Cowboys set for Bedlam battle in OKC

Saturday, December 13

Oklahoma City / Paycom Center

Noon

Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma

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December 12, 2025 | Cowboy Basketball

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rv/rv OKLAHOMA STATE (9-0) vs. OKLAHOMA (6-3)
Saturday, Dec. 13 | 12:05 p.m. CT
Oklahoma City, Okla. | Paycom Center

Tickets: Ticketmaster
Watch: FOX (Aaron Goldsmith & Casey Jacobsen)
Listen: Cowboy Radio Network (Dave Hunziker & John Holcomb)
Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Series: OU leads 144-106 (Tied, 2-2 in OKC)
Last: Dec. 14, 2024 in OKC (OU, 80-65)

Coaches:
Steve Lutz (Texas Lutheran '95) – 2^nd Season at OSU (26-18), 5^th Overall (95-53)
Porter Moser (Creighton '90) – 5^th Season at OU (80-62), 22^nd Overall (373-304)

Opening Tips:

The Oklahoma State Cowboys look to make it a perfect 10-and-0 Saturday when they take on the Oklahoma Sooners as part of a Bedlam basketball doubleheader at the Paycom Center.
The 251^st men's basketball installment of the Bedlam Rivalry, presented by State Farm, marks the 99^th consecutive season that the schools have met on the hardwood.
The men's teams tip at Noon CT on FOX, followed by the women (3 p.m. on ESPNU). One ticket is good for both games. To purchase in the OSU section, visit okstate.com/BedlamOKC.
OSU is in action for the first time since last Saturday's 84-78 win over Grand Canyon in Phoenix. Parsa Fallah led the way with 25 points on 8-of-9 shooting.
It was the second consecutive 20-point game for Fallah, who also had 24 in last Tuesday's win over Sam Houston. On Monday afternoon, he was named to the Big 12 Conference's weekly Starting Five. The 6-foot-10 senior enters the weekend ranked sixth nationally in field goal percentage (.685).
Fallah is one of 12 newcomers on second-year head coach Steve Lutz's Cowboy roster.
Robert Jennings II, the only OSU returner who saw action in last year's Bedlam game, has been sidelined by injury for the past six games.
The new-look Cowboys enter Saturday as one of just eight remaining unbeatens in the Division I ranks. At 9-0, they're out to their best start and longest winning streak since opening the 2006-07 season with 11 consecutive victories.
OSU received 54 votes in Monday's AP Poll and its two spots away from its first top-25 appearance since Cade Cunningham and friends ended the 2020-21 season at No. 11.
Four Cowboys are averaging between 14 and 16 points per game, led by guards Vyctorius Miller (15.9 ppg), Anthony Roy (15.0 ppg) and Jaylen Curry (14.9 ppg).
Point guards Curry (5.2 apg) and Kanye Clary (5.0 apg) have combined to average more than 10 assists per game with a 2.70 A:TO ratio.
The Cowboys are averaging 91.3 points per game (14^th nationally) on 49.9% shooting. Per Stathead.com, they're the only team in the nation that has scored 84+ points in every game.
Per KenPom, OSU has one of the nation's fastest teams (No. 7 in adjusted tempo), fueled by one of its deepest rosters (11^th in bench minutes, 44.4%). Reserves are averaging a Big 12-best 37.8 points per game.
After Bedlam, OSU will finish out the non-con with three straight homes games, beginning Thursday against Kansas City (7 p.m., ESPN+).

Last Time on Cowboy Basketball:
Dec. 6 in Phoenix | OSU 84, GCU 78

OSU improved to 9-0 with a gritty win over GCU at the Phoenix Suns' Mortgage Matchup Center.
Parsa Fallah scored 25 points on 8-of-9 shooting to lead the Cowboys, who made 57% of their field goal attempts, including 65% after halftime.
OSU trailed 67-64 with just under 8:00 remaining before mounting a 13-2 run, capped by Christian Coleman's basket, to make it a 77-69 game with 2:43 to play.
Coleman matched his season-high with 16 points and Anthony Roy and Jaylen Curry tacked on 14-each.
Kanye Clary delivered two game-sealing plays over the final 14 seconds -- a triple that stretched a two-point lead to five, followed by a steal on GCU's final possession.
Efe Demirel scored 22 points on 10-of-11 shooting and grabbed eight rebounds for GCU, which became the first opponent to outrebound OSU this season (34-32).
The game was part of a doubleheader -- the Jerry Colangelo Classic. Arizona State defeat Oklahoma in the nightcap.

