Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowboys Face Sooners in Norman
February 06, 2007 | Cowboy Basketball
Oklahoma State (18-4, 4-3) at Oklahoma (13-8, 4-4)
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 • 8 p.m.
Lloyd Noble Center (12,000) • Norman, Okla.
Television — ESPN Regional
Play-by-Play • Bob Carpenter
Analyst • Doug Gottlieb
Stillwater
KOCB-WB TV-34
SuddenLink Ch. 11
Oklahoma City
KOCB-WB TV-34
Cox Communications Ch. 11
Tulsa
KJRH-NBC TV-2
Cox Communications Ch. 9
Radio — Cowboy Sports Network
Dave Hunziker & Tom Dirato
Flagship Station — KSPI (93.7 FM)
SIRIUS Satellite Radio — Ch. 121
internet — www.okstate.com
Quick Notes
• Oklahoma State has surpassed its season win total from a year ago. Last year, the Cowboys finished 17-16.
• The Cowboys are 0-3 on the road this season, with all three losses in Big 12 Conference play. Oklahoma State has lost six-straight league road games.
• OSU has now won at least 17 games for the 19th-consecutive season and is guaranteed a winning record for the 19th-straight year.
• OSU is on the road for back-to-back games for the first time this season. The Cowboys were supposed to play at Nebraska following the Kansas game, but it was rescheduled.
• Oklahoma State’s game against Texas Tech on Saturday is scheduled for 3 p.m., not 11 a.m. as listed on the season tickets.
Cowboys Fall in Boulder
• In one of the biggest upsets in recent Oklahoma State Cowboy Basketball history, OSU fell to the Colorado Buffaloes 89-77 on Saturday afternoon in Boulder.
• JamesOn Curry scored a team-high 20 points for the Cowboys while Byron Eaton added 19 and Mario Boggan chipped in 17.
• A pair of Buffaloes, Kal Bay and Dominique Coleman, totalled 42 points. They were averaging a combined 15 points per game entering the game.
• Coleman, a 6-foot-3 guard, grabbed 15 rebounds, a season high by an OSU opponent.
• CU outrebounded OSU 45-35 and shot 48 percent from the floor, including 10-of-21 from beyond the three-point arc.
• The loss dropped Oklahoma State 11 spots in the Ratings Percentage Index from 11th to 21st.
• The win moved Colorado up from 238th place in the RPI to 210th, a jump of 28 places.
• The win improved the Buffs to 6-13 overall and 2-7 in league play.
OSU in the RPI
• As of Tuesday, Oklahoma State ranked No. 21 in the ratings percentage index according to rpiratings.com.
• OSU is 7-3 vs. teams ranked in the top 100, including wins over No. 3 Pittsburgh, No. 31 Missouri State, No. 54 Texas, No. 60 Syracuse, No. 81 Oklahoma, No. 82 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and No. 91 Auburn.
• Three of OSU’s four losses this season have come to teams ranked in the top 25 in the RPI (No. 11 Texas A&M, No. 16 Tennessee and No. 22 Kansas).
Oklahoma State in the Polls
• Oklahoma State is ranked 17th in both the most recent Associated Press poll and the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll.
• The Cowboys returned to the top 10 this season for the first time since the final poll of the 2004-05 season when OSU was ranked sixth in the AP poll and eighth in the Coaches poll.
• Oklahoma State plays 10 games this season against teams currently receiving votes in at least one of the top-25 polls: No. 6/6 Texas A&M (lost in College Station; Feb. 21 in Stillwater), No. 7/7 Pittsburgh (won in the All-College Classic in Oklahoma City) and No. 9/8 Kansas (lost in Lawrence).
• Texas (won in Stillwater; next Monday in Austin), Kansas State (Feb. 27 in Stillwater), Tennessee (lost in Nashville), and Texas Tech (Saturday in Stillwater; Feb. 24 in Lubbock) are also receiving votes in the AP poll.
20-Point Productions
• JamesOn Curry scored 20 points against Colorado last Saturday, his 11th 20-point game this season and the 26th by a Cowboy this season.
• Last year, the Cowboys had 14 20-point outings all season long.
• Mario Boggan has 13 20-point games this season, while Curry has 11. Terrel Harris has two.
Cowboys’ One-Two Punch
• Oklahoma State’s Mario Boggan and JamesOn Curry are currently averaging a combined 39.2 points per game.
• That duo ranks among the best in school history for scoring combos.
• The top duo in school history was Ed Odom (24.2 ppg) and Don Youman (17.0 ppg) in 1979-80. They averaged 41.2 combined points per game.
• Second place goes to Bryant Reeves (21.5 ppg) and Randy Rutherford (19.6 ppg) in 1994-95. They totalled 41.1 points per contest.
Eaton Moving up Steals Chart
• Sophomore Byron Eaton has already recorded 100 steals in his two-year career at Oklahoma State.
• He is just the 22nd Cowboy to reach 100 thefts in a career.
• Byron needs just four more steals to move into the top-20 in school history.
• He would surpass Leroy Combs (1979-83) and Raymond Crenshaw (1980-84) who each had 103 in their respective four-year careers.
• Ivan McFarlin holds the school record with 170 career steals.
• Eaton ranks sixth in steals average, recording 1.8 steals per game in his career.
Cowboys Swatting Shots
• Junior Marcus Dove has 49 career blocked shots, tying for the 12th-most in school history.
• Senior Mario Boggan has 47 deflections ranking as the 15th-most in OSU history.
• Only 11 players have had 50 blocked shots in their careers at Oklahoma State. These two have a chance to join that elite group.
• Senior David Monds has 34 blocked shots in his career and has a chance to move into the top-25 in school history with one more deflection.
Against the Sooners
• Oklahoma State has won 20 of the last 34 meetings in the Bedlam series dating back to the 1990-91 season, head coach Sean Sutton’s junior season at OSU.
• Byron Eaton recorded a freshman-record seven steals in the Cowboys’ last visit to Norman.
• Mario Boggan is shooting 63.3 percent in his three games vs. Oklahoma.
• Byron Eaton is shooting 82.4 percent from the free-throw line vs. the Sooners.
• Oklahoma State scored 108 points against Oklahoma on March 1, 1989. That’s the most points by a Cowboy squad in a conference game.
• OSU scored just 36 points against OU on Dec. 27, 1965, the fewest points scored by an Oklahoma State team in the modern era.
• The most three-point field goald made in a half by an OSU squad came at the expense of the Sooners on Feb. 7, 1994, when the Pokes hit eight treys.
• OSU established a school record with 16 blocked shots against Oklahoma on Feb. 4, 1989.
• Bryant Reeves was perfect from the field on 11 attempts against OU on Jan. 8, 1994.
