Gallagher-Iba Arena, affectionately referred to as “The Rowdiest Arena in the Country” by the great Larry Reece and anyone who has seen or felt the place come to life, was anything but on Tuesday.
With an announced crowd of 6,017 on hand Tuesday night to watch Oklahoma State suffer a head-scratching loss to a floundering Baylor team, Oklahoma State players Kendall Smith and Mitch Solomon noticed the lack of orange in the crowd. And they called fans on it.
“Honestly I think we’re focusing on our crowd to pick us up too much,” said Smith. “Obviously with this second half of Big 12 play, our games are on Tuesday’s and not Saturday’s so we don’t really have the crowd that we expected but we can’t make that be our excuse.