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The Cowboys have made at least half of their shots in five of the last six games. A year ago, they shot 50% just three times in 35 contests.
Likewise, the Pokes have hit the 90-point mark five times already this season, matching their total from the last three seasons combined.
OSU is 21-0 under Steve Lutz when putting at least 80 points on the scoreboard.
Scoring comes much easier when the defense isn't permitted to guard you. OSU ranks 12^th nationally in free throw makes (20.7), helped by a 75% team percentage. It's been a group effort with eight different Cowboys averaging at least 2.0 attempts per game.
Due to equal parts injury and squad depth, Lutz has spent the first month of the season tinkering. He's used eight different starting-fives through the first nine games. Ten different Cowboys have logged at least one start.
Parsa Fallah is the only player who has started all nine contests. The former Southern Utah and Oregon State standout enters the day just 24 points shy of 1,000 for his NCAA career. Saturday will be his 99^th career contest.
Anthony Roy missed the first three games to a groin injury but has scored in double-figures in all six games since his return.
Roy missed all four of his three-point attempts in his Cowboy debut against A&M-Corpus Christi but has knocked down multiple treys in each of the five games since. Over that span, he's 13-of-28 from distance (.464).
Christian Coleman matched his season-high with 16 points in the win over GCU. It was his fourth game this season with 15-or-more points.
The Cowboys have played most of the last two games without leading scorer Vyctorius Miller who injured his ankle near the 8:00-mark of the first half against Sam Houston and sat out the win over GCU.
Miller hade exactly half of his 32 three-point attempts this season (.500) along with a team-best 33 free throws on 89.2% accuracy.
The Cowboys have thrived in second halves, averaging 48.6 points on 54.3% shooting while limiting opponents to 38.4 and 40.3%.
OSU is 21-2 under Lutz when leading at halftime.
The Cowboys are also 3-0 this season when trailing at the half after going 2-16 last year. They overcame a seven-point deficit to defeat Sam Houston on Dec. 2.

The Bedlam Series, presented by State Farm:

The 2025-26 school year marks the 27^th season of the Bedlam Series, presented by State Farm, highlighting the competitive spirit between the Cowboys and the Sooners in a wide range of sports across the athletic department.
Points are awarded for head-to-head wins or (in cross country, track and golf) to the team with the best finish in shared competitions.
OSU has a 14-11-1 lead with 10 wins in the last 12 years. The Pokes won the 2024-25 series by a 15-10 count.
Helped by a strong performance from the national champion Cowboy cross country team, OSU is out to a commanding 10-1 lead in 2025-26.
In addition to Saturday's men's and women's basketball doubleheader, the schools will wrestle on Jan. 11 in Stillwater.

On This Date: Dec. 13
1944 – Henry Iba's Oklahoma A&M Aggies defeated NYU, 44-41, at Madison Square Garden. The teams met again on the same stage three months later to decide the national championship, with A&M once again prevailing.

OSU in OKC:

OSU and OU have split four meetings all-time in Oklahoma City. Last year's was the second in what is now the Paycom Center. The Cowboys won a Big 12 quarterfinal matchup over the Sooners in 2009. The other two happened much, much earlier at the old Municipal Auditorium (now Civic Center Music Hall): The Sooners won a 1939 district playoff game, 30-21, to earn one of eight spots in the inaugural NCAA tournament field. The Cowboys capped the 1941-42 season with a 44-35 victory in a benefit game for the Naval Relief Society.
OSU teams are a combined 109-30 in OKC with games as far back as December 1907.
More than half of those games came under coach Henry Iba, whose teams put together a 69-17 record. Iba helped launch the All-College tournament in the mid-1930s and came away with first-place trophies in 11 of his 20 appearances in that event from 1936-55.
This is the third consecutive season that the Cowboys have played a game at the Paycom Center, home of the NBA's Thunder. They're 15-6 there all-time.
OSU was involved in the arena's first-ever college basketball game – on Jan. 3, 2003 – when it defeated BYU in the first half of a doubleheader that also involved OU and Michigan State.
This March, the Paycom Center will serve as a first and second round host for the 2026 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. It's the arena's fifth go-around as an NCAA Tournament site, after previously hosting in 2003, 2005, 2010 and 2016. The Cowboys punched their 2005 Sweet 16 ticket in OKC with victories over Southeastern Louisiana and Southern Illinois.
The Paycom Center also hosted a pair of Big 12 tournaments in 2007 and 2009.
OSU's list of Paycom Center wins includes top-25 takedowns of No. 23 Tennessee (12/22/2005), No. 7 Pittsburgh (12/21/2006), No. 7 Texas A&M (3/9/2007) and No. 6 Oklahoma (3/12/2009).

