Cowboys continue homestand Sunday against Cal St. Fullerton

Sunday, December 21

Stillwater

1:00 PM

Oklahoma State University

Cal State Fullerton

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Cowboys continue homestand Sunday against Cal St. Fullerton

December 20, 2025 | Cowboy Basketball

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CAL STATE FULLERTON (5-7) at -/rv OKLAHOMA STATE (10-1)
Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025 | 1:01 p.m. CT
Stillwater, Okla. | Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611)

Tickets: okstate.com/tickets
Watch: ESPN+ (Adam Hildebrandt & Bryndon Manzer)
Listen: Cowboy Radio Network (Dave Hunziker & John Holcomb)
Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Series: Tied, 1-1 (1-1 in Stillwater)
Last: Nov. 29, 1972 (CSF, 56-55)

Coaches:
Steve Lutz (Texas Lutheran '95) -- 2nd Season at OSU (27-19); 5th Overall (96-54)
Head Coach: Dedrique Taylor (UC Davis '97); 13th Season at CSF (166-212), Same Overall

Opening Tips:

Two of college basketball's fastest teams take the starting blocks Sunday afternoon when the Oklahoma State Cowboys host the Cal State Fullerton Titans (1 p.m. CT, ESPN+).
Kids 12-and-under will receive free admission with purchase of an adult ticket (online only). Visit okstate.com/tickets for details.
This is the third ever meeting between the schools. The others took place in 1968 and 1972.
OSU (7^th) and Fullerton (3^rd) both rank among the national leaders in KenPom's adjusted tempo rankings. The Cowboys come in averaging 89.9 points and the Titans 89.7.
Minus three injured starters, OSU still found enough fire power to put away visiting Kansas City on Thursday night. Christian Coleman collected a season-high 20 points along with 10 rebounds, and the Cowboys made their last 10 shots to pull away for a 91-79 victory.
OSU has won all eight home games by eight-or-more points and scored 80+ points in each.
A Sunday victory would give OSU its first nine-game home streak since 2014.
The Dec. 18 win over KC was OSU's 10^th of the season -- a full month ahead of last year's pace. The 2024-25 Cowboys notched win No. 10 on Jan. 18 and the 2023-24 did it Feb. 3.
The Cowboys are 21-4 under Steve Lutz inside GIA, including 13-0 in non-conference regular season games.
Five Cowboys average better than 11 points, led by senior guard Anthony Roy (15.5 ppg). The Green Bay transfer has scored in double-figures in all eight of his games and is averaging 2.5 threes on 40% accuracy.
Sophomore Vyctorius Miller (15.3 ppg) has also been lethal three-point threat, averaging 2.0 threes per game on 47% accuracy.
Senior forward Parsa Fallah (13.1 ppg) is the team's leading rebounder (5.8) and ranks eighth nationally in field goal percentage (.667).
Junior point guard Jaylen Curry (13.4 ppg) is one of only three players in the nation who are averaging at least 5.0 assists and have an assist-to-turnover ratio of 4.00 or higher.
Curry (5.3 apg) and senior guard Kanye Clary (4.5 apg) have combined to average nearly 10 assists per game.
Lutz announced Friday that senior forward Robert Jennings II is out for this season with a lingering hip injury. Jennings has been inactive since Nov. 12. Prior to that, he had made 38 consecutive starts for OSU (three this year)
The Cowboys will play one last non-conference tuneup next Monday, Dec. 29 against visiting Bethune Cookman (7 p.m. CT, ESPN+) before jumping into Big 12 play Jan. 3 at Texas Tech.

Last Time on Cowboy Basketball:
Thursday, Dec. 18 (Stillwater) | OSU 91, Kansas City 79

Minus three starters, OSU played well enough in spurts to finish off Kansas City.
Christian Coleman scored a season-high 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds OSU, which trailed as late as the 8:00-mark of the second half but held the visitors without a basket for more than five minutes during a decisive 14-1 run.
OSU made its last 10 field goal attempts to finish at 58.1%. KC shot 37.3% but kept pace with 11 threes (more than double its season average).
Playing without forwards Parsa Fallah and Lefteris Mantzoukas, the Cowboys still won the rebounding battle, 41-29, and piled up 56 points in the paint, helped by strong performances from Andrija Vukovic (11 points, 5/5 FG) and Benjamin Ahmed (6 pts, 7 reb in 7 minutes).
It was Vukovic's first career start and the collegiate debut for Ahmed, who missed the first 10 games to a foot injury. Ahmed needed less than two seconds to score his first basket, sticking back a missed free throw.
Point guard Kanye Clary left the game after just 78 seconds due to injury.

