Cowboys host No. 9 Iowa State in annual Remember the Ten game

Saturday, January 24

Stillwater

3:00 PM

Oklahoma State University

Iowa State

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Cowboys host No. 9 Iowa State in annual Remember the Ten game

January 22, 2026 | Cowboy Basketball

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9/9 IOWA STATE (17-2, 4-2) at OKLAHOMA STATE (14-5, 2-4)
Saturday, Jan. 24 | 3:02 p.m. CT
Stillwater, Okla. | Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611)

Tickets: okstate.com/tickets
Watch: Peacock w/ simulcast on NBCSN (John Fanta & Tom Crean)
Listen: Cowboy Radio Network (Dave Hunziker & John Holcomb)
Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Series: OSU leads 73-60 (42-19 in Stillwater)
Last: Jan. 10, 2026 in Ames (ISU, 83-71)

Remembering the Ten:
Oklahoma State continues its promise to forever Remember the Ten with an annual celebration of the 10 men who lost their lives on Jan. 27, 2001 in a plane crash near Strasburg, Colorado.

•Kendall Durfey, Television/Radio Engineer
•Bjorn Fahlstrom, Corporate Aviation Pilot
•Nate Fleming, Scholar/Athlete
•Will Hancock, Media Relations Coordinator
•Daniel Lawson, Scholar/Athlete
•Brian Luinstra, Athletic Trainer
•Denver Mills, CPA by Profession, Pilot by Passion
•Pat Noyes, Director of Basketball Operations
•Bill Teegins, Radio Play-by-Play Announcer
•Jared Weiberg, Student Assistant

Learn more about the lives and legacy of The Ten at: okstate.com/RT10.

Opening Tips:

For the second time in 15 days, the Oklahoma State Cowboys battle nationally-ranked Iowa State – this time inside the friendly confines of Gallagher-Iba Arena.
OSU is 17-7 all-time in its annual Remember the Ten game with wins in five straight and eight of the last nine.
The Pokes are looking to shake off a tough, 68-65 road loss at TCU on Tuesday night. They led by seven points with 4:13 remaining, but the host Horned Frogs finished the game on a 10-0 run, scoring the game-winning basket with less than 10 seconds remaining.
ISU took the Jan. 10 meeting in Ames by an 83-71 count. Parsa Fallah (21 points, 11 rebounds) posted a double-double and Anthony Roy added 19 points on five three-pointers for the Cowboys, who were without sophomore guard Vyctorius Miller. OSU led by as many as nine points in the first half before ISU's Joshua Jefferson (19 points) and Milan Momcilovic (18) went to work.
OSU has won its last two home games against AP top-25 opponents, defeating No. 25 UCF earlier this month and No. 9 Iowa State on Feb. 25 of last year. The Cowboys are 79-85 all-time against top-25 foes on Eddie Sutton Court, including 35-43 against top-10 teams.
Second-year head coach Steve Lutz has helped reestablish home court advantage, guiding the Cowboys to a 25-5 record (12-1 this season) in Stillwater. They're averaging 91.5 points on 49.2% shooting in GIA this season and have scored at least 79 points in all 13 contests.
OSU is home for the first time since Saturday's late-night thriller against Kansas State when Miller converted three free throws with 2.8 seconds left to give the Pokes an 84-83 victory.
OSU ranks among the top-25 nationally in scoring offense (86.9 ppg), helped by 18.7 free throw makes per game.
The Cowboys are 14-0 when they score at least 81 points (0-5 otherwise).
Five Cowboys are averaging double-figure scoring, led by senior guard Anthony Roy (17.6 ppg). The 6-5 guard has tallied at least 10 points in all 16 games in an OSU uniform. He's reached the 20-point mark 18 times in 51 career games at the Division I level (five of them this season).
Roy ranks among the NCAA three-point leaders by both volume (15^th, 3.38) and percentage (13^th, .450) and is shooting a Big 12-best 90.3% at the foul line. In six Big 12 contests, Roy has knocked down a league-best 26 threes on 47.9% accuracy.
Miller (13.9 ppg) has also been a dangerous perimeter threat this season, sinking 33-of-73 (.452) treys.
Point guards Kanye Clary (5.0 apg) and Jaylen Curry (4.3 apg) lead one the nation's most aggressive attacks (12^th in KenPom adjusted tempo). Curry ranks 26^th nationally in A:TO ratio (3.32) and Clary is 21^st in assists-per-40 (8.2).

