Within the last sport of this 12 months’s Huge 12-Huge East Battle, Oklahoma State will go to Seton Corridor on Sunday afternoon in Newark, N.J.
Oklahoma State was picked to complete 14th of 16 groups within the Huge 12 preseason coaches’ ballot, and Seton Corridor was voted tenth of 11 by the Huge East coaches.
To this point, these projections usually have been prophetic.
The Cowboys (5-2) earned their first 4 wins by a mean of simply 8.8 factors earlier than throttling Tulsa 76-55 on Wednesday. Oklahoma State misplaced to each Florida Atlantic and Nevada on the Charleston Traditional.
Seton Corridor (5-4) additionally participated within the Charleston Traditional and went 2-1 there, however the Pirates have suffered discouraging losses to Fordham, Hofstra and Monmouth. They’re No. 132 general on KenPom.com; solely Boston Faculty and Virginia Tech fee worse amongst groups from the ability conferences.
“Shifting ahead, I want all people to be on the identical web page,” Seton Corridor coach Shaheen Holloway stated after the Pirates defeated NJIT 67-56 on Wednesday. “I want the blokes who might rating to attain, guys who can defend, defend, guys who rebound, rebound. I believe as soon as we do this, I believe we have nonetheless received an opportunity of being a superb workforce.”
Prince Aligbe broke out towards NJIT for a career-high 19 factors and a game-best eight rebounds for the Pirates. Chaunce Jenkins, who averages 13.1 factors per sport, and Isaiah Coleman (10.9) are the workforce’s double-digit scorers.
However Seton Corridor continues to rank close to the underside of Division I in scoring (58.3 ppg) whereas sitting tied for third in factors allowed (56.6).
For the Cowboys, Bryce Thompson led 4 gamers in double figures with 15 factors as they opened a 13-point halftime lead at Tulsa and led by as many as 26 down the stretch.
Oklahoma State compelled 22 turnovers, a season excessive.
“I believed that was in all probability our greatest defensive effort for an prolonged time frame so far on the brief season,” coach Steve Lutz informed the Oklahoma State scholar newspaper.
Marchelus Avery (13 ppg), Thompson (12.6) and Abou Ousmane (12.2) lead the Cowboys in scoring this 12 months.
Sunday’s sport seemingly will likely be received within the inside. Seton Corridor ranks 343rd with simply 17.1 3-point makes an attempt per sport. Oklahoma State makes an attempt 20.1 per sport and went simply 3-for-8 from the arc towards Tulsa.
–Subject Degree Media
