Oklahoma State Football Stadium Seating

Basketball team in Stillwater Oklahoma

Oklahoma Country Cowboys
2021–22 Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball game team
Academy	Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
Head coach	Mike Boynton (5th season)
Conference	Big 12
Location	Stillwater, Oklahoma
Arena	Gallagher-Iba Arena (Capacity: 13,611)
Nickname	Cowboys
Colors	Orange and black[1]
Uniforms
Home Abroad
NCAA Tournament Champions
1945, 1946
NCAA Tournament Runner-upwardly
1949
NCAA Tournament Final Four
1945, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1995, 2004
NCAA Tournament Elite Viii
1945, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1965, 1995, 2000, 2004
NCAA Tournament Sweet Xvi
1951, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1965, 1991, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2005
NCAA Tournament Round of 32
1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2021
NCAA Tournament Appearances
1945, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1965, 1983, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021
Conference tournament champions
1983, 1995, 2004, 2005
Conference regular season champions
1925, 1931, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1965, 1991, 2004

The Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball game team represents Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United states in NCAA Division I men's basketball contest. All women'south teams at the schoolhouse are known as Cowgirls. The Cowboys currently compete in the Big 12 Conference. In 2020, CBS Sports ranked Oklahoma State the 25th best college basketball plan of all-fourth dimension, ahead of such programs as Oklahoma and Texas.^[two] Oklahoma Land men's basketball game has a very rich history of success, having won more than national titles and advanced to the NCAA Championship, Final 4, Aristocracy Viii and Sweet Sixteen more times than any Big 12 program other than Kansas. Oklahoma Country has won a combined 23 regular season conference titles and conference tournament titles, which is the most of any program in the state of Oklahoma. NBA greats from Oklahoma State include Cade Cunningham (the number One overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft), Tony Allen (whose number was retired past the Memphis Grizzlies), John Starks (all-fourth dimension leader in 3 pointers in New York Knicks history), Desmond Mason (2001 NBA Slam Dunk Champion) and Marcus Smart (2022 NBA Defensive Player of the Yr, 2x NBA All-Defensive First Squad). Several people associated with the program in some form have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Eddie Sutton, who was inducted as a jitney, is both a former player and sometime passenger vehicle for the program. Don Haskins and Pecker Self are former Cowboys players inducted as coaches for other programs. Bob Kurland was inducted as a role player and Hank Iba was inducted as a coach at Oklahoma State

Since 1938, the team has played its dwelling house games in Gallagher-Iba Loonshit. Prior to 1957, the school was known every bit Oklahoma A&M College, and the teams were nicknamed the Aggies.

On March 21, 2016, Brad Underwood was hired every bit head bus at Oklahoma Land, replacing the fired Travis Ford.^[three] Just curt of one year, on March xviii, 2017, Underwood left the plan for Illinois.^[4] Assistant Mike Boynton was promoted to head coach on March 24.^[5]

History [edit]

Oklahoma State University (and so Oklahoma A&M Higher) began varsity intercollegiate competition in men'southward basketball in 1908. The Cowboys (including the predecessor Aggies teams) rank 35th in full victories amongst all NCAA Division I college basketball programs, with an all-time win–loss record of 1517–1053 (.590) at the end of 2010–11 season.^[vi]

The Cowboys (including the predecessor Aggies teams) have made 28 full appearances in the NCAA tournament (37–21 overall record), reaching the NCAA Final Four 6 times (1945, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1995, 2004) and the NCAA regional finals (Elite Eight) eleven times. Oklahoma State (and then Oklahoma A&One thousand Higher) won the NCAA Championship in 1945 and 1946. The Cowboys rank tenth (tied with three other programs) in all-time Final Four appearances and 7th (tied with 7 others) in total NCAA Championships.^[vi]

The early years (1907–34) [edit]

Under nine head coaches in this period Oklahoma A&M found very little success, with but six winning seasons. Very little success was found early on and later on a six-win 15-loss season under showtime-year double-decker John Maulbetsch things were not looking well. However, in the adjacent iii seasons Maulbetsch turned effectually the programme, leading the Aggies to a 41–20 tape culminating with a first-place stop in their last season in the Southwest Conference. The move to the Missouri Valley Conference in 1925 would halt the progress nether this budding jitney. After Maulbetsch resigned from the positions of football, baseball game and basketball coach the Aggies would not have another winning flavour until Henry Iba took the reins in 1934.^[seven] However, despite an overall tape of vii–9, the Aggies did win the Missouri Valley Conference Co-Championship in 1930-31 under Bus George E. Rody with a conference record of 5–3.

