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Oklahoma State's win over Baylor last month was, no question, a turning point in the Cowboys' season. The first in a winning streak that has taken OSU from the bottom of the Big 12 to the bubble of the Big Dance, the Baylor game meant a lot to OSU.

Senior Marcus Dove called the locker room after that game "one of the best feelings I've ever had in my life.” It wasn't just because the Cowboys beat the Bears; it was because they beat Baylor for Josh Honeycutt. This week they will attempt to fulfill another wish for their 15-year old fan who died in August: Win Bedlam.

"Josh played a big role in starting this streak,” OSU coach Sean Sutton said Saturday. "That win against Baylor was important to him, and I think our players felt really good about being able to deliver one of his final wishes. It helped get us going.”

Said Dove: "Now we want to beat OU for him, too.”

Josh was diagnosed with a brain tumor just after making his ninth-grade basketball team in Preston, and he died eight months later.

"He was so excited to make the team,” said his mom, Brenda. "He got to play three games.”

The Cowboys met Josh at St. Francis Hospital in June, when they visited the Tulsa hospital in conjunction with Coaches vs. Cancer. Josh had charmed the nursing staff at St. Francis — "they would tease him about OU and stuff,” Brenda said — so even though he was exhausted the day the Cowboys came, everyone made sure Josh got to meet them.

As he posed for pictures with the team huddled around him, Sutton asked Josh which team he wanted the Cowboys to beat.

Baylor, he responded.

Anybody else, Sutton asked? Perhaps arch-rival Oklahoma?

OU would be good, too, Josh agreed.

In the state he was in at the time, all of a sudden he just blurted out ‘Baylor,'” Brenda said. "I remember saying, ‘I thought you'd say OU.'”

When OSU granted Josh's first request, Brenda and several other family members were in Gallagher-Iba Arena to see it.

"I was planning to buy tickets and go because of Josh, but then OSU came back and said ‘No, we have it all taken care of,'” Brenda said.

After the game Sutton had a student-manager run up to the suite and bring the family into the locker room.

"Everybody we saw thanked us for coming and made conversation with us even though they were all tired and sweaty,” Brenda said. "Sean Sutton and all the players were so kind to us.”

Just before he died the Honeycutts asked OSU for a t-shirt for Josh to be buried in. OSU did him one better.

"They went through everything to have a basketball jersey made for him,” Brenda said. "We had it displayed at his memorial service, and then put it on him.”

Brenda said everyone at OSU, from Coaches vs. Cancer committee chairwoman Kendria Cost to Sutton, has been supportive of her family. Before the Kansas game, Sutton's wife, Trena, accompanied Brenda onto the court to honor Josh in the weekly Coaches vs. Cancer campaign.

"They're amazing people,” Brenda said. "Like I told my husband, I think Josh is their good luck charm. I think he's bringing them their good luck and they deserve it because they've been so wonderful.”