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Is Oklahoma State in the NCAA Tournament? PFB Makes Final Picks

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The NCAA Tournament selection committee will unveil its full field of 68 teams today at 5:00 p.m. on TBS. All indications point to Oklahoma State being on the wrong side of the bubble, although some are pegging the Pokes as an at-large contender.

So with almost all the conference tourney action in the books going into Sunday, where do we think the Cowboys ultimately land? Will they be in the field? Pistols Firing makes its final predictions going into Selection Day.

STAFFER PREDICTION
Luke Garza IN
Carson Cunningham IN
Kyle Boone OUT
Kyle Cox OUT
Phillip Slavin OUT
Kyle Porter OUT

Luke Garza: The committee isn’t going to leave out its poster boy, Trae Young. They also can’t put OU in and leave OSU out, and they know that. For that reason I think we’ll see both the Sooners and the Cowboys in the tournament.

Carson Cunningham: Most of the basketball analysts have #okstate firmly in the tournament while the computer guys don’t. I’m fairly confident the committee understands basketball and OSU gets in as an at-large. Not a play-in.

Kyle Cox: I think the Cowboys are just on the wrong side of the bubble, based on arbitrary and out-dated rankings. It should be simple enough just looking at the eye test and the signature wins, but committees and simplicity seem to mix as well as oil and water.

Kyle Boone: I think OSU is out. Ultimately, I think OSU’s RPI, which is lower than Louisville, Syracuse and every other bubble team, is the dagger. The committee putting OSU in with its lackluster non-con resume rating would be near-unprecedented — even if the eye test says this is a tourney team.

Phillip Slavin: OSU wouldn’t just be the highest RPI-team ever to get in, it would be the highest ever RPI team by a wide margin. I like that all the analysts think the Cowboys are in. That just makes me confident that when OSU is out, they will be the team that Jay Bilas goes off about during the post announcement brake down.

Kyle Porter: We’re relying in a NCAA-related entity to make a progressive decision overcoming preconceived biases that benefits Oklahoma State. So … yeah.

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