utah’s Rudy Gobert was revealed to be the NBA’s first positive case and the league responded by postponing its season.

The first domino had fallen.

March (Sad)ness Former OSU guard Lindy Waters III woke up the next morning hoping his basketball career would survive the day and the Cowboys would take on Kansas, as scheduled.

He wanted to go out the right way, either with a trophy in his hand or giving all he had left in a loss to a bet-

Joshua Cleary A year ago, the sports world came to a halt due to Covid-19, now the world is getting closer to normal.

ter team. Instead, his season ended the night before, with the remainder of the Big 12 Tournament canceled.

“I knew it was a possibility with the NBA suspending their season,” Waters said. “It was just something very difficult to wrap my head around.”

The Big Ten canceled its tournament at 11:45 a.m, and it took less than 60 minutes for the other Power 5 conferences to do the same.

The last college basketball game of the season was between St. John’s and Creighton in the Big East Tournament. The teams went into the locker rooms for halftime and never returned.

The NCAA canceled all remaining sports later that afternoon, most notably its moneymaker, March Madness. There would be no unforgettable moments, Cinderella stories or heart-stopping buzzer beaters.

What actually matters

Baseball quickly became something it never had been

for coach Josh Holliday ― secondary.

The U.S. alone has lost over half a million lives to this virus, easily the highest death toll in the world. It has affected every human whether they’ve been infected or not, almost 50 million Americans filed for unemployment by midsummer.

And when COVID took baseball away, it reminded Holliday that the things that actually matter don’t involve a ball and a bat.

“A lot of people went through some really tough times in the last year as a result of this pandemic,” Holliday said. “To just not be able to play baseball is very, very small in comparison to those who have fought and suffered.”

A return to ‘normal’ Softball coach Kenny Gajewski couldn’t wait for his athletes to come back in the fall.

The Cowgirls had dominated their opponents, winning 12 consecutive

On March 11, 2020, the Thunder and Jazz game was the first NBA game to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

games before the season ended.

“I was so happy when we got back,” Gajewski said.

“The band was together, but they were a mess. They were not what we left.”

Once Gajewski saw that, he went to the team leaders and asked why they weren’t the same.

“They said, ‘You just don’t know how hard it’s been,’” Gajewski said. “And I don’t as a 20-year-old kid. I started to pick these kids off one at a time and figure out what they needed. I’m not a very good softball coach. I’m a better people person.”

This season, the Cowgirls are 18-1 and their chemistry issues are behind them.

Similarly, every athletic program at OSU has flourished this year.

“I don’t know that anybody has handled the pandemic any better than what we’ve done here,” Gajewski said. “It’s a model of success.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Called in

Sheets added to NCAA Tournament bracket at 157

Adam Engel Wyatt Sheets sat in class, natural resource economics, his phone vibrating repeatedly in his pants pocket.

Missed call from John Smith.

Missed call from John Smith.

A text from John Smith.

During this time, his mind was on economics — not wrestling.

And constant calls from your coach aren’t usually a good sign.

This time it was different.

“He finally texted me back, ‘I’m in class,’” Smith said. “I said, ‘Well, you’re also in the national tournament.’”

Sheets was added to the 157-pound bracket for the NCAA Tournament on Thursday after a wrestler at his weight class dropped out. With the addition, nine Cowboys will compete in St. Louis at the NCAA championships next week.

Wyatt Sheets is getting a new chance at the season.

Sheets’ bid comes after a 6-6 season in which a left knee injury delayed the start to his season.

“We’ve talked about how there are maybe 10-12% of wrestlers that could finish the season after sustaining the injury he had,” Smith said. “Here we are extending his season out. We’re taking nine guys to St. Louis.”

In his first NCAA tournament, the redshirt junior will wrestle as the No. 33 seed against No. 32 Michael Petite of Buffalo in a preliminary bout. No. 1 seed Ryan Deakin of Northwestern

awaits the winner.

“I’m excited about this opportunity,” Sheets said.

In tournaments, contributions from every wrestler are key. Even as a No. 33 seed, since a small number of points can be the difference between a win, loss or even a tie — evidenced by last week’s Big 12 tournament, when OSU had plenty of instances to beat Oklahoma outright.

Instead, OSU tied with OU for its ninth consecutive conference title.

In March, records or seeds can be meaningless. In

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2019, 184-pounder Dakota Geer earned All-American status as a No. 26 seed. In 1994, Cowboy Mark Branch — now Wyoming’s head coach — won a 167-pound national title as a freshman with a losing record.

Sheets’ opening match could be considered a tossup, but defeating a No. 1 seed as a late addition would be an incredible feat.

“I’m proud of him,” 133-pounder Daton Fix said.

“He has the opportunity to shock some people.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

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