Cowboys open Big 12 play Saturday at No. 15 Texas Tech

Saturday, January 3

Lubbock, Texas / United Supermarkets Arena

Noon

Oklahoma State University

Texas Tech

December 31, 2025 | Cowboy Basketball

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rv/rv OKLAHOMA STATE (12-1, 0-0) at 15/16 TEXAS TECH (10-3, 0-0)
Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 | Noon CT
Lubbock, Texas | United Supermarkets Arena

TV: ESPN2 (John Schriffen & Fran Fraschilla)
Radio: Cowboy Radio Network (Dave Hunziker & John Holcomb)
Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Series: OSU leads 50-28 (TTU leads 18-12 in Lubbock)
Last: Feb. 15, 2025 in Stillwater (TTU, 93-55)

Opening Tips:

The Oklahoma State Cowboys open Big 12 Conference play Saturday afternoon in Lubbock against the 15^th-ranked Texas Tech Red Raiders (Noon CT, ESPN2).
The Cowboys (12-1 and receiving votes in both major polls) are looking to build off their best non-conference performance since the 2014-15 season.
Second-year head coach Steve Lutz has made significant upgrades to the offense. His Cowboys rank 15^th nationally in scoring offense at 91.2 points per game -- a 12-point improvement over last year's pre-conference scoring average (78.9).
All 103 OSU points in Monday's win over Bethune-Cookman were scored by newcomers. Anthony Roy led a group of six double-figure scorers, sinking all 15 of his free throw attempts on his way to a season-high 27 points.
Roy (17.3 ppg) is one of five Cowboys averaging a dozen-or-more points for the year.
Sophomore guard Vyctorius Miller (15.9 ppg) is shooting 50% from three-point range (26-of-52).
Senior forward Parsa Fallah (13.0 ppg) is the team's top rebounder (6.2 rpg) and is coming off his second double-double of the season against Bethune-Cookman (12 pts, 10 reb).
Guards Jaylen Curry (5.5 apg, 4.00 A:TO) and Kanye Clary (4.4 apg, 2.41 A:TO) have been the primary table-setters for an attack that ranks fifth nationally in adjusted tempo, per KenPom.
Reserves have clocked a Big 12-best 42.2% of the OSU minutes and are averaging 34.4 points.
The Cowboys also lead the Big 12 and rank 17^thnationally in free throw makes (20.1 per game). They're shooting just over 75% as a team.
While Lutz has breathed new life into the OSU program, he's still in search of his first Big 12 road victory. The Cowboys dropped all 10 last year and have lost 12-in-a-row dating back to the 2023-24 season.
OSU is also looking to snap a nine-game losing streak in Big 12 openers. The Cowboys last won one in 2016 (TCU) and last did so away from Stillwater in 2005 when an Eddie Sutton coached squad conquered Bobby Knight's Red Raiders, 76-66, in Lubbock.
This is the eighth time in 30 Big 12 seasons that OSU has opened against Texas Tech. The Cowboys are 5-2.

Last Time on Cowboy Basketball:
Monday, Dec. 29 (Stillwater) | OSU 103, Bethune-Cookman 77

Anthony Roy sank all 15 free throw attempts on his way to a season-high 27 points to lift OSU to its 10^th straight home win.
After missing parts of three games to injury, Parsa Fallah returned to form with a double-double (12 pts, 10 reb).
The Cowboys scored the last six points before halftime and the first eight coming out of the locker room to build a 20-point advantage and led by as many as 29 down the stretch.
Both sides shot similar percentage (OSU 47.1%, B-C 46.4%), but OSU logged 12 extra field goal attempts and 20 more free throws, helped by lopsided margins in both the rebounding (+7) and turnover columns (+11, 19-8).
OSU outscored Bethune-Cookman 31-2 off takeaways and 52-22 in the paint.
Six Cowboys finished in double-figures with Roy and Fallah joined by Isaiah Coleman (12), Jaylen Curry (11) and Kanye Clary (10).

Roy on a Roll:

Anthony Roy made all 15 of his free throw attempts -- tied for the third most without a miss in OSU history. Only Arlen Clark (NCAA record 24-for-24 against Colorado in 1959) and Keiton Page (Big 12 record 20-for-20 against Texas) have made more.

