OSU basketball’s Dec. 10 game with Pittsburgh means Cowboys could make two trips to Madison Square Garden

The Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team will play Pittsburgh Dec. 10 at Madison Square Garden in a game to be televised by ESPN 2, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Monday on its web site.

That means the Cowboys could make two trips to trips to New York City before Christmas. OSU will host the Midwest Regional portion of NIT Season Tip-Off in a bracket. Regional winners advance to Madison Square Garden for the semifinals on Nov. 23. The championship and consolation games are set for Nov. 25.

The Cowboys, the No. 2 seed in the NIT Season Tip-Off, face Arkansas-Pine Bluff in one game of a doubleheader, with Oral Roberts and Texas-San Antonio meeting in the other matchup at Gallagher-Iba Arena. The “other” game in Stillwater features a clash of OSU alums as coaches, with Scott and Sean Sutton guiding Oral Roberts and Brooks Thompson in charge at UTSA. A Golden Eagles win would likely create a matchup of the Suttons vs. Travis Ford and the Cowboys – on Eddie Sutton Court.

The first and second rounds are scheduled for Nov. 14-16 at the sites of the top four seeds: No. 1 Syracuse, No. 2 OSU, No. 3 Stanford and No. 4 Virginia Tech.