Plenty of blame to go around for Cowboys' loss
Calls set up open looks; That's all a coach can do

What ails the Cowboys is not the coach on the bench.

It's the players on the court.

OSU dropped a 59-56 decision to Texas A&M before a crowd of 10,369 inside Gallagher-Iba Arena on Saturday afternoon, extending the Cowboys' losing streak to four games.

Like the three losses before this one, OSU had a great chance to win.

And like those three previous losses, the game ended with a thud.

The Cowboys failed to score a point in the final 2:49 and didn't score a field goal in the final 9:34.

They had open shots, and missed them. They clanged free throws. They committed turnovers at key moments.

To me, that sounds like bad playing, not bad coaching.

And yet, during his post-game news conference, much-maligned OSU coach Sean Sutton committed hari-kari.

"I take responsibility for this loss,” Sutton said. "I didn't do a very good job for the last two or three minutes of that game. I made some really poor, poor offensive calls down the stretch. As a result, we didn't get the looks we needed to.

"Just not a very good job on my part.”

Sutton fell on the sword, which is what quality coaches do. But I couldn't disagree more.

In the closing seconds of the last three games, Sutton has called timeouts and diagramed plays that have resulted in his team getting open looks.

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