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Oklahoma State-UConn Notebook: Pokes Set Steals Record For a Half

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I wrote my five thoughts about OSU’s 98-90 win on Monday in Maui over UConn here. This is the rest of my notebook.

• I was legit fired up about this game. It’s been a while since I’ve felt like that before an OSU basketball game. Carson Cunningham has mentioned it many times, but it feels like a cloud has been lifted from the program. Is this team going to win 25 or 30 games? No. But it just reeks of optimism (which is what we’re looking for when it comes to sports anyway, isn’t it?)

• Dan Shulman looks like John Smoltz.

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• If loving Jay Bilas is wrong, I don’t want to be right. He was flying the orange and black hard on Monday. Praising Jeffrey Carroll, talking Jawun up like a lotto pick and saying anybody that plays OSU this year is going to be in for a fight. He even said if OSU finishes seventh in the Big 12 then the Big 12 is the best conference in the country and that he thinks they will finish third or fourth (conservatively). Someone get that man a JamesOn Curry jersey!

• The first steal of the game was a denied bounce pass. This is the defense Brad Underwood preaches. Leyton Hammonds said after the preseason that it was difficult to learn, but the team was trying to pick it up. It’s clear they have done so successfully. Your liability there is if a team is disciplined enough and patient enough to go backdoor on you on every possession. BUT PETE CARRIL AIN’T WALKING THROUGH THAT DOOR.

• I’m a big fan of Lindy Waters starting and Clip coming off the bench. Clip has a real chance to be Big 12 6th Man of the Year (if that’s an award).

• OSU has never scored 100 points in four straight games. It came within two of doing it on Monday.

• The Pokes had 14 steals in the first half which broke the school record of 12 set in 2007-08 against Prairie View A&M.

• Jawun.

• Cam McGriff dribbling = Chris Carson throwing passes. Don’t need it.

• The skinny UConn unis looked weird. I have no idea if I like them, but they certainly look different than they have in the past.

• It was a bummer Terry Larrier got hurt early in the game. Untouched knee injuries are never fun.

“I think we saw the fight that a Kevin Ollie team is going to have,” said Underwood. “Tough, tenacious. Had another little setback tonight with Terry going down. But that team did not quit. I thought Rodney Purvis was off the chart. They get those kind of performances from the back court with he and Adams. They’re playing a young group of guys and they fought tonight.”

• Jay Bilas loves Jawun more than I love my kids.

• Bilas also said Phil Forte does not do “Eddie Haskell workouts” which are basically the fake hustle of workouts. I think I probably did a lot of Eddie Haskell workouts.

• Mitch Solomon gets his third foul early in the second half.

• I love Tavarius Shine. The end.

• Kevin Ollie always looks like he’s about to cry.

• How about Cam McGriff trying to put the continental United States on a poster in the second half. Good grief, big man.

• UConn is now 1-3.

• I thought UConn got some pretty atrocious calls, specifically on their big man Amida Brimah. Effectively taking him out of the game was huge as OSU closed it out late.

• #MauiRims

• 58 fouls in a game is an atrocity. Some of us have bedtimes (and tomorrow’s game starts at 9:30!)

• Crying!

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