Dickey watches win from afar
Coach proud of team's effort

 
By Andrea Cohen
Published: February 25, 2008

J.B. Dickey hadn't been able to stay up and watch a whole basketball game for the last couple of weeks. But even as cancer consumed him, the longtime basketball coach would talk to his son, Oklahoma State assistant James Dickey , about how the Cowboys played.

"He loved basketball,” James Dickey said. "When we had just gotten him home and back and forth (from the hospital), he would try to watch some and follow.”...


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