Cowboy Basketball hosts Prairie View on Military Appreciation Night

Wednesday, November 12

Stillwater

7:00 PM

Oklahoma State University

Prairie View A&M

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Cowboy Basketball hosts Prairie View on Military Appreciation Night

November 11, 2025 | Cowboy Basketball

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PRAIRIE VIEW A&M (2-1) at rv/- OKLAHOMA STATE (2-0)
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025 | 7:01 p.m. CT
Stillwater, Okla. | Gallagher-Iba Arena

Tickets: okstate.com/tickets
Watch: ESPN+ (Adam Hildebrandt & Bryndon Manzer)
Listen: Cowboy Radio Network/Varsity App (Dave Hunziker & John Holcomb)
Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Series: OSU leads 6-0 (6-0 in Stillwater)
Last: Nov. 27, 2022 in Stillwater (OSU, 78-53)

Coaches:
* Steve Lutz: 2^nd Season at OSU (19-18), 5^th Overall (88-53)
* Byron Smith: 11^th Season at PVAMU (131-180); Same Overall

Opening Tips:

Oklahoma State continues its homestand Wednesday evening against the visiting Prairie View A&M Panthers inside Gallagher-Iba Arena.
The Cowboys are 2-0 after a pair of 24-point wins over Oral Roberts and Texas A&M and are looking to hit 3-0 for the second straight year under Steve Lutz.
In Sunday's victory over Texas A&M, Christian Coleman led the Cowboy scoring with 16 points and Isaiah Coleman impressed in his OSU debut with 13 points and nine rebounds.
The Cowboys held an Aggie team that entered the day averaging 101 points on 51.5% shooting to 63 and 32.3% respectively. The latter was a Lutz Era low for an OSU opponent.
Robert Jennings II is the only rotation player back from last year's NIT quarterfinalist. He started all 35 games.
The Cowboys have 12 newcomers on the roster, including seven Division I transfers who combined to average more than 94 points for their respective teams last year.
On a per-40-minute basis, three different Cowboys are averaging upwards of 20 points per game: Vyctorius Miller (28.8), Christian Coleman (25.5) and Parsa Fallah (24.3)
OSU received a vote in this week's Associated Press Poll -- the program's first since February 2023.
The Cowboys were predicted to finish 12^th out of 16 teams in the Big 12 Conference race.
OSU is 6-0 all-time against Prairie View A&M. This will be the third meeting in the last five years between the schools.
OSU is 15-4 inside GIA under Lutz. Last year the Cowboys posted their highest home winning percentage in more than a decade (13-4, .765). Three of the losses came to NET top-10 opponents and the other in the NIT quarterfinals.
The Cowboys have won 11 consecutive non-conference regular season contests on the white maple, dating back to December 2023.
This is the third in a stretch of six OSU home games to start the regular season, continuing Sunday against A&M-Corpus Christi (1 p.m., ESPN+).

Last Time on Cowboy Basketball:
Sunday, Nov. 9 | OSU 87, Texas A&M 63

Christian Coleman led a group of five double-figure scorers with 16 points in Oklahoma State's 86-63 victory over Texas A&M.
The Cowboys piled up 29 points off of 16 Aggie turnovers and held the visitors to 32.3% shooting from the field. They also dominated in the trenches, doubling up the Aggies 44-22 on points in the paint.
In his OSU debut, junior guard Isaiah Coleman scored 11 of his 13 points in the first half to help OSU to a 43-29 lead at the intermission. The margin grew to as many as 28 points late in the second half.
Vyctorius Miller (15 pts, 5 ast), Parsa Fallah (12 pts, 7 reb) and Jaylen Curry (12 pts, 3 stl) also scored in double-figures for the Cowboys, who shot 48.5% from the field.
The meeting was the first between the former BIg 12 rivals in Stillwater since 2012.

Starting Strong:

OSU has opened its second season under Steve Lutz with back-to-back 24-point wins. Last year's largest victory margin was a 21-point win at Tulsa.
The Cowboys have back-to-back 20 point wins for the first time since November 2023 when they dispatched New Orleans and Houston Christian by 28 and 27 points respectively.
It's been 11 years since OSU last strung together three straight 20-point victories. The Cowboys opened the 2014-15 campaign with convincing wins over Southeastern Louisiana (+28), Prairie View A&M (+22) and Northwestern Oklahoma State (+46).

