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Daily Bullets (May 9): Cowgirls Could Make History on Mother’s Day

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Scores

Bedlam Softball: Cowgirls 4, Sooners 6
Baseball: Cowboys 19, Kansas 0


Three Thoughts

• Unfortunately for the Cowgirls, the Sooners evened things up on Saturday, following up a 6-4 loss with a 6-4 win and setting a winner-takes-all Mother’s Day tilt for the Big 12 championship. It would be OSU’s first conference title since the league’s inception and break an eight-year title streak for OU.

• Justin Campbell was responsible for Oklahoma State’s first no-hitter since 1985. [PFB]

• The NBA Draft Lottery is still over a month away but that isn’t keeping interested parties from crunching the numbers for who will get the chance to take Cade. It’s not likely, but a coin-flip could determine where Cade lands.

In the event of a tie, the NBA averages the number of combinations assigned to each team — unless that average includes a fraction. Say the Timberwolves, Pistons and Thunder finish tied for the second-worst record. The 405 total combinations for spots 2-4 are averaged out to give each team 135 combos (or a 13.5% chance at the top pick). If a fourth team ties, then the average number of combinations for each is 127.5. Because no team can have half a combo, coin flips will decide who gets the extra combination(s).

In this instance, coin flips would determine who gets two extra combinations. The winner gets 129. The other three teams get 127. That’s a 0.2% advantage in landing Cunningham — marginal but not nothing. [Yahoo Sports]

Two Quotes

• “It’s a fight, and we knew that coming in here and knew it was gonna be tough and knew we’d take their best shot and had a chance to win it there at the end. Proud of these kids but looking forward again to tomorrow’s third game.” — Kenny Gajewski after Round 2 of Bedlam

• Berry Tramel did a masterful job telling the story of Fred Moulder and Don Kuykendal, the men that broke the color barrier for OSU baseball. You should definitely read the entire article but this is great.

Moulder is one of the best all-around athletes in OSU history, having also played basketball. He was the sixth man on Iba’s only Big Eight championship team, in 1965. 

“There’s no way we could have done it without Freddie,” said Gene Johnson, Iba’s center on that team. “He always provided a spark off the bench, and truth be known, he was probably one of the two best players on our team, including James King.”  [The Oklahoman]

One Question

• Would you rather your favorite professional team be consistently good or stink and have a chance at landing your favorite college player?


Non-OSU Bullets

• Russell Westbrook is now tied with Oscar Robertson for most triple-doubles in NBA history, and then he made the block that secured the win.

• Tracking the biggest offseason storyline in the country’s biggest sport: What’s next for Aaron Rodgers? [The Ringer]

• As the proud husband of a great nurse, this story was of particular interest to me. [Science History]

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