NCAA Tournament March Madness

#72 Oklahoma St

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Projection: likely out

Oklahoma State’s resume reads like a borderline profile because its best moments — a nonconference win over Texas A&M and neutral-site victories over Northwestern and Grand Canyon — show upside, but those highlights are outweighed by damaging results such as a blowout at Texas Tech, road setbacks at Iowa State and TCU, and losses at home to Oklahoma and to Baylor that expose a vulnerable defense and uneven performance away from Stillwater. Many of the quality wins came without sustained road or power-conference resume-building, so the bad losses carry extra weight, and the remaining portion of the schedule offers high-leverage chances to change the narrative with true road tests at Utah and at Arizona and more winnable, resume-building opportunities at home against opponents like BYU, Kansas and Houston. Unless Oklahoma State can convert at least one of those tough road tests into a marquee victory or pile up neutral-site wins against top conference opponents the committee will focus on the inconsistencies and the damaging losses when deciding who gets in.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4Oral Roberts330W95-71
11/9Texas A&M33W87-63
11/12Prairie View332W94-67
11/16TAM C. Christi185W85-69
11/19South Florida69W103-95
11/22Nicholls St247W95-81
11/27(N)Northwestern62W86-81
12/2Sam Houston St104W93-83
12/6(N)Grand Canyon75W84-78
12/13(N)Oklahoma61L85-76
12/18Missouri KC351W91-79
12/21CS Fullerton186W94-89
12/29Bethune-Cookman244W103-77
1/3@Texas Tech18L102-80
1/6UCF45W87-76
1/10@Iowa St5L83-71
1/13Baylor52L94-79
1/17Kansas St86W84-83
1/20@TCU51L68-65
1/24Iowa St5L84-71
1/31@Utah11456%
2/4BYU1527%
2/7@Arizona14%
2/10@Arizona St7843%
2/14TCU5152%
2/18Kansas1426%
2/21@Colorado8044%
2/24West Virginia5858%
2/28@Cincinnati5636%
3/3@UCF4529%
3/7Houston618%