Team preview: Oklahoma State
Blue Ribbon Illustrated previews the 2005-06 college basketball season, exclusively on Insider.
Updated: October 19, 2005, 4:39 PM ET
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It's hard to consider 26 wins, a Big 12 Tournament championship and two NCAA Tournament victories a disappointing season. But when you enter a season ranked among the top two or three teams in the country, as Oklahoma State did a year ago, fair or not that's the reality of big-time college basketball.
(Information in this team report is as of October 1.)
COACH AND PROGRAM
It's hard to consider 26 wins, a Big 12 Tournament championship and two NCAA Tournament victories a disappointing season. But when you enter a season ranked among the top two or three teams in the country, as Oklahoma State did a year ago, fair or not that's the reality of big-time college basketball.
Last year was supposed be that special once-in-a-lifetime ride for OSU fans.
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