Wednesday, November 23, 2022
OSU survives DePaul, salvages Bahamas trip 17-point lead in the first round of the tournament to UCF. OSU senior JohnMichael Wright retrieved Penn’s miss late in the game and made two free Ben Hutchens throws with five seconds Assistant Sports remaining to help the Editor Cowboys secure the win. Wright finished with 14 points. The Cowboys Forward Kalib dodged a bullet in the Boone opened the scorshape of a spherical ing for the Cowboys at 22-ounce ball. the free throw line and With seven secscored a team-high 17. onds remaining in the He was efficient with consolation game of his touches, converting the Baha Mar Hoops seven of his 11 shots and Championship, DePaul knocking down all three forward Eral Penn lined free throws. up an open 3-pointer that Senior OSU point would have given the guard Avery Anderson Blue Demons the lead. joined Boone as one of Penn’s shot missed, three Cowboys scoring and OSU beat DePaul in double figures. He 82-78. Prior to the miss, scored 16 points and Penn was 7-of-12 from made seven free throws. the field and 3-of-4 from OSU moved to distance. 3-2 and will head home DePaul took a to play Tulsa on Friday 73-72 lead with 3:23 night in Gallagher-Iba remaining in the game, Arena. erasing an 18-point deficit OSU established in the midway through the first half. OSU blew a sports.ed@ocolly.com
The college freshman social experience Kendall McGhee Staff Reporter
There has been a rush of freshman for OSU’s 2022 fall semester. There will be multiple workloads, long essays and tireless nights of homework ahead for them. But how will the college students socially enjoy their school? With being new on campus, some freshmen students find it harder than others to gain community with people, whether that comes from being on social media too much or simply not attending a school event. See Freshman on page 8
Molly Jolliff Hundreds of OSU freshmen bond over OSU athletic events, particularly Cowboys football.
Chase Davis OSU freshman Natalie Cook became the top freshman finisher at the NCAA Cross Country Championships. She finished seventh.
Cross country carnage
Aftermath of a national championship
Mackenzie Janish OSU men’s basketball coach Mike Boynton and Cowboys left the Bahamas with a third place finish at Baha Mar Hoops.
Country Course. The hills will get you. And when the runners emptied their gas tanks at Saturday’s NCAA Cross Country Championships, the damage will show. Collapsed athletes. Wobbly Adam Engel legs. Small puddles of puke and Co-Editor-in-Chief phlegm. Mucus dripping from an athlete’s nose. Natalie Cook sprinted past Welcome to cross country. the finish line, stumbled and fell Even though she ran with home into a trainer’s arms. course advantage, Cook, an OSU Her legs were finished. freshman, wasn’t safe from the She understood the catch aftermath. with OSU’s Greiner Family Cross “A lot of people will go
out too fast and just die out,” she said. You’ll just start passing people toward the end.” Full effort occurs at the national championships. Careers end. Seasons end. Goals can die or be achieved. A whole year’s worth of training condensed into 15-30 minutes. Thousands of fans converged in Stillwater to watch the NCAA Cross Country Championships and the chaos that goes with it. See Carnage on page 3