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The Pokes have hit the 90-point mark six times already this season, surpassing their total from the last three seasons combined (5).
OSU is 22-0 under Steve Lutz when putting at least 80 points on the scoreboard.
The Cowboys have thrived in second halves, averaging 47.4 points on 52.8% shooting while limiting opponents to 38.6 and 39.6%.
OSU is 22-2 under Lutz when leading at halftime, 20-4 when out-shooting its opponent and 21-5 when winning the rebounding battle.
Christian Coleman scored a season-high 20 points on Thursday night. It was his sixth time this season with at least 15 points.
Coleman dunked four times against KC to run his team-high season total to 15. He's had at least one dunk in each of the last seven contests.
Coleman's double-double was his second of the season and the ninth of his collegiate career.
Parsa Fallah started the first 10 games of the season before sitting out Thursday night with an injury. The former Southern Utah and Oregon State standout enters the day just 24 points shy of 1,000 for his NCAA career. His next contest will be the 100^th.
In Fallah's stead, Andrija Vukovic became the 11^th different Cowboy to start a game this season.
Anthony Roy missed the first three games to a groin injury but has scored in double-figures in all eight games since his return.
Roy missed all four of his three-point attempts in his Cowboy debut against A&M-Corpus Christi but has knocked down multiple treys in each of the seven games since. Over that span, he's 20-of-46 from distance (.435).
Roy has converted 15 straight free throws attempts, last missing against South Florida.
A total of 33 Big 12 Conference regulars entered the weekend averaging better than 20 points-per-40-minutes. Five of them are Cowboys. That's the most from any one school.
That doesn't include freshman Benjamin Ahmed, who had six points and seven rebounds in his seven-minute collegiate debut against Kansas City. Stretched out over a full 40 minutes, those totals would grow to a somewhat impressive 32.5 points and 37.9 rebounds.

OSU Leaders // Points Per 40 Minutes^:
24.8 – Anthony Roy
23.7 – Vyctorius Miller
23.4 – Parsa Fallah
21.5 – Christian Coleman
20.0 – Jaylen Curry
^ Players who have appeared in at least 50+% of games

On This Date: Dec. 21

OSU teams are 23-12 all-time on this date.
1953 -- Coach Henry Iba's seventh-ranked Aggies spoiled No. 4 Illinois' unbeaten start with a 65-60 overtime win in Champaign. The Illini appeared to have the game won in regulation, sinking two free throws with five seconds remaining to take a 60-58 lead, but Oklahoma A&M went the length of the floor to tie it on Frank Bigham's buzzer beater from the key hole. The Aggies then outscored the hosts 5-0 in the overtime period to come away with the victory.
2006 -- Mario Boggan scored 30 points to key No. 15 OSU to a 95-89 double-overtime win over No. 9 Pittsburgh inside the Ford Center.
2013 -- In a top-25 battle at the MGM GrandMain Event, No. 7 OSU knocked off 20th-ranked Colorado, 78-73. Markel Brown led the way with 23 points and 11 rebounds to go with 18 points from sophomore Marcus Smart.

The Series with Cal State Fullerton:

The teams have split two meetings – both more than half a century ago.
The first took place on Dec. 11, 1968 in Stillwater. Behind Amos Thomas' 23 points and 10 rebounds, Coach Henry Iba's Cowboys rolled to a 91-54 victory.
The sides were much more evenly matched when Fullerton returned to Stillwater four years later (Nov. 29, 1972) to face a young Cowboy team led by Iba's successor, Sam Aubrey. The Titans used an 8-0 run midway through the second half to take the lead for good. Up by a point, they successfully drained the final 40 seconds of game clock to preserve a 56-55 victory. Playing in just his second collegiate game, OSU sophomore Andy Hopson finished with 12 points and 15 rebounds. He'd go on to to finish his Cowboy career with more than 1,000 rebounds.

