Hoops
Cowboys Up Two Spots in Coaches Poll
The Cowboys are in the Coaches Poll for back-to-back weeks.
The Cowboys make it consecutive weeks in the Coaches Poll.
Oklahoma State ranked 22nd in the Coaches Poll that released Monday, up two spots from last week. It’s one spot ahead of where OSU was listed in this week’s AP Poll.
Here is the full Coaches Poll:
| Rank | School |
|---|---|
| 1 | Gonzaga |
| 2 | Baylor |
| 3 | Michigan |
| 4 | Villanova |
| 5 | Ohio State |
| 6 | Illinois |
| 7 | Houston |
| 8 | Texas Tech |
| 9 | Virginia |
| 10 | Missouri |
| 11 | Alabama |
| 12 | Oklahoma |
| 13 | Texas |
| 14 | West Virginia |
| 15 | Tennessee |
| 16 | Iowa |
| 17 | Virginia Tech |
| 18 | Creighton |
| 19 | Florida State |
| 20 | USC |
| 21 | Wisconsin |
| 22 | Oklahoma State |
| 23 | Loyola-Chicago |
| 24 | UCLA |
| 25 | Purdue |
Five other Big 12 teams join the Cowboys in the poll: No. 2 Baylor, No. 8 Texas Tech, No. 12 Oklahoma, No. 13 Texas and No. 14 West Virginia.
This is the highest the Cowboys have been in the Coaches Poll since they were ranked 19th on Feb. 3, 2014, Marcus Smart’s sophomore season. The Cowboys got as high as No. 6 in the Coaches Poll that season.
OSU has a real shot at getting inside the Top 20 this week if the Pokes can best unranked Kansas and unranked Kansas State. The Cowboys and the Jayhawks tip at 8 p.m. Monday.
