Oklahoma State University Athletics
Game Notes - Cowboys Host TCU For Senior Night
March 02, 2015 | Cowboy Basketball
March 2, 2015
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Up Next For Oklahoma State Basketball
TCU
March 4, 2015 ► 8 p.m. CT ► Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611 capacity)
Tickets: okstate.com/tickets or toll-free 877-ALL-4-OSU
TV: ESPNU (Clay Matvick and Tim Welsh)
In Stillwater - Suddenlink 503, DirecTV 208, Dish 141, U-verse 605
In OKC - Cox 253/HD 718, DirecTV 208, Dish 141, U-verse 605/HD 1605
In Tulsa - Cox 253/HD 718, DirecTV 208, Dish 141, U-verse 605
Radio: Cowboy Radio Network (Dave Hunziker & John Holcomb)
Satellite Radio: Sirius 126, XM 199
Internet Radio: http://okla.st/osutunein
Live Stats: okstate.com
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The Basics
The Oklahoma State men's basketball team (17-11 overall; 7-9 Big 12) caps its 2014-15 home schedule when it hosts TCU (17-11 overall; 4-11 Big 12) at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Gallagher-Iba Arena.
Ticket Info
Tickets are available for as little as $15 online at okstate.com/tickets, toll-free by calling 877-ALL-4-OSU or in person at the box office.
On the Air
The game will be televised by ESPNU with Clay Matvick and Tim Welsh calling the action. The game can be heard on the Cowboy Radio Network with Dave Hunziker and John Holcomb on the call.
Senior Night
Oklahoma State will honor its senior class prior to Saturday's game. The group includes three starters - Le'Bryan Nash, Michael Cobbins and Anthony Hickey - plus Christien Sager, Marek Souček and Alex Budke. Members of the group have been part of 77 wins, two trips to the NCAA Tournament and have combined to score 3,629 points during their career.
Oklahoma State From a Distance
Oklahoma State has faced opponents ranked in the Associated Press top 25 in seven of its last nine games. Using this week's RPI rankings according to the NCAA, OSU has three wins over teams with an RPI in the top 10, six wins over teams with an RPI in the top 50 and nine wins over teams with an RPI in the top 100.
The Cowboys are led by senior forward Le'Bryan Nash, who ranks second in the Big 12 with 16.9 points per game. Nash has scored in double figures every game this season and is the Big 12's active leader with 1,764 career points. Looking to get uncorked after uncharacteristic performances the last four games, junior guard Phil Forte is a key component in the Oklahoma State attack. In OSU's 17 wins, Forte averages 17.8 points on .484 pct. shooting from the field. In the Cowboys' 11 losses, Forte averages 12.3 points on .346 pct. shooting from the field.
Other key contributors include senior guard Anthony Hickey (9.4 points on .458 pct. shooting from three-point range the last five games), junior guard Jeff Newberry, who has emerged as a solid defensive player as the season has progressed and who averages 9.2 points per game in his last five outings, and Michael Cobbins, who, fresh off a double-double last game at Texas Tech (10 points, 11 rebounds), has turned in his three best scoring outputs against Big 12 opponents in his last three games.
Oklahoma State is a formidable defensive team. The Cowboys rank in the top 50 nationally in many of the prominent defensive statistical categories and are a top-30 team nationally in steals and blocked shots.
TCU From a Distance
When TCU (then-owner of a 1-10 record in Big 12 play) beat Oklahoma State in Fort Worth on Feb. 14, some were quick to throw blame at OSU, but the reality is that TCU's roster features good size and the Horned Frogs can play. Evidence to back that up is that TCU owns an RPI in the top 50 nationally, according to both Jeff Sagarin and Ken Pomeroy and the Horned Frogs used that win over the Cowboys as a springboard to win three of their last five against Big 12 opposition. The two losses during that span were single-digit defeats at Kansas and at Oklahoma.
Guard Kyan Anderson (13.4 points and 4.3 assists per game) is a dynamic player who can beat you with the two (36 percent of his points come from two-pointers), the three (38 percent of his points come from made three-pointers) or by getting to the free throw line (27 percent of his points come from the charity stripe). In the last five games, guard Trey Ziegler is averaging 13.4 points on .581 pct. shooting from the field. The frontcourt foursome of forwards Amric Fields, Chris Washburn and Kenrich Williams plus center Karviar Shepherd has combined to average 33.7 points and 21.2 rebounds per game in the last five games.
An Oklahoma State Win Would...
► Give the Cowboys their 11th win in the last 12 meetings with TCU and their sixth straight win over the Horned Frogs in games played in Stillwater.
► Improve the Cowboys to 81-4 against unranked opponents in Gallagher-Iba Arena since Travis Ford took over as head coach in 2008-09 (.953 pct.) OSU has won 10 straight home games over unranked opponents, dating back to a 77-74 loss to Oklahoma last season.
► Improve the Cowboys to 12-4 overall and 6-3 against Big 12 opponents in Gallagher-Iba Arena this season.
► Improve OSU to 94-18 in Gallagher-Iba Arena under Travis Ford (.839 pct.)
► Improve the Cowboys to 13-3 against unranked opponents this season.
► Improve the Cowboys to 8-2 against teams from the state of Texas this season.
► Improve the Cowboys to 22-3 all-time against TCU.
Streaks & Trends Entering the TCU Game
► The Cowboys have won 10 of their last 11 against TCU.
► Oklahoma State is 57-3 in its last 60 games when holding its opponent under 60 points.
► The Oklahoma State bench has averaged 17.0 points per game the last two games. In the five games prior to that, the bench contributed only 4.6 points per game.
► In a statistical oddity, Oklahoma State has shot better from the field, better from three-point range and better from the free throw line in the last four games than its season averages in those three areas, yet has lost each of those four games.
► Oklahoma State is 7-1 this year when outrebounding its opponent.
► Oklahoma State has been outrebounded or matched in the rebounding column by nine of its last 10 opponents and has allowed 14.5 offensive rebounds per game over the span of the last four games.
► Le'Bryan Nash has led the team in scoring in each of the last seven games.
► Le'Bryan Nash has scored in double figures in 27 consecutive games (all of his games this season).
► Michael Cobbins has turned in his three highest scoring outputs vs. Big 12 opponents this season in his last three games, highlighted by a 10-point, 11-rebound effort at Texas Tech last time out.
► Michael Cobbins has shot 50 percent or better from the field in 11 of his last 13 games.
► Michael Cobbins has blocked at least one shot in 23 of his 25 games this year and in 29 of his last 32 games, dating back to last season.
► Jeff Newberry is averaging 9.3 points per game in his last six games. Prior to that, he averaged 5.7 points per game on the year.
► In the last seven games, Anthony Hickey has converted on 16 of his last 33 from three-point range (.485 pct.), a significant upgrade from the .322 pct. conversion rate he averaged before his current hot streak.
► Phil Forte has made only 10 three-pointers in his last seven games, but has made 36 free throws during that same timeframe.
► OSU has made at least one three-pointer in 480 consecutive games dating back to Jan. 13, 2001.
The Series
Oklahoma State is 21-3 all-time against TCU and has won 10 of the last 11 meetings in the series between the two schools. The Cowboys hold a 6-1 advantage over the Horned Frogs in games played in Stillwater. TCU's lone win in Gallagher-Iba Arena came by a 37-16 score in 1925.
