Following the Cougars’ 61-55 loss to the Cowboys, head coach Kelvin Sampson was vocal with his frustration on the team’s lack of urgency, particularly in the first half.
“You know that Oklahoma State, and the thing that bothers me more than anything else is that they, for 20 minutes, played harder than we did,” Sampson said on Wednesday. “They deserved to win that game. I hate to say it, but they did. We didn’t deserve to win that game.”
Sampson blames Sunday’s first-half performance on the Cougars coming out the gates with a lackadaisical mentality.