Daily Bullets (Feb. 26): Pokes Upset a Top Ten Team

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Scores

Men’s Basketball: OSU 74, Iowa State 68 

OSU Bullets

• The Cowboys pull a top-ten upset at Gallagher-Iba – the Cowboys knocked off the No. Iowa State Cyclones 74 to 68 (PFB)

Stillwater Stunner 🤠#Big12MBB | @OSUMBB pic.twitter.com/KT4LynrsAs

— Big 12 Conference (@Big12Conference) February 26, 2025

• The Oklahoman’s columnist Joe Mussatto predicts the Cowboy Football season game-by-game (NewsOK)

• A concept being considered is play-in games to the College Football Playoff – a net win for the perpetually near-the-top finishing Cowboys: 

The Cowboys have proved equally great at finishing close to conference title contention. Oklahoma State has placed fourth or higher in the Big 12 standings seven times since 2014.

[TulsaWorld]

• There’s a crystal ball prediction in that the Pokes would land this Oregon offensive tackle (247 Sports)

On3’s @PeteNakos_ has logged an expert prediction for Oklahoma State to land Oregon transfer OT George Silva🤠https://t.co/G0EYMbeg4P pic.twitter.com/2Zmwnsyxyv

— Transfer Portal (@TransferPortal_) February 25, 2025

Non-OSU Bullets

• The man spending $1,000 per day to catch big bass

• How national parks affect the economy

Loved this thought about blogs and their place in the internet: 

Boutique sites like Talk Nats, by contrast, offer something closer to the original vision for the internet, which was more focused on connection and discovery; a place where a baseball fan from Canada could spend an afternoon delighting with a few dozen of his likeminded brethren about a lazy afternoon baseball game in Florida.

This is the internet as a source of joy. And it’s the opposite of the giddy paranoia or coldly-optimized numbness delivered on massive platforms like X or TikTok.

[Cal Newport]