Oklahoma State University Athletics
Oklahoma State Hosts Bedlam Game
February 12, 2001 | Cowboy Basketball
Feb. 12, 2001
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Wednesday's Bedlam Game
Oklahoma State returns to the friendly confines of Gallagher-Iba Arena,
where the Cowboys are 8-0 this season, to host arch-rival Oklahoma in the
first of two regular season Bedlam matchups. OU has won the last two
meetings in Gallagher-Iba, and was the last team to hand the Cowboys a loss
at home, defeating OSU 59-56 in the last game of the 2000 regular season.
OSU-Oklahoma: The Series
Oklahoma leads the all-time series, 114-82, but the Cowboys have a 52-39
advantage in Stillwater. Last season the teams exchanged victories on each
other's home court, the first time that has happened since the 1992
campaign. Oklahoma State has come out on top in six of the last 10 meetings,
but the Sooners have had the most recent success with three wins in the last
five matchups.
OSU Coach Eddie Sutton
Eddie Sutton (Oklahoma State, 1958) is in his 11th year at OSU and his 31st
year overall. Under his guidance, OSU has advanced to the NCAA Tournament
eight times. Sutton currently owns a career record of 673-265 (71.7 percent)
overall and is 243-101 (70.6 percent) at OSU. Sutton is the only coach to
take four different schools to the NCAA Tournament.
A quick look at Wednesday's game
- Oklahoma State will look to snap its two-game losing streak, its longest since losing three straight in the 1998-99 season.
- This will be the third Valentine's Day game between the two rivals, OSU won the previous two meetings, 48-42 in 1961 and 70-66 in 1998.
- The Cowboys are 3-1 in Wednesday games this season, 3-0 in Big 12 games.
- With OSU's victory over Missouri on Feb. 5, the Cowboys are now 8-0 in the new Gallagher-Iba Arena, which was expanded to hold 13,611 seats during the off-season. The Cowboys have averaged 11,574 fans through the first eight games, a total ranked third in the Big 12 behind only Kansas and Iowa State. Last year, OSU ranked ninth in the league in average home attendance (5,907).
OSU-Oklahoma inside the numbers
Here's a statistical look at the opponents. Big 12 rank is in parentheses.
Jayhawks second-half run too much for OSU
Oklahoma State played with No. 5 Kansas in the first half, trailing the
Jayhawks 38-35, but could not overcome the KU depth in the second stanza as
the team outscored the Cowboys 39-26 to win 77-61 Saturday afternoon in
Lawrence. Melvin Sanders and Victor Williams led the OSU attack with 13
points apiece, but the story was how Kansas limited the duo of Maurice Baker
and Fredrik Jonzen to just 23 points combined, 13 points under their usual
total. KU broke open the game in the second half with a 9-2 run in the early
stages to take a 47-37 lead. The Cowboys cut the lead down to five at 49-44,
but that was the closest they would come as KU stormed back on a 14-3 run to
go up 63-47 with eight minutes left in the game. OSU shot just 7-for-23
(.304) in the second half while the Jayhawks shot 14-for-25 (.560) to break
open the game.
Baker and Jonzen, one of OSU's all-time top tandems
Maurice Baker and Fredrik Jonzen are shaping up as one of the top one-two
scoring punches in OSU history and the best since the Final Four combo of
Bryant Reeves and Randy Rutherford. Baker and Jonzen average a combined 35.6
points per game, currently the fourth-best combination in school history and
the best since Reeves and Rutherford averaged a combined 41.1. See page
seven of this release for a list of the top five.
January 27, 2001
The day will be etched forever in Oklahoma State history as 10 members of
the Oklahoma State family were tragically killed in a plane crash returning
>from a game against Colorado. Lost in the plane crash were Kendall Durfey
(radio engineer/producer), Bjorn Fahlstrom (pilot), Nate Fleming (basketball
player), Will Hancock (media relations coordinator), Dan Lawson (basketball
player), Brian Luinstra (trainer), Denver Mills (pilot), Pat Noyes (director
of basketball operations), Bill Teegins (radio play-by-play) and Jared
Weiberg (student assistant coach). All 10 men were important to the OSU
community and will be missed by family, friends and co-workers. More info
can be found on page nine.
