Cowboys extend win streak to 5 in non-conference finale

Wednesday, January 3

Stillwater

6:00 PM

Oklahoma State University

8-5,0-0Big 12

Chicago State

7-14,0-0DI Independent

Chicago St.

Oklahoma St.

January 03, 2024 | Cowboy Basketball

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STILLWATER — Bryce Thompson scored 13 points and Eric Dailey Jr. and Javon Small added 12 apiece to help Oklahoma State subdue Chicago State, 75-53, Wednesday evening.

The Cowboys (8-5) ride a five-game winning streak into Saturday's Big 12 opener against Baylor at Gallagher-Iba Arena (2 p.m. CT, ESPN+).

OSU's defense set the tone, holding the Chicago State (7-14) to 29.0% from the field.

The Cowboys shot 48.1% and held a 43-31 advantage on the boards.

Dailey grabbed nine rebounds and Brandon Garrison added four blocks to his growing total.

The Cowboys forced 13 straight Cougar misses during an early 15-0 run that pushed their lead to 24-6 with just over 12:00 remaining in the first half.

Quion Williams delivered a pair of highlight reel dunks during that stretch, including a one-hand alley-oop from Dailey.

Thompson scored 11 of his 13 points before halftime to send OSU into locker room with a 43-25 cushion. The Cowboys shot 57.7% to CSU's 26.5% in the opening half, helped by a 14-0 advantage in fastbreak points.

OSU scored the first seven points out of the locker room to take its largest lead of the of the night, 50-25 near the 17:00-mark, and coasted from there.

Jahsean Corbett had 20 points and seven rebounds for CSU, which was less than 24 hours removed from a 72-65 road loss at Kansas State. The Cougars spent the night in Manhattan, Kan. before making a roughly four-hour bus ride into Stillwater on Wednesday morning.

NOTABLE:

Chicago State's 53 points on 29% shooting were both season-lows for a Cowboy opponent. It was the eighth time under Mike Boynton Jr. that OSU has held its opponent to less than 30% from the field.
During its five-game winning streak, OSU has trailed for a combined total of 6:03.
Nine of Garrison's team-high 24 blocks have come over the last three games. He's averaging 1.85 for the season and now ranks among the top-20 nationally in block percentage (10.21%).

QUOTABLE:

Boynton on the start of Big 12 Play:
"The things that I want our guys to understand is just to embrace the opportunity and not get bogged down by the pressure of playing against great competition. I want them to enjoy it also…. I want to them to enjoy the opportunity to see what they're made of against some of the best coaches and teams and venues in the whole country."

Boynton on Javon Small's role:
"We needed him to a be a kind of fire-starter – a domino starter – where the gravity of the game flows because of what he's able to do, and then he's able to get other guys – like Jarius (Hicklen), like Connor (Dow), like John-Michael (Wright) and Bryce (Thompson) – open shots. Those guys have proven that when they can get open shots, they can make them. So making sure we had someone who can get them the ball was really, really important."