Oklahoma State University Athletics
OSU Announces 2007-08 Cowboy Basketball Schedule
August 09, 2007 | Cowboy Basketball
As many as 16 of OSU's 30 regular-season games will be televised nationally, the most in school history. OSU had 13 nationally televised contests during the 2004-05 season following the Cowboys' Final Four appearance.
Oklahoma State will open the season with a pair of exhibition games against in-state Division II opponents. OSU will host Panhandle State on Friday, Nov. 2, and East Central on Tuesday, Nov. 6. The Cowboys' first regular-season game will be on Friday, Nov. 9, as OSU hosts Prairie View A&M.
A visit to Denton, Texas, to face North Texas on Nov. 14 will precede the Cowboys' trip to Hawaii for the EA Sports Maui Invitational. Oklahoma State will face LSU in the first round of the tournament on Monday, Nov. 19, at 4 p.m. CT. Other teams competing in the tournament include: Arizona State, Duke, Illinois, Marquette, Princeton and Chaminade.
OSU will host the Washington Huskies on Saturday, Dec. 1, in an ESPN-televised game as part of the Big 12/Pac 10 Hardwood Series. Two weeks later, the Pokes will travel to Pittsburgh, Pa., to face the Pittsburgh Panthers in an ESPN game on Saturday, Dec. 15.
It will be brother versus brother on Thursday, Dec. 20, as OSU faces Oral Roberts and Coach Sutton's younger brother, Scott Sutton, in the O'Reilly All-College Classic. Scott Sutton is an Oklahoma State graduate and has been the head coach at ORU for each of the past seven seasons. The game will be aired on ESPN2.
OSU will host four non-conference games over the holiday break, including two against former members of the Cowboy Basketball staff. Former Cowboy Brooks Thompson will bring his Texas-San Antonio squad to Stillwater on Jan. 2, while former administrative assistant Wren Baker serves as the head coach at Rogers State, which will invade Gallagher-Iba Arena on Jan. 7.
The Cowboys will open Big 12 Conference play on Saturday, Jan. 12, as OSU hosts Bob Knight and his Texas Tech Red Raiders. That game will be televised by CBS.
A Big Monday matchup with Texas inside Gallagher-Iba Arena on Jan. 21 will start a streak of four-consecutive games on ESPN. OSU will host Texas A&M the following Saturday, Jan. 26, at 1 p.m., and will play at Oklahoma on Jan. 28 in the Cowboys' second-straight Big Monday game. The streak will conclude the following Saturday when the Pokes play at Texas Tech on Feb. 2 at 1 p.m.
Another string, that of five-consecutive Saturdays with a nationally televised game, will continue on Feb. 9 as the Cowboys play at Kansas State on ESPN at 5 p.m. Oklahoma State then travels to College Station, Texas, to face the Texas A&M Aggies on ABC at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16. OSU hosts Kansas on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 3 p.m. on CBS.
Oklahoma State ends the regular season on Sunday, March 9 at Texas in a 3 p.m. ESPN contest. It will be the final national telecast of the regular season nationwide.
