{"id":163136,"date":"2026-02-13T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163136\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:48:13","slug":"cowboys-set-for-saturday-pink-out-against-tcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163136\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys set for Saturday ‘Pink Out’ against TCU"},"content":{"rendered":"

TCU (15-9, 5-6) at OKLAHOMA STATE (16-8, 4-7)
\nSaturday, Feb. 14, 2026 | 11:05 a.m. CT
\nStillwater, Okla. | Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611)
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\nTickets: okstate.com\/tickets
\nWatch: ESPN2 (John Schriffen & King McClure)
\nListen: Cowboy Radio Network (Dave Hunziker<\/a>, John Holcomb<\/a> & King McClure)
\nStats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
\nSeries: OSU leads 29-16 (13-4 in Stillwater)
\nLast: Jan. 20, 2026 in Fort Worth (TCU, 68-65)
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\nTickets\/Promotions:<\/p>\n


\n\tCowboy Basketball will welcome back more than five dozen former players and staffers for Alumni Weekend. Festivities include a special halftime recognition during Saturday’s game.
\n\tIt’s a PINK OUT in Gallagher-Iba Arena as the Cowboys host their annual Coaches vs. Cancer game. The first 750 fans will receive a free pink T-shirt.
\n\tRepresentatives from the Eddie Sutton Foundation will be on hand to collect donations in support of cancer research.
\n\tFans will also have the opportunity to honor friends and loved ones by filling out a custom card with the message: “I scowl at cancer in memory of \u2026” \u2014 a nod to Sutton’s famous scowl.
\n\tOne ticket is good for two games. Fans are invited to stick around afterward to watch Cowgirl Basketball take on Texas Tech at 2:30 p.m.
\n\tTo purchase seats, visit okstate.com\/tickets <\/p>\n

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\nOpening Tips:<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Oklahoma State Cowboys are home for the first time in 10 days to take on the TCU Horned Frogs.
\n\tAfter putting 99 points on No. 16 BYU, the Pokes struggled offensively during a two-game desert road swing that included losses at No. 1 Arizona and Arizona State.
\n\tIn Tuesday’s 85-76 setback in Tempe, the Cowboys were within a point with less than four minutes to play before the hosts reeled off nine straight to take command.
\n\tIt was a similar script the last time OSU and TCU met — a 68-65 Horned Frog win in Fort Worth. After OSU took a 65-58 lead with 4:13 left, TCU finished on a 10-0 run. David Punch scored the go-ahead basket with less than 10 seconds left, and the Cowboys missed two chances to tie or take the lead on their final possession.
\n\tA four-game losing streak to TCU also includes last February’s three-pointer buzzer beater in Fort Worth. The Horned Frogs are looking to take back-to-back in Stillwater for the first time ever after rallying from a 17-point first-half deficit to win their 2024 visit.
\n\tOSU leads the series, 29-16 (13-4 in Stillwater).
\n\tWith a win over TCU, the Cowboys (16-8) would match last year’s victory total (17-18) and strengthen their case for an NCAA at-large bid.
\n\tA key selection committee metric has the Pokes at 0.36 Wins Above Bubble, meaning the Cowboys would outperform the average “bubble team” faced with a similar schedule.
\n\tThe Arizona trip took a bite out of the season averages, but OSU still ranks among the top 30 nationally in scoring (84.4 ppg) with nine games of 90-or-more.
\n\tThe Cowboys are 16-0 this season when putting at least 81 points on the board but 0-8 otherwise. Opponents are averaging 80.8 per game.
\n\tOSU has ridden the hot hand of Anthony Roy<\/a> (17.7 ppg) for much of the season. The senior ranks among the top-25 in three-pointers by both quantity (18th, 3.33) and quality (23rd, .424).
\n\tSenior forward Parsa Fallah<\/a> (13.6 ppg) is the team’s top rebounder at 6.2 per game and his .599 field goal percentage is the Big 12’s second-highest among qualifiers (5.0+ FGM\/game).
\n\tGuards Kanye Clary<\/a> (5.0 apg) and Jaylen Curry<\/a> (4.3 apg) lead one the nation’s most aggressive attacks (11th in KenPom adjusted tempo).
\n\tThe Cowboys (2-1 at home against AP top-25 teams) will continue their homestand Wednesday against No. 9 Kansas (8 p.m. CT). <\/p>\n

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\nLast Time on Cowboy Basketball:
\nFeb. 10 in Tempe | Arizona St. 85, OSU 76<\/p>\n


