Cowboys Facing Long Beach State In Charleston Third Place Game Sunday

Sunday, November 22

Charleston, SC

6 p.m.

Oklahoma State University

Long Beach State

Cowboys Facing Long Beach State In Charleston Third Place Game Sunday

November 21, 2015 | Cowboy Basketball

Game Center
2015 Charleston Classic Third-Place Game
Oklahoma State (3-1) vs. Long Beach State (3-1)
Nov. 22, 2015 – 6 p.m. Central
TV: ESPNU
Radio: Cowboy Radio Network
Live Stats: cofcstats.com
Series: Tied 2-2
Last Meeting: LBSU 102, OSU 67 (12-15-1979)
Printable Game Notes

Individual Quick Hitters
• Joe Burton posted a career-high 15 points on Friday against George Mason, and none was bigger than his game-tying 3-pointer with 16.2 seconds left in regulation. His previous career high was nine points against Towson on Thursday. The sophomore scored a total of 15 points during his freshman season.
• Chris Olivier has reached double figures in every game for OSU this season, including a season-high 19 points on Friday. He also posted five blocks, which is also a season high.
• Jeff Newberry posted his first 20-point game of the season on Friday, and continues to stuff the stat sheet in his senior year. Newberry is averaging 13.8 points, 8.0 rebounds, 1.5 blocks and 1.5 steals per game.
• Anthony Allen's shot blocking streak continued Friday. The senior rejected six shots in Thursday's win over Towson, and tallied four against George Mason on Friday. Allen entered the Charleston Classic without a block, but has 10 total blocks on the year now.
• Phil Forte missed Friday's game due to injury - the first game missed in his career. The senior had played in 102 straight games since arriving on campus in 2012-13. Forte suffered an elbow injury in the Charleston Classic opener against Towson on Thursday.

Team Notes
• The Cowboys will play shorthanded due to numerous injuries and illnesses. OSU is without a pair of starters - Phil Forte and Leyton Hammonds - as well as Tavarius Shine, the team's first wing off the bench.
• The Cowboys blocked 11 shots as a team on Friday - tied for the 11th most ever by a Cowboy team. The last time OSU had more was against Kansas State (12) on Feb. 5, 2003.
• George Mason's Shevon Thompson tallied 17 rebounds against OSU on Friday, which are the most by a Cowboy opponent since Ryan Spangler had 17 boards for Oklahoma on Jan. 27, 2014.
• The Cowboys are now 10-9 in overtime in the Travis Ford era, and 0-1 this season.
• OSU posted seven blocks in the first half of Friday's game, which nearly tied the program record for blocks in a half. The record is eight blocks in both halves of the Oklahoma game on Feb. 4, 1989. Anthony Allen had three of the seven first-half blocks against the Patriots.
• OSU trailed at the half, 26-22, which was the first time this year the Cowboys went into the break with a deficit.
• The Cowboys didn't score their first points of the game until Chris Olivier sank a contested layup with 13:21 on the first-half clock.
• OSU has made a 3-pointer in 488 consecutive games dating back to Jan. 13, 2001.
• Travis Ford is 146-92 at Oklahoma State, and 336-238 overall as a head coach (19th season).
• As a program, OSU is 1,597-1,111 all-time (107th season).

The Oklahoma State vs Long Beach State Series
• The Cowboys will play in the third-place game of the Charleston Classic against LBSU on Sunday at 6 p.m. Central on ESPNU.
• This will be the fifth meeting between OSU and Long Beach State. The series is split at two wins apiece, although the last meeting was way back on Dec. 15, 1979.
• Oklahoma State and Long Beach State will play on Sunday night in Charleston, followed by a second straight meeting in Stillwater on Nov. 27. This will mark the first time since 1996-97 in which OSU will take on the same opponent in back-to-back games. That season, the Cowboys took down Texas A&M in College Station, 62-60, on Feb. 15, and then beat the Aggies four days later in Stillwater, 72-55.
• The last time these two teams met, on Dec. 15, 1979, LBSU downed OSU, 102-67, which is still the third largest margin of defeat in school history (35 points). Michael Wiley led four LBSU players in double-figures scoring with 23 points and 11 rebounds. LBSU, which would advance to the second round of the NIT later that season, shot 57.3 percent from the floor that day. Ed Odom led the Cowboys with 19 points.
• The Cowboys are 9-2 all-time against current members of the Big West Conference. Here's the breakdown: Hawaii (2-0), Long Beach State (2-2), UC Davis (2-0), Cal State Fullerton (1-1), UC Santa Barbara (2-0).