Cowboys welcome SMU for Saturday exhibition

Saturday, October 26

Stillwater

11:00 AM

Oklahoma State University

SMU (Charity Game)

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October 25, 2024 | Cowboy Basketball

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Oklahoma State vs. SMU
Charity Exhibition Game
Saturday, Oct. 26 | 11:01 a.m. CT
Stillwater, Okla. | Gallagher-Iba Arena

Tickets: Free (Open Seating, East Lobby Open @ 10 a.m.)
Parking: Free
TV: None
Radio: 94.3 FM / 780 AM in Stillwater (Ryan Breeden & Bryndon Manzer)
Audio Stream: The Varsity App
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com

The Oklahoma State Cowboys will host a men's basketball charity exhibition game against the SMU Mustangs at 11 a.m. CT on Saturday inside Gallagher-Iba Arena.

Get in the Game: Parking and admission are free, and all seating is general admission. Doors to the east lobby open one hour before tipoff. In lieu of admission, fans are encouraged to give generously to the American Heart Association (click here to make a donation).

Hoops for Hearts: Sudden cardiac arrest is the No. 1 medical cause of death among young athletes, especially those with underlying heart conditions. Studies show that the immediate use of CPR and AEDs can double or even triple an individual's chances of survival. Learn more at heart.org.

On the Air: Saturday's game will not be televised, however fans can tune in locally on Pete 94.3 FM and KSPI 780 AM in Stillwater or listen online via the Varsity Sports App. Ryan Breeden and former Cowboy guard Bryndon Manzer have the call.

Lutz Go: This is the only opportunity for fans to see first-year head coach Steve Lutz's Cowboys before their Monday, Nov. 4 regular season opener against Green Bay.

Head Coach Steve Lutz:

Lutz arrives in Stillwater after successful rebuilds at Western Kentucky (2023-24) and A&M-Corpus Christi (2021-23).
He's made NCAA tournaments in each of his first three seasons as a head coach while winning nearly two-third of his games (69-35).
Notably, Lutz's journey to his first head coaching job included four years as an assistant coach at under Matt Doherty at SMU (2006-10).

OSU in Exhibitions:

Over the years, the Cowboys have tuned up against an assortment of small colleges, barnstorming all-star teams and national squads, but this will be their first time facing another Division I program in a true exhibition.
OSU has won 35 straight preseason exhibitions, last losing Nov. 9, 2000 to Athletes First. That game was played in Tulsa while construction crews put the finishing touches on the new Gallagher-Iba Arena.
The Cowboys have won 56 straight exhibitions inside GIA, last losing in 1988 to Arvidas Sabonis and the Soviet national team.
The most famous charity game in program history happened March 29, 1945 at a sold out Madison Square Garden. Two nights after defeating NYU for the NCAA championship, Henry Iba's Oklahoma A&M Aggies knocked off NIT champion DePaul, 52-44, and helped raise more than $50,000 for the Red Cross in the process ($861,646 in 2024 money).

The Series with SMU:

OSU played a closed-door scrimmage at SMU during the 2023-24 preseason, but the teams last met officially in 2011 when the Cowboys edged the Mustangs in a double-overtime thriller at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
OSU leads the all-time series 20-6, including 9-2 in Stillwater.
The Mustangs last visited GIA in 2005.

About the Mustangs:

An eventful off-season saw SMU hire Andy Enfield from USC and jump from the American Athletic Conference to the ACC.
The Mustangs have a total of three starters back from last year's team that won 20 games and made the NIT.
They're picked 13^th out of 18 teams in the ACC preseason poll.

About the Cowboys:

Last year's Cowboys were the Big 12's youngest team (average opening night age 19.49). This year's version will be one of the oldest (22.28) with nine players listed as seniors, fifth-years or grad students. Collectively, the 17 Cowboys have 43 seasons of active college basketball experience (38 at the Division I level).
A trio of guards -- Bryce Thompson and sophomores Connor Dow and Jamyron Keller -- are the only holdovers from Oklahoma State's 2023-24 active roster.
Thompson has averaged double-figure points in each of the last three seasons for the Cowboys while Dow and Keller combined for 15 starts last year as true freshmen.
Those three are joined by redshirt freshman walk-on Jaxton Bobik, whose father Daniel was a starting guard on OSU's 2004 Final Four team.
A group of 13 OSU newcomers includes 12 transfers and one true freshman.
Junior point guard Arturo Dean led the nation in steals last year at FIU (104).
Fifth-year forward Abou Ousmane has scored 1,000 points and logged nearly 100 starts at the Division I level. He was Xavier's leading rebounder last season and, before that, played three years at North Texas.
Senior combo guard Khalil Brantley was La Salle's leading scorer in each of the last two campaigns. Last year he was one of just seven players nationally who averaged the combo of 15 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 1.5 steals.
Fifth-year guard Davonte "Devo" Davis, a former SEC All-Defensive Team selection, was a key cog on Arkansas teams that advanced to two Elite Eights and a Sweet 16.
Likewise, guard Brandon Newman (Western Kentucky) and forward Robert Jennings II (Texas Tech) were also starters on 2024 NCAA tournament squads. Newman has been a part of nearly 100 wins in four seasons at WKU and Purdue.
Marchelus "Chi Chi" Avery was sixth man last year at UCF and, prior to that, a member of the New Mexico State team that upset UConn in the 2022 NCAA tournament.
Former NJCAA All-American Patrick Suemnick also brings Big 12 experience after two seasons at West Virginia.
6-foot-10 freshman Andrija Vukovic brings size and upside. He's spent the past two years battling seasoned pros in the Serbian Basketball League, while maintaining his amateur status.
6-6 forward Mikey Kelvin II makes the move from Canadian college basketball to the NCAA after helping Queens University to a national runner-up finish last spring. He's an athletic forward and a strong perimeter shooter.
Walk-ons Tyler Caron (St. Mary's TX), Kirk Cole (Troy) and C.J. Smith (Coffeyville CC) round out the roster.
Lutz-led squads are known for playing hard and fast. His Western Kentucky team led the nation in adjusted tempo last season, per KenPom, with an average of over 75 possessions per game and scored a league-best 80.6 points.

Up Next:

The Cowboys open up their 116^th season and the Steve Lutz Era on Monday, Nov. 4 against a Green Bay team coached by former OSU guard Doug Gottlieb.
Tickets are available online at okstate.com/tickets or by phone at 877-255-4678 (877-ALL-4OSU).
Gottlieb played three seasons for the Cowboys (1997-00) and still holds OSU's single-game (18), season (299) and career (793) assist records.
The Phoenix return one starter from a team that finished 18-14 and third-place in the Horizon League standings and are picked eighth out of 11 teams in the Horizon League preseason poll.