Daily Bullets (Nov. 21): Two Stats That Explain Bedlam

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Scores

MBB: Pokes 82, Depaul 78
WBB: Kent State 59, Cowgirls 56

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OSU Bullets

• The Pokes opened more than a score favorite over West Virginia

• Digging into OSU’s slow starts and sputtering finishes + Looking at the importance Spencer Sanders was to Bedlam

• Bedlam stats that stuck out, both good and bad – bad news first: the third team in 20+ years to run 100+ plays and score 13 or fewer points

Twelve straight Sooner possessions, the Cowboy defense got a stop. In the second half, OU had the ball eight times and punted eight times. The Sooners didn’t make a first down the final 24 minutes of the game.

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• Five Thoughts from the win over Depaul in The Bahamas

• Cowboy Football fell out of both polls after the loss

• Cade Cunningham may have suffered a season-ending injury

• 13 point games against a struggling defense are less likely when you’ve got guys like this on the roster:

BackOutsideBoyz🥶 pic.twitter.com/Zf4qWdojbr

— Tylan Wallace (@OfficialTylan2) November 21, 2022

• This is a view on Bedlam/Gundy you don’t hear often:

I maintain that this is a ridiculous charge laid against Gundy.

Imagine getting special rivalry attention from a nationally competitive program every year with double (triple?) your resources. Tough gig. https://t.co/WRSRIKkIRw

— Special asst to the special asst to the HC (@Ian_A_Boyd) November 20, 2022

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Non-OSU Bullets

• Taking a screen sabbath (faith-based)

“A good marriage is one in which each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal, and this is true also of our friendships.”

Anne Lamont

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the best line about clear thinking that I’m aware of: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

— David Perell (@david_perell) November 20, 2022