\n\tOSU’s postgame postmortem: Too many turnovers and not enough defensive rebounds.
\n\tArizona State outscored the Cowboys 24-4 on second-chances and 26-13 off takeaways, aided by a 17-11 turnover margin.
\n\tSix Sun Devils scored in double-figures led by Massamba Diop (17) and Santiago Trouet (16 pts, 10 reb). The pair combined for 10 of ASU’s 19 offensive boards.
\n\tAnthony Roy<\/a> and Parsa Fallah<\/a> scored 16 points each to pace the Cowboys, who dropped to 0-3 all-time in Tempe. This was their first visit since 1996.
\n\tOSU used a 16-3 run to erase an early 29-16 deficit. Roy’s free throw tied the game at 32 with 2:34 to play in the half.
\n\tThe Cowboys tied it twice more in the second half but missed three potential go-ahead shots.
\n\tUp 69-68 with less than 4:00 to play, the Sun Devils reeled off nine straight points to take control, then converted 9-of-10 free throws over the final minute-and-a-half.
\n\tOSU shot 42.9% to ASU’s 40.0%, but the Sun Devils had nine more attempts and a 28-20 edge at the foul line. <\/p>\n

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\nASU Leftovers:<\/p>\n


\n\tGuards Jaylen Curry<\/a> (6) and Kanye Clary<\/a> (5) totaled 11 assists against ASU. It was the eighth time this season that the pair have combined for double-digit dimes.
\n\tAnthony Roy<\/a> recorded his team-best 20th double-figure scoring game. Iowa State (7 on Jan. 24) is the only team that has held him to single-digits this season.
\n\tAfter using 15 starting lineups in the first 17 games, Steve Lutz<\/a> has opened each of the last six contests with the combo of Clary-Miller-Roy-C.Coleman-Fallah. They’ve made a total of eight starts together this season.
\n\tOSU lost for the first time when outshooting its opponent. The Cowboys were previously 13-0 (24-4 Lutz era).
\n\tKanye Clary<\/a> has posted more assists than turnovers in each of his last 21 games — two shy of Doug Gottlieb’s OSU record, set 27 years ago.
\n\tAnthony Roy<\/a> has made at least one three-point field goal in each of his last 20 contests — now the eighth longest run in OSU history.
\n\tOSU is 12-1 this season when leading at halftime (27-3 overall under Lutz). The lone loss came at TCU on Jan. 20.
\n\tOSU is 12-0 this season (24-5 Lutz era) when out-rebounding the opposition.
\n\tThe Cowboys were outrebounded by lopsided margins in both games of their desert road swing — 45-34 at ASU and 56-35 at UA. The latter was the most total boards by an OSU opponent since Jan. 20, 2018 when Oklahoma won the rebounding battle, 57-50, but lost the war (83-81).
\n\tSaturday will mark 721 days since OSU’s last overtime game. It’s the Big 12’s longest drought and one of the 10-longest in Division I basketball. <\/p>\n

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\nConsecutive Games with a 3-Pointer:
\n59 — John Lucas (Jan. 3, 2004 to Mar. 24, 2005)
\n36 — Brooks Thompson (Mar. 19, 1993 to Mar. 20, 1994)
\n31 — Keiton Page<\/a> (Nov. 15, 2011 to Mar. 8, 2012)
\n29 — James Anderson (Mar. 3, 2009 to Feb. 1, 2010)
\n25 — Randy Rutherford (Dec. 3, 1994 to Mar. 10, 1995)
\n22 — Phil Forte (Nov. 23, 2016 to Feb. 18, 2017)
\n21 — Phil Forte (Mar. 3, 2014 to Jan. 13, 2015)
\n20 — Anthony Roy<\/a> (Nov. 16, 2025 to Present)
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\nOn This Date: Feb. 14<\/p>\n


\n\t2001 — Always an emotionally-charged affair, the first Bedlam meeting after OSU’s tragic plane crash took things up a notch. Behind 26 points from Victor Williams and a raucous crowd, the Cowboys routed 13th-ranked Oklahoma, 72-44. <\/p>\n

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\nThe Series with TCU:<\/p>\n


\n\tOSU is 29-16 all-time against TCU, however the Horned Frogs have won four straight and 12 of the last 16 meetings.
\n\tThe teams are playing home-and-home for the first time since 2023. TCU won the first leg, 68-65, in Fort Worth.
\n\tThe Cowboys are 13-4 in Stillwater. In its last visit (Jan. 23, 2024), TCU rallied from a 17-point first half deficit to win 74-69.
\n\tThe Cowboys are 9-10 against the Frogs in Fort Worth with eight straight losses– four of which have come on last-second baskets. <\/p>\n

