Cowboy Basketball set for final pre-Big 12 tuneup

Monday, December 29

Stillwater

7:00 PM

Oklahoma State University

Bethune Cookman

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Image Taken at Cowboy Basketball v Cal State Fullerton, Sunday, December 21, 2025, Gallagher Iba Arena, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Landry Bledsoe/OSU Athletics.

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BETHUNE-COOKMAN (3-9) at rv/rv OKLAHOMA STATE (11-1)
Monday, Dec. 29, 2025 | 7:01 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: First Meeting

Coaches:
Steve Lutz (Texas Lutheran '95) -- 2nd Season at OSU (28-19); 5th Overall (97-54)
Reggie Theus (UNLV '02) -- 5th Season at BC-U (58-83), 12th Overall (152-211)

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Opening Tips:

After eight days off, the Oklahoma State Cowboys return to the court Monday night for one last non-conference tuneup against the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats.
OSU is 9-0 this season inside Gallagher-Iba Arena including 22-4 in the Steve Lutz Era.
A victory over B-CU would give the Cowboys their first double-digit home winning streak since a 12-game string that spanned parts of the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons.
OSU is 31-0 all-time against members of the SWAC, however this is the Cowboys' first ever meeting with B-CU. The Wildcats, led by former NBA All-Star and Sacramento Kings head coach Reggie Theus, are preseason favorites to win the conference after finishing third last year. They've faced the nation's second-toughest schedule per NCAA NET.
Nine Cowboys have missed a combined total of 32 games this year due to injury or illness, including the team's lone returning rotation piece, senior forward Robert Jennings, who recently announced that he will pursue a medical redshirt due to a lingering hip injury.
In its last action prior to the holiday break, OSU played without three of its regular starters (Parsa Fallah, Lefteris Mantzoukas and Kanye Clary) but still came away with a 94-89 win over Cal State Fullerton.
Anthony Roy scored a game-high 22 points and hit six of OSU's school-record 12 first-half threes. Christian Coleman and Vyctorius Miller also tacked on 20-each.
With a Monday win, the Cowboys would match their entire 2023-24 victory total (12-20). It would also put them a full six weeks ahead of the 2024-25 squad, which took until Feb. 9 to notch win No. 12.
Five Cowboys are averaging better than 12 points per game this season, led by Roy (16.2 ppg). The Green Bay transfer has scored in double-figures in all nine of his games and is averaging 2.9 threes on 43% accuracy.
Miller (15.7 ppg) has also been lethal three-point threat, averaging 2.2 treys on 49% accuracy.
Fallah (13.1 ppg) is the team's leading rebounder (5.8) and ranks sixth nationally in field goal percentage (.667).
Junior point guard Jaylen Curry (12.5 ppg) is averaging a team-high 5.5 assists and his 3.93 A:TO ratio ranks among the top-20 nationally.
OSU jumps into Big 12 play Saturday, Jan. 3 at No. 15 Texas Tech.

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Last Time on Cowboy Basketball:
Dec. 21 (Stillwater) | OSU 94, Cal St. Fullerton 89

The trio of Anthony Roy, Vyctorius Miller and Christian Coleman all topped 20 points and combined for 12 of Oklahoma State's 14 three-pointers in a wire-to-wire win over Cal State Fullerton that was anything but comfortable.
Roy hit six of the Cowboys' school record 12 first-half threes. They led 50-34 at the intermission, only for Fullerton to fight all the way back to within a point near the 4:00-mark.
Down 92-89 with 5 seconds remaining, the Titans missed two free throws but secured the rebound, setting a potential game-tying shot. Instead, they were whistled for a technical foul after calling a timeout that they did not have. Roy nailed two free throws for the final margin.
Both teams shot exactly 50.8% from the field. The Cowboys made a 14-of-31 (.467) threes to Fullerton's 12-of-26 (.462).

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They Love the 90s:

The Pokes hit the 90-point mark for the seventh time this season in their 94-89 win over Cal St. Fullerton. That's already tied for the sixth-highest season total in program history – five shy of the record, set by the 2016-17 team (12).

