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Opponent: at TCU (17-8, 6-6 Big 12)
Date/Tipoff: Feb. 15, 2017 / 8 p.m. Central
Series: OSU leads 24-4 overall • In Ft. Worth: OSU leads 8-2
Tickets: gofrogs.com
TV: ESPNU (Clay Matvick & Tim Welsh)
Webcast: ESPN3.com
Radio: Cowboy Radio Network (Dave Hunziker & John Holcomb)
Satellite Radio: Sirius 136, XM 199 (TCU call)
Internet Radio: http://okla.st/osutunein
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Oklahoma State Game Notes
The Basics
• Oklahoma State (16-9, 5-7 Big 12) got back into the win column with an 84-71 defeat of Texas on Saturday afternoon. That gives the Cowboys wins in six of their last seven games, which is the team's most prosperous stretch after the turn of the New Year since 2012-13. The road has been kind to the Cowboys, who have taken their last three Big 12 road games, including an 82-75 victory at No. 7 West Virginia on Feb. 4. OSU will have its hands full at TCU (17-8, 6-6 Big 12) on Wednesday night. The Horned Frogs are 13-3 at home this season, and have taken the last two in Fort Worth against Oklahoma State.
On the Air
• Oklahoma State and TCU will face off on ESPNU with Clay Matvick and Tim Welsh on the call. This is the 10th of 13 scheduled appearance on ESPNU for the Cowboys this season. OSU is 6-3 on ESPNU this season, and 35-31 all-time on the network, which hosted its inaugural broadcast at Gallagher-Iba Arena on March 5, 2005. As always, Dave Hunziker and John Holcomb will have the Cowboy Radio Network call.
Oklahoma State Snapshot
• COWBOY QUICK HITTERS: The Cowboys have now won three straight Big 12 road games for the first time since the 2012-13 squad won five straight ... In the Big 12, only Kansas (7-1) has more true road wins than the Cowboys (5-4), and no other team has played more road games than OSU's nine ... According to KenPom, Oklahoma State has faced the nation's No. 2 strength of schedule up to this point ... Joe Lunardi's latest Bracketology report has the Cowboys as a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament ... The last team to make the NCAA Tournament field after falling in their first six conference games was the 1985-86 Maryland team led by Len Bias.
• Jeffrey Carroll is the nation's most improved player. The redshirt junior is only playing 3.2 more minutes per game this year, but boasts a scoring improvement of +9.3 points per game over his 2015-16 season. He is the only Big 12 player averaging at least 17 points (17.5, 3rd Big 12) and 6.6 rebounds (6.6, 9th Big 12), and he is the nation's only active power conference player averaging 17 points or more that can claim an improvement of +9.0 points from last season. Carroll joins Bryant "Big Country" Reeves as the only Oklahoma State players to ever make the same leap from one year to the next.
• Carroll entered the 2016-17 season with a career high scoring game of 18 points, but has tied or topped that mark 16 times this season, including in 10 of the last 12 games. He has 12 20-point scoring games this season, including seven in Big 12 play, and ranks second in scoring in league games at 18.6 per contest. Carroll is shooting an incredible 52.4 percent from 3-point in Big 12 play, which is second in the conference.
• The Cowboy offense is on record-setting pace. KenPom ranks the Oklahoma State offense No. 2 in efficiency behind only UCLA. At 86.4 points per game, OSU is on pace to set a new school record for scoring average (current record: 83.5 in 1988-89), and in fact, is on pace to be the second-highest scoring squad in Big 12 history behind only the 2001-02 Kansas team that averaged 90.9 per game. The Cowboys have scored 95 points or more eight times this season, including a school-record tying five 100-point performances.
• A minor shift in defensive philosophy has been at the heart of OSU's recent resurgence. After five straight losses in close games (one or two possession games in the final five minutes) the Cowboys tweaked their defense and the results are staggering. Since the change, OSU ended Texas Tech's 17-game homecourt win streak, rolled over TCU in Stillwater, hammered Arkansas by 28 points in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge, ended a seven-game losing streak to Oklahoma, knocked off No. 7 West Virginia in Morgantown and took down Texas by 13. In 280 minutes of clock time in this seven-game resurgence, OSU has only trailed for a total of 81:31.
• Davon Dillard entered Big 12 play on Dec. 30 with a career total of 63 minutes played (39 this season), but has burst onto the scene in the last month for OSU. The sophomore brings a dose of attitude and athleticism to the Cowboy lineup, which is evidenced by his three appearances on the SportsCenter Top 10 since Jan. 23, including an explosive dunk from outside the paint that helped cement the win at No. 7 West Virginia that earned his the No. 1 spot on the countdown. Over the last six games Dillard is averaging 8.8 points, 4.8 rebounds and 56.3 percent shooting, including a 62.5 percent clip from 3-point.