OSU Single-Game Records // Free Throw Pct.
24-24 -- Arlen Clark vs. Colorado (3/7/1959)
20-20 -- Keiton Page vs. Texas (2/18/2012)
15-15 -- Anthony Roy vs. Bethune-Cookman (12/29/2025)
15-15 -- Byron Eaton vs. Kansas St. (3/3/2009)
14-14 -- Joe Smith vs. Kansas (12/28/1967)

Roy is also the first Cowboy since Marcus Smart to make at least 15 free throws in a game (regardless of percentage). On Jan. 8, 2014, Smart converted 16-of-20 in a win over Texas.
Roy's previous career-high for free throw makes and attempts came last season at Green Bay when he went 13-for-13 in a game against SIUE.
Roy has made 34 consecutive free throw attempts, last missing on Nov. 19 against South Florida. That streak is tied for the seventh longest in OSU history -- just nine shy of the record (43), currently held by Phil Forte (2013) and Joe Smith (1967).

OSU Records // Consecutive Free Throws Made:
43 -- Phil Forte -- 2/13/2013 // 11/28/2013
43 -- Joe Smith -- 12/13/1967 // 12/30/1967
41 -- Phil Forte -- 1/10/2015 // 1/31/2015
40 -- Arlen Clark -- 2/21/1959 // 3/7/1959
39 -- Joey Graham -- 1/3/2005 // 1/30/2015
35 -- Keiton Page -- 2/4/2012 // 2/18/2012
34 -- Anthony Roy -- 11/22/2025 // Current
34 -- Keiton Page -- 12/21/2010 // 2/2/2011
30 -- Arlen Clark -- 12/2/1957 // 12/20/1957
29 -- Keiton Page -- 1/23/2010 // 3/11/2010

On Point:

The Cowboys matched their season-high with 103 points against Bethune-Cookman. It's the first time since 2017-18 that OSU has posted multiple 100-point games in the same season.
The Pokes topped the 90-point mark for the eighth time. That's already tied for the second-highest season total in program history – four shy of the record, set by the 2016-17 team (12).
OSU is 24-0 under Steve Lutz when putting at least 80 points on the scoreboard (12-0 this season).

Also Trending:

The Cowboys secured their 12th win of the season on Monday against Bethune-Cookman. That matches their victory total from the entire 2023-24 season (12-20). Last year's squad improved to 17 wins but didn't notch No. 12 until Feb. 9.
Six Cowboys are averaging at least a steal per game, led by Jaylen Curry (1.6) who is coming off back-to-back four-steal games.
Curry enters the weekend as one of just five Division I players who averaging at least 5.0 assists per game with a better-than 4-to-1 A:TO ratio.

NCAA Leaders // A:TO Ratio (Min. 5.0 APG):
Tamin Lipsey (Iowa St.) -- 8.57 A:TO, 6.0 apg
Jeremy Fears (Michigan St.) -- 4.17 A:TO, 9.3 apg
Dedan Thomas (LSU) -- 4.14 A:TO, 7.0 apg
Jaylen Curry (OK State) -- 4.00 A:TO, 5.5 apg
Preston Ruedinger (Green Bay) -- 4.00 A:TO, 5.1 apg
Thru Dec. 30; Data Source: StatsPass

