Daily Bullets (Feb. 14): What Cowboy Basketball Needs to Add, Pokes Face Challenging Nonconference

Thanks for stopping by – here’s your daily dose of Oklahoma State sports news.

OSU Bullets

• Looking ahead to the Big 12’s top nonconference games of the fall – Cowboys make a couple of appearances (PFB)

• Cowgirl Softball is inside the top ten of every major poll (PFB)

• This article looked at what college basketball teams need next year – here’s the assessment for the Cowboys: 

Priority: More backcourt juice | Jarius Hicklen and John-Michael Wright will graduate, and Oklahoma State has numerous other backcourt pieces that have interesting decisions on the docket. play is everything in the Big 12, and Oklahoma State needs more difference-makers. [247 Sports]

• Jimmy Johnson’s lessons still linger with the Pokes (Sellout Crowd)

Two college sports articles – former Pac-12 teams likely to play in old Pac-12 bowl games for the next two years + what does the future of the NCAA Tournament and CFP look like? (Action Network + Yahoo Sports) 

• OSU’s ten wrestlers average 9.8th place – can see how they’re the No. 2 team in the country (PFB): 

#OkState wrestlers' updated individual rankings, per @InterMat:

125 Troy Spratley: 10
133 Daton Fix: 3
141 Tagen Jamison: 8
149 Jordan Williams: 15
157 Teague Travis: 11
165 Izzak Olejnik: 3
174 Brayden Thompson: 20
184 Dustin Plott: 2
197 Luke Surber: 17
HVWT Konner Doucet: 9

— Daniel Allen (@danielallen1738) February 13, 2024

Non-OSU Bullets

• The ten bestselling vehicles in the US in 2023

• Not a bad newsletter – pretty funny