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Kendall Smith has gotten used to making big shots with little time on the clock.

Smith played so poorly in his first edition of Bedlam, he stayed in Lloyd Noble Center for 45 minutes after the game having a hear t-to-hear t conversation with his father about his performance and contribution to the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team.

Saturday, Smith’s 3-pointer late in regulation helped OSU get to over time, in which it knocked off No. 4 Oklahoma 83-81 for its third Bedlam victor y in the past four meetings between the foes.

In his second Bedlam, this time at Gallagher-Iba Arena, Smith became a hero, hitting an off-balance trey to tie the game at 73 with 8 seconds left. The noise cascaded down throughout the arena, a deafening holler of cheers and shock.

Smith also hit a buzzer-beating 3 at the end of the first half to give OSU a 42-30 lead heading to the break.

After Smith tied it, OU (14-4 overall, 4-3 Big 12) inbounded the ball to Trae Young, who meandered his way through defend-

ers and casted up a shot from about 30 feet, which fell to Eddie Sutton Cour t after clanging off the front of the rim.

The noise somehow because more boisterous. Smith drilled his second game-tying shot in the past two weeks, the other coming against Iowa State in another over time victor y, a testament to his father’s plea of him tr ying to be a playmaker only a week ago.

“Give all glor y to God,” Smith said.

“Like I said before, I’m going to stay aggressive. I’m going to stay confident. I was able to help my team tonight.”

Smith’s 20 points were second to Jeffrey Car roll, who scored 23 and snatched 13 rebounds, giving him his eighth career double double.

Young outscored both Cowboys (136, 3-4) en route to a career-high and Bedlam-record 48 points on 39 shots. Even with his stellar play, Young missed a game-winning 3-point attempt with 1 second left.

Young had the chance to tie it because Car roll missed the front end of a 1-and1 with 8 seconds left.

After an OU timeout, Smith and Car roll harassed Young up the

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f loor, denying him the ability to get a clean look off to win. The shot missed left, and the trample of footsteps washed to the f loor as the vehement cheering became a sigh of relief.

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Boynton also praised his team’s defensive effor t to contain the rest of the Sooners.

Brady Manek, who scored 28 points in the first matchup, was held to eight points on 3-of-10 shooting.

Christian James also added eight points, and no other Sooner had more than six points.

Young shot 39 of the Sooners’ 82 shots.

Young also dished out eight assists but had seven tur novers. It was a culmination of OSU’s defensive effor t from the plethora of defenders who tried to stop Young, the nation’s leading scorer

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Oklahoma freshman guard Trae Young fires a last-second shot during overtime of OSU’s 83-81 victory against the Sooners. Young missed, securing the Cowboys’ victory.

and assister. Boynton called Young the best college basketball player since Stephen Cur r y, saying it’s not

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FAITHFULNESS! Much is said about being faithful in the Bible. These are some of the statements. ”Well done, good and faithful servant.” (Mt.25:21) ”Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.” (1 Co.4:2) “Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you a crown of life.” (Rev.2:10) It is an important and rewarding quality to God! What about God himself? “he is faithful in all he does” (Ps.33:4) “The Lord is faithful to all his promises.”

(Ps.145:13) “the Lord, who remains faithful forever.” (Ps.146:6) “And God is faithful” “The one who has called you is faithful.” ”he is faithful and just and will forgive us.” (1Co.10:13, 1Th.5:24, 1Jn.1:9) These many

even close. “(Shine) did a great job (on Young),” Boynton said. “But Shine wanted the chal-

lenge. His length gave us a chance because even when you get separation from Shine, he can still get his

statements of the faithfulness of God are demonstrated over and over again as he deals with men in the scriptures.

There is a saying; “Those who trust him wholly,​​​finds​​​him​​​wholly​​​true.”​​The faithfulness of God is an enticing thing!

It challenges us to trust and follow this one who is so utterly trustworthy; utterly​faithful.​You​​​will​​​only​​​find​​​the​​​ reality of his faithfulness to you, as you take his challenge and trust him with your life; put your life in his hands. Jesus was the perfect example; putting himself in God’s hands, and he now sits honored at the right hand of God himself. He found God faithful to his promises. We can do the same.

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hand up and at least make you shoot over it. (I’m) proud of Shine for wanting the challenge and continuing to compete the way he did for the whole game.”

Shine had three steals and scored 16 points before fouling out with 56 seconds left in over time.

Car roll said his ninth Bedlam game, which could possibly be his

final one unless the state foes meet in Kansas City for the Big 12 Tour nament, was no doubt his best memor y from the rivalr y. Car roll also said he knows how big the home win was.