On This Date: Jan. 24

1990 -- OSU rallied from 16 down in the final 11 minutes, capped by John Potter's three-pointer at the buzzer, to steal a 71-68 road win over Colorado.
1998 -- With a 94-68 blow out of visiting Texas A&M, Eddie Sutton became just the seventh head coach to reach 600 career victories, joining Denny Crum, Bob Knight, Adolph Rupp, Dean Smith, Jerry Tarkanian and John Wooden.
2004 -- OSU knocked off No. 16 Texas on the road, 72-67, behind Joey Graham's 21 points and 10 rebounds. "I don't know what it is about big-time games," Graham told reporters afterward. "I guess it's just the competition brings out the best in me and our team." His words proved prophetic. The 2003-04 Cowboys finished 9-1 against AP top-25 opponents with the only loss coming against Georgia Tech in the Final Four.

Last Time on Cowboy Basketball:
Jan. 20 in Fort Worth | TCU 68, OSU 65

TCU finished on a 10-0 run to hand Oklahoma State its eighth straight loss at Schollmaier Arena, 68-65.
The Horned Frogs have scored a go-ahead basket within the final 10 seconds in four of those contests.
David Punch was the latest Horned Frog hero, finishing with a game-high 22 points, including a layup with 9.3 seconds left that snapped a 65-all tie.
Punch and Xavier Edmonds each posted double-doubles, combining for 40 points and 20 rebounds, and Brock Harding had nine assists.
Down 67-65, OSU missed two chances in the final seconds. Vyctorius Miller's three was off the mark, and Isaiah Coleman's tip-in try hung on the front of the rim before rolling off.
TCU added a free throw for the final margin.
Coleman paced the Cowboys with 14 points and six rebounds, and Kanye Clary dished out six assists.
OSU led 65-58 on Andrija Vukovic's layup with 4:13 left but went scoreless the rest of the way, missing each of its last seven shots.

TCU Leftovers:

Prior to last Saturday, OSU had not been involved in a one-score game this season. It's now happened in back-to-back games with an 84-83 win over K-State immediately followed by Tuesday's 68-65 loss to TCU.
The Cowboys tallied a season-high 13 steals. It was their sixth game this season with double-digit steals but the first in Big 12 play.
Isaiah Coleman became the seventh different Cowboy to take a turn as leading scorer this season.
Anthony Roy's streak of 15 consecutive games with multiple three-point field goals is the second-longest in OSU history -- just two shy of the record held by Obi Muonelo in 2008-09.
Andrija Vukovic followed up his career-high 11-point performance against K-State with another seven points in 18 minutes at TCU. Prior to this two-game stretch, the sophomore big man had scored a combined 17 career points in Big 12 play.
Kanye Clary posted his fifth consecutive double-figure scoring game. Over that stretch he's averaging 13.0 points and 6.0 assists.
OSU lost for the first time this season when leading at halftime. The Pokes were 11-0 previously (26-2 overall under Lutz).
OSU has dropped 14 straight Big 12 road games doing back to the end of the 2023-24 season.
The Cowboys scored a season-low 65 points and made just five of their season-low 10 free throw attempts. They had entered the day ranked among the top-25 nationally in all three categories (88.2/19.4/25.6).

OSU vs. Nationally-Ranked Opponents:

The Cowboys will play three of their next four games against nationally-ranked teams, beginning with No. 9 Iowa State. Following next Saturday's visit to Utah, the Pokes will host No. 13 BYU (Feb. 4) and then travel to No. 1 Arizona (Feb. 7).
OSU is 1-2 against AP top-25 opponents this season (1-0 in GIA, 0-2 on the road).
With their Jan. 6 home win over No. 25 UCF, the Cowboys have now beaten at least one AP top-25 foe in each of the last 28 seasons. The UCF victory was their 141^st all-time and 79^th at home.
An 11-point win marked OSU's largest margin of victory over a top-25 opponent since a 64-51 win over No. 14 Texas on Jan. 8, 2022.

Scouting the Cyclones:

Fifth-year head coach T.J. Otzelberger has taken Iowa State to four straight NCAA tournaments, but this may be his best team yet.
The Cyclones (17-2, 4-2) climbed as high as No. 2 in the AP Poll during a school-record 16-0 start. They're currently ninth in both major polls while carrying the nation's sixth-highest NET ranking.
Per KenPom, ISU has the nation's 12th-most efficient offense and seventh-best defense.
The Cyclones have outscored opponents by an average of 21.1 points, and 15 of their 17 victories have come by double-digits.
ISU is averaging 85.7 points on 50.6% shooting and ranks among the national leaders in scoring defense (14th, 64.6), scoring margin (6th, +21.1), three-point percentage (6th, 40.1%), assists (18th, 18.1), assist-to-turnover ratio (14th, 1.76), turnover margin (5th, +6.1), turnovers forced (9th, 16.3) and steals (18th, 9.5).
Two-time All-Big 12 selection Tamin Lipsey (13.2 ppg, 5.4 apg) is the table-setter and an elite perimeter defender. He ranks second nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (5.73) and has tallied more than twice as many steals (39) as turnovers (15) through his first 16 games.
6-8 junior Milan Momcilovic (18.2 ppg) has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of Lipsey's work, knocking 75 threes while shooting a nation-best 54.0% from beyond the arc.
Joshua Jefferson -- a second team All-Big 12 pick last year -- is team's leading scorer (17.3 ppg) and rebounder (7.9 rpg). He's also averaging 5.3 assists and ranks second on KenPom's national player of the year board.
ISU is one of just four teams that rank among KenPom's top-25 in both roster experience (2.5 years) and minutes continuity (returners have clocked 50.0% of the minutes). The 17-2 Cyclones are joined on that list by Purdue (17-2), UConn (18-1) and Liberty (16-3).

