Mike Cunningham pushed past the pain and ran up the steep concrete stairs.
The white maple court waited below him, but he hadn’t yet played a game on it.
Cunningham, a graduate transfer point guard on the Oklahoma State basketball team, had a minor left hamstring injury that kept him out of the Cowboys’ first three matchups of the season.
Cunningham still hasn’t competed on Eddie Sutton Court, but he is gaining experience at two contrasting road locations before he makes his home debut.
After playing in the AdvoCare Invitational during an 80-degree Thanksgiving break in Orlando, Florida, he and his OSU teammates are traveling to chilly Minneapolis.