Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowboys Host Rangers Tuesday Night
November 17, 2014 | Cowboy Basketball
Oklahoma State Cowboys
vs
Northwestern Oklahoma State
Tuesday, Nov 18, 2014
- 7 pm CT -
Gallagher-Iba ArenA
Stillwater, Okla.
Television – Cowboy Sports Network/Fox College Sports Pacific
Mike Wolfe | play-by-play
Bryndon Manzer | analyst
Cox (OKC) — 273
Cox (Tulsa) — 273
Suddenlink — 511
direcTV — *
Dish — *
U-Verse — 649
* check local listings
radio – Cowboy radio Network
Dave Hunziker | play-by-play
John Holcomb | analyst
Satellite Radio — none
A complete list of affiliates can be found on page 5 of these notes.
Game Notes vs Northwestern Oklahoma State in PDF format 
Probable Starters
OSU Probable Starters Position Ht Wt Yr PPG RPG APG FG% 3FG% FT%
2 Le'Bryan Nash wing 6-7 235 Sr 18.5 6.5 2.5 .391 .000 .826
23 Leyton Hammonds wing 6-7 205 So 8.0 3.0 1.0 .462 .444 .000
32 Anthony Allen, Jr. post 7-0 240 Jr 7.0 13.0 4.0 ^ 1.000 .000 .333
12 Anthony Hickey, Jr. guard 5-11 185 Sr 3.0 3.0 4.0 .375 .000 .000
13 Phil Forte, III guard 5-11 185 Jr 17.0 2.5 4.5 * .407 .412 .833
^ blocks per game; * steals per game
OSU Off the Bench Position Ht Wt Yr PPG RPG APG FG% 3FG% FT%
1 Tyree Griffin guard 5-10 165 Fr 7.5 3.0 2.0 .600 1.000 .727
4 Joe Burton wing 6-6 215 Fr 3.0 1.0 0.0 .333 .000 .500
5 Tavarius Shine wing 6-5 195 Fr 3.0 1.5 0.5 .250 .000 .667
14 Marek Souèek post 7-0 240 Sr 0.0 0.0 0.0 .000 .000 .000
15 Christien Sager wing 6-4 205 Sr 1.5 0.0 0.0 .500 .500 .000
22 Jeff Newberry guard 6-2 190 Jr 3.0 3.0 0.5 .286 .200 .500
30 Jeffrey Carroll wing 6-6 205 RS Fr 6.0 3.0 0.0 .308 .300 .500
41 Mitchell Solomon post 6-9 235 Fr 1.0 3.0 0.0 .333 .000 .000
NWOSU Probable Starters Position Ht Wt Yr PPG RPG APG FG% 3FG% FT%
15 Adrian Motley forward 6-5 So 15.0 8.5 1.0 .458 .300 .455
32 Kevin Harkins forward 6-8 Fr 6.5 5.5 0.0 .400 .000 .556
5 Laakeem Henderson guard 6-3 Jr 4.0 3.0 1.0 .231 .000 1.000
10 T'aries Taylor guard 6-2 Jr 19.0 2.5 2.0 .409 .455 .714
11 Darrian Dempsey guard 6-0 Sr 14.5 4.5 2.5 .474 .625 1.000
Game Information
Oklahoma State hosts Northwestern Oklahoma State on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7 pm inside Gallagher-Iba Arena. The game will be produced by the Cowboy Sports Network and televised on Fox College Sports Pacific. Tickets can be purchased on-line at <www.okstate.com/tickets> or by contacting the OSU Ticket Office at (877) 255-4678 for as little as $10 per seat.
About Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State is 2-0 this season following an 74-52 victory over Prairie View A&M on Sunday. Two games into the season, the Cowboys are averaging 78.5 points per game and outscoring their opponents by an average of 25 points per contest. OSU is averaging 44 rebounds per game with a +3.5 rebounding margin. The Pokes are also forcing an average of 18 turnovers per game while committing just 12 per contest, a +6.0 turnover margin.
Defensively, OSU has allowed just 53.5 ppg on 32% shooting from the floor and 20.5% from beyond the three-point arc.
