Notebook: Oklahoma State-Iowa State

Five thoughts are here. They aren’t long! A few more before we put this one to bed.

• Legitimate question: Was anyone not related to the players in the game watching the Alabama State-Texas Southern women’s game? And the fouls! There were like six in the last 40 seconds in a 10-point game. Know when to cash out, ladies!

• Here’s why Leyton Hammonds didn’t play.

#OKState forward Leyton Hammonds won't play tonight. Dislocated his right index finger on Saturday against West Virginia.

— Mark Cooper (@mark_cooperjr) February 29, 2016

• One of the announcers said, “how often do we have a game where we have three SportsCenter Top 10 nominees?” I’d say pretty often when Oklahoma State is involved.

• I do wonder if any 6’8” player has attempted more finger rolls than Georges Niang.

• Niang is the winningest player in Iowa State history. There was a sign at the end that said his teams won something like 93 percent of their home games in his four years. Pretty heady stuff.

• How weird is it that nobody for OSU scored in double figures? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that.

• He also seems pretty easy to like.

Niang tears up in this first sentence. This guy loves this place as much as the fans do. What makes him the GOAT.

— Chris Williams (@ChrisMWilliams) March 1, 2016

• Iowa State would be pretty amazing if you gave them a healthy Jawun Evans.

• I thought it was pretty smart of both teams to play zone. They combined to shoot 9/46 from three. College hoops!

• Jeff Newberry and Tyree Griffin both played 40 minutes. Not a sentence I hoped to be typing at the beginning of the year.

• Yikes.

Nader with ANOTHER #SCTop10 WOW!!!! https://t.co/TDgGJ67Fec

— Cyclone Basketball (@CycloneMBB) March 1, 2016

• Players available for this game collectively shoot 32 percent on the season. They took 27 threes.

• OSU had a 10:40 stretch from the end of the first half to the beginning of the second in which it scored three points. That ain’t gonna do.

• We’ve reached the point of the season where Joe Burton fouling out is genuinely a bad thing that I’m disappointed about.

• Anthony Allen vs. Frans Steyn, who you got?

• I was hoping Iowa State would pull a Desmond/Gottlieb from 2000 and lose on an emotional senior night. Alas.

• Mitch Solomon took a fadeaway three in case you missed the game and wanted a very quick recap.

• The OSU season in one photo.

.@CycloneMBB's Abdel Nader with a monster dunk in the second half. #Cyclones pic.twitter.com/Vnb9oWCHIj

— Kelsey Kremer (@kelsey_kremer) March 1, 2016

• Steph Curry now has more threes in his last 18 games than OSU has on the entire season.

OSU will play Texas on Friday night in GIA. The end is near.