Scouting the Titans:

Cal State Fullerton is less than three years removed from back-to-back 20-win seasons. The Titans earned a bid to the 2022 NCAA Tournament and came within a victory of another with a runner-up finish in the 2023 Big West tournament.
13^th year head coach Dedrique Taylor is looking to turn the page after sliding to 6-26 (1-19 Big West) last season. His one returning starter -- 6-foot-10 Kendrick De Luna -- is joined by a group of 12 scholarship newcomers.
The Titans rank third nationally in KenPom's adjusted tempo rankings -- an estimate of the tempo (possessions per 40 minutes) a team would have against an opponent that wants to play at an average D-I tempo. Lump in two non-Division I games and the Titans are averaging nearly 80 raw possessions per game.
As a result, all 12 Fullerton games have been high-scoring affairs. The Titans and their opponents have combined to average 174.3 points (fifth highest nationally behind IUIndy (180.9), Kent State (178.2), Cornell (176.9) and Alabama (176.1). For reference, OSU ranks 21^st at 167.4 and the NCAA average this season is 151.4.
The Titans (5-7) have reached the century mark three times already in wins over CalTech (136-82), Bethesda (116-66) and Denver (105-86).
Fullerton's ranks among the top-25 nationally in scoring offense (21^st, 89.7), fastbreak points (8^th, 19.5) and bench points (8^th, 40.3) and also leads the Big West in turnover margin (+3.2) while posting a strong 1.50 A:TO ratio.
On the flip side, only 15 teams have surrendered more points than the Titans (84.7 ppg). They commit 20.3 fouls per game and opponents cash in an average 18.3 free throws.
Three of the team's top five scorers are incoming transfers from the Division II ranks. 6-1 junior Josh Ward is the team's leading scorer (15.2) and rebounder (5.5), joined by 6-8 grad transfer Landon Seaman (14.0 ppg) and sophomore wing Jaden Henderson (9.9 ppg).
6-6 freshman Bryce Cofield (14.1 ppg) tops the assist chart at 2.7 per contest. Per KenPom, he ranks sixth nationally in fouls drawn (8.7 per 40 minutes) and 11^th in usage rate (33.1% of possessions).

Matchup Mashup:

Cal State Fullerton's greatest basketball season to-date happened just shy of 50 years ago. A team nicknamed the "Cal State Who's" emerged from nowhere to reach the 1978 NCAA West Regional title game after knocking off New Mexico and San Francisco. Their run ended with a heartbreaking, 61-58 loss in the Elite Eight to an Arkansas team coached by the late Eddie Sutton.
OSU and Cal State Fullerton don't share much basketball history, but their respective baseball programs have met four times in NCAA regional play and twice in the College World Series (1984 & 1992). Both schools rank among the top-10 all-time in CWS appearances, games and victories.

A Cowboy win would...

Push their record to 11-1.
Give them a leg up (2-1) in the all-time series with Cal State Fullerton.
Make them 8-0 at home this season.
Be their ninth consecutive home win -- the longest streak by a Cowboy team in 11 years.
Make them 22-4 in GIA under Steve Lutz (.846).
Be Lutz's 97^th career victory as a head coach.
Up their all-time GIA record to 879-268 (.766), including 465-60 (.886) in regular season non-conference games.
Be their 17^th straight non-conference regular season home win going back to 2013.
Make them 237-43 all-time in December games played inside GIA (.846).

A Cowboy loss would...

Drop them to 9-2.
Be their first in GIA this season (8-1), snapping an eight-game home winning streak.
Be just their fifth home loss under Lutz (21-5).
Give CSF a 2-1 lead in the all-time series.

Up Next: Bethune Cookman
Monday, Dec. 29 | 7 p.m. CT (ESPN+)

The Cowboys play their final non-conference tuneup and close out the 2025 calendar year against Bethune Cookman.
Kids 12-and-under will receive free admission with purchase of an adult ticket (online only). Visit okstate.com/tickets for details.
The Wildcats (3-8 heading into Monday's game at Arizona) took Auburn to overtime in their season opener. Eight of their 13 non-conference games are on the road, including seven are against KenPom top-60 opponents.
Bethune Cookman is the last of three first-time foes on OSU's 2025-26 schedule. The Cowboys defeated Northwestern and Grand Canyon on neutral courts earlier this season.