More Texas A&M Leftovers:

OSU has won its last two meetings with A&M and now leads the all-time series 33-18 (16-5 in Stillwater).
The Cowboys improved to 14-0 under Lutz (2-0 in 2025-26) when putting at least 80 points on the scoreboard.
The Cowboys scored eight fewer points against Texas A&M than they did in Tuesday's 95-71 win over the Oral Roberts but were more efficient, averaging 1.19 points in their 73 possessions (up from 1.12 in 85 possessions against ORU).
Defensively, they held A&M to 0.86 points per possession (roughly in line with the 0.84 that they surrendered to ORU.
Reserves accounted for more than half of the Cowboys' scoring total (45 of 87 points). Through two games, the bench unit is averaging 39.0 points or just over 43% of the team total. A year ago, OSU ranked 13^th nationally in bench scoring at 30.6 points.
Through two games, Christian Coleman is 4-of-8 from beyond the arc -- notable considering he attempted just one three-pointer in 72 career games at UAB. Prior to Tuesday, his last make came Jan. 28, 2023 during his time at South Plains Junior College.
After missing the opener against ORU, junior guard Isaiah Coleman and freshman forward Lefteris Mantzoukas made their Cowboy debuts.
Senior guard Anthony Roy, who scored 28 points in the Auburn exhibition, missed his second straight game due to injury, as did freshman big man Benjamin Ahmed.

On This Date: Nov. 12

2013 – Fueled by 10 first-half triples, No. 8 OSU jumped out to leads of 15-2 and 25-5 in an eventual 93-40 win over Utah Valley. It was the second of five straight 20-point wins to open the season (a school record).
2023 – OSU tied a school record with three-pointers in an 85-70 win over Sam Houston. Bryce Thompson and Javon Small hit four each and the Cowboys finished 17-of-33 overall.

The Series with Prairie View A&M:

The Panthers return to Stillwater for the third time in five seasons.
OSU is 6-0 all-time against PVAMU with all six wins coming by at least 22 points.
The Cowboys exploded for 51 second half points to win the last meeting (Nov. 27, 2023) to turn a slim 27-26 halftime lead into a 78-53 rout. Avery Anderson III scored 13 of his team-high 16 in that span.
The teams first met during the 1993-94 season (a 113-51 Cowboy win). Bryndon Manzer paved the way with eight points and five assists. Teammates Bryant Reeves (22 pts, 15 reb) and Brooks Thompson (25 pts, 6 ast) helped out a bit, too.
Steve Lutz will face the Panthers for the first time as a head coach.

Scouting the Panthers:

Three-time SWAC Coach of the Year Byron Smith has led Prairie View A&M to three conference titles and a 2019 NCAA tournament appearance in his first 10 seasons on the job.
The Panthers return just one scholarship player (6-7 forward Marcel Bryant) from last year's group that finished 5-27 (4-14 SWAC).
Bryant made 27 starts last year and averaged 9.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.1 blocks.
Picked ninth out of 12 teams in the SWAC preseason poll, Prairie View (2-1) opened its season with lopsided home wins over a pair of non-Division I opponents before falling 105-62 on Saturday at Wichita State.
UTSA transfer Tai-Reon Joseph – a 6-foot-3 guard -- has been the team's top scorer, averaging 20.3 points in just 25.0 minutes per game.
6-7 forward Cory Wells (Utah Valley), 6-4 guard Dontae Horn (Ga. Southern) and Bryant are also putting up double-figure points.
The Panthers have forced 37 steals and 60 turnovers in just three games, led by Horn (2.67 spg) and Wells (2.00 spg).
Per Synergy, 26.4% of the team's offensive possessions have come in transition, which puts them just inside the top 40 nationally.
KenPom ranks the Panthers 35^th nationally adjusted tempo (OSU is sixth).

Matchup Mashup:

This is the first of two games for OSU against members of the SWAC. The Cowboys will conclude the non-conference portion of their schedule on Dec. 29 against SWAC preseason favorite Bethune-Cookman (which took Auburn to overtime in last week's opener).

A Cowboy win would...

Make them 3-0 for the second straight year and for the 55^th time in 117 seasons.
Extend their all-time series lead over Prairie View A&M to 7-0 (all in Stillwater).
Improve their home record under Steve Lutz to 16-4 (.800), including 8-0 in non-conference regular season contests.
Boost Lutz's career record to 89-53 in parts of five seasons as a head coach (20-18 at OSU).
Make them 875-268 all-time in GIA (now in its 88^th season), including 307-94 since its 2000 expansion.
Give them 12 straight non-conference regular season wins inside GIA, dating back to December 2023, and make them 459-60 (.884) all-time.

A Cowboy loss would...

Be their first in seven all-time meetings with Prairie View A&M.
Be their first non-conference regular season home loss since Nov. 30, 2023 against Creighton, snapping a 11-game winning streak.
Be less good than a win.

Up Next: A&M-Corpus Christi
Sunday, Nov. 16 | 1 p.m. CT | ESPN+

Steve Lutz goes head-to-head with his former team, the A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders, and one of his former proteges.
Jim Shaw worked two seasons as an assistant coach under Lutz (during which the Islanders advanced to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments). He moved over to the head chair in 2023 when Lutz departed for Western Kentucky.
Shaw has since led the Islanders to condsecutive 20-win seasons and a 26-12 record in Southland Conference play. His 2024 team finished runner-up in the regular season and earned a bid to the CIT, and the 2025 squad tied for fourth-place.
OSU and A&M-Corpus Christi ranked 10th and 11th respectively in bench points (1,075 and 1,070 respectively) during the 2024-25 season.