“This may have to be the best one,” Car roll said. “…We fought for 40-45 minutes, and there was just so much emotion and so much passion and pride from us tonight.”

Cameron Jourdan is a sports media senior from Edmond. He can be reached at sports.ed@ocolly.com.

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Mitchell Solomon rushed down the middle of Eddie Sutton Court.

Solomon, a 6-foot-9 senior on the Oklahoma State basketball team, just knocked the ball away from freshman star Trae Young between the 3-point line and midcourt. Young and Solomon ran shoulder-to-shoulder after the ball before Solomon did something Young wasn’t willing to do.

Solomon plunged to the white maple hardwood to secure the ball while Young stayed standing. Solomon slid for a few feet and tossed the ball up to teammate Tavarius Shine, who dunked, sending Gallagher-Iba Arena into a frenzy with 45 seconds

remaining.

The play brought OSU within a point in its eventual 83-81 overtime victory against Bedlam rival Oklahoma on Saturday. “(Solomon) is the most valuable person in the locker room,” OSU coach Mike Boynton said. “He’s about what I’m about. … It’s effort.

“The biggest play of the game, stealing the ball from who will probably be the national player of the year at half court and then absolutely laying out there and giving everything he has so his team can have a chance to win, that’s what he’s about, and I love him for it.”

Everything about the play screamed Mitchell Solomon. He did all the dirty work getting the ball away from the nation’s leading scorer and risked injury crashing to the floor

just to toss the ball to a teammate who got credit for the points.

Solomon, an OSU fan from birth, didn’t have a statistically-stunning game, finishing with two points and six rebounds. He is often ridiculed for being too clunky or maybe a little goofy, but every time the Cowboys need him, he’s there willing to do whatever it takes to help his team win.

“That’s who Mitch is,” teammate Kendall Smith said. “He is a guy that doesn’t mind doing the dirty work. Doesn’t mind covering for his teammates. With the passion and the energy and the effort he plays with, as the four other guys on the court with him, you have to kind of step up and match that. Mitch has been terrific for us, and I believe he is going to continue to do that. We’re going to

continue to follow him.”

Solomon probably should have been called for a travel when he slid with the ball, but the basketball gods nullified that missed call on OU’s next possession when Lindy Waters blocked Young at the hoop, clean, but was called for a foul.

Young shot a game-high 12 free throws and is in the top 10 nationally in free-throw attempts with 171 free throws in 18 games. However, Young said he wasn’t happy with the officiating after Solomon’s steal.

“He went across my chest,” Young said. “You’re not allowed to do that.

He went across my chest, it was a foul but the ref didn’t call it, so we gotta move on. Then it was a travel, you can’t slide with the ball.

“You’re not gonna get every call on the road, so you gotta fight through

it, but there were definitely two calls that should have been called. You can’t worry about that.”

Young not taking to the floor wasn’t the reason OU lost. Apart from Young’s 48 points, no one else on the team even scored in double figures.

Solomon’s hustle, though, as it usually is, was a major part in OSU’s victory.

“He makes those plays all of the time,” Jeffrey Carroll said. “We need it from him. I want to say I was in the backcourt and I just saw him. It’s him being him.”

Marshall Scott is a sports media senior from Madill.

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Cowgirls claim Bedlam season sweep in Norman J o e l Devick staff reporter @ jo elyr an c h 3 r

Bragging rights headed back to Stillwater with the Oklahoma State women’s basketball team.

OSU marched into Norman on Saturday afternoon and grinded out a gritty 70-67 thriller for a Bedlam season sweep and a second victory in three years at Lloyd Noble Center.

The game was back and forth all afternoon. The lead changed 10 times, and the score was tied five times. It all came down to the final seconds. As soon as the ball was tipped, coach Jim Littell said he knew it would be a

dogfight of a contest.

“When you go on the road, we talk to our players everyday about having the ability to grind a game out and win ugly,” Littell said.

“I think that’s what we did today.”

After a slow start, senior Kaylee Jensen contributed her skills when it mattered most: in crunch time.

Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale said she was impressed with how Jensen made an impact down the stretch with such a seemingly cool demeanor.

“She made big plays, really big plays,” Coale said. “Those are tough shots … and she just calmly put the ball in the basket.”

OSU went into the half up

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seven after a second quarter in which Jensen scored all nine of her first-half points. The Sooners answered in the third quarter, winning the frame by six. OU took it to the fourth with a long buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Ana Llanusa to make it a one-point Cowgirl lead in the final 10 minutes.

