Fred Gulley News

Tulsa expects buzzer-to-buzzer intensity against unbeaten Oklahoma State on Wednesday night.

Oklahoma State players got tired of hearing about North Texas guard Josh White in the days leading up to Saturday's game.

Anderson and Moses each pulled down nine rebounds. North Texas , coming off an overtime victory at Texas-Arlington on Wednesday, got 16 points from Eric Tramiel and 11 points from George Odufuwa.

Cowboys basketball coach Travis Ford expected some turnovers in Oklahoma State's exhibition opener Saturday night.

Matt Pilgrim, a junior forward who transferred to OSU from Kentucky, had 18 points and 12 rebounds in Tuesdaya s victory.

With seven newcomers and several openings for playing time, Cowboys basketball coach Travis Ford approaches his team's two exhibition games like a chemistry exam.

But when the time came for the Fayetteville guard to make a decision about college, he wanted to go somewhere not so close to home.

Keiton Page will start in the basketball teama s first exhibition game on Saturday against UCO.

Ray Penn , a freshman from Houston, Texas, scored 37 points in his opening game of the Reebok Summer Championship.

"You can put me at any position - one through five - if you want to," Page said, "as long as I'm out there on the court, I'm happy." The five? "I don't know how that would work," said the 5-foot-9 Page, "but being on the court, that's the main thing." We may soon find out how Page works out at the one, the point guard spot, as he's quickly becoming ...

Most first-year head coaches go through at least one rebuilding phase. Not so for Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford, who suggests the Cowboys have skipped straight to reloading.

Left to right) Ray Penn and Fred Gulley compete in Fridaya s Homecoming and Hoops celebration.

This is part of our series on freshmen who must make a big impact next season for their teams to challenge for league titles and get to the NCAA tournament.