Oklahoma State is suddenly surging.
What could it mean?
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The Oklahoma State men’s basketball team in the NCAA Tournament?
It’s not as crazy as it seemed even two weeks ago.
At that point, the Cowboys were coming off a blowout loss at Kansas State, a loss that dropped them to 11-12 overall and 2-7 in Big 12 play. With only seven games to play, all hope seemed lost. The next three games were against Baylor, Texas A&M and Kansas, all teams that have spent time this season in the top 25.
Then came a double-digit victory over Baylor, then a road victory at Texas A&M, then Saturday came the biggest shocker of them all.
OSU 61, Kansas 60.
Now, the Cowboys are 14-12 overall and 5-7 in conference play. They’ve won their last three games and four of the last five. They’re one of the hottest teams in the country.
Now, they look like the team everyone thought they could be.
Now, they look like they could do anything.
That includes going to the NCAA Tournament.
Four games remain in the regular season. OSU goes to Missouri, then hosts Nebraska and Oklahoma before finishing on the road at Texas. If the Cowboys can win three of those, then win a couple games in the Big 12 Tournament, they just might be in the tournament. That, after all, would make them winners of eight of their final 10 games, a factor at which the NCAA selection committee takes a long hard look.
And the Cowboys winning eight of 10 is entirely possible. The way they’re playing, they could definitely win their next three. Missouri is struggling. Nebraska has pulled shockers but is no great shakes. And Oklahoma is beatable in Stillwater.
Then, you have to figure that if the Cowboys win those three, they would face someone like Texas Tech or OU in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament, then have to take on one of the top seeds in the second round. And if the Cowboys got to that point on that type of roll, it wouldn’t be far-fetched to think they could keep winning.
Heck, look at the run they went on last year in the conference tournament. The Cowboys made a seemingly impossible run that ended just short of the championship game. Who’s to say they couldn’t make the same type of run this season? And if OSU does, that’d be one hot team, and the NCAA selection committee likes hot teams.
Crazy?
Not anymore.