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![]() David Taylor made his lone addition to Oklahoma State’s 2024 high school recruiting class. Class of 2024 prospect Colin Young on Thursday announced his commitment to OSU. The Cowboys signed four recruits as part of the 2024 class during the early signing period in November, months before John Smith retired and Taylor was named head coach. Young just graduated from Wahlert Catholic High School in Dubuque, Iowa, where he transferred for his senior season. He wrestled for Belvidere North High School in Illinois as a sophomore and junior. Young capped his preps career with an Iowa Class 2A 165-pound state championship . Even before Young’s addition, OSU’s 2024 class was ranked No. 10 in the country, according to FloWrestling. The class features top-100 prospects Cody Merrill and JJ McComas. The group also includes Rin Sakamoto, who will move from Tokyo to Stillwater to wrestle in Gallagher-Iba Arena. The Cowboys have also added four from the transfer portal this offseason, including three multi-time All-Americans in Wyatt Hendrickson, Dean Hamiti and Cameron Amine. ![]() Read this original article at Pistols Firing Blog.
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![]() Coleman Scott could be following his mentor out of the sport of wrestling. Scott was associate head coach under John Smith at Oklahoma State this past season. Scott left his head coaching position at North Carolina to coach under his former coach, leading many to believe Scott was the heir to take over Cowboy wrestling when Smith retired. Smith ultimately retired at the end of this past season, but OSU hired David Taylor as head coach after Scott served as interim head coach during the coaching search. Scott is no longer a part of OSU’s coaching staff since Taylor took over. Scott was interviewed on Jason Bryant’s Hall of Fame Legend Series earlier this week after Scott was recently inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member. After reminiscing about his wrestling career the entire interview, Scott was lastly asked what was next for him in the sport of wrestling. “No clue,” Scott said on the podcast. “No clue right now. Yeah, with everything going on, I don’t know. I don’t know. We might’ve seen my last days in the sport. I’m not sure. “And so that’s for me to figure out and time to get on with my family and be around my kids a little bit more. I’ve got some time to figure that out. That’s where I’m at today. I don’t know what this sport’s got for me anymore, Jason. I’m not sure. So I think I’ve got to do some deep diving the next couple of weeks, and like I said, with my wife, my kids, and really pour my life into them and to see where I’m at.” Scott was a four-time All-American and NCAA individual champion in 2008 at OSU. Scott then had a successful international career after college, highlighted by winning a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games. He began his coaching career even before his competitive days were over as a volunteer assistant under Smith in 2013 and 2014. He then left for Chapel Hill. Competing in his last tournament in 2016, Scott was an assistant at North Carolina for only one season before becoming the head coach in 2015. He led the Tar Heels for eight seasons, amassing the second-best winning percentage in program history at .605 and guiding UNC to its best team finish at the NCAA Wrestling Championships since 1995 during his final season there. Scott left UNC to go back to Stillwater before this past season and become Smith’s associate head coach. The Cowboys posted a 14-1 dual record and finished 10th at the NCAA Wrestling Championships after two down years by OSU standards. Smith and wrestlers on the team praised Scott throughout the season in helping with the turnaround. So far, no one from Smith’s last staff has announced a new destination. Tyler Caldwell was retained by Taylor as an assistant. Scott, Chris Perry and Gary Wayne Harding were not. ![]() Read this original article at Pistols Firing Blog. Daily Bullets (June 28): OSU Runs Away with Last Bedlam Series Basketball Opponents Revealed6/28/2024 ![]() Thanks for stopping by – here’s your daily dose of Oklahoma State sports news. OSU Bullets• OSU won the last Bedlam series by the largest margin ever (PFB) • OSU’s Basketball opponents in league play were revealed yesterday (PFB) • Lindy Waters got traded to Golden State yesterday (PFB) • PFF projected Ollie Gordon as the top running back in college football this fall – fascinating stat on OSU’s offensive line play in there:
• Mike Gundy’s crew has a sneaky hard non-conference slate (PFB) • Rickie’s the best.
Non-OSU Bullets• Best and worst states for summer road trips (OK is doing ok!) • 5 instructive (parenting) quotes from The Anxious Generation This is awesome:
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![]() One of Oklahoma State’s Splash Brothers is joining the team that originated the term Splash Brothers. The Oklahoma City Thunder is trading Lindy Waters III to the Golden State Warriors, according to Shams Charania. Anthony Slater, an Oklahoma State alum who covers the Warriors for The Athletic, reports that Golden State plan to keep Waters and pay him $2.2 million next season. In return, the Thunder will receive the No. 52 pick in the NBA Draft, which will be selected later Thursday. It’s bittersweet in that Waters’ journey through Oklahoma ends. A Native American who attended Norman North High School, Waters played at Oklahoma State from 2016 to 2020. He then played with the Enid Outlaws before landing a deal with the OKC Blue — the Thunder’s G League affiliate. He then worked his way up to a two-way contract with the Thunder before an outright NBA contract. But at the same time, Waters wasn’t playing a ton of minutes with the Thunder, as OKC made its push to earn the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference this past season. He appeared in 38 games, playing 7.4 minutes a contest. So hopefully this move sees Waters on the floor more frequently. Waters scored 1,152 points in his OSU career — good for 31st in program history behind Joe Adkins and ahead of Joe Atkinson. Waters hit 177 career 3s in Stillwater, which is good for 11th in program history. His 3-point shooting paired with classmate Thomas Dzaigwa’s gave the pair the nickname the Splash Brothers, which funnily enough is a play on the Splash Brother tandem of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson at Golden State. Waters has appeared in 104 NBA regular season games, putting up 550 points in that time while shooting 38% from 3. He helped the Blue win a G League title this past season and average 21.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 10 G League games. Spots on the Thunder’s roster are growing limited, as OKC took two players in Wednesday night’s First Round — Serbia guard Nikola Topic at 12 and Weber State guard Dillon Jones at 26. Golden State, meanwhile, didn’t select anyone in the First Round. The Warriors went 46-36 last season, earning the 10 seed in the West before failing to get out of the Play-In Tournament. It’s an interesting time in Golden State, as the franchise is working to make the best of its remaining years with Curry, who is 36. There has been a lot of talk around Thompson’s future, as he enters this offseason as an unrestricted free agent. ![]() Read this original article at Pistols Firing Blog. ![]() The Cowboys got the last laugh. Oklahoma State beat in-state rival Oklahoma in the all-sports Phillips 66 Bedlam Series 21-9 for the 2023-24 competition year. It’s the ninth time in the last 11 years that OSU has won the competition, and the 21-9 mark is the largest margin of victory for either school since the competition started in 1999-2000.
