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In his first season with the team, coach Brad Underwood recognizes The Ten’s legacy.

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Underwood understands importance of the ten Underwood said he has respect for Mike Anderson’s up-tempo style of play.

It will look to be a highscoring matchup, with both teams averaging more than 80 points per game.

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rad Underwood wants to make sure his players don’t forget.

Friday will mark 16 years since a plane crash killed 10 members of the Oklahoma State men’s basketball program. The OSU men’s basketball kurt steiss/O’COLLY team was making a routine Although coach Brad Underwood wasn’t at Oklahoma State trip back to Stillwater after in 2001, he is aware of the impact the tragedy had on OSU. a road game in Boulder, Colorado, when one of the program’s history. To not Former OSU coach Edrecognize that would be a team’s planes went down die Sutton will be among in a snowstorm. those in attendance at Sattravesty. It’s a big weekurday’s game. Sutton, 80, end, and as long as I’m Dan Lawson, Nate coached the Cowboys from here, we’re gonna make Fleming, Will Hancock, 1990-2006 and compiled a Pat Noyes, Brian Luinstra, Remember the Ten a big record of 368-151, includpart of everything our Jared Weiberg, Kendall ing two Final Four approgram is about.”

Durfey and Bill Teegins, all of whom were eiThe Cowboys will honor pearances. But OSU isn’t Sutton’s only loyalty. ther players, coaches or the lives employees of OSU, died.

Pilots Denver Mills and Bjorn Fahlstrom also died.

Underwood, a first-year coach at OSU, is familiar with the tragedy. He worked with Weiberg’s brother Chad at Kansas State. Kyle Keller, who succeeded Underwood at Stephen F. Austin, was an assistant coach at OSU at the time of the crash.

“You talk about impacting lives and changing people’s lives,” Underwood said. “That’s something that is pretty meaningful. It’s a big, big part of our basketball FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2017

He also of The Ten coached at UP NEXT at 3 p.m.

Arkansas Saturday from 1974vs. when they 85, finishtake on Oklahoma State (12-8) vs. ing with Arkansas Arknsas (16-4) a record in GallaWhen: 3 p.m. Saturday of 260-75 Where: Gallagher-Iba gher-Iba Arena and one Arena as Broadcast: ESPNU, Cowboy Final Four part of Radio Network appearance. the Big It will be 12/SEC the first Challenge. game of Fifteen minutes before the Underwood era Sutton tipoff, there will be a mohas seen in person, and he ment of silence. The OSU will get the opportunity to Library Carillon bells will honor the friends he lost toll 10 times at 6:37 p.m. that day.

Friday, the time the crash “There’s a reason he took place.

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The Remember the Ten banner hanging in Gallagher-Iba Arena lists the names of the 10 who died in the 2001 crash.

should be in the Hall of Fame,” Underwood said.

“He’s a Hall of Fame coach. He’s coached two elite programs and taken both of them to the Final Four. It’s one of the reasons it makes sense for us to play. What coach Sutton did there and Sidney Moncrief, I grew up watching those teams. Obviously what he did here is so well-documented. He’s a legend in both states and in both programs and deservedly so.”

At 23, Phil Forte is the oldest player on OSU’s roster. Still, Forte was only 7 at the time of the plane crash. After spending the past five seasons

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in Stillwater, though, he has come to understand the meaning of Remember the Ten well. He said he does his best to make sure the younger players on the team do, too.

“Unfortunately, that’s a sad and tragic moment in the school’s history,” Forte said. “Any time we can honor that and respect the families that had to suffer something that I can’t even imagine. We kind of just come together, and it’s something that’s a lot bigger than basketball.

Just honor them, and show respect to those players and other families.”

Arkansas (16-4) has had a solid season thus far, and

A win for the Cowboys (12-8) would mark three straight and give them momentum getting back into conference play. It would also be special to notch a victory on the anniversary of the tragedy, and Underwood wants his players to understand the magnitude of Remember the Ten. He will meet with the families of the victims and introduce himself.

Saturday, basketball comes second.

“Life can change that quickly,” Underwood said.

“It’s something sometimes they don’t think about.

How dramatic life can change in the turn of an event. They’re not always for the positive. Negative things can happen. We’ll visit with our team about it. Most of them know it.

