Tulsa’s fast start this is also in jeopardy. Jeriah Horne led Tulsa with 16 points, but Wichita State went on a late 17-4 run to pull away for a 79-68 victory over the Golden Hurricane on Saturday in Wichita. The Golden Hurricane has lost four out of the last five games. Horne went 6-of-10 from…
The Oklahoma State basketball team fell to league-leading Kansas State, 75-57, on Saturday in Stillwater. OSU has lost four of the last six games. Curtis Jones had 14 points and Lindy Waters III = scored 12 points and made both his attempts from 3-point land. The Cowboys allowed 16 3-pointers in the contest, which ties…
Sam Kearns capped a career night with a pull-up jumper with 20 seconds left to give Oral Roberts a two-point lead, but Matt Holba answered with a game-winning 3-pointer with less than five seconds left to push Purdue Fort Wayne to an 82-81 win over the Golden Eagles Saturday night.
Thomas Dziagwa of Oklahoma State hit five 3-pointers and scored 19 points as the undermanned Cowboys slipped past South Carolina 74-70 Saturday in Stillwater. “It was big, but coach has been preaching for the past two weeks that we were right there,” Dziagwa said. “We were knocking on the door. We broke the door down…
Christian James poured in 21 points as Oklahoma (15-5, 3-4 in the Big 12) breezed past Vanderbilt 86-55 in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge Saturday. The Sooners made a 19-0 run in the first half to put the game out of reach early. “We didn’t come out with the start that we wanted to at Oklahoma…
Freshman point guard Jamal Bieniemy hit a season-high 17 points as Oklahoma overcame a 19-point deficit early to beat Oklahoma State 70-61 January 24 in Stillwater. That was only the second start for Bieniemy. Brady Manek added 15 points and Jamuni McNeace contributed 13 points for Oklahoma, who shot 64 percent from the field in…
A second half comeback fell short No. 17 Houston beat Tulsa 77-65 in Tulsa Sunday afternoon. DaQuan Jeffries led the Golden Hurricane (12-9, 2-6) with 17 points and five assists, while Jeriah Horne came off the bench to score 15 points. Martins Igbanu and Sterling Taplin finished with 11 and 10 points, respectively. TU had…
Jarron Cumberland led all scorers with 23 points as Cincinnati defeated visiting Tulsa on January 24, 88-64, in Cincinnati. Sterling Taplin led five players in double-figures with a dozen points for the Golden Hurricane. DaQuan Jeffries had 11 points, while Martins Igbanu, Curran Scott and Darien Jackson each finished with 10 points. Taplin logged a…
North Dakota State had a late 15-5 run to top Oral Roberts 67-57 Saturday night at the Mabee Center. ORU lost for just the second time this season when giving up fewer than 70 points, having also fallen 69-59 against Tulsa. Kevin Obanor had 21 points and eight rebounds, while Sam Kearns returned from injury…
It will be youth versus experience when the Los Angeles Rams face the New England Patriots Sunday in Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta. Sean McVay, coach of the Rams, just turned 33. Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick is 66. America only had 48 states when Belichick was born in 1952 and the NFL had only 12…