Friday, May 30, 2025
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The Oklahoma State men’s golf team beat Virginia on Wednesday in the final round of the NCAA Championship in Carlsbad, California. The win secured the 12th NCAA title in OSU men’s golf history and the 54th title for the university across all sports.
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OSU men’s golf tops Virginia, wins 12th NCAA championship
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team tabbed as too young to win at the start of the season turned out to be too young to know it couldn’t. So it did. Oklahoma State men’s golf beat Virginia 3-1 Wednesday in the final
round of the NCAA Championship, winning the program’s 12th national title and the 54th in school history across all sports. Youth was the buzzword when it came to OSU golf this season. junior John Wild was the oldest player on the roster. Four of the five Cowboys
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who competed in the national championship: Gaven Lane, Eric Lee, Preston Stout and Ethan Fang. The lone freshman, Filip Fahlberg-Johnsson, certainly didn’t know he was too young to be there, as he won all three of his matches in match play, including a crucial
one in the round against Ole Miss. He would go on to win all three of his matches, including his match in the national championship where he led for all 18 holes and ended up winning by three.
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CFP seeding model changing for 2025 What this means for OSU, Big 12 ALYSSA BRANDON SPORTS EDITOR
Payton Little Despite a slow start to the season, OSU baseball coach Josh Holliday was confident his team could rally and reach the NCAA Tournament.
OSU earns NCAA tournament berth ALYSSA BRANDON SPORTS EDITOR
Projections here, D1Baseball’s regional guesses there. There was quite the discourse on whether Oklahoma State baseball deserved an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament to mark its 50th all-time appearance. But when the last four in were announced, OSU heard its name called. Despite an up-and-down season and a momentous Big 12 tournament appearance that was silenced by a
The College Football Playoff committee has come to an agreement on a straight-seeding model that will award first-round byes to the top four teams beginning in the 2025 postseason. This comes after the group finished meetings Thursday, with months of
meetings prior, after last year’s first 12-team bracket sparked national controversy. Bottom line — conference champions will no longer receive first-round byes. Sorry, Boise State. But, what are the implications for Oklahoma State football this year?
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Kansas walk-off, OSU coach Josh Holliday drew confidence from a feeling deep down inside that his team would find its way in. “As I told the players, I’m not an optimist — I’m a realist,” Holliday said. “But I had an unbelievably positive feeling about them because of the players. I just sensed that something about the way they continued to do this, something good was going to happen for them. I truly believed that.”
Payton Little
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If OSU football can fight its way back to Big 12 title contention this season, it will face a different path to the College Football Playoff than teams did last season.