• Phil Forte III is the big man on campus lately. The redshirt senior became the program's all-time 3-point king in the win over Arkansas, and just two-days later hit the game-winning 3-pointer with 11 seconds remaining to beat Oklahoma in Norman for the first time since 2004. Forte is now up to 311 career 3-pointers, which ranks sixth in Big 12 Conference history and is third among all active players nationwide. Forte has been on fire since Big 12 play began, and is averaging a league-best 3.0 3-pointers per game on 48.6 percent shooting from deep, which ranks third in the league.
• Jawun Evans was named one of 30 players still in consideration for the Naismith Trophy, given to the nation's best player. The sophomore has won multiple Big 12 Player of the Week awards this season (Jan. 30 & Dec. 5), and ranks second in the Big 12 in scoring (18.0) and assists (5.5), and is fourth in steals (2.0). Evans has nine 20-point games and three 30-point games this season alone, and he also earned a spot on the Maui Invitational All-Tournament team. Evans owns two of the Big 12's top three scoring performances this season - 35 points against UConn, and 34 points against Campbell.
• With the win at Texas Tech, Brad Underwood picked up his 100th career victory in his 122nd game, which tied him for the 10th fastest coach to reach the century mark in college basketball history. At 104-23, Underwood owns an 81.9 career win percentage, which is tops among all active coaches, and his 89 wins at Stephen F. Austin tied him with Brad Stevens of Butler for the most victories by any coach after three seasons. Underwood is also tied for the ninth-best win percentage by a fourth-year head coach.
• OSU fields one of the youngest and most inexperienced lineups in the country. Even with fifth-year senior Phil Forte and his 127 career games, OSU still ranks 279th nationally in experience according to KenPom. The Cowboys entered the 2016-17 with just 15 combined years of collegiate experience, and currently have just 278 collegiate starts on the roster. OSU's average age of 20.2 years is tied with Texas for the youngest in the Big 12.
• The Cowboys have cleaned up on the offensive glass this year. OSU is seventh nationally with 14.08 offensive boards per game and sixth in offensive rebound percentage at 38.8 percent. A true team effort, only one player on the team ranks inside the top 100 in the country in offensive boards - Mitchell Solomon (81st, 2.84). The Cowboys have pulled down 15-plus offensive boards in 12 games this year, including nine of the last 18 outings.
TCU Connections & Snapshot
• The Horned Frogs are led by first-year head coach Jamie Dixon, who is a 1987 graduate of TCU and won a pair of Southwest Conference titles as a player under Jim Killingsworth. Dixon returned to Fort Worth after a 13-year stay as the head coach at Pittsburgh, where he was the author of 328 wins, 11 NCAA Tournament bids and three Big East championships. Dixon was the 2009 Naismith National Coach of the Year.
• OSU was 2-3 against Dixon in his time at Pitt. In 2004, the Cowboys beat the Panthers, 63-51, in East Rutherford, N.J. to advance to the Elite Eight. OSU also took a double-overtime contest in Oklahoma City in 2006, 95-89. Dixon and the Panthers knocked off OSU, 85-68, in Pittsburgh in 2007, and eliminated the Cowboys from the 2009 NCAA Tournament, 84-76. Pitt won the last matchup, 74-68, in Dec. of 2011 in Madison Square Garden in the CarQuest Classic opener.
• Two of the league's most improved players will be squaring off in OSU's Jeffrey Carroll and TCU's Vlad Brodziansky. Both juniors, Brodziansky leads the Horned Frogs in scoring (14.0), blocks (2.4) and field goal percentage (59.6), and he's also averaging 5.8 rebounds per game, which ranks second on the squad.
• Wednesday's game will be a homecoming for several OSU players that call the DFW Metroplex home. Seven OSU players went to high school within an hour drive of TCU's campus; Brandon Averette (Richardson), Jawun Evans (Dallas), Tavarius Shine (Irving), Cameron McGriff (Grand Prairie), Phil Forte (Flower Mound), Leyton Hammonds (North Richland Hills) and Jeffrey Carroll (Rowlett).
• Since TCU joined the Big 12, OSU is 7-2 against the Horned Frogs, and both losses came in the Cowboys' last two trips to Fort Worth. The Cowboys are 9-1 against TCU in Stillwater. The home team has taken the last five meetings in the series.
