STILLWATER — Leading up to Saturday’s game in Gallagher-Iba Arena, Kansas State guard Barry Brown studied Oklahoma State’s defensive approach. Well, approaches.
Man-to-man. A 1-3-1 zone. A 2-3. Whatever look OSU coach Mike Boynton felt could benefit his team down to more walk-ons on its bench than healthy scholarship players.
“One game, they changed defenses about 15 times in a half,” Brown said Saturday after his Wildcats trounced the Cowboys, 75-57.
Kansas State recorded assists on 19 of its 26 makes, 16 of which were 3-pointers. In the three prior games that OSU had been using multiple defenses, the switches had been effective.