Oklahoma State (3/25/2025)

[FirefightnRick]

What an ending.  Finally someone else freezes their own kicker.  And  I thought there for a while we were gonna be Dwayne Waded.  
 

On to Indy.
 

Rick

Edited March 26 by FirefightnRick

[Green Otaku]

I've got to ask, what's up with Lorient getting zero leeway? The guy can't follow his man with his hands up without it being a foul? I feel like it's been an all year thing.

[meaniegreenie]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:15 AM, Green Otaku said:

I've got to ask, what's up with Lorient getting zero leeway? The guy can't follow his man with his hands up without it being a foul? I feel like it's been an all year thing.

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Yeah, that was the worst of several bad calls in the latter part of the game.

[NT93]

Maybe an odd observation, but I thought Atin Wright probably won us the game in the final minute simply because they refused to foul him.  Anybody else goes to the line and only makes 1 of 2, or worse yet, misses both and the result may well have been different.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen quite that situation where a team refuses to foul an opposing player even though they need to stop the clock.    
 

Now, I don’t think that makes him HOF worthy, but I do think it made him somewhat of an unsung hero tonight.

Edited March 26 by NT93

[Green Otaku]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:24 AM, meaniegreenie said:

Yeah, that was the worst of several bad calls in the latter part of the game.

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It's just mind boggling how many times we get called for stuff like that. I also lost it when in the 1st half their player slid on the floor with the ball in his hands and it wasn't called a travel. I just have no explanation.

[meaniegreenie]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:32 AM, NT93 said:

Maybe an odd observation, but I thought Atin Wright probably won us the game in the final minute simply because they refused to foul him.  Anybody else goes to the line and only makes 1 of 2, or worse yet, misses both and the result may well have different.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen quite that situation where a team refuses to foul an opposing player even though they need to stop the clock.    
 

Now, I don’t think that makes him HOF worthy, but I do think it made him somewhat of an unsung hero tonight.

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Good point and his start to the game wasn't too bad either.

[meaniegreenie]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:37 AM, Green Otaku said:

It's just mind boggling how many times we get called for stuff like that. I also lost it when in the 1st half their player slid on the floor with the ball in his hands and it wasn't called a travel. I just have no explanation.

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Similarly, their crowd was screaming for a walk when our guy got mugged.  No call was made.

[FirefightnRick]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:32 AM, NT93 said:

Maybe an odd observation, but I thought Atin Wright probably won us the game in the final minute simply because they refused to foul him.  Anybody else goes to the line and only makes 1 of 2, or worse yet, misses both and the result may well have been different.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen quite that situation where a team refuses to foul an opposing player even though they need to stop the clock.    
 

Now, I don’t think that makes him HOF worthy, but I do think it made him somewhat of an unsung hero tonight.

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An ex coworker texted and asked why they refused to foul #10.  I said..”because he’s The Man At The Line, Nationally, at 94% and OSU knows it”.

 

Rick

Edited March 26 by FirefightnRick

[meangreenfaninno]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:32 AM, NT93 said:

Maybe an odd observation, but I thought Atin Wright probably won us the game in the final minute simply because they refused to foul him.  Anybody else goes to the line and only makes 1 of 2, or worse yet, misses both and the result may well have been different.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen quite that situation where a team refuses to foul an opposing player even though they need to stop the clock.    
 

Now, I don’t think that makes him HOF worthy, but I do think it made him somewhat of an unsung hero tonight.

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Actually a great observation.

[meaniegreenie]

I'm only a casual follower of MBB, especially until late in the season.

But I was blown away when I heard the announcers saying we were top 25 FT shooting.

Am I mistaken or weren't we a horrible FT shooting team 10 yrs ago or so?

[golfingomez]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:52 AM, meaniegreenie said:

I'm only a casual follower of MBB, especially until late in the season.

But I was blown away when I heard the announcers saying we were top 25 FT shooting.

Am I mistaken or weren't we a horrible FT shooting team 10 yrs ago or so?

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I mean... We were just a horrible team ten years ago

[CMJ]

I think we had a pretty bad FT shooting team early in Mac's tenure, but I feel like we've been pretty solid for several years. People always remember games like tonight where we struggle, but we tend to knock them down.

[NT80]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:54 AM, golfingomez said:

I mean... We were just a horrible team ten years ago

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[meaniegreenie]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:57 AM, NT80 said:

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Yeah, I was FULLY expecting that!

[FirefightnRick]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:57 AM, NT80 said:

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Ugh!  Can you believe we lived through that?

 

Rick

[DeepGreen]

Nice suit.

[emmitt01]

  On 3/26/2025 at 12:11 PM, DeepGreen said:

Nice suit.

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He only has 1

[AleAlejandro21]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:57 AM, NT80 said:

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Bring back the suit look

[CMJ]

  On 3/26/2025 at 1:30 PM, AleAlejandro21 said:

Bring back the suit look

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Some coaches still wear them, but it's only maybe 10-15 percent.

[untjim1995]

  On 3/26/2025 at 5:48 AM, FirefightnRick said:

Ugh!  Can you believe we lived through that?

 

Rick

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For 5 full years…never bought him out, even though we all knew in Year 1 he was a terrible head coach.

 

[keith]

  On 3/26/2025 at 3:54 AM, NT80 said:

Yes, Irvine at home will be tough.

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Higher-seeded team playing a quarter-final game at home...what a concept!

[UNT Family Man]

1. Escaped the idiocracy of the AD and President of the university. Don’t be surprised when both of our coaches leave due to lack of support. 
2. Escaped ticky-tack refs in the final five minutes of the game. Just be consistent on both ends b/c it seemed as though the refs were making the foul count equal and keeping OSU in the game. 
3. Escaped our own selves at the free throw line. 50% as a team in the final 3 minutes. 
 

Advance and survive, good win!

[NT80]

  On 3/26/2025 at 1:59 PM, untjim1995 said:

For 5 full years…never bought him out, even though we all knew in Year 1 he was a terrible head coach.

 

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Wren was hired well before Benford started his 5th season, but wouldn't fire him.   I had doubts about Wren after that.  It was a rookie AD mistake.  It killed off the majority of the season ticket holder base as most gave them up.

[untjim1995]

  On 3/26/2025 at 10:53 PM, NT80 said:

Wren was hired well before Benford started his 5th season, but wouldn't fire him.   I had doubts about Wren after that.  It was a rookie AD mistake.  It killed off the majority of the season ticket holder base as most gave them up.

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They had to buy out RV, plus they had just hired Littrell, so I kinda understood why they just left him there, but he was just a terrible coach. I remember making the point that keeping Bumford was only worth that last year because we got rid of RV. Then, Wren got GMac and the rest was history.

[UNTFan23]

  On 3/26/2025 at 11:21 PM, untjim1995 said:

They had to buy out RV, plus they had just hired Littrell, so I kinda understood why they just left him there, but he was just a terrible coach. I remember making the point that keeping Bumford was only worth that last year because we got rid of RV. Then, Wren got GMac and the rest was history.

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Plus Wren was hired in the middle of the summer and trying to hire a quality coach/staff at that point would have been extremely difficult.