This period in Oklahoma State basketball history was marked with mainly football game coaches heading the football game, baseball and basketball teams.

Coach	Tape	Seasons
Boyd Loma	2–3	one
William Schrieber	4–5	ii
Paul Davis	xv–xvi	3
John Griffith	18–12	two
Earl Pritchard	xi–xv	2
James Pixlee	iii–21	ii
John Maulbetsch	75–74	8
George E. Rody	eight–24	2
Harold James	13–42	3

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Henry Iba era (1934–lxx) [edit]

The Oklahoma A&M Aggies National Title basketball team in 1945

Henry Iba came to Oklahoma A&M College in 1934 and remained for 36 years. He retired later on the 1969–seventy flavour. For near of his tenure at A&Yard/OSU, he doubled as athletic director.

Iba's teams were methodical, ball-controlling units that featured weaving patterns and low scoring games. Iba'southward "swinging gate" defense force (a human-to-human with team flow) was applauded by many, and is still effective in today's game. He was known as "the Iron Knuckles of Defence force".

Iba's Aggies became the first to win consecutive NCAA titles (1945 and 1946). His 1945–46 NCAA champions were led by Bob Kurland, the game's first seven-foot player. They crush NYU in the 1945 finals and North Carolina in the 1946 finals. He was voted motorbus of the year in both seasons. His 1945 champions likewise defeated National Invitation Tournament champion, DePaul, and 6' 9" center George Mikan in a archetype Red Cantankerous Benefit game. Iba'southward 1949 and 1951 teams besides reached the Last Four of the NCAA Tournament.

Oklahoma A&M/Oklahoma State teams won 655 games, xiv Missouri Valley Championships, and one Big Eight Championship, in 36 seasons with Iba as caput men'due south basketball motorcoach.

"Mr. Iba," as he is still popularly known at OSU, remained a fixture on campus until his death in 1993, often giving advice to players during practice. One seat in the southeast concourse level of Gallagher-Iba Arena (which was renamed in his honor in 1987) remains unused in his honor.^[seven]

1970–ninety [edit]

The by and large subpar results of Iba'south final decade in Stillwater largely remained the condition quo for Oklahoma State during the 2 decades post-obit his retirement. From the 1970–71 to 1989–90 seasons, the Cowboys finished with winning records only six times, finished in the top half of the Big Eight Conference standings only 3 times, and earned a berth in the NCAA tournament only once.^[7]

Eddie Sutton era (1990–2006) [edit]

Subsequently being an banana for the Cowboys in 1958–59, Eddie Sutton returned to Oklahoma Country in 1990 to passenger vehicle. In the years leading up to his hiring, the squad had made postseason play just 3 times since joining the Big Viii Conference in 1957.

The Pokes began to turn effectually nearly immediately with Sutton's presence, and in 1991, Oklahoma State returned to the NCAA Tournament, winning their first NCAA Tournament game since making the Aristocracy Viii in 1965. Sutton's Cowboys advanced all the way to the Sugariness Sixteen during his beginning ii seasons. In 1995, the Pokes, nether the leadership of Bryant "Big Country" Reeves and Randy Rutherford, captured the Big Eight Conference Tournament and won a bid to the 1995 NCAA Sectionalization I men's basketball tournament. They avant-garde to the Final Four in Seattle, Washington, where they lost to eventual champion UCLA. It was the Cowboys' deepest advance in the tournament since 1951.

Led by John Lucas III, Joey Graham, and 2004 Big 12 Actor of the Year Tony Allen, Sutton'due south 2003–04 team finished with a schoolhouse-record 31 wins (31–4), won both the Large 12 regular season and tournament championships, and advanced to the Final Four as a No. 2 seed in the 2004 NCAA tournament. The Cowboys finished the season ranked No. iv in the final AP poll and Coaches' Poll.

In his sixteen seasons in Stillwater, the Cowboys reached the postseason fifteen times (having declined an NIT bid in Sutton's sixth season as head motorbus), including xiii NCAA Tournament bids and ii Final Four appearances. They also captured 3 regular-flavour conference titles and three conference tournament championships. Sutton finished his career at OSU equally the second-winningest motorbus in school history, behind merely his mentor, Iba.^[seven]

2001 plane crash [edit]

On January 27, 2001, one of iii planes carrying Oklahoma Country staff and players crashed in a snow tempest near Byers, Colorado, killing all 10 on board. The aeroplane was on its way back from a loss against the University of Colorado. Those killed included Nate Fleming, a redshirt freshman guard; Dan Lawson, a inferior guard; Bill Teegins, radio sportscaster of OSU basketball and sports anchor on CBS chapter KWTV-9 in Oklahoma City; Kendall Durfey, television and radio engineer; Will Hancock, media relations coordinator; Pat Noyes, director of basketball operations; Brian Luinstra, able-bodied trainer; Jared Weiberg, student banana; Denver Mills, airplane pilot; and Bjorn Falistrom, co-pilot.

