Daily Bullets (Mar. 9): OSU’s NCAA Tourney Spot, A Poke Gets the Opening Day Nod

Happy Monday – spring ball starts today in Stillwater. 

Bullets Rundown

• Pokes’ NCAA tourney talk
• B12 Conference tourney brackets here
• OSU spring football preview

Scores

• Wrestling – Pokes win eighth-straight B12 title
• WBB: Texas 63, Cowgirls 52
• SB: Cowgirls 11, Mo State 0
• WT: Cowgirls 6, TCU 1

OSU Bullets

• It shouldn’t be nuts but somehow the Pokes are considered on some sort of “just missing it” list for the NCAA TOURNAMENT. 

[DRatings.com]

I’m not sure about the qualifications for the site but that doesn’t seem as crazy when you consider this:

With the win, OSU finished its regular season 7-3. Over the last month-plus, the Cowboys only losses came on the road to ranked teams No. 1 Kansas, No. 4 Baylor and West Virginia (the team that just beat the latter in Morgantown). [PFB]

Just FYI – they have the Pokes currently as a two-seed in the NIT as well.

• The brackets are out for the Big 12 Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments – men’s here and women’s here.

Men open on Wednesday at 6pm against Iowa State while the women open Thursday at 6pm against OU.

• Here’s a good spring football preview for the Pokes with the start of today’s spring camp

• This is awesome – former Poke getting the start for Opening Day.

Your 2020 Opening Day starter, @Heandog8! ? pic.twitter.com/1cREWrC6FU

— Los Angeles Angels (@Angels) March 8, 2020

• Cam McGriff and Isaac Likekele made honorable mention all-conference

• That No. 1 slam by Cam though:

From deep threes to powerful slams today's game had it all. Help us decide our top play of the day below ⬇️#LetsWork | #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/DZIF0m4fEH

— Cowboy Basketball (@OSUMBB) March 8, 2020

Non-OSU Bullets

• Cool walk-on story here with David Robinson’s kid buoying Duke
• Pretty solid coronavirus primer here (from a non-medical professional)
• This idea for a specific company enforcing a high minimum salary was interesting