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\nLast Time vs. TCU:<\/p>\n


\n\tJan. 20, 2026 in Fort Worth | TCU, 68-65
\n\tTCU scored the last 10 points of the night to hand OSU a 68-65 loss.
\n\tThe Horned Frogs have won the last eight meetings between the teams in Schollmaier Arena, with four of them sealed by go-ahead baskets in the final 10 seconds.
\n\tDavid Punch was the latest Horned Frog hero, finishing with a game-high 22 points, including a layup with 9.3 seconds left that snapped a 65-all tie.
\n\tPunch and Xavier Edmonds each posted double-doubles, combining for 40 points and 20 rebounds, and Brock Harding had nine assists.
\n\tDown 67-65, OSU missed two chances in the final seconds. Vyctorius Miller<\/a>‘s three was off the mark, and Isaiah Coleman<\/a>‘s tip-in try hung on the front of the rim before rolling off.
\n\tTCU added a free throw for the final margin.
\n\tColeman paced the Cowboys with 14 points and six rebounds, and Kanye Clary<\/a> dished out six assists.
\n\tOSU led 65-58 on Andrija Vukovic<\/a>‘s layup with 4:13 left but went scoreless the rest of the way, missing each of its last seven shots. <\/p>\n

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\nScouting the Horned Frogs:<\/p>\n


\n\tTenth-year head coach Jamie Dixon is looking to get his alma mater back to the NCAA tournament for the fourth time in five years.
\n\tThe Horned Frogs (15-9, 5-6) are coming off a 62-55 win over No. 5 Iowa State.
\n\tTCU ranks just inside the top-50 in the NCAA NET and has the nation’s 23rd most efficient defense, per KenPom.
\n\tThe Horned Frogs rank among the top-25 in blocks (4.9) and force turnovers on roughly one in every five enemy possessions (14.0\/game).
\n\t6-7 sophomore David Punch, the lone returning starter from last year, is the team’s leading scorer (14.0) and rebounder (7.0) and sits high on the NCAA’s individual blocks chart (20th, 2.1 bpg).
\n\t6-8 forward Xavier Edmonds — the nation’s top-ranked JUCO recruit out of Salt Lake Community College — has played some his best basketball over the last two months, averaging team-bests 14.5 points and 7.7 rebounds in Big 12 play (12.3 ppg and 5.3 rpg for the season).
\n\tGuards Jayden Pierre (10.4 ppg) and Micah Robinson (10.0 ppg) round out a group of four-double figure scorers.
\n\tPierre \u2013 a Providence transfer \u2013 has hit a team best 40 threes on a 37% accuracy.
\n\tFormer Iowa point guard Brock Harding (8.3 ppg) ranks among the Big 12 leaders in assists (6.0) and assist-to-turnover ratio (2.94), with nearly as many steals (40) as turnovers (49). <\/p>\n

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\nMatchup Mashup:<\/p>\n


\n\tOSU forward Parsa Fallah<\/a> played with TCU guard Liutauras Lelevicius last season at Oregon State. The pair helped the Beavers to 20 regular season wins. <\/p>\n

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\nA Cowboy Win Would…<\/p>\n


\n\tPush their record to 17-8, matching last year’s win total (17-18) with six games still to play in the regular season.
\n\tMake them 27-6 at home under Lutz (14-2 this season).
\n\tSnap a four-game series losing streak to TCU.
\n\tMake them 30-16 all-time against the Frogs (14-4 in Stillwater).
\n\tMake them 884-270 all-time inside GIA, including 316-96 (.767) since its 2000 renovation. <\/p>\n

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\nA Cowboy Loss Would…<\/p>\n


\n\tDrop them to 16-9 (4-8 Big 12).
\n\tBe their third straight, matching their longest losing streak under Lutz (Jan. 21-29, 2025 vs. Arizona, at Texas Tech and at K-State).
\n\tBe just their third at home this season (13-3) and their seventh in two seasons under Lutz (26-7).
\n\tBe their fifth straight to TCU and narrow their all-time series lead to 29-17 (13-5 in Stillwater).
\n\tGive TCU consecutive wins in Stillwater for the first time ever. <\/p>\n

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\nUp Next: 9\/9 Kansas (Home)
\nWednesday, Feb. 18, 8 p.m. CT (Peacock)<\/p>\n


\n\tIt’s a BLACKOUT next Wednesday night when No. 9 Kansas invades Gallagher-Iba Arena.
\n\tThe Jayhawks (19-5, 9-2) take an eight-game winning streak into Saturday at No. 5 Iowa State.
\n\tKU has the nation’s ninth most efficient defense, per KenPom, limiting opponents to 67.8 points on 38.3% shooting (sixth nationally).
\n\t6-foot-10 Flory Bidunga (14.9 ppg, 9.0 rpg) is the nation’s No. 2 shot-blocker at 2.88 per game.
\n\tFreshman guard Darryn Peterson has been one of college basketball’s best prorated performers, contributing 29.7 points-per-40-minutes (4th). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TCU (15-9, 5-6) at OKLAHOMA STATE (16-8, 4-7) Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026 | 11:05 a.m. CT Stillwater, Okla.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-163136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}