Daily Bullets (Mar. 20): Pokes Move to Next Round, Wrapping Up Wrestling

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Scores

Men’s Basketball: Pokes 71, EMU 60
Softball: Cowgirls 9, UCF 4
Baseball: Texas Tech, 12, Cowboys 1
Women’s Tennis: Cowgirls 5, Texas Tech 2

OSU Bullets

• The Cowboys move on to the NIT Quarterfinals after an eleven-point win over the Big Sky regular season champions. The Big Dance may have been a short ride for the Pokes but they’re landing lots of punches in the consolation tournament:

Since the end of the regular season, the Cowboys were 12-for-60 from 3 entering Sunday — of which (Brice) Thompson has gone 1-for-5. But Sunday (Thompson) took 11 3s, hitting six and sparking a hot shooting night for the Cowboys.

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• ICYMI – Cowboy Wrestling finished up with two All-Americans but finished the lowest they ever have in the final standings (PFB)

• Tipoff time and TV details were released on the Cowboys’ matchup against the North Texas Mean Green (247 Sports)

• Daton Fix’s dad talks about the possibility of him coming back for his last year of eligibility (O’Colly)

• Last home game of the season for Pokes:

Non-OSU Bullets

• How to make friends as an adult
• I’m into these one-minute concepts

Terrific paragraph here on the development of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander:

There is a new air of calm dominion atop Gilgeous-Alexander’s slithery, herky-jerky guile. He doesn’t have to contort to the rim on every crunch-time possession (though he could). Gilgeous-Alexander has turned his midrange jumper into an artful, inexorable weapon — lending him fierce control over the game.

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