It's time for another Bedlam Buds, and this time it's real bedlam. From the Boomer So- Sooner [beep]. Let me just start this again.
[laughs] [upbeat music] Well, it's about that time for Bedlam Buds, and today we have a special treat for you because there was actual bedlam that happened today, and we've talked about this.
Uh, let, let's, let's first introduce ourselves. I am Ryan, Boomer Sooner, and this is my buddy Jeremy. Go Pokes. Go Pokes, loyal and true, even in a loss- Even, hey-... of which happened today...
but who called it, and who almost called the exact score? Did you? I said we... I said that OU would win by eight because of how the game was evolving- Oh, you did...
when, when the first half, and it ended up being nine, and you, I could just- You, you absolutely did... it... You could just feel the flow of the game.
It was just gonna be one of those where Oklahoma State was good enough to catch up but not good enough to stay up, and that's kinda how it played out today, you know, with the- Well, there's... It, it...
O- OU, Oklahoma wins 85-76. I'm in a haze. I'm all stuffed, stuffed up. I took a Sudafed, Jeremy, so I could barely sit on the couch. I, I just wanted to move around and do something while I was watching the game.
And by the way- You wanted to go shoot hoops like we used to [laughs] I... Oh, oh, yeah, and I've seen, I've seen video of that. It's, it's, you know, it's of my brothers and I shooting hoops out in the front.
It looks really terrible. It looks like three old men. [laughs] Uh, but, but I wanted to move around because this had all the makings visually, watching on TV, of Eddie and Kelvin.
We were talking about that via text during the game. But just really just, uh, let, let's get everybody caught up on what happened today. Oklahoma wins 85-76 for the Paycom Center. It was OSU's first loss.
It was OU's first really good win. I mean, they beat Marquette, and that was good, but to defeat an undefeated Oklahoma State team on a neutral court I thought was fantastic. OU improves to 7 and 3. OSU falls to 9 and 1.
Looking through the box score here, the Sooners were paced by Xavier Brown, but I will tell you, Xavier had 21 points, but that offense goes through Nigel Pack. Nigel Pack, he's gotta... He should be British.
It's, he's Nigel. It's ri- It's just weird. He should be British, 100%. 100- He should, 100%. But he's from Indianapolis.
But, uh, and, and OU just really, really good ball movement, really good passing, really good shooting, and this is a team that's gonna depend on the outside shot.
The Oklahoma State Cowboys, on the other hand, were paced, in terms of starters, Kanye Clary had a fantastic second half. Yeah. Anthony Roy, you can tell, what is, is... He came from Green Bay.
Is Green Bay just going to be a farm system for OSU now with Doug Gottlieb out there? I, I hope. If, if we get players like Roy, I absolutely hope so- He-... 'cause that kid can hoop... he's gonna play in the NBA.
A- and, and I, I saw j- Phenomenal... just the... He, he is phenomenal. But I will tell you, the second half, a true basketball fan had to be smitten with Christian Coleman. He was fantastic off the bench.
I mean, the, the- Yeah... Clary, the way he would feed him down low, it just was, uh, he was just the Energizer Bunny out there.
And it started out, OU got the lead through the first half, led, and then OSU took over midway through the second half, and then OU took over. What were your overall thoughts of the game? Well, the...
My overall thoughts for the game were OU won because they hit timely three-point shots. They had a better, much better three-point percentage, hit four or five more three-point shots.
That's the difference in the game, and it was the timeliness of them. There was one series, um, in the, I believe in the first half, where Oklahoma State took about 10 shots on one possession.
Kept getting the rebound, missing a shot. Kept getting the rebound, missing a shot.
And then OU w- went down after a, after no points given, OU went down and hit a three, and that, that's right there is when I sent that text and I said, "Okay, here's how this game's gonna go," and it's exactly how it went.
Both teams hustled. Both teams were throwing their bodies on the ground going for the ball.
Um, it was absolutely a classic Eddie versus Kelvin match up with lots of defense and, again, lots of bodies and, and lots of physicality, uh, in there. Nothing over the top, though. Uh, you know, too much over the top.
There's, there's one or two little things, but- Well, you know, uh, Wa- Waghi, he, he was a little over the top. Yeah, yeah. Again, this isn't the, the Pistons, so you can't be throwing elbows into people's throats.
[laughs] Uh, but, uh, and, and Oklahoma State's lack of proficiency from distance shots, not just three-pointers, but from distance.
OU outshot them in regular, uh, uh, percentage-wise and on three-point percentage-wise, and you're not gonna end up winning a game like this where teams are playing tough defense when you're, when you can't shoot the ball, when you're missing wide open looks, and that's what happened to Oklahoma State today.
Oklahoma was just a better team. They were more efficient, and they took advantage of their opportunities.
When Oklahoma State had a chance in the second half to build upon a lead, uh, got a, I think a two-point lead at one point, had the ball, and just kinda stumbled around, and OU went on an 11-0 run, and you can't afford to do that.
