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Anderson scores 30 points in big upset
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Oklahoma State forward Marshall Moses drive past Texas A&M defenders David Loubeau, left, and Donald Sloan during their game at Gallager-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Okla. on Wednesday. The Cowboys won, 76-69.
By Doug Tucker Associated Press Saturday, Jan. 23
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Short-handed and far from home, Oklahoma State did something it hadn't done since Eddie Sutton played for the Cowboys.
James Anderson scored 30 points and Obi Muonelo hit two key three-pointers in the final minutes Saturday, lifting underdog Oklahoma State to a 73-69 victory over No. 10 Kansas State. It had been just six days since the crestfallen Wildcats beat No. 1 Texas on the same floor.
It had been 52 years since Oklahoma State beat a top 10 team on the road. Sutton, the former Oklahoma State coach, was a forward when the Cowboys beat No. 2 Kansas 52-50 in overtime in 1958.
"But this Kansas State team is a great basketball team. It was just one of those nights."
"In this league, everybody knows what each other is going to do," said Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford, who decided on Thursday that point guard Ray Penn would sit out with a leg injury.
The victory against Texas in their previous game was just Kansas State's third over a No. 1 team and boosted basketball fever among Wildcats fans to its highest point in decades. But after playing so well, the Wildcats were off their game in just about every respect.
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"We missed 47 open shots. We didn't get any offensive rebounds," said coach Frank Martin. "We just missed shot after shot after shot. Didn't make free throws, didn't make lay-ups. Couldn't catch the ball. I obviously didn't do my job very well preparing this team to play."
Were the Wildcats guilty of a letdown?
"I don't want to hear that." Martin said.
Muonelo had 14 for Oklahoma State and hit a 3-pointer to give Oklahoma State a 61-56 lead. Then with 2:11 to go his 3-pointer put the Cowboys on top 66-60.
The loss snapped Kansas State's 14-game winning streak in Bramlage Coliseum, their longest since the facility opened 22 years ago.
KANSAS STATE WILDCATS
Getting prime seats a victory in itself
By Ashley Dunkak Kansas State Collegian —Thursday, Jan. 28
MANHATTAN — Logically speaking, the last thing anyone wants to do when the temperature is only a few degrees above freezing is stand outside in the cold. But logical or not, that is what thousands of K-State students did on Jan. 18, the day the Wildcats took on undefeated No. 1 Texas in Bramall Coliseum.
As early as 3 a.m., students lined up and waited...and waited...and waited...to be released into the stadium. When the doors finally opened, purple-clad fans poured into the stands, some galloping down the bleachers to get prime seats.
Some chosen ones were fortunate enough to be awarded giant faces of Coach Frank Martin (one smiling, one featuring a more traditional, intense look) and several players. There were a few creative signs among the crowd, including "Happy Frank Martin Luther King Jr. Day" and "Wrangling the Herd." Other sightings in the first row
included felt beards, meant to greet junior guard Jacob Pullen's mom, Charlotte, who is, as of Pullen's last report, not yet a big fan of her son's facial hair.
Obviously, front row seats are a hot commodity. So what is the recipe for landing those coveted spots? Some students who scored courtside views at the Texas game gave insight into securing the seats.
"Getting up at the crack of dawn," said Dani Hall, junior in marketing. "We got there at 8, and we were about 100 people back."
The fans said several factors are involved in getting the best view of the court for a big game.
Collin Mangus, senior in secondary education, who said he has sat in the first row every game, gets in line as early as it takes to get seats in the first row. Obviously, not just anyone has what it takes to make that kind of a time commitment. While all kinds of students love basketball, there is a common denominator between those who devote their whole day to getting seated first.
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Kansas State students Chris Constant, left, Geoffrey Miller, center, and Lairon Nordsted, right, wear false beards before the K-State-Texas game on Jan. 18, in Manhattan. The three are among many wearing some type of beard to honor beard-wearing Kansas State guard Jacob Pullen.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE WAVE FEBRUARY 1,2010