Individually, senior Le'Bryan Nash is leading the Cowboys with his 18.5 ppg. Junior Phil Forte has scored 17 points in each of the first two contests, and leads the squad with nine steals. Junior Anthony Allen is averaging 13 rebounds, seven points and four blocked shots per game, and senior Anthony Hickey leads OSU with eight assists in the first two games.
About Northwestern Oklahoma State
Northwestern Oklahoma State is 1-1 on the season following a 76-73 win over Northeastern State and a 104-68 loss to Central Oklahoma at the MIAA-GAC Challenge in Tahlequah last Friday and Saturday. The Rangers are averaging 72 points per game while allowing 88.5 points per contest. NWOSU is shooting 37.8% from the floor, but 34.2% from beyond the three-point arc. The Rangers are averaging 42 rebounds per game, but have a -3.5 rebounding margin and a -5.5 turnover margin.
Individually, junior T'aries Taylor (OKC Northwest Classen) is averaging 19 ppg, while sophomore Adrian Motley is chipping in 15 ppg and senior Darrian Dempsey is scoring 14.5 points per contest. Motley also leads the squad with 8.5 rebounds per game, while Dempsey leads the squad with five assists and five steals and is 5-of-8 from long range.
The Rangers are coached by Andrew Brown, who is 111-95 in his eighth season as head coach of NWOSU.
vs non-conference foes in gia
Oklahoma State went 7-0 last season in non-conference home games. The Cowboys are 188-4 (97.9%) in home games vs non-league foes since 1987. During that span, OSU won 80-straight contests from 1987-98, which ranks as the fifth-longest streak in NCAA Division I history. All-time, Oklahoma State is 401-49 (89.1%) in non-conference games inside Gallagher-Iba Arena.
history with NWOSU
Oklahoma State is 3-1 all-time vs Northwestern Oklahoma State, including a 92-35 victory on Dec. 21, 2004, the only game played between these two teams since 1917. Here is a look at the three previous contests:
Date Location W/L Score
01-26-1916 Stillwater, Okla. W 28-27
02-26-1916 Alva, Okla. L 22-44
01-30-1917 Stillwater, Okla. W 56-15
12-21-2004 Stillwater, Okla. W 92-53
vs in-state division II schools
Oklahoma State is 26-14 all-time against in-state NCAA Division II schools, although the majority of those games (28) and all 14 of the losses occurred prior to 1937. Since then, the Cowboys are 12-0, including a 5-0 mark in the modern era (since the East Central game in 1981).
Nash Leads big 12
Senior Le'Bryan Nash has 21 career 20-point games, leadin the Big 12 Conference's active players. TCU guard Kyan Anderson is second in the league with 15. Cowboy junior Phil Forte ranks fifth in the conference with 11 games of 20 or more points. Here is a look at the players with at least 10 20-point games.
Player, School 20-point Games
Le'Bryan Nash, OSU 21
Kyan Anderson, TCU 15
Juwan Staten, WVU 13
George Niang, ISU 12
Phil Forte, OSU 11
Perry Ellis, KU 9
Buddy Hield, OU 9
Marcus Foster, KSU 8
Cowboys in the Big 12 Statistics
Only three Big 12 teams have played more than one game. However, statistically, several Cowboys rank among the league's top players statistically.
Anthony Allen is tied for the league lead in rebounding, averaging 13 rebounds per contest. He is tied with West Virginia's Devin Williams. He is also tied for the league lead in blocked shots, averaging four per game. Texas' Myles Turner also has eight in two games, while Texas Tech's Zach Smith has four in one game.
Le'Bryan Nash ranks fourth among Big 12 scorers, averaging 18.5 ppg. Iowa State's Georges Niang scored 30 points in the Cyclones' only game so far to lead the league.
Anthony Hickey is tied for ninth among Big 12 players, averaging four assists per game. Oklahoma's Jordan Woodard leads with his seven assists in one game.
Phil Forte leads the league in steals with nine in two games. His 4.5 average leads the conference.
As a team, Oklahoma State is tied for the highest steals-per-game average, matching Kansas State with 12 per contest. The Cowboys led the league last season in steals, averaging 7.65 thefts per game.