You've gotta take advantage of your opportunities when you're playing a quality team, and that's what Oklahoma did today that Oklahoma State did not. One observation as an OU fan and a Po- Porter Moser apologist.
I've been a fan of his for a while. He basically gets a new class every year. That's the way the transfer portal works, but they looked very well-coached today.
He's always preached defense turns into offense, and the transition game for the Sooners was fantastic. The passing was crisp and creative.
The smaller guys, like Nigel Pack and Dayton Forsyth, were able to figure out their angles to get the ball down low to Davis and to Waghi, uh, and the offense just looked really good.
Now, it's one of those things that the Sooners are going to be, um-At the mercy of how their shooting is, if they're not hitting those shots from the outside, and some of those shots that Nigel Pack was hitting with the height on it reminded me a lot of Trae Young.
It's- Yeah... it was like, you know, he, he was not, he's not, not as g- who... It's hard to be as good a shooter- Right... as Trae Young. Sure. Uh, unless you're Steph Curry or something.
Uh, but it was just really, really good shooting from the Sooners. And from an entertainment perspective, uh, I, you know, I watch a lot of NBA. It's hard not to be entertained nightly by the Oklahoma City Thunder.
This was an entertaining college basketball game, no matter who you root for. Oh, yeah, a- absolutely. I- I mean, if you're a neutral fan, that was a fun game to watch.
And, uh, I mean, 'cause there was a l- a lot of action. There, again, bodies were falling on the floor, diving out of bounds, you know, hitting some of those dagger three-pointers from distance.
I mean, it had a lot of that kind of drama. And, uh, I'm not sure why OU fans would be down on Moser, 'cause he's a terrific coach. And this is one of the few games this year that our coaching staff has been matched.
Oklahoma State's coaching staff was matched today. I don't think that the, that they were outcoached by any stretch.
But I think that Moser put his guys i- into the right spots, and then they hit the shots that Oklahoma State did not.
But this is one of the few games so far this season where you could look at it and go, "Wow, you know, that was, that was a pretty good coaching match-up back and forth, you know, trying to respond to each other."
And you, you don't always get that i- in, you know, these early to mid-season games. But t- I thought it was a great coaching match-up, uh, that Lutz did well.
But again, they just didn't hit those shots when O- OU hit those dagger shots, and that was what the difference was.
But to me, that's quality coaching by OU as well, because no one's matched Oklahoma State so far this year in this department, and OU absolutely did that.
I, I think when it comes to Moser, a lot of the people who al- had been down on him ha- hadn't really looked at those second, third, and f- and fourth years.
You know, there, we got to the tournament last year, uh, played Connecticut, and, and, you know, lost in the first round. Uh, but there, some of the seasons, uh, especially the last couple of the, the Big 12, uh, just
didn't make the tournament. We didn't even go to the NIT one year. Just were kind of down on him, because we would have great starts to the season, and then we would fade out. Mm-hmm. And that seemed to be the pattern.
However, what I saw today was great coaching on the court.
And what I saw in the early parts of these different seasons were situations where Moser was doing a great g- job of coaching, each year having to deal with a whole new team.
This is what the transfer portal has brought college basketball, is that it's basically like being a teacher in real life. Y- you don't have the same third graders every year.
You, you got a, you got a brand-new class, and it was brand-new dynamics, brand-new levels of talent, and he's maximizing, he's optimizing what he has. Um, and I think he's really found his place here.
It, it helps that I've actually gotten to see him talk and teach outside, uh, the classroom. I got to go, uh, with my wife to a, an event with her work where he talked about the season a couple of years ago.
And I just love his enthusiasm. I love his positivity. Um, and I love that he's essentially a teacher at heart. Now, uh, it helps that we shot really well today.
And, uh, ultimately, uh, you, you gotta put the round, uh, the brown thing in the round thing, [laughs] to quote Kelvin Sampson.
[laughs] Uh, the brown thing in the round thing, and, and that's ultimately what it comes down to.
Yeah, see, same thing, Oklahoma State I think only returned three guys from last year's team, which, uh, was probably a blessing in disguise considering last year's team was not terribly successful.
But you gotta give Coach Lutz a, a time. Last year was his first year, and this is more of his type of team, his type of players, and you can succeed the success that they've had, today notwithstanding.
Uh, so this is already a much more successful season.
So now what will pain the Oklahoma State fans is now they gotta cheer for OU to go and do well in the SEC to make this loss not hurt as bad down the stretch when you're trying to get into the NCAA tournament.
And the Big 12 is a monster basketball conference. The Big 12 is ridiculously good in basketball. There are no easy matches. There are no easy games.
And so, you know, you know, Oklahoma State's gotta find a way to go out and get another 10 wins.
And, you know, we're headed right into that conference tournament time, uh, to, you know, those 10 wins will then secure you a spot in the tournament.
But outside of that, you know, unfortunately, you gotta hope for a team like OU, who beat you today, to have a good, successful season so that this loss at the end of the season doesn't look like a bad loss.
And I think OU's gonna do that. I think OU's gonna have some success. Uh, mid-level SEC, I'm not sure they're quite to that top.