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Opponent: at TCU (17-8, 6-6 Big 12)
Date/Tipoff: Feb. 15, 2017 / 8 p.m. Central
Series: OSU leads 24-4 overall • In Ft. Worth: OSU leads 8-2
Tickets: gofrogs.com
TV: ESPNU (Clay Matvick & Tim Welsh)
Webcast: ESPN3.com
Radio: Cowboy Radio Network (Dave Hunziker & John Holcomb)
Satellite Radio: Sirius 136, XM 199 (TCU call)
Internet Radio: http://okla.st/osutunein
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Oklahoma State Game Notes
The Basics
• Oklahoma State (16-9, 5-7 Big 12) got back into the win column with an 84-71 defeat of Texas on Saturday afternoon. That gives the Cowboys wins in six of their last seven games, which is the team's most prosperous stretch after the turn of the New Year since 2012-13. The road has been kind to the Cowboys, who have taken their last three Big 12 road games, including an 82-75 victory at No. 7 West Virginia on Feb. 4. OSU will have its hands full at TCU (17-8, 6-6 Big 12) on Wednesday night. The Horned Frogs are 13-3 at home this season, and have taken the last two in Fort Worth against Oklahoma State.
On the Air
• Oklahoma State and TCU will face off on ESPNU with Clay Matvick and Tim Welsh on the call. This is the 10th of 13 scheduled appearance on ESPNU for the Cowboys this season. OSU is 6-3 on ESPNU this season, and 35-31 all-time on the network, which hosted its inaugural broadcast at Gallagher-Iba Arena on March 5, 2005. As always, Dave Hunziker and John Holcomb will have the Cowboy Radio Network call.
Oklahoma State Snapshot
• COWBOY QUICK HITTERS: The Cowboys have now won three straight Big 12 road games for the first time since the 2012-13 squad won five straight ... In the Big 12, only Kansas (7-1) has more true road wins than the Cowboys (5-4), and no other team has played more road games than OSU's nine ... According to KenPom, Oklahoma State has faced the nation's No. 2 strength of schedule up to this point ... Joe Lunardi's latest Bracketology report has the Cowboys as a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament ... The last team to make the NCAA Tournament field after falling in their first six conference games was the 1985-86 Maryland team led by Len Bias.
• Jeffrey Carroll is the nation's most improved player. The redshirt junior is only playing 3.2 more minutes per game this year, but boasts a scoring improvement of +9.3 points per game over his 2015-16 season. He is the only Big 12 player averaging at least 17 points (17.5, 3rd Big 12) and 6.6 rebounds (6.6, 9th Big 12), and he is the nation's only active power conference player averaging 17 points or more that can claim an improvement of +9.0 points from last season. Carroll joins Bryant "Big Country" Reeves as the only Oklahoma State players to ever make the same leap from one year to the next.
• Carroll entered the 2016-17 season with a career high scoring game of 18 points, but has tied or topped that mark 16 times this season, including in 10 of the last 12 games. He has 12 20-point scoring games this season, including seven in Big 12 play, and ranks second in scoring in league games at 18.6 per contest. Carroll is shooting an incredible 52.4 percent from 3-point in Big 12 play, which is second in the conference.
• The Cowboy offense is on record-setting pace. KenPom ranks the Oklahoma State offense No. 2 in efficiency behind only UCLA. At 86.4 points per game, OSU is on pace to set a new school record for scoring average (current record: 83.5 in 1988-89), and in fact, is on pace to be the second-highest scoring squad in Big 12 history behind only the 2001-02 Kansas team that averaged 90.9 per game. The Cowboys have scored 95 points or more eight times this season, including a school-record tying five 100-point performances.
• A minor shift in defensive philosophy has been at the heart of OSU's recent resurgence. After five straight losses in close games (one or two possession games in the final five minutes) the Cowboys tweaked their defense and the results are staggering. Since the change, OSU ended Texas Tech's 17-game homecourt win streak, rolled over TCU in Stillwater, hammered Arkansas by 28 points in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge, ended a seven-game losing streak to Oklahoma, knocked off No. 7 West Virginia in Morgantown and took down Texas by 13. In 280 minutes of clock time in this seven-game resurgence, OSU has only trailed for a total of 81:31.
• Davon Dillard entered Big 12 play on Dec. 30 with a career total of 63 minutes played (39 this season), but has burst onto the scene in the last month for OSU. The sophomore brings a dose of attitude and athleticism to the Cowboy lineup, which is evidenced by his three appearances on the SportsCenter Top 10 since Jan. 23, including an explosive dunk from outside the paint that helped cement the win at No. 7 West Virginia that earned his the No. 1 spot on the countdown. Over the last six games Dillard is averaging 8.8 points, 4.8 rebounds and 56.3 percent shooting, including a 62.5 percent clip from 3-point.