This will be the last full slate of sports in the series for the foreseeable future, as OU leaves the Big 12 for the SEC officially on Monday. Some sports are still scheduling nonconference events, while the wrestling teams will still share the same conference, but the number of Bedlam matchups will dwindle starting next year. With the current state of the all-sports Bedlam Series concluding, OSU has a 13-11 all-time lead. OSU started its final full rivalry year strong, leading 6-1 after the fall sports season. The fall was highlighted by a 27-24 win for the football team in Boone Pickens Stadium. We might have to wait for a future bowl matchup before we get to watch Bedlam happen on the gridiron again. During the winter season, the rivals split contests 4-4, with wrestling getting two of those wins for OSU. The Pokes really furthered the margin in the spring, getting an 11-4 advantage in those sports. Softball upset the No. 2 Sooners in a series, while the baseball team was 4-1 against OU with a victory in the Big 12 Baseball Championship final. If the rivals do not meet in a head-to-head matchup for a sport, then Big 12 standings were used to determine a winner for that sport. Other than that, the series winner is determined by straight wins and losses, with no sport weighted more than the other. ![]() Read this original article at Pistols Firing Blog. ![]() The Cowboys now know the conference gauntlet they’ll have to go through in the first year of the Steve Lutz era. The Big 12 on Thursday announced its basketball scheduling matrix for the 2024-25 season. The days of playing every conference foe home and away in a campaign ended last season with the additions of BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF. The conference will enter another refresh this upcoming school year with Oklahoma and Texas on the way out and Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah joining. Here is a look at which teams the Cowboys will play where next school year: Both: UCF, Houston, Kansas State, Texas Tech, Utah Newcomers Coming to GIASo all four of the league’s newcomers will make a trip to Gallagher-Iba Arena. The only newcomer the Cowboys will travel to is Utah. The Cowboys are 0-3 all-time against Arizona, but none of those meetings have come in Stillwater. The teams most recently played in 2005 Sweet 16, a game Arizona won by a point. OSU is 5-3 against Arizona State with two of those games being played in Stillwater. The last time the Sun Devils made the trip was in 1995, a game OSU won 90-85. Before that, the teams met in Stillwater in 1965, with OSU winning 61-49. The teams last met regardless of location in Oklahoma City in 1997 with OSU winning that game 79-68. Colorado and OSU have a long history on the hardwood with the Buffaloes being in the conference before CU left for the Pac-12 ahead of the 2011-12 season. OSU is 61-48 against the Buffaloes all-time including a 37-10 record in Stillwater. The teams last met in Stillwater in 2010, when OSU beat CU 90-78. The teams last met in Las Vegas in 2013, a game OSU won 78-73. OSU and Utah have met five times, with the Cowboys winning four of those matchups. Their only meeting in Stillwater came in 1953, a game OSU won 71-44. The teams have met twice in Salt Lake City — OSU beat the Utes 73-59 in 1956 and fell 89-73 in 1980. Their last meeting came in Vegas in 2009, a game OSU won 77-55. Other NotesThe Cowboys will make their first trip to Orlando, playing the Knights home and away this upcoming season. It’ll be just the fourth and fifth meetings between the programs, and all have been recent. OSU fell to the Knights in the Bahamas in 2022 before falling twice to UCF last season — once in GIA and again in Kansas City. OSU fans will have to travel to Lawrence if they want to see the Cowboys face the Jayhawks. It’ll be the first time since 2011 KU hasn’t played a game in GIA. It’ll be just the third time Cincinnati has played in Stillwater and the Bearcats’ first as a conference foe. Cincy last played in GIA in 2001, a game OSU won 69-62. Before that, they met in Stillwater in 1958 when OSU won 61-57. OSU won’t host former point guard Javon Small, but the newly committed Patrick Suemnick will travel to his old arena. In an unofficial trade of sorts, Small committed to West Virginia out of the transfer portal and Suemnick is headed from West Virginia to OSU. OSU Women’s Big 12 MatrixBoth: Cincinnati, Kansas, West Virginia ![]() Read this original article at Pistols Firing Blog. |
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