Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowboys Headed to South Padre
November 22, 2006 | Cowboy Basketball
Oklahoma State (5-0) at the
South Padre Island Invitational
vs. Auburn (4-0)
Friday, November 24, 2006 • 1:30 p.m.
vs. Missouri State (3-0)
or Wisconsin (4-0)
Saturday, November 25, 2006 • 11:30 a.m./2 p.m.
South Padre Island Convention Centre (1,500)
Radio — Cowboy Sports Network
Chad McKee & Tom Dirato
KSPI — 780 AM in Stillwater
KAKC — 1300 AM in Tulsa
KEBC — 1340 AM in Oklahoma City
SIRIUS — Channel 107
internet — www.okstate.com
Television — CSTV
Play-by-Play • Carter Blackburn
Analyst • Pete Gillen
Stillwater
SuddenLink Digital
Channel 133
DirecTV
Channel 610
dish Network
Channel 152
Cowboys Head to Padre Island
• Oklahoma State travels to South Padre Island, Texas, this week to conclude play in the South Padre Island Invitational.
• OSU’s games against Sam Houston State and Southern were considered the first- and second-rounds of the tournament.
• The Cowboys face the Auburn Tigers on Friday at 1:30 p.m. inside the South Padre Island Convention Centre.
• The game will be televised by CSTV with Carter Blackburn handling play-by-play duties while former Virginia coach Pete Gillen will provide expert analysis.
• The winner of the OSU-Auburn game will play the winner of the Wisconsin-Missouri State matchup on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. That game will also be televised by CSTV.
• The losers of the games on Friday will play at 2 p.m. on Saturday. That game will not be televised.
• Oklahoma State will return to Stillwater on Sunday afternoon.
Game Rewind Highlights
• Mario Boggan extended his consecutive 20-point games streak to four with 21 points on 8-of-10 shooting. Both of his misses were from beyond the three-point arc.
• Three other Cowboys scored in double figures. JamesOn Curry had 14 points, while Obi Muonelo and Byron Eaton each scored 10. It was Eaton’s first double-figure scoring game of the season and Muonelo’s fifth.
• OSU shot just 45.6 percent from the floor, including a dismal 2-of-13 (15.4 percent) from long range.
• Eaton’s trey with 16 minutes remaining in the game extended the Cowboys streak of consecutive games with a three pointer to 188.
• OSU had a season-low 11 turnovers while forcing 19. The Pokes also had 10 steals, reaching double figures in that category for the fifth-straight game.
Whew!
• Oklahoma State played its fourth game in seven days Tuesday night. The streak began on Nov. 15 with Northwestern State and concluded with Southern.
• However, it is not the most hectic schedule in recent years. To begin the 2001-02 season, the Cowboys played five games in six days.
• Oklahoma State hosted Cincinnati in the season opener on Nov. 16, and then hosted Austin Peay the following day before traveling to Las Vegas, Nev., to compete in the Las Vegas Tournament.
• On Nov. 19, OSU faced Providence, followed by Siena College on Nov. 20. The Cowboys won the Las Vegas Tournament title by defeating TCU on Nov. 21.
About Auburn
• Auburn is 4-0 this season and coming off a 79-58 win over Miles College in Auburn Tuesday night.
• The Tigers are led by a trio of players averaging double figures in scoring. Junior Frank Tolbert is averaging 15.3 points per game to lead the team. Sophomore Rasheem Barrett is second on the squad with 14.5 points per contest, and sophomore Korvotney Barber is averaging 13.5 points and leads the team with 10.8 rebounds per game.
• Auburn is coached by Jeff Lebo, in his third year as head man for the Tigers. He has a 30-33 record at Auburn.
• He is in his ninth season overall as a head coach, with stints at Tennessee Tech and Tennessee-Chattanooga.
• Oklahoma State is 0-2 all-time against Auburn.
• The Tigers won the first meeting on Dec. 10, 1977, with a 112-94 victory at the Marshall Tournament in Huntington, W.Va.
• The second meeting came on March 13, 1999, when Auburn handed OSU an 81-74 loss in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in Indianapolis, Ind. The Tigers were ranked No. 4 nationally at the time.
• OSU will go from playing Auburn in front of one of the largest crowds in school history (32,758 in the RCA Dome in Indianapolis) to one of the smallest (capacity at the South Padre Island Convention Centre is 1,500).
Looking Ahead
• Oklahoma State will play either Wisconsin or Missouri State on Saturday in the final round of the South Padre Invitational.
• OSU is 4-0 all-time against Missouri State. The last meeting between those two schools occurred on Jan. 19, 1994, when the Cowboys handed the Bears a 68-63 loss on their home court.
• Oklahoma State is 1-0 all-time against Wisconsin. The only meeting between those two school was on Dec. 29, 1983, in the Merrill Lynch Classic in Dayton, Ohio. OSU won that game 89-84.
