Bedlam basketball's historically bad season

[OUHoops]

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[Big Old Booger]

We knew it was bad. Not much more to say at this point but it can only get better.

 

[oSuJeff97]

Obligatory:

 

[duncansooner]

Trample's next article will be on how hot the sun is and why rain feels wet.

 

[DenverSooner]

Pretty sad. OSU finishes the regular season 14-17 and OU finishes 15-15. OU has won more games in single seasons than OSU and OU won combined this year. I suspect OSU has too but I don't know that for a fact. 1987/88 - 1989/90 OU only lost 15 games. 2000-2002 OU only lost 19 games. It is sad to see the programs playing at such a low level.

 

[ouwxman]

"It is sad to see the programs playing at such a low level. "

Agreed. I think OU is on the right track with Kruger. He inherited a team with a lot of problems, and a team with very little depth. We had several games that were certainly winnable, but we struggled late in the second half (@A&M, Cincinnati, Mizzou). We also lost a lot of games by about 10 points. While that may seem like a good margin, a deeper bench and another year under Kruger could be the difference between losing by 10 this year and making those games close next year (or winning them).

 

[oSuJeff97]

OU has won more games in single seasons than OSU and OU won combined this year. I suspect OSU has too but I don't know that for a fact.

Yep.

31-4 in 2003-04

EDIT - I looked this up just to depress myself further:

In Eddie's last good run (2002-05), OSU went 102-30 (.772), averaging 26 wins and 8 losses over four seasons.

That included four straight NCAA tournament appearances, with an NCAA tournament record of 7-4, featuring a run to the Final Four in 2004 and the Sweet Sixteen in 2005. It also included two Big 12 tournament titles and one outright Big 12 title.

Now excuse me while I go and vomit.

 

[DenverSooner]

I was pretty confident OSU had won over 30 games in a season. I suspect they won 30 games the first time Sutton took OSU to the final four.

29 wins between the teams is pathetic. I really don't see the teams combining for more than 31 wins on the season because I think they both lose in the second round of the Big XII (if they win in the first round). They will play KU and Missouri and both teams are substantially better than OSU and OU. Perhaps they will get invited to the NIT and that other tournament and add a win or two but I doubt it. I think they are both well within the top 131 best teams but that is not how the invitations work.

 

[oSuJeff97]

I suspect they won 30 games the first time Sutton took OSU to the final four.

That '95 team actually "only" won 27 games. That team wasn't really dominant until late in the season. Amazingly, that team that looked so good at the end of the year lost five non-conference games. In mid-January, its record was 9-6 (1-2). (It had lost its first Big 8 game to a horrible Kansas State team that they later beat by 40.)

But from that point forward, it caught fire and went 18-4 to close the season, winning the Big 8 tournament and making it to the Final Four.

Another oddity about that team - it wasn't even ranked in the top 25 until it beat #1 Kansas in early February.

 

[DenverSooner]

well I would have lost money on a bet becasuse I would have bet that team won 30 or more on the season.

 

[oSuJeff97]

well I would have lost money on a bet becasuse I would have bet that team won 30 or more on the season.

Yep.

That 2004 team was Eddie's only 30-win team at OSU.

The next highest (28) was the 1992 team that lost to the Fab Five in the Sweet Sixteen.

Both the 1995 Final Four team and the 2000 Elite Eight teams won 27.

The 2005 Sweet Sixteen team won 26.

 

[tycat947]

Trample's next article will be on how hot the sun is and why rain feels wet.

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[badger]

At least they won 14, or people would be derp derping about how OSU football won more than OSU basketball and everyone who wrote that would be like "WHOOOOOAAA, I AM SOOOOOO CLEVER!" even as every sports writer locally, statewide and nationally would be saying the exact same thing with the most cleverest smirk on their face while saying it, as if to almost say "Yeah, I TOTALLY just thought up that very original stat."

So thank you, OSU, for winning 14. And thank you, OSU football, for losing to Iowa State.