The Series with Oklahoma:

This is the 251^st men's basketball meeting between Oklahoma State and Oklahoma.
OU leads 143-106 with three straight victories, however the Cowboys have taken seven of the last 11.
OSU and OU shared a league (The Big 8 and later the Big 12) from 1958 until 2024 when the Sooners made their move to the SEC, however, this will be the 99th consecutive season that two have gone head-to-head on the hardwood.
This is officially the second-earliest calendar date in the 118 years of Bedlam basketball, surpassed only by the series' first official contest, played on Dec. 7, 1907 in Norman.
OSU is looking for its first series win since a three-game Bedlam sweep during the 2022-23 season, which included a Big 12 quarterfinal victory in Kansas City.
The Sooners swept the final Big 12 era home-and-home in 2023-24, highlighted by Javian McCollum's dramatic overtime buzzer-beater in Stillwater, and added an 80-65 win last December in OKC (the first non-conference matchup between the programs since 1958).
Last year's OKC game started poorly for the Pokes. They trailed 30-13 at the 6:00-mark of the first half after missing 16 of their first 19 shots and committing 10 turnovers. The Cowboys outscored the Sooners 52-50 the rest of the way, but the damage was done.

Scouting the Sooners:

Fifth-year Oklahoma coach Porter Moser lost the entire starting five from last year's 20-win team that reached the NCAA tournament, but brought in a new wave of talent and experience with a portal class that includes guards Nijel Pack (Miami) and Xzayvier Brown (St. Joseph's) and forwards Tae Davis (Notre Dame) and Derrion Reid (Alabama).
The Sooners are averaging nearly 85 points per game and have totaled as many three-point field goals (89) as turnovers (89) during their 6-3 start, which includes a neutral court win over Marquette and a road win at Wake Forest.
The three OU losses have come to KenPom top-100 foes Gonzaga, Nebraska and Arizona State. That trio is a combined 27-3 (26-2 if you throw out Gonzaga's head-to-head win over ASU).
Pack – an 2022 All-Big 12 performer with K-State and a member of Miami's 2023 Final Four team – is averaging a team-high 17.2 points and ranks among the NCAA leaders in three-point quantity (4^th, 3.89/game) and quality (48.6%, 18^th).
Davis is averaging 13.3 points and 6.8 rebounds (3.6 of them on the offensive glass).
Brown has put up 13.1 points and leads the team in assists (3.4), steals (1.8) and minutes (30.7).
Just two rotation players are back from last season -- Mohamed Wague (team-high 7.4 rpg) and Dayton Forsythe (5.3 ppg in 18.9 mpg).

Matchup Mashup:

OSU and OU play for the first time this year, but the teams have already crossed paths. Both staged neutral court games in Chicago over Thanksgiving (OSU vs. Northwestern and OU against Marquette). Last Saturday in Phoenix they were on opposite ends of a doubleheader. Minutes after OSU's 82-76 win over Northwestern, the Sooners took the court against Arizona State.

A Cowboy win would...

Make them 10-0, extending their best start and longest winning streak since opening the 2006-07 season with 11 consecutive victories.
Make them the eighth Cowboy team to start a season 10-0, joining the 1914-15, 1950-51, 1991-92, 1997-98, 1999-00, 2001-02 and 2006-07 squads.
Be the 19th double-digit winning streak in OSU history and first since 2006-07.
Give them wins over the Sooners in eight of the last 12 encounters.
Make them 27-18 in parts of two seasons under head coach Steve Lutz and boost Lutz's five-year career record to 96-53.
Lift their all-time record at the Paycom Center to 16-6 (2-1 vs. OU).
Make them 110-30 all-time in OKC.
Give them wins in three different NBA arenas.

A Cowboy loss would...

Be their first of the season after a 9-0 start.
Make them 2-1 on neutral courts this season.
Be their fourth straight to the Sooners (Prior to it, the Cowboys had won seven of eight).
Drop their all-time OKC record to 109-31 (15-7 at the Paycom Center).

Up Next: Kansas City
Thursday, Dec. 18 (7 p.m. CT, ESPN+)

The Cowboys will play their last three non-conference games on Eddie Sutton Court, beginning next Thursday.
OSU will celebrate the educators who shape our future, with discounted tickets for area teachers through the following link:
www.gofevo.com/event/Wintersport22
OSU is 9-0 all-time against Kansas City (5-0 in Stillwater). The teams last met Nov. 9, 2019 in GIA -- a 69-51 Cowboy victory.
Kansas City (1-9 heading into Saturday's game against Spurgeon) will face both Oklahoma (Dec. 16) and OSU (Dec. 18) next