STILLWATER \u2013 It was a tale of two halves from Oklahoma State as the Cowboys rolled to an 85-69 win over Texas A&M Corpus Christi in Gallagher-Iba Arena on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
With the win, the Cowboys moved to 4-0 on the season,\u00a0marking\u00a0the first time since the 2020-21 season the Cowboys have started a\u00a0season 4-0. That was Cade Cunningham\u2019s freshman season and the Pokes started 6-0.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys were led by Anthony Roy in his first game of the season for the Pokes. He finished with 15 points on 5-of-12 shooting from the floor.<\/p>\n
There were four other Cowboys in double figures as Vyctorius Miller finished with 13 points and Isaiah Coleman, Lefteris Mantzoukas and Andrij Vukovic all finished with 10 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mantzoukas also recorded a double-double as he had 10 rebounds as well, with his 10th\u00a0board coming in the final two minutes of the game.<\/p>\n
As a team, the Cowboys shot 50% from the floor, just 21% from 3-point range and 81% from the free throw line.<\/p>\n
The comparison between halves stand at 43% from the floor and 8% from 3-point range\u00a0in the first half and 57% from the floor and 33% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
On the game, they outrebounded the Islanders 44-30, 34-21 on the defensive end and 10-9 on the offensive end. They also outscored the 42-34 in the paint and 47-41 in bench points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Turnovers were an issue for the Pokes as they turned it over 17 times, but only gave up 17 points.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a tight first half for the Pokes as the Islanders finished the first half on a 7-0 run, coupled with a near-three-minute scoring drought by the Pokes to go into halftime with OSU leading 37-35.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Cowboys shot just 8% from 3-point range in the first half, with 10 turnovers leading to 10 points for the Islanders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Corpus Christi came out of the break and tied the game up at 37, before the Pokes turned up the pressure on offense and jumped out to a nine-point lead, 45-37 three minutes in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nearly 24 minutes after the Pokes\u2019 first 3-pointer of the game, just one minute in from Vyctorius Miller, Kanye Clary gave the Pokes\u2019 their second near the 15-minute mark of the second half. That made them 2-of-15 from 3-point range. Just a few minutes later, Ryan Crotty gave them their third to make it a 12-point game, 56-44.<\/p>\n
The Islanders hung around near a single-digit game as Leo Torbor was fouled on a drive and hit both free throws to make it 58-47. But that didn\u2019t last for long as the separation began over the next few minutes as the Cowboys went on an 8-0 run to take a 19-point lead, 66-47. In fact, it would be nearly seven more minutes of game time before the Islanders would hit a field goal. It was a 15-2 run for the Pokes, with three free throws from the Islanders before a putback on the fourth snapped the streak.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys are back in action this coming Wednesday as they play host to South Florida for a 7 p.m. tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STILLWATER \u2013 It was a tale of two halves from Oklahoma State as the Cowboys rolled to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[29141,3804,1770,155,157,156,544,29140,15927,15930],"class_list":["post-52271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-11-16-2025","tag-3804","tag-basketball","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-oklahoma-state","tag-oklahoma-state-vs-texas-am-corpus-christi-basketball","tag-pokes-report","tag-zachary-lancaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271","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=52271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}