Daily Bullets (Mar. 27): Most Viewed of the Week, Knowles Aiming High

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Scores

Softball: Kansas 7, Cowgirls 4
Baseball: Cowboys 14, K-State 5
Equestrian: Cowgirls 12, Baylor 8

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Three Thoughts

• Jim Knowles had an incredible defense last year – this year he’s setting the goal even higher.

“We finished No. 1 in the country last year on third downs and defensive touchdowns,” Knowles said to media on Sunday. “We had some great rankings, but we have an overall chance to be a top-10 defense.”

[Tulsa World]

• Cade Cunningham was named a Wooden Award finalist – just another reassurance that he’s one of the top-five players in the country

• Matthew Wolff and Viktor Hovland are down the board with 40-1 odds to win the Masters, Rickie Fowler with 66-1 – the Pokes aren’t quite contenders to win in Augusta but the two young guns join Rickie as Cowboys in the conversation which is fun to have

Two Quotes

• Nick Saban on how college football has changed is pretty wild – wouldn’t have been said ten years ago (five years ago?). OSU was certainly on the cutting edge of this strategy/trend:

share with a coach that needs to hear it pic.twitter.com/J5YeSOqd5v

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) March 26, 2021

• I like this take breaking out the Big 12 jobs:

I like the tiers:

1) Kansas
2-4) Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas
5-7) West Virginia, Iowa State, Kansas State
8-10) Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU

WVU should probably be higher, curious how they do once Huggins retires in Big 12 landscape. Beard & Drew elevated lackluster programs.

— Carson Cunningham (@KOCOCarson) March 26, 2021

One Question

• How would you feel about OSU’s odds against Loyola today? That’s a nasty Rambler defense…

Most Viewed of the Week

• No. 1 OSU faces former Cowboy in Second Round

• No. 2 Five Thoughts on the 2020-21 Cowboy Basketball season

• No. 3 QB competition happening in spring ball

• No. 4 Ferron Flavors hit the transfer portal

• No. 5 Five Thoughts on the Liberty win

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Non-OSU Bullets

• Scott Drew at Baylor is a remarkable story
• Parsing out burnout and stress (faith-based)

Shaq’s college tape needs to be in the Louvre:

This video of Shaq in the NCAA Tournament is amazing and hilarious pic.twitter.com/xjflTsaXVH

— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) March 26, 2021