Our veterans talk about it. We see guys running around in Remember the Ten T-shirts all the time.

“It’s never very far from our hearts.”

Chandler Vessels is a sports media senior from Moore. He can be reached at chandler.vessels@ okstate.edu.

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Cowboy wrestling set for time away from Stillwater De kota Gr eg o ry Digital Sports Editor @dekotagregory

Cowboy fans won’t be able to watch Oklahoma State wrestling in Stillwater for a while.

No. 1 OSU starts a twoweekend road trip Friday that features four duals.

The Cowboys haven’t had a dual away from GallagherIba Arena since their third contest of the season Dec. 2 against Oklahoma. OSU started its season with three straight road wins and has tallied five victories at home since to post an 8-0 record with six duals left.

During the Cowboys’ threedual road trip, they wrestled

Up Next What: OSU at Missouri When: 7 p.m. Friday Where: Columbia, Missouri What: OSU at Iowa State When: 2 p.m. Sunday Where: Ames, Iowa

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Senior Nolan Boyd and the Oklahoma State wrestling team will not wrestle in Stillwater until Feb. 10 against Wyoming.

only one dual a week. Their upcoming trek has a dual slated for every Friday night and Sunday afternoon.

“Sometimes the road can be easier for you as a

team,” OSU coach John Smith said. “You can focus a little bit more. You got them together. You got them the night before in a hotel. Sometimes it’s not a

disadvantage; it can be an advantage.”

The Cowboys’ first stop is Columbia, Missouri, to take on the No. 7 Tigers.

OSU ended Missouri’s 37-dual win streak last year in Stillwater. The Tigers are 9-2 this season with losses to Ohio State and OU. The Cowboys handled the Sooners in Norman, 33-3.

After a matchup against Mizzou, OSU, which is

3-0 in the Big 12, heads to Ames, Iowa, to resume conference play against Iowa State. The Cyclones are 1-7 this season, with their lone win coming against Big 12 foe Northern Colorado.

Seven losses are the most in a season for ISU since the Cyclones went 9-7 during the 2013-14 season.

Edinboro and Kent State round out the Cowboys’ journey next weekend. OSU returns to Stillwater Feb. 10 to wrestle Wyoming and will end its dual season Feb. 12 with a home rematch against OU on Senior Day. “We haven’t had a hard road trip this season, so the next couple of weekends

will be a little bit challenging, but at the same time, it can benefit us,” Smith said.

The journey will also be the last road trip of Nolan Boyd’s career, who notched his 100th career win Sunday at 184 pounds. “(A road trip) is a lot of fun,” Boyd said. “It’s memories that maybe I took for granted some years, but this year, just trying not to; trying to invest in everybody, enjoy everybody, have fun.”

Dekota Gregory is a sports media junior from Locust Grove. He can be reached at ozone@ocolly. com.

Cobb dealing with elbow soreness, out through at least opening weekend Nat h an R uiz Inv e st igat ive E di tor @N atha nSRuiz

With opening day three weeks away, the Oklahoma State baseball team is preparing without one of its top arms.

Senior right-hander Trey Cobb is dealing with elbow soreness, coach Josh Holliday told the O’Colly, and will miss at least the Cowboys’ season-opening series against Grand Canyon, which begins Feb. 17 in Phoenix.

“There’s not a lot of detail at this point,” Holliday said. “He’s just going through rehab trying to get back on track. We’ll know more how he feels here in the next couple weeks.”

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Cowboys with 100 strikeouts in 2016, posting a 3.09 ERA. After spending the majority of the season in OSU’s rotation, Cobb served as the Cowboys’ closer during their College World Series run. Holliday confirmed Cobb has met with a doctor and is not throwing. Cobb, who returned for his senior year after the Cubs selected him in the 12th round of the 2016 MLB Draft, tweeted Jan. 20 about the injury.

“Thanks for the concern and prayers,” the tweet read. “Received good news yesterday and I hope to be healed and on the mound at some point this season#gopokes” Holliday said the situation is similar to last season when the arms of left-hand-

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OSU right-hander Trey Cobb posted a 3.09 ERA last year.