But much like the football team, if they can dirty things up, if they can play that physical defense, uh, and, and, and as the shooting goes, the team will go.
But if you can dirty it up, play some defense, and keep guys from not hitting their open shots, you can win a lot of ballgames that way too.
Oklahoma kind of reminds me with Porter Moser coaching as sort of the Wisconsin of the SEC basketball-wise because Wisconsin, I mean, they had a couple runs to the Final Four you didn't expect, and one year they got to the, the final.
It's just, uh, it's a team that's going to be dependent on its defense and its scrappiness. One thing that I think hurt the Cowboys today was the fact that, uh, Parsa Fallah was, uh, he was, uh, neutralized pretty early.
Uh, 10 minutes, zero points. Did you... I saw him using a, uh, sort of a hammer gun on his pectoral areaDid you pay attention or did you hear what was wrong with him? Uh, he was injured.
That's all that I found out, that he got hurt, um, and maybe, you know, uh, not like a collision type of injury that I could tell. So I'm not 100% sure.
All I know is that he did get injured and they did have to pull him out of the game, and it wasn't worth it to try and risk a further compounding the injury to put him back in. And y- and, and he was a big loss.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Uh, he was a big loss 'cause he has been very, very strong inside the paint, not only in reboundings, but also putting balls back in the hoop, you know, which Oklahoma State sorely lacked today.
And so that injury did play a factor in the loss. However, you know, you gotta, you gotta dance with who brung you.
And, you know, if that's, that's your team, and if somebody gets hurt, the next guy's gotta step up and, and take over that role. So it's not an excuse, it's a just a factor, but it's certainly not an excuse.
OU fully deserved the win today, no matter, you know, no matter what at the end of the day. But th- there was impact. For sure. Rebounds, 46 for Oklahoma, 36 for OSU.
So Oklahoma out-rebounded Oklahoma State by 10, so that, that played a factor. That might be the first time Oklahoma State's been out-rebounded all year. Yeah.
It, it just historically, I don't know that Moser's OU teams have been known for rebounding as a strength. Although y- you would hope... It's just something I noticed.
I was like, "Boy, they're really good on the boards today." Yeah. Yeah, it was a, it was a, it was a big factor. Absolutely a big factor. But a- again, at the end of the day, you gotta dance with who brung you.
And if somebody gets hurt, somebody else gots to step up.
And, and it was a factor and, you know, you have to hope, I certainly hope that it's a minor situation, you know, uh, maybe a strain that they didn't want to become a sprain, something along those lines.
And, and it's a long season, you know, it's all practice till, till tournament time really. Um, you know, you gotta build that resume up.
It, it can certainly factor, but if you get into the Big 12 tournament and you win the tournament, doesn't matter what you are, you get... you advance.
And so, um, you know, y- you gotta look long-term on those kind of things. And even though Bedlam is very important, that conference season is actually more important for the long term. Oh, 100%.
And as we grow B- Bedlam Buds, Bedlam Buds will probably, uh, get its own channels on Vertical Social and, and grow its own traditions.
And one of those traditions is, uh, maybe what I, I suggested to you via text, sort of, uh, the, the, uh, Miami Hurricanes have a turnover chain. Mm-hmm. We should have a Bedlam chain. Yeah.
And then anytime OU and OSU play, whether it be wrestling, football, basketball, uh, tiddlywinks, tennis, you name it, whoever wins for that next video gets to wear the chain. Okay. Absolutely, I'm in, 100%. All right.
We'll have to find a chain on Amazon and agree on one, and then we'll just make that the Bedlam chain. Okay. Now, uh, uh, just a little note about what's next for both of these teams. This is a big coinkidink.
Both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State play the same team next. Do you know who it is? Uh, ORU? No. A- although, good guess. Kansas City. Okay. That's right, that's right, that's right. Kangaroos. So the Soo- Sooners play...
Yeah, the kangaroos. Uh, the Sooners get the Roos on Tuesday and, um, the Cowboys get the Roos on Thursday.
Quick question for you, since you spent time in Australia as a young boy, would you ever fight a kangaroo one on one? Absolutely not. And remember, I worked at a zoo for two years. Absolutely not. No, no. Uh, a- no.
No, no. But- People that, people that think they could, they just don't understand that kangaroo's not gonna use these arms. He's gonna use his feet and it's gonna gut you. Don't, don't do it. [laughs] Okay.
[laughs] Don't fight a kangaroo. Don't fight... D- uh, right, okay. So l- let's end on that note. A Bedlam victory for the Oklahoma Sooners. Boomer Sooner, everybody.
Oklahoma comes away with an 85-76 win in Bedlam basketball. Uh, for Jeremy? Win, lose, or draw, loyal and true, baby. Go Pokes. Absolutely. That's what I love about the Cowboys.
Number one, number one, we're not in the top 25, but go Sooners! Boomer Sooner. Until next time, like and subscribe to the YouTube channel right here. We will still be on Oklahoma Memma, we'll just have a playlist.
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