Since 2007, Oklahoma State has honored these x during an almanac 5k and 10K race called the Call back the Ten Run.^[8]

Sean Sutton era (2006–08) [edit]

Eddie Sutton's son, Sean Sutton, also a former Cowboy player, took over caput coaching duties in 2006. Following a record of 39–29 during his first two seasons, Sutton resigned under pressure after a March 31, 2008, meeting with Able-bodied Director Mike Holder.^[9]

Travis Ford era (2008–16) [edit]

On April 16, 2008, Travis Ford was hired as the 18th men's basketball game caput coach at Oklahoma State. He resigned from the aforementioned position with the UMass Minutemen to take the position. At the fourth dimension of his hiring, he had a Division I coaching record of 123–115. Ford too coached at Eastern Kentucky and Campbellsville University (NAIA). As a player, he was coached past Norm Stewart at the University of Missouri every bit a freshman. He transferred after his freshman season and played for 3 years (1992–94) at the University of Kentucky under Rick Pitino.^{[7] [x] [xi]}

Ford was fired on March 18, 2016 after a flavour in which the Cowboys went 3–15 in Large 12 play and 12–20 overall.^[12] Although he led the Cowboys to v NCAA tournaments in his 8 seasons in charge, he never finished higher than third in conference play, and finished sixth or worse in the Large 12 7 times.^[13]

Brad Underwood era (2016–2017) [edit]

Three days after Ford's firing, Oklahoma Country hired Brad Underwood from Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA). He began his coaching career at Kansas State, beginning serving as director of basketball operations for a season so serving as an assistant for five more. Underwood then went to South Carolina equally an assistant for a season before existence hired to his first head coaching post at SFA. During his iii seasons in accuse, the Lumberjacks went 89–fourteen overall and 53–1 in Southland Conference regular-season play, making the NCAA tournament all three seasons and advancing to the 2d circular twice. Underwood'south 89 wins tie him with Brad Stevens for the near wins by a men's basketball head coach in his first three seasons at an NCAA schoolhouse. He is besides the first passenger vehicle to be named Southland Conference Coach of the Twelvemonth three sequent times.^[14] On March 18, 2017 Brad Underwood was hired at Illinois.^[15] During the 2016-17 season, Associate head coach Lamont Evans was engaged in bribery scheme that came to light in 2017.^{[sixteen] [17]} Evans was sentenced to iii months in prison in June 2019 for his participation in the scheme, which he besides conducted at the University of South Carolina.^[18] In June 2020 printing release, the NCAA announced a postseason ban for 2020–21.^{[nineteen] [20]}

Mike Boynton era (2017–present) [edit]

The school promoted assistant coach Mike Boynton Jr. to head coach on March 24.^[21]

Postseason [edit]

NCAA tournament results [edit]

The Cowboys accept appeared in the NCAA tournament 29 times. Their combined record is 39–28. They won the tournament in 1945 and 1946.