Christian Coleman has dunked at least once in each of the last nine games. He had a pair in the B-CU game to raise his team-best season total to 18.
The Bethune-Cookman game was the 100th of Parsa Fallah's NCAA career. The former Southern Utah and Oregon State standout needs just 12 more points to reach 1,000.
Fallah hobbled through 10 minutes in the Oklahoma loss before sitting out the next two games with a back injury. The Cowboys were also without Kanye Clary for most of that stretch after the point guard injured himself less than two minutes into the Dec. 18 game against Kansas City.
Both Fallah (12 pts, 10 reb) and Clary (10 pts, 3 ast) returned to the lineup for Monday's non-conference finale, but center Andrija Vukovic became the 10th different Cowboy to miss a game this season due to injury or illness (combined count: 34 games), leaving Christian Coleman as the only player who has appeared in all 13 contests.
In addition to Vukovic, forward Lefteris Manztoukas has missed the past three games and Robert Jennings II (the team's lone returning starter) is out for the year with a hip injury.
In non-conference play, OSU used 11 unique starting lineups involving 11 different players.
OSU has scored just under a quarter of its points from behind the three-point line (24.5%). Per KenPom, that ranks among the bottom-40 nationally. By contrast, Cowboy opponents have scored nearly half (47.0%) of their points off threes, which ranks among the top-30.
That doesn't mean the Cowboys CAN'T make threes. They hit a school-record 12 in the first half of their Dec. 21 win over Cal State Fullerton.
Anthony Roy missed the first three games of the season to a groin injury but has put up double-digit points in all 10 games since his return.
Roy went 0-for-4 from deep in his Cowboy debut but has made multiple treys in each of the nine games since. Over that span, he's 28-of-62 from distance (.452).
OSU is 24-2 under Lutz when leading at halftime, 22-4 when out-shooting its opponent and 22-5 when winning the rebounding battle.
29 Big 12 Conference regulars are averaging better than 20 points per 40 minutes. Four of them are Cowboys: Anthony Roy (3rd, 27.9), Vyctorius Miller (9th, 24.6), Parsa Fallah (16th, 23.6) and Christian Coleman (24th, 21.0).

Cowboys on the Big 12 Leaderboard // Per-40-Minutes:
Thru Dec. 30; Data Source: StatsPass

Field Goals:
Parsa Fallah -- 9.0 (6^th)
Anthony Roy -- 8.5 (9^th)

3-Point FG:
Anthony Roy -- 4.5 (4^th)

FT Made:
Anthony Roy -- 6.3 (7^th)
Vyctorius Miller -- 6.0 (10^th)

FT Attempts:
Parsa Fallah -- 7.7 (6^th)

Assists:
Kanye Clary -- 8.5 (2^nd)
Jaylen Curry -- 8.2 (3^rd)

Points:
Anthony Roy -- 27.9 (3^rd)
Vyctorius Miller -- 24.6 (9^th)
Parsa Fallah -- 23.6 (16^th)
Christian Coleman -- 21.0 (24^th)

P-R-A:
Anthony Roy -- 37.2 (9^th)
Parsa Fallah -- 36.1 (10^th)

On This Date: Jan. 3

OSU teams are 18-5 all-time on this date.
1998 -- OSU won its Big 12 opener at Texas A&M by a score of 100-65. The Cowboys set a school record for highest field goal percentage in a half, sinking 17-of-20 over the final 20 minutes, including 7-of-9 three-pointers and 15-of-17 free throws. Adrian Peterson (25) and Desmond Mason (21) led the scoring for the 11-0 Pokes.
2009 -- Four Cowboys put up 20-or-more points in a 122-73 romp over Northwestern State. James Anderson (27 points), Terrel Harris (23), Obi Muonelo (22) and freshman guard Keiton Page (21) topped the scoring chart for OSU, which averaged a school record 1.53 points per possession while shooting 60% from the field, 15-of-29 from three and 35-of-44 at the foul line.

The Series with Texas Tech:

OSU has won 50 of the 78 meetings in a series that began in 1937 and became an annual affair some six decades later when the two schools helped form the Big 12 Conference (1996-pr.).
Texas Tech's current four game winning streak is its longest ever against OSU.
The schools will meet just once during the 2025-26 regular season, due to the league's unbalanced format. Prior to it, the former Big 12 South division rivals had played a home-and-home in 29 consecutive seasons.
This is the 30th straight year that the Cowboys have played a road game at Texas Tech (their longest running streak). They're 12-18 all-time in Lubbock (10-16 inside United Supermarkets Arena).
OSU is 27-7 against the Red Raiders in Stillwater (23-6 Big 12 Era), however Texas Tech has won its last two visits.
The Cowboys are 6-1 in Big 12 tourney matchups with five straight wins, highlighted by a 72-68 victory in the 2005 championship game.
OSU is 9-8 against AP-ranked Texas Tech teams. Five of those wins have come in the past nine seasons.

Matchup Mashup:

OSU junior forward Robert Jennings II played his first two years for Texas Tech, appearing in 61 games with 14 starts. He started nine of the last 10 games during the 2023-24 season and had six points in the Red Raiders' NCAA tournament matchup with NC State.
OSU associate head coach James Miller worked under Grant McCasland for a year each at Arkansas State (2016-17) and North Texas (2017-18).

