Late Night with Lutz: Cowboys host K-State 9 p.m. Saturday

Saturday, January 17

Stillwater

9:00 PM

Oklahoma State University

Kansas State

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Late Night with Lutz: Cowboys host K-State 9 p.m. Saturday

January 15, 2026 | Cowboy Basketball

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KANSAS STATE (9-8, 0-4) at OKLAHOMA STATE (13-4, 1-3)
Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026 | 9:05 p.m. CT
Stillwater, Okla. | Gallagher-Iba Arena

Tickets: okstate.com/tickets
Watch: CBSSN (Jordan Kent, Mike O'Donnell, Ashley Moss)
Listen: Cowboy Radio Network (Dave Hunziker, John Holcomb, Kendall Mae Start)
Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Series: KSU leads 86-60 (OSU leads 38-28 in Stillwater)
Last: Jan. 29, 2025 in Manhattan (KSU, 85-57)

Coaches:
Steve Lutz (Texas Lutheran '95) – 2^nd Season at OSU (30-22), 5^th Overall (99-57)
Jerome Tang (Charter Oak State '07) – 4^th Season at KSU (70-50), Overall (72-50)

Opening Tips:

The Oklahoma State Cowboys will work the late shift Saturday night against the Kansas State Wildcats with a rare 9 p.m. CT tipoff inside Gallagher-Iba Arena.
OSU is looking to bounce back from a rough defensive showing in Tuesday's 94-79 loss to Baylor. The visiting Bears shot 59% from the field, including 72% during a 57-point first half.
The Baylor loss spoiled OSU's best home start since the 2009-10 season (11-0) and its longest home winning streak (11) since 2014.
Head coach Steve Lutz will again take aim at his 100^th win in just five seasons as head coach.
Tuesday aside, Lutz has helped restore home court advantage in GIA, guiding the Cowboys to a 24-5 mark (.828) in his two seasons in Stillwater (8-4 in Big 12 play).
Three of OSU's first four Big 12 games were against AP top-25 opponents. The Cowboys defeated No. 25 UCF in Stillwater but suffered road setbacks at Texas Tech and Iowa State.
OSU is averaging 88.4 points (19^th nationally) on 48.4% shooting this season. At home, those numbers climb to 92.2 points on 50%.
OSU is averaging 19.4 points per game at the foul line (19^th nationally) and converting 75.3% of its free throw opportunities.
Five Cowboys are averaging at least 10 points per game, led by Anthony Roy (17.6 ppg). The 6-5 guard has scored in double-figures in all 14 games in an OSU uniform and ranks among the NCAA leaders in three-pointers (17^th, 3.43) and three-point percentage (12^th, .457). He's also shooting a Big 12-best 90.6% at the foul line.
In four Big 12 contests, Roy has knocked down a league-best 20 threes on 51.3% accuracy.
Sophomore guard Vyctorius Miller (14.9 ppg) has also been a dangerous perimeter threat this season, sinking 31-of-64 (.484) treys.
Senior forward Parsa Fallah (15.1 ppg) is the team's leading rebounder at 6.5 per game and his .626 field goal percentage charts among the top-20 nationally.
Like Roy, Fallah has found another gear since the start of Big 12 play, averaging 20.8 points on 61.5% shooting through four games.
Point guards Kanye Clary (4.9 apg) and Jaylen Curry (4.6 apg) lead one the nation's most aggressive attacks (seventh in KenPom adjusted tempo). Curry ranks 22^nd nationally in A:TO ratio (3.40) and Clary is 21^st in assists-per-40 (8.3).

On this Date: Jan. 17

1951 -- Two days after earning the first No. 1 ranking in program history, OSU defeated No. 8 Saint Louis, 55-44, in front of a capacity crowd in Gallagher Hall. It was the 16^th straight win for the Pokes, who went on to reach national semifinals.
2004 -- Down 16 to K-State with 13:44 to play in the second half, Eddie Sutton's Cowboys rallied for a 57-56 road win. Tony Allen helped seal it, blocking Jarrett Hart's potential game-winning three with five seconds left. These Pokes would also go on to reach the national semifinals.

Last Time on Cowboy Basketball
Jan. 13 in Stillwater | Baylor 94, OSU 79

Baylor's torrid shooting start helped put a stop to OSU's 11-game home winning streak.
Tounde Yessoufou (game-high 23 points) and Obi Agbim (15) knocked down five threes apiece for the Bears, who became the first opponent ever to win 10 consecutive games in Gallagher-Iba Arena.
Baylor shot 59% from the field, including 13-of-25 from deep, to OSU's 46.3% (10/25 3pt).
The visitors scored on their first nine possessions of the game and 19 of their first 25 to build a 48-25 lead with 4:45 to play in the first half.
The Bears had 57 points at the half (most ever by an OSU opponent in Big 12 play), fueled by a 73.3% field goal percentage and 9-of-14 three-point shooting.
OSU surged early in the second half to make a game of it. Anthony Roy scored 11 points during an 18-5 Cowboy run that trimmed the deficit to 72-61 with just under 12:00 to play.
OSU was within 10 after a Jaylen Curry triple with 8:00 left, but Baylor responded with another 14-5 spurt to put the game out of reach.
Parsa Fallah paced the Pokes with team-highs 18 points and nine rebounds, and Roy added 17 points on five three-pointers.