Announcers donate efforts in honor of fallen comrade
Big 12 radio play-by-play men from the other 11 schools in the conference
have volunteered their efforts in honor of their comrade Bill Teegins, OSU's
play-by-play man, who passed away in the Jan. 27 airplane crash. The 11
announcers will call one Cowboy game each and donate their $500 talent fee
to the Bill Teegins Memorial Fund. Learfield Sports, which owns the rights
to Cowboy Basketball, will also match the sum. The Feb. 5 game against
Missouri was broadcasted by Bob Barry Sr., the voice of the Oklahoma
Sooners. John Morris of Baylor will call the Oklahoma game on Feb. 14 while
Greg Sharpe of Kansas State will handle the duties against Texas on Feb. 17.
Wednesday's game will be aired on the ESPN Regional network, including KFOR
(channel 4) in Oklahoma City and KJRH (channel 2) in Tulsa. Dave Armstrong
(play-by-play) and Paul Splittorff (color analysis) will handle the
television commentary duties.
Cowboys furious second-half rally comes up short in OT
Oklahoma State rallied from 12 and seven point deficits in the second half
against Nebraska but it was not enough as the Cowboys lost 78-75 to the
Cornhuskers Wednesday night. OSU had four players score in double-digits,
led by Maurice Baker's 22 points on 7-of-22 shooting, including 4-of-13 from
three-point range. The Cowboys trailed 40-33 at halftime and 49-37 with
14:39 left in the game before going on an 18-4 run to take a 55-53 lead with
8:25 on the clock. After Nebraska came back to retake a 67-60 lead with 3:28
left, OSU used one last effort to go on a 10-3 run to tie the game at 70-70
at the end of regulation. The Cowboys ran out of gas in overtime as the
Cornhuskers outscored them 8-5 to win 78-75.
Awards keep coming in for Maurice Baker
Junior guard Maurice Baker has bolted toward the top of the list of
contenders for the Big 12's newcomer-of-the-year and player-of-the-year
awards as well as other postseason honors. With Missouri forward Kareem Rush
sidelined for the rest of the season with a thumb injury, Baker is now the
active scoring leader in the Big 12. The 6-1 guard, who had been the Big 12
player of the week Dec. 5 and the rookie of the week Dec. 12 and Jan. 15,
was named the league's rookie of the week for the third time Jan. 22 after
averaging 27.5 points in two games. He leads OSU in scoring (19.9 ppg,
second in the Big 12, his 21.8ppg average in conference games is first in
the league), assists (4.5 apg) and steals (2.1 spg). 'Mo' scored 22 points
against Missouri on Feb. 5 and tallied the same number of points in the
Cowboys loss to Nebraska on Feb. 7. His streak of 20 or more points in a
game ended at six in the loss to Kansas last Saturday.
Baker scored a career-high 29 points against Baylor, hitting six of 10 three-pointers -- OSU's previous team high for a single game this season was five treys. He then hit seven threes against St. Gregory's and four against Texas A&M, giving him 17 in his last three games after he hit 19 in the first 13 games of the year. Baker's 22-point, 10-rebound effort against Texas A&M gave him his fourth double-double, all of which have come since Jan. 1. The junior led the team with 27 points in the loss to Colorado, his fourth straight game of 20 or more points.
Baker had 19 points and career highs of 14 rebounds, 10 assists and five steals in the Jan. 3 victory over Texas-San Antonio. The performance made him just the second Cowboy to record a triple-double. Joe Atkinson was previously the only OSU player with a triple-double, he had 10 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocked shots against New Orleans on Jan. 5, 1985. Baker is also only the third player in Big 12 history with a triple-double. The Iowa State game marked the third time this season that Baker has led OSU in points, rebounds, assists and steals in the same game (he also did so at Wichita State and against Texas-San Antonio), before this season, no player had accomplished that feat since the 1996-97 season.
