This isn’t an overreaction to Oklahoma State’s hideous loss to Tulsa on Wednesday night in GIA. I’m not calling for Travis Ford’s head during the middle of the season or anything like that. It’s simply unfortunate for Ford that, despite being without his best player, Tulsa was the team that handed him just OSU’s sixth non-conference loss in GIA since I was two years old (1987).
Why Tulsa? Well, because you can sort of explain it away if it’s, say, North Texas or George Washington or somebody like that. When it’s the program in an inferior conference with inferior resources just 80 miles east of you in the same state, that’s stark.