OU continued its hotshooting ways in the fourth

and stretched the lead out to seven with just over five minutes remaining, but the Cowgirls never looked rattled despite a strong presence from the Lloyd Noble Center crowd.

Jensen showed up big after the Cowgirls found themselves down by seven.

She muscled her way into the paint numerous times and hit two huge 3s, one to give OSU a 60-59 lead and another to give the Cowgirls a 66-63 lead. Along with snagging 13 rebounds, she scored 14 of the final 20 points to get the victory. Motivation to get the Bedlam sweep, which the Cowgirls have claimed twice with Jensen on the team, was a large part of why OSU

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conjured up such an efficient closing performance.

“It just is such a good feeling that we got to be able to do it again,” Jensen said. “It kind of gets under your skin when you can’t get that win, but when you do, I don’t ever think I’ve had a feeling much better than it.”

Freshman Braxtin Miller was in the clutch as well.

Miller hit a 3 to cut the lead to four when it seemed like the game could have been slipping away from the Cowgirls.

In the last seconds, following a travel call on an OU layup that would have given the Sooners the lead, Miller sank two free throws to close it out.

“I was really nervous,” Miller said. “But the key to

free throws is just having confidence in yourself.”

This past week was huge for the Cowgirls’ hopes of contending for a Big 12 conference regular-season crown. OSU has set itself up for a run at the top with a victory against West Virginia on Wednesday and now a Bedlam victory on the road.

“It wasn’t a pretty game in a lot of respects,” Littell said.

“It was one of those grind-itout games that you gotta have to be competitive in the Big 12.”

Joel Devick is a sports media sophomore from Ames, Iowa. He can be reached at jdevick@okstate.edu.

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Former coach Eddie Sutton receives a standing ovation during the opening Remember the Ten ceremony before OSU’s 83-81 victory against Oklahoma on Saturday.

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OSU senior forward Mitchell Solomon wins the tip in overtime during OSU’s 83-81 victory against OU on Saturday.

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Oklahoma State wrestling coach John Smith thought for a minute before he spoke to the media.

He tried to come up with the correct word to describe Preston Weigel’s performance in OSU’s 42-3 victory against Kent State on Sunday.

“That was vicious out there,” Smith said.

He must have liked his word choice because he used it two more times while describing the AllAmerican’s domination.

Weigel was one of three Cowboys to win his match because of a technical fall, which means he went up on his opponent by 15 points and at that point was automatically awarded the victory. It’s one of the most demoralizing ways to defeat an opponent. “(Kent State) is better than what we made them look like,” Smith said. “I think the thing I really liked about today was that a couple of them came out with a high level of energy and came at us pretty hard.

I like that we matched it and kinda knocked them down a little bit.”

The key to OSU’s performance Sunday was

how wrestlers at the early weights set the tone for the rest of the team, as Nick Piccininni started off the dual with a tech fall at 125 pounds. Kaid Brock then got a major decision, which Dean Heil followed with a pin and Boo Lewallen a tech fall.

“I think it makes a difference, there’s no question,” Smith said. “It’s good to see your teammates before you show a lot of effort.

Kaid Brock (got) a major decision against maybe their best kid, Dean (got) a pin and we just kinda rolled from there. I saw a lot more energy and effort and (guys) not afraid to be wrestling hard in the second and third period trying to get more points.”

On top of the three tech falls, two Cowboys pinned their opponents in the first period of their matches.

Two-time national champion Heil was the first, though because of his style of wrestling, he’s not typically a guy who gets a lot of pins.

“I definitely needed to give more of an effort today compared to Friday,” Heil said.

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as they probably could have.

“One thing that’s important to us is that we wanted to entertain these fans,” Heil said. “With the showing that we had Friday, it was a disappointing performance overall. Today, we wanted to show that we’re much better than that.”

A focal point Smith has tried to stress all season is the importance of earning bonus points. Despite beating North Carolina State a few weeks back because of bonus points, OSU didn’t translate that message onto the mat in the two duals leading into Sunday’s, including Friday’s win against West Virginia.

However, it would seem as if the team finally embraced Smith’s message, as eight of the nine victorious Cowboys earned bonus points Sunday.

“We scored a lot of points, which is good, but that’s only one dual,” Heil said. “It’s just a matter of taking this one match at a time for the next couple of duals and the rest of the season.”

Jeremy Kolok is a university studies sophomore from San Antonio, Texas. He can be reached at entertainment.ed@ocolly.com OCOLLY.COM

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