It was 30 years ago, and Oklahoma State basketball was in bad shape, having been to the Dance once in the previous 21 seasons. To turn the program around they looked to the Kentucky associate head coach, 33-year-old Leonard Hamilton. Hamilton had been the ace recruiter for the Wildcats, and immediately began flexing his muscle in Stillwater. His first recruit wasn’t a player though, it was a 24-year-old assistant at Kansas by the name of Bill Self. Ham and Self stocked the roster at Oklahoma City, setting the stage for Eddie Sutton’s great run when Ham jumped over to arguably the biggest rebuild in college basketball history: the Miami Hurricanes.
No. 19 FSU basketball faces Oklahoma State
