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STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) -- Two minutes into the game, after
Colorado had scored three straight baskets to take a 9-2 lead,
Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton decided enough was enough and called a timeout.
"I said, `You guys are playing soft. You're not playing defense
like you need to play on these guys,"' Sutton said Wednesday
night.
The message got through to Desmond Mason. A short time later, with the Cowboys (No. 11 ESPN/USA Today, No. 13 AP) trailing 14-5, he scored 12 straight points to turn the deficit into a 17-16 lead. He wound up with
29 points in the Cowboys' 96-60 victory.
Mason, coming off a 2-of-11 performance in a loss to Iowa State,
scored 19 points in the first half. He wound up making four of his
five 3-point tries as the Cowboys (23-4, 12-3 Big 12) moved back
into a second-place tie with Texas in the conference standings.
"Coach made me mad but he did it on purpose, just to see how I
was going to react," Mason said of Sutton's scolding.
"That was my reaction. My teammates got me open, I just had to
jump up and hit the shots. I just kind of wanted to take over the
game and get in a rhythm and get some momentum going."
Mason made five straight shots in just over three minutes. He
hit two medium-range jumpers, then consecutive 3-pointers and
finally another jumper.
His offensive surge translated into better defense as well.
Colorado (16-12, 6-9) made five of its first six shots to build its
early lead, then hit just one basket over the final 14 minutes of
the half.
"I was glad to see Desmond come back and have a good game,"
Sutton said. "He really took it upon himself early there and just
hit some big shots for us and got us back in it."
The score was 23-21 when the Cowboys went on a 10-2 run capped
by a 3-pointer by Mason. Glendon Alexander, who finished with 20
points, made consecutive 3s as Oklahoma State pushed its lead to
43-27 at halftime.
Colorado was 2-of-14 from the field in the first half after its
quick start. Kyle Williams' follow shot at the 14:06 mark was the
Buffaloes' last field goal until Williams hit a leaner with 1:03
remaining.
The Buffaloes got within 50-39 in the second half before the
Cowboys went on a 17-2 run. Alexander had two 3-pointers during the
spurt and Joe Adkins had one.
Jaquay Walls, leading the Buffaloes with 17 points per game,
scored 14 but was just 3-of-11 from the field. He had five points
in the first two minutes but didn't score the rest of the half. He
also hit Doug Gottlieb in the head with a forearm and was whistled
for an intentional foul.
A rugged second half saw both teams get into the bonus before
five minutes had expired. Colorado's Jose Winston had two
technicals fouls, Oklahoma State's Fredrik Jonzen got one and Mason
was called for an intentional foul. There were 52 fouls called in
all.
"I thought the game was too physical for us," said Colorado
coach Ricardo Patton, who saw the Buffaloes shoot 30 percent and
lose their 18th straight in Stillwater. "There was a lot of hand
checking, a lot of guys getting bumped. We were just not physical
enough."
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