Year	Seed	Round	Opponent	Outcome
1945		Aristocracy Viii Final 4 National Championship	Utah Arkansas NYU	West 62–37 W 68–41 Westward 49–45
1946		Elite Eight Final 4 National Championship	Baylor California North Carolina	W 44–29 Due west 52–35 W 43–xl
1949		Elite Eight Final Iv National Championship	Wyoming Oregon State Kentucky	Westward 40–39 Westward 55–30 L 36–46
1951		Sweet Sixteen Aristocracy Eight Last Four National 3rd Place Game	Montana State Washington Kansas Country Illinois	W fifty–46 W 61–57 L 44–68 L 46–61
1953		Sugariness Sixteen Elite Eight	TCU Kansas	W 71–54 Fifty 55–61
1954		Sweet Xvi Elite Eight	Rice Bradley	W 51–45 L 57–71
1958		Showtime Circular Sweet Sixteen Aristocracy 8	Loyola (LA) Arkansas Kansas Land	W 59–42 West 65–xl 50 57–69
1965		Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight	Houston Wichita State	W 75–60 L 46–54
1983	#5	First Round	#12 Princeton	50 53–56
1991	#3	First Round 2nd Round Sweet Sixteen	#14 New Mexico #half dozen NC State #10 Temple	Westward 67–64 W 73–64 50 63–72OT
1992	#2	First Round Second Round Sweet 16	#15 Georgia Southern #10 Tulane #6 Michigan	W 100–73 W 87–71 L 72–75
1993	#v	First Round 2nd Round	#12 Marquette #4 Louisville	W 74–62 L 63–78
1994	#4	First Circular 2nd Round	#thirteen New Mexico State #12 Tulsa	Due west 65–55 Fifty 80–82
1995	#4	First Round Second Round Sweet Xvi Aristocracy Eight Final Four	#xiii Drexel #v Alabama #i Wake Forest #2 Massachusetts #1 UCLA	W 73–49 W 66–52 West 71–66 W 68–54 L 61–74
1998	#8	Beginning Circular Second Circular	#nine George Washington #1 Duke	W 74–59 Fifty 73–79
1999	#nine	Starting time Round Second Circular	#eight Syracuse #one Auburn	Due west 69–61 50 74–81
2000	#3	Outset Round 2d Round Sweet Xvi Elite Eight	#14 Hofstra #11 Pepperdine #10 Seton Hall #5 Florida	W 86–66 W 75–67 W 68–66 50 65–77
2001	#11	First Round	#6 USC	L 54–69
2002	#7	First Round	#10 Kent Country	L 61–69
2003	#six	First Round Second Round	#eleven Penn #iii Syracuse	W 77–63 L 56–68
2004	#ii	First Circular Second Circular Sugariness Xvi Aristocracy Eight Terminal Four	#xv Eastern Washington #seven Memphis #3 Pittsburgh #1 Saint Joseph'south #3 Georgia Tech	W 75–56 West seventy–53 Due west 63–51 W 64–62 Fifty 65–67
2005	#two	First Circular 2d Round Sugariness Xvi	#15 Southeastern Louisiana #seven Southern Illinois #3 Arizona	W 63–l Westward 85–77 Fifty 78–79
2009	#8	First Round Second Round	#9 Tennessee #1 Pittsburgh	W 77–75 50 76–84
2010	#seven	Start Round	#10 Georgia Tech	Fifty 59–64
2013	#five	Second Circular	#12 Oregon	L 55–68
2014	#9	Second Circular	#8 Gonzaga	L 77–85
2015	#nine	2d Round	#8 Oregon	50 73–79
2017	#10	First Circular	#7 Michigan	50 91–92
2021	#four	Outset Round Second Round	#13 Liberty #12 Oregon State	Due west 69–sixty Fifty 70–80

NIT results [edit]

The Cowboys accept appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) 12 times. Their combined record is ix–thirteen.

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
1938	Semifinals 3rd Identify Game	Temple NYU	L 55–56 W 37–24
1940	Semifinals 3rd Place Game	Duquesne DePaul	L 30–34 W 23–22
1944	Quarterfinals Semifinals 3rd Place Game	Canisius DePaul Kentucky	W 43–29 L 38–41 L 29–45
1956	Get-go Round	Duquesne	Fifty 61–69
1989	Beginning Round Second Round	Boise State St. John's	W 69–55 L 64–76
1990	Start Circular Second Round	Tulsa New Mexico	W 83–74 L 88–90
1997	First Round Second Round	Tulane Michigan	W 79–72 50 65–75
2006	First Round	Miami (FL)	Fifty 59–62
2007	Commencement Circular	Marist	L 64–67
2008	First Circular	Southern Illinois	L 53–69
2011	First Circular Second Round	Harvard Washington State	W 71–54 L 64–74
2018	Get-go Round 2nd Round Quarterfinals	Florida Gulf Coast Stanford Western Kentucky	W lxxx–68 Westward 71–65 50 84–92

Facilities [edit]

Gallagher-Iba Loonshit [edit]

Gallagher-Iba Arena, once dubbed "Madison Foursquare Garden of the Plains",^[22] is the basketball and wrestling venue at Oklahoma Country Academy in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Originally completed in 1938 and named the 4-H Club and Student Activities Edifice, it was soon renamed Gallagher Hall to honor wrestling coach, Ed Gallagher. After renovations in 1987, the name became Gallagher-Iba Arena, equally a tribute to longtime basketball game passenger vehicle and innovator, Henry Iba. Gallagher-Iba Arena was named the all-time college gymnasium past CBS SportsLine.com in August 2001.^[23]

The kickoff basketball was played on December ix, 1938, when Iba'south Oklahoma A&M Aggies trounce Phog Allen's Kansas Jayhawks, 21–fifteen, in a battle between ii of the nation'due south early basketball powers. In its original configuration, seating was express to 6,381. Though pocket-sized by today's standards, information technology was the largest collegiate facility in the state when completed.^[24] The original maple flooring, still in utilize today, was the most expensive of its kind in America when it was installed in 1938.^[25]