He was one of two Cowboys to strike out 100 batters.

er Garrett Williams and right-hander Conor Costello were slow in getting seasonready. Williams did not make his 2016 debut until March 25 against Kansas State, and Costello didn’t pitch until the Cowboys

faced West Virginia on April 1.

A late-March return for Cobb could mean he would make his debut in OSU’s first Big 12 series against TCU, beginning March 24 in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Holliday said he didn’t know when Cobb began experiencing soreness, saying it’s often difficult to determine when an injury like Cobb’s occurs.

“I think it’s probably just part of the grind of throwing over time,” Holliday said. “Throwing’s a violent act.”

Cobb’s injury will give more opportunities to younger pitchers early in the season, Holliday said. With Cobb out, the Cowboys will begin the season with only five pitchers who threw more than 10 innings a year ago, having lost four such pitchers, including Big 12 Pitcher of the Year Thomas Hatch, in June’s draft.

Holliday said he’s excited to see how younger pitchers jump at their opportunities

with Cobb out indefinitely.

“It’s part of a season,” Holliday said. “Is it ideal?

No, of course not. But it is what we deal with, and it’s why we have a team, and it’s why we have a staff. It’s why we’ve got to continue to evolve and grow all of our players, so that if you do lose one or you’re without one for a period of time, you can overcome it.

“He’s certainly a huge part of our team and a key performer, all of those things, for sure. But that’s just part of the nature of a season. It’s just a next-guyup mentality.”

Nathan Ruiz is a sports media and sports management senior from Reno, Nevada.

He can be reached at investigations@ocolly.com.

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With a national focus on the need to prepare more registered nurses with advanced education, the college is excited to provide a quality BSN program that will produce leaders in clinical nursing practice.

The degree is designed for working, adult learners and delivers coursework over three successive semesters.

“The (BSN) also meets an expressed need for Oklahoma’s health care community. Our program concept is unique because of the health and wellness concentration of the degree,” Romans says.

The required class, which is a collaboration between OSU, Stillwater Public Schools and Stillwater Medical Center, serves as an initial hands-on experience and exposure to recreational therapy each semester.

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You are the definition of a scrub Aubrie Bowlan En tertai n m e nt E d i to r

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T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli, formally known as the group TLC, once wrote, “A scrub is a guy that can’t get no love from me, hanging out the passenger side of his best

friend’s ride, trying to holler at me.”

There’s a crosswalk on University and Hester streets I have to use to get from the Fourth Avenue Parking Garage to the journalism building.

As a law-abiding citizen, I try to not cut across the street too much, but after encountering this crosswalk and its downfalls too many times, it’s almost impossible for me to use it when I don’t have to.

Why? Because every time I step foot in that crosswalk, I dread the guy in the truck with his

windows rolled down. I would say about half the time I stand and wait at that light, some guy has to ruin my day with lewd comments. For obvious reasons, I’m not giving a detailed record, but here are some encounters of note: As I’m dressed up for an interview, a man in a truck asks me if I need a ride back to my house. I tell him I just came from there and “no, thank you.” He proceeds to tell me I could throw my uncomfortable heels in the back of his truck and as he’s driving away,

adds, “While you’re at it, you could throw the dress back there, too.”

A truck full of construction workers gets stopped at the light, and the one in the passenger seat rolls down the window to tell me I look like a “hot version of Betty Boop,” looks me up and down, and declares that I “certainly” have the (chest) for it.

A man in the back seat of his friend’s car yells at me at one end of the crosswalk to ask me if I need a ride. Again, I thought a “no, thank you” would suffice. As I cross,

though, he slides over to the other window and says, “I wasn’t talking about the car.”

Chances are, if you’re a woman, you know the feeling. If you’re a man, you either can’t believe this happens to us, or you are that scrub.

I don’t think it’s crazy to ask that we be allowed to go to class without having to be sexually harassed. If we’re being honest with each other, has that worked for you?

Are your friends impressed enough by your swine-like behavior they high-five you as you

drive off? If so, I would find new friends, or you’ll have fun being the only single man at family reunions.

All I ask is you think about if the girl in the crosswalk were your girlfriend, your sister, your daughter. Would you want a scrub hanging out the passenger side, trying to holler at her?

Aubrie Bowlan is a strategic communications junior from Edmond. She can be reached at entertainment.ed@ocolly.com.

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