Trending:

Entering Thursday, the Cowboys were one of 35 DI teams that had not been involved in a one-possession game. All 17 OSU games have been decided by at least five points in either direction.
OSU has played 57 consecutive games without an overtime (Feb. 24, 2024 vs. Oklahoma – 52 of them under Lutz.
Anthony Roy's streak of 13 consecutive games with multiple threes is the tied for the second-longest in OSU history -- four shy of the record.
Roy is just the fifth Cowboy to hit at least four threes in four straight games, joining Keiton Page (2012), John Lucas (2005), Randy Rutherford (1995) and Brooks Thompson (1994).

The Series with Kansas State:

This is game No. 149 in a series that began in 1922. The Wildcats lead 88-60, but OSU has a 25-21 leg up in the Big 12 era (1996-97 to present).
This will be the only regular season meeting between the schools in 2025-26, marking the first time since the 2010-11 season that the sides haven't played a home-and-home.
OSU has a 38-28 advantage on its home floor (35-26 inside GIA) with victories in five of the last six.
OSU is 19-44 all-time in Manhattan (12-17 at Bramlage Coliseum) with four straight setbacks.
OSU is 2-4 against KSU's Jerome Tang (2-1 GIA, 0-3 in Manhattan). Steve Lutz is 1-1 against Tang.

Scouting the Wildcats:

Kansas State lost the top 10 scorers from last year's team, which finished 16-17 (9-11) and tied for ninth in the Big 12 regular season.
Fourth-year head coach Jerome Tang brought in the nation's fourth-best portal class, per 247sports. A group of five transfers includes both the AAC and MAC players of the year in Memphis' P.J. Haggerty and Akron's Nate Johnson. In addition, 6-7 guard Abi Bashir Jr. won the CAA scoring titles (20.1 ppg) and led the nation in three-point field goals per game (3.85) last season at Monmouth.
After going 9-4 in non-conference play (with a Quad 1 win at Creighton), K-State is still in search of its first Big 12 victory. The Wildcats are 0-4 after Wednesday's 82-73 home loss to UCF. Two of their losses have come against NET top-10 opponents (BYU and Arizona).
The Wildcats average 85.6 points per game and rank among the national leaders in assists (11th, 19.0) and fastbreak points (20^th, 16.5). They're second in the Big 12 in three-point field goals (10.1 on 36.7% accuracy).
Opponents are averaging 80.1 points per game (88.3 in Big 12 play).
The 6-foot-4 Haggerty is the nation's sixth-leading scorer at 22.9 points and also averages a team-best 4.6 assists. He's topped 20 points in 12 of his 17 games in a Wildcat uniform.
Bashir (13.1 ppg) has again been one of the nation's best three-point shooters by both quantity (6^th, 3.65) and quality (19^th, .443).
Johnson (11.2 ppg) is averaging team-bests 4.9 rebounds and 2.1 steals.
Sophomore guard David Castillo has been the most-productive of the four K-State returners, averaging 11.8 points off the bench.
A group of four international additions includes Italian big man Dorin Buca (team-best 23 blocks).

Matchup Mashup:

OSU sophomore Andrija Vukovic and KSU freshman Andrej Kostic are both products of Serbian club powerhouse Crvena Zvezda's (Red Star) youth system.
OSU has crossed paths with K-State guard P.J. Haggerty once before -- in a December 2023 win over Tulsa at the Paycom Center. Haggerty finished with a game-high 14 points and four steals for the Golden Hurricane.

A Cowboy Win Would...

Be Steve Lutz's 100^th in less than five full seasons as a collegiate head coach (100-57).
Push Lutz's GIA record to 25-5 (.833), including 9-4 in Big 12 play.
Make them 12-1 at home this season (2-1 Big 12).
Make them 14-4 overall -- one victory shy of their 2024-25 regular season win total (15-16).
Give them wins in three of the last four with K-State and narrow their series deficit to 88-61.
Be their third straight against the Cats in Stillwater and their sixth in seven tries.

A Cowboy Loss Would...

Be their third straight, matching their longest skid under Lutz.
Deny Lutz his 100^th career victory.
Make them 11-2 at home this season.
Give them consecutive home losses for the first time in the Lutz era.
Be K-State's first Stillwater win since 2023.
Give the Wildcats an 89-60 lead in the all-time series (29-38 in Stillwater).

Up Next: at TCU
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 7 p.m. CT (ESPN+)

The Cowboys travel to Fort Worth on Tuesday night for a date with the TCU Horned Frogs.
TCU (11-6, 1-3 heading into Saturday's game at Utah) has the nation's 22^nd most efficient defense, according to KenPom.
OSU is looking avenge last February's buzzer-beater loss to the Horned Frogs at Schollmaier Arena and put an end to a seven-game losing streak in Fort Worth.