Oklahoma State 2/28 2:00 CBSSN

[swilsonsp4]

If there's any legitimate chance to garner an at-large bid, it has to involve finishing out the regular season 10-8 in B12 play. Next up are the Okie State Cowboys, who just suffered a key injury last night in their home OT win over WV. OSU's starting center, Parsa Fallah, went for an exclamation point slam with seconds remaining. When he landed, his knee buckled. The med team diagnosed his injury as an ACL tear. Fallah has been OSU's second-leading scorer (14.7) and leading rebounder (6.0). He also has been their glue guy. The Cowboys do not have anyone close to having his abilities. This is a big loss.

HC Steve Lutz has used a lot of players this season, with 11 averaging 10+ mpg, 6 of whom go from 23-29 mpg; none at 30+. So, they have depth. They don't have another Fallah.

The leading scorers, otherwise, are guard Anthony Roy (16.8 ppg; 39.9% treys) and guard Vyctorius Miller (11.7 ppg; 38.5% treys). As a team, OSU average 83.8 ppg, with 23.6 3pa/g).

The Pokes are #83 in barttorvik.com. The supporting stats are largely average across the board. The only factors that diverge from that are that they allow teams to shoot from outside (#301) and they play faster than most every team in the country (#12).

[loshow22]

Should win...and I hope we do...however, we've seen the script the last two seasons where we've crapped the bed in this same spot. Last year against KSU and the year prior against OSU.

Hopefully we take care of business.

[GoBearcats31]

UC is 0-2 in the regular season versus Oklahoma State since joining the Big 12, including a perplexing home loss in 2024 as loshow22 alluded to.

Much work to be done resume wise, but just win this and get back to .500 in the Big 12 (and what would, I believe, be UC's most wins in Big 12 history at 8 with two Q1 games still to play after).

[swilsonsp4]

UC is 0-2 in the regular season versus Oklahoma State since joining the Big 12, including a perplexing home loss in 2024 as loshow22 alluded to.

Much work to be done resume wise, but just win this and get back to .500 in the Big 12 (and what would, I believe, be UC's most wins in Big 12 history at 8 with two Q1 games still to play after).

Yes, two Q1 & a Q3. Okie State are #81 in NET. They'd need to climb into the Top 75 to attain home Q2 status for UC, which is unlikely in the scenario in which the Cats win out. The Pokes finish up at #44 UCF, then host #10 Houston. I don't like their chances in either game.

BYU are presently in Q1 at #21, but it is feasible for the Cougars to fall below #30. Their remaining schedule is full of hand grenades. Given that UC knocks BYU off here, the Cougars will slip a bit. Complicating matters for them is that they travel to Morgantown this Saturday. The Mountaineers (#66) are difficult to beat at home. Without Richie Saunders, BYU might struggle. Then comes a pivotal game to end the regular season. The Cougars host TX Tech. I would think that UC needs BYU to come out of Morgantown with a win. Then they could lose the last two, holding BYU as a home Q1 foe.

TCU are #46 and in no jeopardy of sliding below #75, which would turn the Horned Frogs into road Q2 opponents for the Cats.

[sedz]

If there's any legitimate chance to garner an at-large bid, it has to involve finishing out the regular season 10-8 in B12 play. Next up are the Okie State Cowboys, who just suffered a key injury last night in their home OT win over WV. OSU's starting center, Parsa Fallah, went for an exclamation point slam with seconds remaining. When he landed, his knee buckled. The med team diagnosed his injury as an ACL tear. Fallah has been OSU's second-leading scorer (14.7) and leading rebounder (6.0). He also has been their glue guy. The Cowboys do not have anyone close to having his abilities. This is a big loss.

HC Steve Lutz has used a lot of players this season, with 11 averaging 10+ mpg, 6 of whom go from 23-29 mpg; none at 30+. So, they have depth. They don't have another Fallah.

The leading scorers, otherwise, are guard Anthony Roy (16.8 ppg; 39.9% treys) and guard Vyctorius Miller (11.7 ppg; 38.5% treys). As a team, OSU average 83.8 ppg, with 23.6 3pa/g).

The Pokes are #83 in barttorvik.com. The supporting stats are largely average across the board. The only factors that diverge from that are that they allow teams to shoot from outside (#301) and they play faster than most every team in the country (#12).

Fantastic preview!