• Phil Forte III is the big man on campus lately. The redshirt senior became the program's all-time 3-point king in the win over Arkansas, and just two-days later hit the game-winning 3-pointer with 11 seconds remaining to beat Oklahoma in Norman for the first time since 2004. Forte is now up to 311 career 3-pointers, which ranks sixth in Big 12 Conference history and is third among all active players nationwide. Forte has been on fire since Big 12 play began, and is averaging a league-best 3.0 3-pointers per game on 48.6 percent shooting from deep, which ranks third in the league.
• Jawun Evans was named one of 30 players still in consideration for the Naismith Trophy, given to the nation's best player. The sophomore has won multiple Big 12 Player of the Week awards this season (Jan. 30 & Dec. 5), and ranks second in the Big 12 in scoring (18.0) and assists (5.5), and is fourth in steals (2.0). Evans has nine 20-point games and three 30-point games this season alone, and he also earned a spot on the Maui Invitational All-Tournament team. Evans owns two of the Big 12's top three scoring performances this season - 35 points against UConn, and 34 points against Campbell.
• With the win at Texas Tech, Brad Underwood picked up his 100th career victory in his 122nd game, which tied him for the 10th fastest coach to reach the century mark in college basketball history. At 104-23, Underwood owns an 81.9 career win percentage, which is tops among all active coaches, and his 89 wins at Stephen F. Austin tied him with Brad Stevens of Butler for the most victories by any coach after three seasons. Underwood is also tied for the ninth-best win percentage by a fourth-year head coach.
• OSU fields one of the youngest and most inexperienced lineups in the country. Even with fifth-year senior Phil Forte and his 127 career games, OSU still ranks 279th nationally in experience according to KenPom. The Cowboys entered the 2016-17 with just 15 combined years of collegiate experience, and currently have just 278 collegiate starts on the roster. OSU's average age of 20.2 years is tied with Texas for the youngest in the Big 12.
• The Cowboys have cleaned up on the offensive glass this year. OSU is seventh nationally with 14.08 offensive boards per game and sixth in offensive rebound percentage at 38.8 percent. A true team effort, only one player on the team ranks inside the top 100 in the country in offensive boards - Mitchell Solomon (81st, 2.84). The Cowboys have pulled down 15-plus offensive boards in 12 games this year, including nine of the last 18 outings.
TCU Connections & Snapshot
• The Horned Frogs are led by first-year head coach Jamie Dixon, who is a 1987 graduate of TCU and won a pair of Southwest Conference titles as a player under Jim Killingsworth. Dixon returned to Fort Worth after a 13-year stay as the head coach at Pittsburgh, where he was the author of 328 wins, 11 NCAA Tournament bids and three Big East championships. Dixon was the 2009 Naismith National Coach of the Year.
• OSU was 2-3 against Dixon in his time at Pitt. In 2004, the Cowboys beat the Panthers, 63-51, in East Rutherford, N.J. to advance to the Elite Eight. OSU also took a double-overtime contest in Oklahoma City in 2006, 95-89. Dixon and the Panthers knocked off OSU, 85-68, in Pittsburgh in 2007, and eliminated the Cowboys from the 2009 NCAA Tournament, 84-76. Pitt won the last matchup, 74-68, in Dec. of 2011 in Madison Square Garden in the CarQuest Classic opener.
• Two of the league's most improved players will be squaring off in OSU's Jeffrey Carroll and TCU's Vlad Brodziansky. Both juniors, Brodziansky leads the Horned Frogs in scoring (14.0), blocks (2.4) and field goal percentage (59.6), and he's also averaging 5.8 rebounds per game, which ranks second on the squad.
• Wednesday's game will be a homecoming for several OSU players that call the DFW Metroplex home. Seven OSU players went to high school within an hour drive of TCU's campus; Brandon Averette (Richardson), Jawun Evans (Dallas), Tavarius Shine (Irving), Cameron McGriff (Grand Prairie), Phil Forte (Flower Mound), Leyton Hammonds (North Richland Hills) and Jeffrey Carroll (Rowlett).
• Since TCU joined the Big 12, OSU is 7-2 against the Horned Frogs, and both losses came in the Cowboys' last two trips to Fort Worth. The Cowboys are 9-1 against TCU in Stillwater. The home team has taken the last five meetings in the series.
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