OSU Single-Season // Most Games w/ 90+ Points:
12 -- 2016-17
8 -- 2013-14, 2008-09, 1989-90, 1988-89
7 -- 2025-26, 2006-07

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Also Trending:

OSU is 23-0 under Steve Lutz when putting at least 80 points on the scoreboard.
OSU is 23-2 under Lutz when leading at halftime, 21-4 when out-shooting its opponent and 21-5 when winning the rebounding battle.
The Cowboys' 14 threes were a new season-high. Prior to it, they had made double-digit threes just once all season (11-of-22 vs. USF).
OSU made 12 first-half threes on 24 attempts to break a 20-year old record for threes in a half. The Cowboys hit 11-of-15 after halftime in a Mar. 7, 2005 victory at Nebraska.
Christian Coleman has delivered back-to-back 20-point games. He's scored at least 16 points in each of his last four contests.
Coleman has dunked at least once in each of the last eight games. He has a team-high 16 dunks this season.
The Cowboys played without guard Kanye Clary and forwards Parsa Fallah and Lefteris Mantzoukas against Cal State Fullerton. That trio has combined to make 25 starts this season.
Fallah's next game will be the 100^th of his NCAA career. The former Southern Utah and Oregon State standout is just 24 points shy of 1,000.
OSU has used 10 different starting lineups this season featuring 11 different Cowboys.
Anthony Roy missed the first three games to a groin injury but has scored in double-figures in all nine 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 eight games since. Over that span, he's 26-of-56 from distance (.464).
Roy has converted 19 straight free throws attempts, last missing Nov. 19 against USF.
On a per-40-minute basis, Kanye Clary (8.8) and Jaylen Curry (8.4) rank second and third respectively among Big 12 regulars.
OSU has had six different minutes leaders this season. Those six Cowboys have done it twice each. A reserve has played the most minutes in three of the 12 contests.

OSU Individual Minutes Leaders, By Game Count:
Kanye Clary – 2x, Last: Dec. 2 vs. SHSU (21:48)
Christian Coleman – 2x, Last: Dec. 21 vs. CSF (37:11)
Isaiah Coleman – 2x, Last: Nov. 16 vs. TAMU-CC (27:40)
Jaylen Curry – 2x, Last: Nov. 26 vs. NW (30:22)
Parsa Fallah – 2x, Last: Dec. 6 vs. GCU (31:43)
Vyctorius Miller, 2x, Last: Dec. 13 vs. OU (34:59)

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Home Cookin':

OSU's nine-game home winning streak is its longest since 2014.
A win over Bethune-Cookman would give OSU its first double-digit home winning streak in nearly a dozen years. Marcus Smart helped the Cowboys to 12 straight home victories between March 2, 2013 and Jan. 25, 2014.
There have been a total of 24 double-digit home winning streaks in OSU history.
This season the Cowboys have outscored visiting teams by an average of 15.6 points and outrebounded them by 8.8 per contest. They've scored at least 85 points in all nine home games and are averaging 93.0 points on 50.9% shooting.

OSU Home Winning Streaks:
Last Time – Final Count – First Win – Last Win
9+ Games ^ -- 9 -- Nov. 4, 2025 to Present
10+ Games – 12 -- Mar. 2, 2013 to Jan. 25, 2014
13+ Games – 13 -- Feb. 13, 2010 to Jan. 19, 2011
14+ Games – 16 -- Feb. 4, 2009 to Jan. 27, 2010
17+ Games – 17 -- Feb. 19, 2006 to Feb. 10, 2007
18+ Games – 29 -- Mar. 8, 2003 to Mar. 2, 2005
30+ Games – 31 -- Feb. 19, 1943 to Feb. 2, 1992
32+ Games -- 46* -- Jan. 9, 1936 to Dec. 11, 1940
^ = First time since Feb. 22 to Dec. 16, 2014
* = OSU Record

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On This Date: Dec. 29

OSU teams are 33-14 all-time on this date.
1944 -- Coach Henry Iba's Oklahoma A&M Aggies defeated Arkansas, 43-34, to win the All-College tournament in Oklahoma City. 7-footer Bob Kurland received MVP honors. It was the first of four meetings between the schools during the 1944-45 season, capped by a national semifinal matchup in Kansas City. The Aggies won that one, too -- 68-41 -- on their way to their first NCAA title.

