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Oklahoma State Releases 2001 Baseball Schedule
November 01, 2000 | Cowboy Baseball
Nov. 1, 2000
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STILLWATER, Okla. - 36 home games, including 11- and 12-game homestands, highlight the 2001 Oklahoma State baseball schedule released Wednesday morning.
Games against Miami, Florida Atlantic, Arkansas and Brigham Young are some of the key non-conference games on the schedule this season.
The Cowboys' 61-game schedule includes 36 home contests, 21 on the road and four at neutral sites. OSU will play eight teams that made the NCAA tournament last season and 15 teams that recorded 30 or more wins in 2000.
"Obviously, one of the things that stands out in this year's schedule is that we are playing more home games this season than last, and that is by design," said head coach Tom Holliday.
"I think this is a good schedule with a bunch of quality opponents," Holliday said. "I wanted us to play more home games and upgrade our midweek schedule, and I think we achieved that," the fifth-year head coach added.
Oklahoma State opens the season Feb. 2 on the road in Yuma, Ariz., for the second straight year and will face The Citadel, Cal-Riverside and San Diego State. The following week, the Cowboys will travel to Florida and take on Boston College twice, Florida Atlantic and perennial power Miami.
OSU opens its home slate on Feb. 16 with a three-game series against Washington State. The next weekend, the Pokes open Big 12 play against Missouri on Feb. 23 in Stillwater.
After a conference series against Kansas in Lawrence, the Cowboys will return home for the start of an 11-game homestand beginning with Southeast Missouri State on March 8. Princeton (three games), Western Illinois (two games), Texas (three games) and Marshall (two games) round out the homestand.
The Cowboys will travel to Texas Tech and Iowa State in Big 12 play before beginning a 12-game homestreak with a two-game set against Santa Clara on April 3. OSU will then play Kansas State (three games), Texas-Pan American (two games), Cleveland State (three games) and Gonzaga (two games) to finish the stand.
OSU will play Texas A&M in College Station April 20-22 and will then travel to Tulsa to play Arkansas at Drillers Stadium on April 24 as part of the Tulsa World Big Four Baseball Bash. The game will be the first of a doubleheader as Oklahoma and Oral Roberts will play in the nightcap.
The Pokes host Baylor the weekend of April 27-29 and play Brigham Young in a two-game midweek series before traveling to Lincoln to face back-to-back Big 12 champs Nebraska on May 4-6.
The annual Bedlam baseball series rounds out the regular season schedule the weekend of May 11-13. OU and OSU will hook up in Tulsa on Friday, May 11, before the series moves to Oklahoma City and the Southwestern Bell Bricktown Ballpark for the Saturday, May 12, and Sunday, May 13 contests.
The Big 12 tournament will be played in Bricktown once again starting Wednesday, May 15. The tourney will move to The Ballpark in Arlington in 2002.
