Cowboys Set To Play Host To Texas A&M Corpus Christi

Tuesday, December 20

Stillwater, OK

2 P.M. CT

Oklahoma State University

Texas A&M - Corpus Christi

December 19, 2022 | Cowboy Basketball

Facing Texas A&M Corpus Christi - Here's The Scout

Oklahoma State is set to return home on Tuesday afternoon when it plays host to Texas A&M Corpus Christi at 2 PM CT on ESPN+. Former Oklahoma State standout Bryndon Manzer and Mike Wolfe will have the call while Cowboy fans can listen to Dave Hunziker and John Holcomb on the Cowboy Radio Network and Varsity app.
This will be the first meeting between the two teams since 2018 when Oklahoma State won, 69-59, inside Gallagher-Iba Arena. Nine of the 11 games in the series have come in Stillwater, with OSU owning an 11-0 record overall. The Cowboys have averaged 81.3 points per game in the series. Texas A&M Corpus Christ has scored more than 59 points just four times dating back to the first game in 1972.
The Islanders come into the contest with a 6-4 record in search of their first road win. Texas A&M Corpus Christi has lost road contests at Mississippi State, UTEP, UTRGV and No. 9 Arizona so far this season. On the winning side, they hold victories against UTSA, UTRGV, Alcorn, Texas Lutheran and Schreiner.
Texas A&M CC is averaging 80.2 points per game coming into Tuesday's action while shooting 44.6 percent from the field. Four plays (Isaac Mushila, Trevian Tennyson, Terrion Murdix and Ross Williams) will come to Stillwater averaging at least 10 points per game. Mushila has stood out on the boards, as well, as he's averaged 10.2 rebounds.

The New Sheriffs In Town

John-Michael Wright, a High Point transfer, brings experience and poise to the Oklahoma State locker room. In the 2021-22 season, his junior year of eligibility, he played and started in all 32 games for High Point while averaging 34.9 minutes per contest. He shot .410 from the field and .363 from behind the arc as he averaged 18.4 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.4 assists.
He finished the year with the eighth-best assist-turnover ratio in the Big South, the ninth-best field goal percentage, had the second-most free throw attempts (third-most made), led the conference in scoring average and had the eighth-most assists.
Alongside Wright from the transfer ranks is Caleb Asberry from Texas State. He started all 29 games during the 2021-22 season, the only Bobcat to do that, as he led the team in scoring with a career-high 13.6 points and also paced the team in minutes played (847), steals (37), three-pointers made (63).
Asberry was notably a two-time All-Sun Belt (2021: Third Team, 2022: First Team) selection.
The lone freshman of the group, Quion Williams, joins the Cowboys from Jonesboro. During his high school career, Williams helped lead his team to two state championships and a 30-3 record.

Early Season Quick Hitters

Moussa Cisse has dominated through 11 games with four double-doubles to his name so far. The four double-doubles are the second most in the Big 12, only behind Jalen Wilson of Kansas with six.
If you only counted Kalib Boone and Moussa Cisse's blocks (44), the Cowboys would still be tied for second with Kansas for the most blocked shots in the conference.
OSU has made seven or more three-pointers in each of its past three games and has made nine in two of its past three.
After Saturday's result, Oklahoma State has now held at least one opponent to less than 50 points in a game in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2016.
There have been 17 seasons since the 2000-01 year that OSU had at least one game holding an opponent to less than 50 points while the program has done so in back-to-back seasons 13 times during the stretch.
Through 11 games, Avery Anderson III has recorded the 19th-best free throw percentage in the country.
Cisse is one of just 16 players in the country averaging at least 10 rebounds per game through the completion of Sunday's action.
Oklahoma State and Tennessee are the only two teams from the Power 5 conferences to lead their conference in both field goal percentage defense and three-point field goal percentage defense.

First 10 This Year... Versus The First 10 Last Year

Through the first 10 games of the year last season, Avery Anderson III led the way with 12.9 points while Bryce Williams was just behind at 11.4. Kalib Boone was averaging 9.5 points while Bryce Thompson had 9.4 points per game.
This season, Anderson led the way at 12.8 points while Bryce Thompson was just behind at 10.6. Kalib Boone averaged 10.1 points per game through the first 10 games.
This time last year, Moussa Cisse had posted 20 blocks in comparison to this season's 31 through the first 10 games. Anderson had 22 steals while this season posted 21.
In the rebounding category, Cisse was averaging 5.7 rebounds through the first 10 games last year while this season's first 10 contests he averaged 10.4 rebounds.
As a team, OSU was holding teams to 65.9 points per game in the first 10 last season while this season the Cowboys held foes to 63.1 points per game during the opening stretch.

The Defense Lately

Has not allowed 30 points in seven of the past 12 halves of action and hasn't let opponents reach that mark in 19 of the past 30 dating back to last season.
Has held teams to 60 or less points in four of the past six games and hasn't allowed a team to score 61 or more in seven of their past 13 games dating back to last year.
Has held teams to less than 40 percent shooting from the field in 13-straight games dating back to last year and has done so in 17 of their past 20 games. To expand, only three teams (SIU, DePaul and Virginia Tech) have shot 38 percent this season against the Cowboys. Behind the arc, seven of OSU's 11 foes have shot less than 30 percent this year.
Has started its success early in its 10 contests as it has held teams to less than 10 points in the first 10 minutes of a game three times this season.

Moussa Is A Monster

If you only counted his blocks at home (18), Moussa Cisse would still have the most blocks in the Big 12 as of Dec. 15. He has recorded at least one block in each of his past 21 games. There have been just three games in his Oklahoma State career in which he did not record at least one block. In his last home game against Sam Houston last Tuesday night, he recorded four blocks. It marked the fourth time this season he recorded four or more blocks and was the eighth time he posted two or more in a game this year.
Through the first five home games this season, Cisse is averaging a block approximately every 7 minutes of his playing time in Gallagher-Iba Arena.
As of Thursday, he checked in at No. 5 in KenPom's block percentage rankings only behind Western Kentucky's Jamarion Sharp, Milwaukee's Ahmad Rand, Cal Baptist's Tim Ighoefe and Auburn's Dylan Cardwell.
In his last three home games, Cisse has combined to post 31 points, 11 blocks and 32 rebounds.
It's been tough to keep him off the boards this year, as he has posted 10 or more rebounds in four of his past five games and has reached the mark in eight of his first 11 games.