Cobbins' career numbers
• Michael Cobbins ranks eighth in school history for career blocked shots with 111 entering his senior season. He needs three to move into seventh and 47 to move into sixth place.
• His 1.5 blocks-per-game average over a career ranks seventh in the school record books.
• Cobbins has 295 career defensive rebounds, ranking 19th, and his 121 offensive rebounds ranks 25th.
• He ranks 23rd in rebounds per game at 5.6 rpg.
• For Big 12 games only, Cobbins' 60 blocked shots ranks fourth in school history. He needs just 17 to move past Ivan McFarlin (76) and into second place behind Andre Williams (119).
nash's career numbers
• Le'Bryan Nash could become just the seventh player in school history to average double figures in all four seasons in a Cowboy uniform. He averaged 13.3 ppg as a freshman, 14.0 ppg as a sophomore and 13.9 ppg as a junior. The others are Ronnie Daniel (1973-77), Olus Holder (1974-78), Matt Clark (1978-83), Byron Houston (1988-92), Adrian Peterson (1995-99) and Ivan McFarlin (2001-05).
• Nash is the Big 12's active leader in 20-point games with 21, tying for the 13th most in OSU history.
• He ranks 21st in career points at OSU with 1,344 and 22nd in career scoring average at 14.1 ppg.
• Nash's 57 consecutive starts streak (active) ranks as the 22nd longest in school history.
• He has 736 career points in Big 12 Conference games, ranking sixth for a Cowboy.
• He is the 22nd player to attempt 1,000 shots in a career for Oklahoma State.
• He is just the fourth player in school history to record 100 or more free throws in each of his first three seasons.
forte's career numbers
• Phil Forte holds the school record for three-point percentage in a game, connecting on all six attempts from long range at Oklahoma on Jan. 27, 2014.
• He tied Joe Smith for the longest streak of consecutive free-throws made with 43.
• His overall career free-throw percentage of 88.8 ranks second in school history behind John Lucas' school record 89.5 percent.
• Forte sits in eighth place in school history for three-pointers attempted in a career with 445, and needs 44 to move past JamesOn Curry and into seventh place.
• He is tied for eighth in school history for three-pointers made in a career with 175. He needs eight to move past Joe Adkins and into seventh place.
• He became the fifth player in school history with 100 three-pointers made in a season; the previous four were all seniors (Brooks Thompson in 1993-94, Randy Rutherford in 1994-95 and Keiton Page in 2011-12).
• Forte needs 178 points to reach the 1,000-point milestone.
allen with big numbers
It's certainly way too early to say that Anthony Allen is among the all-time best rebounders at OSU, but it is fun to speculate. Andy Hopson was the greatest rebounder in Oklahoma State history. The 6-8 center played three seasons from 1972-75 and averaged 13.1 rebounds per game ... over his career! Here is a look at the top single-season rebounding performances (averaging at least 10 rpg) in OSU history:
Player (Cl.), Season Rebounds Avg
Andy Hopson (Jr.), 1973-74 375 14.4
Andy Hopson (So.), 1972-73 352 13.5
Anthony Allen (Jr.), 2014-15 26 13.0
Andy Hopson (Sr.), 1974-75 293 11.3
Bob Mattick (Sr.), 1953-54 326 11.2
James King (Sr.), 1964-65 285 10.6
Byron Houston (Jr.), 1990-91 336 10.5
Olus Holder (Sr.), 1977-78 269 10.3
James King (Jr.), 1963-64 258 10.3
Cecil Epperley (Sr.), 1961-62 259 10.3
Don Youman (Jr.), 1978-79 242 10.1
Bryant Reeves (So.), 1992-93 291 10.0
Byron Houston (So.), 1989-90 309 10.0
Olus Holder (Jr.), 1976-77 269 10.0
Ford approaching milestone
Friday night's game vs Milwaukee will be the 100th home game under Coach Travis Ford. Through 98 home games with Coach Ford at the helm, the Cowboys have compiled a record of 84-14 (.857). Of those 14 losses, 10 have been against ranked opponents, and seven of those were vs top-10 teams. OSU has defeated nine ranked foes inside Gallagher-Iba Arena under Ford, including three top-10 teams.
