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Everything you need to know about the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, tickets, history, breakdown ing beating Notre Dame 37-35 in 2021. But it’s been almost a decade since the Cowboys last played in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. OSU beat IndiBen Hutchens Assistant Sports ana 49-33 in 2007 and Washington 30-22 in Editor 2015. Ticketing inforHopefully OSU mation: fans enjoyed the 14Per an OSU hour drive to the Fiesta press release: Bowl last year because Fans may request they’re going to have to bowl tickets through the make it again. link posted at okstate. OSU is playcom/bowlcentral until ing Wisconsin in the 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, DeGuaranteed Rate Bowl, cember 6. Submitting in Phoenix, Arizona on a request will provide Dec. 27. The game is access to the best seat played in Chase Field, locations in the OSU home of MLB’s Ariallotment prior to the zona Diamondbacks. public on-sale date. LoThe night owls cations will be allocatwill be happy with a ed to those who submit 9:15 p.m. central time a request in POSSE kickoff. priority order, and Struggling to then on a first-come, remember the last first-served basis for time the Cowboys and non-POSSE members. Badgers have clashed? If any seats from OSU’s Well, that’s because allotment remain after they haven’t. It will be requests are fulfilled, the first meeting bethey will go on sale tween the teams. Wednesday at 10 a.m. Wisconsin (6-6) A limited quantity of enters the game having specially priced tickets just hired coach Luke for students who hold Fickell from Cincinnati. All Sports Passes will It is 17th conalso go on sale at that secutive season OSU time. has gone bowling. The Cowboys have won 12 of those games, includ- sports.ed@ocolly.com
What you need to know about Wisconsin Coach: Jim Leonhard, former defensive coordinator, is the interim head coach Conference: Big Ten Best win: 35-24 vs Purdue Worst loss: 34-10 vs Illinois Player to know: Keeanu Benton, defensive tackle Series history: First matchup
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OSU dominates the glass in win over North Texas
Taylen Collins jumps for possession of the ball.
Ivan White Staff Reporter In its first game back from a Thanksgiving trip to Cancun, the Oklahoma State Cowgirls beat North Texas 82-64. OSU finished a rocky first quarter leading 17-11 thanks to its effort on the glass that would carry on throughout the game. The Cowgirls’ lead ballooned to 16 at halftime by converting a few transition buckets and nailing four threes in the second quarter. The most integral to forming that lead for OSU was Lior
Garzon. The junior forward nailed three shots from deep in the first half and finished the game as the Cowgirls’ leading scorer with a season-high 21 points. In that first half, OSU attempted 20 threes, just eight off of the team’s season-high for an entire game. The Cowgirls did set that mark in the second half but cut their attempts in half to finish with 30. “We love to shoot the three, that’s just what we do,” said OSU coach Jacie Hoyt. “And it wasn’t going in as much as we wanted in the first half. But that’s kind of who we are and what we’ll continue to do.” After only taking two shots at the foul line in the first half, OSU managed to draw contact and get there much more in the second half. The Cowgirls finished the
game with 18 free throw attempts and hit 10 of them. The Cowgirls had a balanced scoring attack, with four players scoring in double digits. The team’s 82 points also marks the largest scoring performance since playing against Oral Roberts in mid-November. While the Cowgirls changed up their offensive strategy at the half, their dominance on the glass never wavered. OSU outrebounded UNT 48-28, with junior forward Taylen Collins setting a new career-high in rebounds with 23. “I felt like it helped to create an energy on the floor,” Collins said. “I was really just doing whatever I could to get us going. Get us any extra possessions that I could.” sports.ed@ocolly.com
Best video games of 2022 Michael Clark Staff Reporter
game I’ve ever played, the gameplay is fluid and cinematic and it is packed with amazing content. The story, however, rings empty. The characters are cookie 2022 was a bit of a weak cutter and lifeless. The dialogue is year for games, however, there bland yet bloated. I felt no real inwere some serious heavy hitters. centive to do anything other than Here’s some of the best we’ve had run around and beat up robots. in 2022. At the end of the day, sometimes ‘Sonic Frontiers’ that’s all a game needs to be. Full disclosure, I bought ‘Xenoblade Chronicles 3’ “Sonic Frontiers” as a joke. With “Xenoblade Chronicles 3” the poor track record the series is a fantastic game with brilliant has had lately, I was surprised to writing, great characters, and enjoy it. The platforming is tight incredible side content. and responsive. “Xenoblade Chronicles 3” The world is fun to traverse is also a game with cheesy writand the levels are what you would ing, bizarre characters and lots of expect from a quality ‘Sonic the padding. Somehow it evens out Hedgehog” game. Despite this, to a fantastic game that could’ve the visuals are poor, there are been a masterpiece. I frequently some serious issues with perforgo from laughing at the dialogue mance and pop-in, and all around, to being emotionally devastated something feels missing from this from its fantastic narrative mere game. “Sonic Frontiers” is a fun moments later. game and I’m not too mad that I ‘God of War: Ragnarök’ spent $60 on it. If it was any other year, ‘Horizon: Forbidden West’ this would be my No. 1. “RagIt’s hard to put a finger on narök” has my favorite narrative why I don’t love this game. “For- in any game I’ve ever played. I bidden West” is the most beautiful wrote a 450-word review sing-
ing my praises for this game, and now that I’ve finished it, I want to write even more. “Ragnarök” is pure ambition and one of the greatest stories I’ve ever experienced. ‘Elden Ring’ “Elden Ring” is a contender for the greatest game of all time. I can’t think of another game that has captivated me more with its sprawling, massive world that’s filled to the brim with secrets, side quests and bosses. “Elden Ring” is an ambitious masterpiece with stunning set pieces, legendary boss fights and a crushing difficulty that left me raging and immediately coming back for another bite. “Elden Ring” is an achievement, it is my favorite game of the year. I am so excited to see what 2023 holds. With games such as “Hogwarts: Legacy” and “SpiderMan 2,” I have no doubt it’ll blow us away.
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