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The Series with Bethune-Cookman:

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.
This is OSU's second opponent this season out of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The Cowboys defeated Prairie View A&M, 94-67, back on Nov. 12.
Since 1977-78 (when the SWAC first became an NCAA Division I men's basketball conference), OSU is a combined 30-0 against teams from that league (28-0 in Stillwater). Each of the last 21 victories have been decided by double-figures.

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Scouting the Wildcats:

Bethune-Cookman is a private HBCU located in Dayton Beach, Fla. with an enrollment of around 3,100 students.
The Wildcats joined the SWAC in 2021 after a 40-year run in the MEAC.
The program is in its fifth season under Reggie Theus, a former NBA All-Star and Sacramento Kings head coach.
In his first four seasons under Theus, the Wildcats finished 10th, 7th, 5th and then 3rd. They're preseason favorites to win the 2026 SWAC title.
6-8 senior center Daniel Rouzan (9.8 ppg, 4.2 rpg) was a second team all-conference performer last season for B-CU.
Theus' squad has also benefited from the return of Jakobi Heady, a 2024 second team All-SWAC selection who spent last season at Central Michigan. The 6-6 senior is now averaging a team-best 15.9 points along with 4.8 rebounds.
Even better, he brought along his younger brother. Quentin Heady, a 6-6 junior wing, has started all 12 games and is averaging 10.3 points.
B-CU's most intriguing offseason addition is 6-4 guard Arterio Morris, a former five-star recruit who started his career at Texas. Morris is putting up 12.3 points and 4.5 rebounds and leads the team in both assists (3.2 apg) and steals (2.1 spg).
The Wildcats (3-9) took Auburn to overtime in their season opener.
Per NCAA NET, B-CU has played the nation's second toughest schedule (trailing only Alabama). Eight of the team's 13 non-conference games are on the road, including seven are against KenPom top-65 opponents.

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A Cowboy win would...

Give them a 12-1 record heading into Big 12 play.
Mark the first time since the 2013-14 season that they've entered conference play with at least a dozen victories (12-1).
Improve their home record to 10-0.
Be the 25th double-digit home winning streak in program history and the first since a 12-game streak that spanned the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons.
Be their 18^th straight non-conference regular season home win going back to 2023.
Make them 23-4 in GIA under Steve Lutz (.852), including 15-0 in non-conference regular season games.
Give them a 1-0 lead in the all-time series with Bethune-Cookman.
Make them 31-0 all-time against SWAC schools (29-0 in Stillwater).
Be Lutz's 98^th career victory as a head coach.
Up their all-time GIA record to 880-268 (.767), including 466-60 (.886) in regular season non-conference games.
Close out a 5-1 month, which would be the highest December winning percentage by an OSU team since -- you guessed it -- the 2013-14 season (also 5-1).

A Cowboy loss would...

Drop them to 11-2.
Be their first in GIA this season (9-1), snapping a nine-game home winning streak.
Be just their fifth home loss under Lutz (22-5).
Give B-CU a 1-0 lead in the all-time series.
Be their first ever to a SWAC opponent (30-1).

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Up Next: at Texas Tech
Saturday, Jan. 3 | Noon CT (ESPN2)

The Cowboys begin Big 12 Conference play Saturday in Lubbock against the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
OSU has dropped nine consecutive Big 12 openers, last winning Jan. 2, 2016 against TCU.
The only losses for Texas Tech (9-3 heading into Sunday's non-conference finale against Winthrop) have come against teams that currently rank among the top-30 in the NET (Illinois, Purdue and Arkansas). On Dec. 20, they picked up a signature win over No. 3 Duke at Madison Square Garden.
Texas Tech is led by reigning Big 12 Player of the Year JT Toppin (21.6 ppg, 10.5 rpg heading into Sunday) and a talented supporting cast that includes sharp-shooters Christian Anderson (19.9 ppg, 3.7 3pt FGM on 43.5% accuracy) and Donovan Atwell (3.0 3pt FGM on 41.9%).
The Cowboys have lost four straight to Texas Tech, last winning in the 2022-23 regular season finale in Lubbock. However, they still lead the all-time series 50-28.
Bethune-Cookman is likely the last Quadrant 4 game on OSU's schedule. All but two of the Cowboys' 18 conference games currently fall in either Q1 or Q2 territory.