Scouting the Red Raiders:

Texas Tech lost four starters off a team that won 28 games before falling to eventual national champion Florida in Elite Eight, but third-year head coach Grant McCasland has built a talented roster around his biggest returning piece – Big 12 Player of the Year J.T. Toppin.
The 6-foot-9 All-American has averaged 21.0 points and 10.6 rebounds for the Red Raiders during their 10-3 start while stacking up seven double-doubles.
Texas Tech enters the weekend ranked 15th in the Associated Press Poll and 16th in the USA Today Coaches Poll. The Red Raiders are also 21st in KenPom's efficiency metric (15th on offense) and No. 19 in the NCAA NET.
Tech is just two weeks removed from a signature win over otherwise unbeaten Duke, and its three losses have all come against teams currently ranked among the AP top-20: Illinois (20), Arkansas (18) and Purdue (5).
In addition to Toppin, point guard Christian Anderson has played at a high level. The 2025 Big 12 All-Freshman pick comes in averaging 20.6 points and ranks among the national leaders in minutes (2nd, 38:00), assists (8th, 7.1), three-pointers (18th, 3.38) and three-point percentage (39th, .436).
6-foot-5 UNCG transfer Donovan Atwell (11.0 ppg) has been another perimeter weapon, averaging 3.08 threes on 32.1% accuracy.
6-foot-6 Washington State transfer LeJuan Watts – the Big 12 preseason newcomer of the year – averages 13.7 points.

A Cowboy win would...

Push their record to 13-1.
Make them 1-0 in conference play for the first time since 2016, snapping a nine-game losing streak in Big 12 openers.
Mark the first time in 21 years that they've won a Big 12 opener outside of Stillwater (Jan. 8, 2005 -- Won 76-66 at Texas Tech).
Be their first Big 12 road win since Feb. 21, 2024, snapping what had been a 12-game conference road losing streak.
Be their first top-25 win of the season (1-0).
Be their first road victory over an AP top-25 opponent since Feb. 11, 2023 at No. 11 Iowa State.
Be Lutz's 99th career victory in parts of five seasons as a head coach and his 30th with OSU (30-19, 99-54).
Snap a four-game series losing streak to Texas Tech and give them a 51-28 lead in the all-time series.
Be their first in Lubbock since the 2022-23 regular season finale and raise their all-time record to 13-18 (11-16 at United Supermarkets Arena).

A Cowboy loss would...

Drop them to 12-2 (0-1) on the season.
Snap a three-game winning streak.
Make them 0-1 in Big 12 play for the 10th straight season.
Be their 13th consecutive Big 12 road loss, dating back to the end of the 2023-24 season.
Be their fifth consecutive series loss to TTU, narrowing their all-time lead to 50-29.

Up Next: UCF
Tuesday, Jan. 6 | 7 p.m. CT (ESPN+)

The Cowboys return to Stillwater for their first home conference action against the UCF Knights.
OSU and UCF split two games last year with each side protecting home court. OSU won a wild, 104-95 game in Stillwater but fell two weeks later in Orlando, 83-70.
The Cowboys were 7-3 last year in Big 12 home games with the only losses coming to teams that finished the year among the top 10 in the NCAA NET.
Despite losing every scholarship player from last year's team, which finished 20-17 and made the finals of the inaugural Crown Basketball Classic, Johnny Dawkins' team is still out to an 11-1 start and carry a KenPom top-50 ranking.
The Knights will ride a 10-game winning streak into this Saturday's Big 12 opener against Kansas. Their lone loss came on the first weekend of the regular season to a Vanderbilt squad that's currently ranked 11th in the AP Poll.
Four Knights are averaging in double-figures, led by Jordan Burks (13.8 ppg), a 6-9 forward who played his first two seasons at Kentucky and Georgetown.
A pair of UW-Milwaukee transfers have played prominent roles this season. Jamichael Stillwell (12.6 ppg, 8.8 rpg) is the top rebounder for a squad that ranks eighth nationally in offensive boards (14.7 per game) while Themus Fulks (13.3 ppg) leads the BIg 12 and ranks fifth on the NCAA assist leaderboard (7.2).