STILLWATER — Duncan Demuth and Mike Boynton first dropped hints at the comparison last month during Oklahoma State's basketball media day.
Demuth, a freshman forward from Florida, did so in describing his style of play.
“I expect, hopefully, to be the hard-playing tough guy that will go out there and dive on loose balls,” he said.
Boynton, the Cowboys' coach, used off-the-court attributes.
“Duncan is a really, really smart kid,” Boynton said. “He picks up things really quickly.”
If those traits sounds familiar to OSU fans, it's because Mitchell Solomon embodied them last year.