The Series with Iowa State:

OSU and Iowa State have played 142 times over 99 years, first meeting on Jan. 8, 1927.
OSU has won eight of the last 11 encounters to take a 73-69 series lead.
Home teams have dominated, with the Cowboys posting a 42-19 record in Stillwater (40-16 in GIA) and an 18-43 mark in Ames (15-31 inside Hilton Coliseum).

Last Meeting with ISU:
Jan. 10, 2026 in Ames | No. 3 ISU 83, OSU 71

OSU became the latest victim in third-ranked ISU's school-record start.
Joshua Jefferson (19 pts) led a group of five double-figure scorers for the 16-0 Cyclones.
Parsa Fallah finished with 21 points and 11 rebounds and Anthony Roy added 19 points on five three-pointers for the Cowboys, who led by as many as nine midway through the first half.
ISU's Milan Momcilovic scored 16 of his 18 points in the opening period, seven of them during a 14-4 run that erased OSU's early advantage.
The Cyclones led 42-40 at halftime and took control with another 9-0 spurt early in the second half.
OSU had the ball down six points near the 5:00-mark but missed a layup. Tamin Lipsey drilled a three on the opposite end, and the hosts maintained control the rest of the way.
The Cowboys kept it close, despite playing without second-leading scorer, Vyctorius Miller, who missed the contest due to injury.

Last Meeting with ISU in Stillwater:
Feb. 25, 2025 | OSU 74, No. 9 ISU 68

OSU turned up the defensive pressure to secure its first top-25 win of the season and first over a top-10 opponent in more than two years.
In a battle between the Big 12's top-two turnover producers, the Cowboys did most of the bullying, outscoring the Cyclones 24-10 off turnovers and 22-9 on fast break opportunities. They forced 18 and committed just 12.
Abou Ousmane scored a game-high 25 points on 3-of-5 three-point shooting and made all eight free throw attempts.
Arturo Dean (14 points) tied Byron Eaton's OSU record for steals in a Big 12 game (7).
OSU, which averages just under nine steals per game, finished with 13 against the Cyclones, while ISU -- the Big 12 leader at 9.3 per contest -- managed just five.
The Cowboys forced seven turnovers in the first six minutes to build a 12-4 lead then finished the first half on another 12-2 run to go into the break with a 40-26 advantage.
ISU rallied to within five with 15:47 to play and made it a four-point game with 2:04 left, but the Pokes answered each run with timely baskets.

A Cowboy win would...

Be their 15th of the season, matching their 2024-25 regular season victory total (15-16) with 11 games still to play.
Make them 2-2 this season against AP top-25 opponents.
Be their first AP top-10 win since upsetting No. 9 ISU on Feb. 25, 2025.
Make them 36-43 all-time against AP top-10 teams on Eddie Sutton Court.
Push their home record to 13-1 (3-1 Big 12).
Make them 26-5 in GIA under Steve Lutz (10-4 in Big 12 play).
Be career win No. 101 for Lutz in less than five full seasons as a collegiate head coach at OSU (31-21), Western Kentucky (22-12) and A&M-Corpus Christi (47-23).
Make Lutz 2-1 against ISU.
Be their ninth in the last 12 meetings with the Cyclones and boost their all-time series lead to 74-69 (43-19 in Stillwater).
Make them 4-1 against nationally-ranked ISU teams over the last four seasons.

A Cowboy loss would...

Drop them to 14-6 (2-5 Big 12).
Make them 1-3 this season against AP top-25 opponents (1-1 at home).
Be just their second home loss of the season (12-2).
Give ISU a two-game series sweep -- its first over OSU since the 2018-19 season.
Narrow their all-time series lead against ISU to 73-70.

Up Next: at Utah
Saturday, Jan. 31 | 5 p.m. CT | ESPN2

The Cowboys will take their bye next week before returning to action Saturday at Utah.
The Utes (9-10, 1-5) will also have a midweek bye following this weekend's visit to No. 13 BYU.
OSU and Utah split last year's series with each side defending its home court.
Lutz will go head-to-head with one his former Western Kentucky guards. Don McHenry is averaging 18.1 points in his first season with the Utes. The pair helped lead WKU to its first CUSA tournament title in 2024.