Cowboys triumph in emotional contest against Missouri
Oklahoma State relied on the dynamic duo of Maurice Baker and Fredrik Jonzen
to upend Missouri in an emotional 69-66 win Feb. 5 in the Cowboys first game
since the tragic plane crash on Jan. 27 which claimed 10 members of the
Oklahoma State family. Baker propelled a Cowboy second-half run with two
three pointers while Jonzen tied a career-high with 26 points while also
grabbing nine boards. Melvin Sanders had a chance to put the game away in
the final seconds with two free-throws, but he missed them giving Missouri a
chance to tie the game with 3.4 seconds left. Sanders atoned for the misses
at the stripe however, when he intercepted MU's inbounds pass, sealing the
Cowboys win.
Head Coach Eddie Sutton
Eddie Sutton (Oklahoma State, 1958) is in his 11th year at his alma mater
with a 243-101 record at the school as well as a 673-265 overall mark in his
31st year of collegiate coaching. Under his guidance, OSU has advanced to
postseason play in nine of 10 years and has won 20 games or more eight
times. Sutton recently passed John Wooden and Denny Crum into 14th place
(fifth among active coaches) in career victories.
Only one active coach (Tarkanian) ranks ahead of Sutton in both victories and winning percentage, and OSU's boss ranks behind only Tarkanian, Dean Smith and Bob Knight in victories through 31 or fewer years of coaching. Sutton, who previously coached at Creighton, Arkansas and Kentucky, is the only coach in NCAA history to lead four different schools to the national tournament. With Sutton and Henry P. Iba among the 600-win club, OSU is one of only three schools -- joining Illinois and Kentucky -- with two coaches among the all-time top 20.
Jonzen responding well to preseason expectations
Swedish import Fredrik Jonzen, whose breakout performance in last year's
postseason earned him All-East Region honors in the NCAA Tournament, has
picked up his scoring numbers in the past month. Jonzen, who turned in a
career-high-tying 26-point effort against Iowa State and equalled that mark
against Missouri, appears to like the surroundings of the new Gallagher-Iba
Arena, where he averages a team-high 19.4 points per game. Despite a subpar
shooting night, he scored 17 points against Texas A&M and pulled down 12
rebounds for his second double-double this season and the sixth of his
career. Jonzen has scored in double figures in his last six contests and
managed to dish out a career-high six assists in the Cowboys emotional win
over Missouri on Feb. 5. He continued his streak of double-digit scoring
games with 11 points against Nebraska and 11 against Kansas before fouling
out in both games.
The OSU Athletics Center
Oklahoma State began play in its new Athletics Center on Dec. 19. Here is a
quick look at the facts of the construction:
Facility name: The arena itself will continue to be called 'Gallagher-Iba
Arena,' but the entire facility is known as 'The OSU Athletics Center.'
Coordinating Architects: Rosser International and Gary Sparks Companies
Contractor: Manhattan Construction
Seating capacity: 13,611
For current construction information, see the 'Facility Update' section of
OSU's Web site (http://www.okstate.com).
Arena Access
Since the arena is still under construction, Manhattan Construction
officials ask that it be kept clear until the doors open to staff and media
two and a half hours before tipoff. Media members should plan to arrive no
earlier than 4:30 p.m. for a 7 p.m. game.
Credentials
Although press row will be virtually unchanged from the 'old' arena, media representatives should be prepared for a few changes in OSU's press operations. Most importantly, press members will be asked to wear their passes for press-room security purposes.
Satellite-Truck Parking The OSU Athletics parking gurus have secured spaces for local television stations' satellite trucks just south of the auxiliary gymnasium on the south side of the arena. These spots are chained off to hold them for the trucks, for access, truck operators should call Jason Wright in the OSU POSSE office before each game to arrange a time to be let in the lot. For Wright's mobile phone number, call the OSU athletic media relations office.
Photography Positions Photo positions on the floor of the arena this year are on the east side of the floor (opposite the benches) at both ends, high-angle photo positions are available at the top of the arena on the east side and in the southeast corner. Photographers are requested to remain in the photo area during the game in order to keep from blocking entryways and fans' views of the game. National Rankings ****