Oklahoma State completed a $55 1000000 expansion of Gallagher-Iba Arena prior to the 1999–2000 Cowboy basketball flavour. Rather than build a new, off-campus arena to accommodate the need for boosted seating, the determination was made to expand Gallagher-Iba Arena itself to more than double its original capacity (from its half dozen,381-seat chapters to its current 13,611 seats). The old sightlines and the original white maple flooring were kept (it remains the oldest original basketball court floor notwithstanding in use).

On January xv, 2005, the court was officially named afterwards Eddie Sutton every bit Eddie Sutton Court.^[26]

References [edit]

1. ^ Oklahoma State Academy Athletics Official Athletics Branding Transmission (PDF). November 20, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
2. ^ "The Greatest College Basketball Programs Ever: Ranking the top teams of all time". CBSSports.com . Retrieved December 17, 2021.
3. ^ Holcomb, John (March 21, 2016). "OSU To Hire Brad Underwood As New Basketball Head Motorcoach". News9.com. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
4. ^ "In a stunning move, Brad Underwood leaves Oklahoma State for Illinois". kansascity . Retrieved March 21, 2017.
5. ^ "Oklahoma Country hires Mike Boynton as side by side basketball charabanc". The Oklahoman. March 24, 2017.
6. ^ ^{a b} "NCAA 2008 Men's Basketball Tape Book" (PDF). ncaasports.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 28, 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2008.
7. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Oklahoma State 2010–2011 Preview
8. ^ "Home". world wide web.remembertheten.com.
9. ^ "Sean Sutton resigns under pressure from Oklahoma State - USAToday.com". world wide web.usatoday.com.
10. ^ "UMass' Ford taking Oklahoma State coaching job". ESPN.com. Apr 16, 2008.
11. ^ "Report: Ford To Have Over As OSU Head Coach". fox23.com. ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
12. ^ "OSU Announces Men's Basketball game Change" (Printing release). Oklahoma State Athletics. March 18, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
13. ^ Parrish, Gary (March eighteen, 2016). "Oklahoma Land coach Travis Ford fired after nine seasons". CBSSports.com. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
14. ^ "Underwood Named Cowboy Basketball Head Double-decker" (Press release). Oklahoma Country Athletics. March 21, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
15. ^ "Illinois snags OSU's Underwood as new bus". espn.com.
16. ^ Boone, Kyle (September 28, 2017). "Oklahoma State fires associate caput motorcoach Lamont Evans amongst FBI investigation". CBS Sports . Retrieved Oct ii, 2017.
17. ^ Borzello, Jeff (September 28, 2017). "Antwann Jones, No. 45 in ESPN 100, decommits from Oklahoma St". ESPN . Retrieved October 3, 2017.
18. ^ Denney, Andrew (June 7, 2019). "Another ex-NCAA double-decker gets prison time in bribery scandal". New York Postal service . Retrieved June 10, 2020.
19. ^ James, Emily (June 5, 2020). "Former Oklahoma Land coach's acceptance of bribes violated NCAA upstanding acquit rules" (Press release). National Collegiate Athletic Clan. Retrieved June x, 2020.
20. ^ Anderson, Greta (June 8, 2020). "Oklahoma State Punished for Ex-Passenger vehicle'southward Bribery Scheme". Inside Higher Ed . Retrieved June 10, 2020.
21. ^ "Boynton Jr. named OK State head coach". ESPN.com . Retrieved March 27, 2017.
22. ^ "Gallagher-Iba Loonshit – Official Website Of Oklahoma State Cowboy And Cowgirl Athletics". okstate.com. ^{[ permanent expressionless link ]}
23. ^ "Cameron Indoor Stadium is great, but the best in the country is..." Archived March 10, 2007, at the Wayback Car, by Dan Wetzel, CBS SportsLine, Baronial 7, 2001, retrieved Apr viii, 2006
24. ^ A past enriches the future – Cowboy Journal – Autumn 2000 Archived 2012-07-17 at the Wayback Car
25. ^ Facilities – Official Website Of Oklahoma State Cowboy And Cowgirl Athletics Archived 2007-08-13 at archive.today
26. ^ "USA Today OSU vs. ISU game story, one/xv/2005". usatoday.com. March 10, 2004. Retrieved April 22, 2008.

External links [edit]

• Official website

Oklahoma State Football Stadium Seating,

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